How did one worldview come to dominate academia, science, Hollywood, media, and tech—and what has it cost us?

In this episode, Reggie and Brian trace the timeline of institutional capture from the church's first compromise with secular science in 1804 (before Darwin was even born) through today's Big Tech information control. We examine the data: 90%+ liberal faculty at elite universities, 9:1 Democrat-to-Republican ratios among scientists, and the pipeline that filters out anyone who asks the wrong questions.

We dig into Christopher Langan—a man with a 195-210 IQ who the academic system chewed up and spit out, not because his ideas were refuted, but because he didn't have the right credentials. We explore what Yuri Bezmenov (KGB defector) warned us about ideological subversion and why his prescription was a return to religion. And we look at what Scripture says about all of this—Romans 1's warning about those who "professing to be wise, became fools" hits different when you see the pattern playing out in real time. The gatekeepers want you to trust them. They've earned distrust.

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