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Ep. 4158 Architecture Is Revealing a MASSIVE Civilizational Shift!!! · Turley Talks

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The liberal globalist order is on its brink and awakening a new conservative age.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Steve Turley, join me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the re-bondalization of conservative civilization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Turley Talks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, you're a Patre professor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today I'm away from the studio.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually in front of a room full of Patre.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's pouring into people who are ready to fight for faith, family, and freedom, and their own communities.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's one of my favorite things I love to do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: uh... but i cannot let the day go by without walking with you to so ahead of time i sat down and recorded this conversation just for moments like this i'd love for you to share one concrete thing that you're doing to push back and build something beautiful right where you are this is part of a movement and it needs your voice in it shortly after the fall of the Berlin wall in november of nineteen eighty nine scholars were
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  [SPEAKER_00]: by the emergence of weapon now calling a post-secular era arising from the ruins of atheist to communism.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the most stunning examples of this is the Saint-Sobacathedral in Belgrade, Serbia.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The cathedrals actually brand new just opened up a few years ago and it's styled after the great Hagia Sophia in Constantinople that was built under Emperor Justinian.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now for our students, the key with cathedrals is that they reveal a unique Christian cosmography.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So a cosmography is a map, a graphos of the cosmos.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a three-dimensional geometric vision of how heaven and earth unite in Christ.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this would be a distinctively Byzantine vision of that unity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So the circular dome on the top represents heaven, the circle signifying eternity, never having a beginning or ending.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The four corners of the floor represent the four corners of Earth signified by the four elements of the cosmos, Earth air, fire and water.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Four pillars stretch down from the heavenly dome to the earthly floor, representing the four gospels that announced that heaven and earth have come together in Christ as the entire cosmos has been incorporated in this transformative life death and resurrection.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is very significant for our students because what the cathedral architects have been doing for over 1,000 years is revealing the world through the lens of what's known as the medieval quadrivium.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The key to the quadrivium.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: is that it reveals the patterns of reality to our students mathematically.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You all know the trivia, of course, grammar, dialectic and rhetoric, but there are seven liberal arts and the other four are the quadrivia, arithmetic, geometry, music.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and cosmology in the key to the quadriving, is that it was and continues to be a unified science of order.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a discipline study of number.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So arithmetic revealed, number in itself, geometry revealed, number in space, music revealed, number in time, and cosmology revealed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: number in space and time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So simply put the quadrivium revealed the patterns of reality, the patterns of an entire cosmos that's been designed by and redeemed by God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the key here is that the quadrivium didn't just train the human mind to perceive
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the mathematical and symbolic structures woven into the fabric of creation, but most especially it enabled us to participate in those patterns, to endure those patterns.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's too weak in the fullness of our humanity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the cathedral was its supreme achievement, not a building that used the Quadrovium, but a building that embodied it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the Quadrovium in its most sacred expression.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: crossing the border over to Romania.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We get to see the largest and tallest Eastern Orthodox Church in the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do we have that?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's really cool.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There we go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the People's Salvation Cathedral in Bucharest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was just opened in October 2025, took nearly 20 years to build, and it's absolutely massive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It rises nearly 450 feet tall, and given that it's just opposite the palace of the parliament in Bucharest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's actually a monument to the renewal of the cooperation between church and state,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: in Romania, which, of course, was banned for 50 years under the Communist regime.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And in the Byzantine tradition, that cooperation is known as symphonia.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the unique politics of the Byzantine world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Symphonia involves a conjoining of church and state working together for the flourishing of human societies, both church and state represent the divine and human
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and Romanian officials are quite explicit about how the people's cathedral heralds that this return to an ancient political order has come in modern expression.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: heading back to Barcelona.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: to the Sagrada Familia.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of its most stunning interior features is the way Antony Gaudi, the architect, plays with sunlight coming through stained glass windows, creating color combinations that make you feel like you're in a narnia like,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We were there two summers ago and it was, it was absolutely stunning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What Gaudy did is he deliberately oriented the basilica directly toward the sun in such a way so that the nativity facade, which depicts Christ's birth, faces northeast, catching the rising sun,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And evening sun symbolizing sacrifice and death in the stained glass windows are color coded accordingly so cool blues and greens.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: on the east side for morning serenity, warm reds, oranges and gold on the west for fiery sacrifice and this emphasis on the use of light and the cathedral points to the directional significance of the sun which was one of the seven planets in the medieval cosmology where
