{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Blood & Rain","title":"Blood & Rain Episode 48: “Rebuilding Social Capital” Featuring: “Totallynotanacreon”","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5483,"description":"It’s an incredibly common question:\r\n\r\n“What’s wrong with our country?”\r\n\r\nCrowds only tend to ask it when remotely removed from their country’s victories or golden ages of prosperity.\r\n\r\nOften times, the issues are far more difficult to recognize, let alone properly define. \r\n\r\nWhen undercurrents of discord pull people into a drowning frenzy, the issues then become far more real. \r\n\r\nHistory possesses other zeitgeists entirely when a sizable portion of society have stopped and said, “I don’t know what’s wrong, but I just know there’s something wrong.”\r\n\r\nThe United States and very likely, the majority of the Western world as a whole currently possesses both of the aforementioned dynamics. \r\n\r\nThe next step after recognizing these present dynamics is that of hypothesizing potential solutions.\r\n\r\nThe “experts” may just waltz in during the eleventh hour to be entrusted with a grand plan of multiple potential solutions, all of which will conveniently spend a lot of the people’s money without those “experts” truly having to buy in themselves. \r\n\r\nThere are few true experts however. \r\n\r\nBut what is far more important than the scarcity of truly masterful grand strategists, is the decay of culture in the countries of the Western world. \r\n\r\nSomewhere along the line, the act of destroying a society became a religion amongst a plethora of confused and disgruntled citizens. \r\n\r\nThere are now far fewer things to destroy. \r\n\r\nAnd while destruction is part of the natural process of creation, it is creation in the form of reconstruction that must now take center stage. \r\n\r\nThis has less to do with a return of neoclassical architecture, but has far more to do with a revitalization of the essence of our day to day lives while being truly (American, French, Polish, German, British, and so on.)\r\n\r\nIn order to heal the culture of one’s country, one has to realize he must buy in wholeheartedly for better or for worse and realize his choice is a vital one among millions. \r\n\r\nHis...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/u6hl8fuwwB18Aywm2kAv2kp28Yj8htMvLszwTACyDnM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzIxNzE3LzE2MjI3/NzQ5ODktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}