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Sunday Night at the Circus: The Architecture of Truth

A recording from Mike Brock's live video

In this live session, I walk through the philosophical core of my project—the collapse of truth and meaning in modern life—and why Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rise to Health and Human Services Secretary is a symptom, not a cause, of our civilizational breakdown.

I break down what truth really is—not just facts, but structure:

  • Empirical truth (what we can observe),

  • Coherent truth (what logically holds together),

  • Testified truth (what is remembered, witnessed, lived).

We explore:

  • why epistemology isn’t abstract theory, but survival practice,

  • how most of what we know is learned through testimony,

  • how algorithmic curation has replaced public reason with performance,

  • how Hume’s is-ought problem reveals the fatal flaw in techno-utopian thinking,

  • and how stories, myths, and civic rituals help rebuild shared meaning.

I explain why I write what I write, why the liberal establishment failed to defend liberalism, and why democracy depends not just on institutions—but on people who can tell what’s real.

RFK Jr. isn’t just wrong about vaccines. He’s a manifestation of the collapse of coherence. And the truth is, two children are dead because America forgot how to know.

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