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  [SPEAKER_00]: so that the incentive human words and song in our morning worship could parallel at the same time, the rising of the sun.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is some video I took St. Lawrence's Cathedral in Genoa, and it was just unbelievable the way the cathedral and creation align with one another.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is why the quadriving was never merely academic for the medieval student.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: arithmetic, geometry, music, cosmology.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These were the disciplines by which the world was effectively reoriented back to God in Christ as a quadriving revealed the eternal patterns of reality embedded throughout the cosmos.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The cathedral was the textbook.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The liturgy was the lecture and the goal
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Did you know that more Americans are being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, including people far younger than we traditionally associate with the disease?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: More than 55 million people worldwide are living with Alzheimer's, or another form of dementia and reports are shown.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: major increases in diagnoses among younger adults, including a 370% increase among people between the ages of 30 to 44 and a 311% increase among those 45 to 54.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, what exactly is happening inside the brain?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's is a protein called
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Beta Amoloid.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, normally these proteins are cleared away, but in Alzheimer's they can begin clumping together, forming sticky plaques between brain cells that interfere with normal brain function.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Drug companies support billions into developing Alzheimer's treatments, and much of that effort has focused on Amoloid betas.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But researchers are also looking beyond the brain, and specifically at what's happening in the gut.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's because your gut and brain are constantly communicating through something called the gut brain access.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the same Archaeofutre spirit is going beyond cathedrals, and it's actually now shaping entire cities, particularly in the central European city of Budapest.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I was just there back in May, and the renaissance of classical architecture all throughout the city is simply stunning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is all part of the National Health Program Institute back in 2014
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The major projects that are restoring the city are the restoration of the Buddha Castle, to its own glory, which stands as symbol of Hungarian history, tradition and culture.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's the rebuilding of the guard house with meticulous and painstaking attention to detail.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's the restoration of the Royal Writing Hall, which was just an empty plot of land not long ago after the original buildings destruction in World War II.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's been rebuilt right along with its stunning interior.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But the key here is that Prime Minister Orban explicitly framed this architectural renewal of the city as a kind of political theology.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: classical forms embody Christian civilization, national sovereignty, and Hungarian identity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So the city transforms into a visual constitution, teaching Hungarian citizens what their nation is and claims to be a European nation rooted in Habsburg, Granger, and Christian tradition.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, interestingly, that same classical restoration spirit is taking root right here in the United States, President Trump assigned an executive order called making federal architecture beautiful again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it requires, of course,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it requires all new federal buildings be designed in the classical style, in accordance with Greco-Roman architectural norms.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So as to reflect America's Republican ideals, he just commissioned the building of what's called the Victory Arch, near Arlington National Cemetery for Nations 250th anniversary.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And in line with that, this is, can we go to the next one, Chattanooga, Tennessee, this is their new courthouse and what they're calling a Greco deco.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Where is it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, Greco deco.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, let's go back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a, that's a dude going down into a cripple.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's correct.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So for you, 10 of scenes, you're going to be seeing that in 2030, apparently.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's when it's supposed to debut again in another showpiece of Trump's executive order.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What's important here is that in the classical tradition, architecture was understood as a form of rhetoric.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This goes all the way back to the truvius in the first century BC.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Buildings intentionally are unintentionally buildings per suede.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They make arguments and stone that no speech could quite match.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, courthouse built in the Dork style communicates the gravity and the permanence of law before a single verdict is delivered.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You'll notice the material that they're using, a stone or a marble.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's a symbol of permanence rather than like a tin shack where it could just be knocked down and thrown away and discarded.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A capital Joe modeled on the Pantheon to Claire's in stone that this republic understands itself not only the era of Rome, but it plans to be around for a really long time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It embodies values that are eternal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, interestingly, Trump's executive order explicitly recognizes this stating that the founders quote, sought to use classical architecture to visually connect our contemporary republic with the antecedence of democracy and classical antiquity, reminding citizens not only of their rights, but also their responsibilities.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, by contrast,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry to do this to you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is the Jay Edgar Hoover Building.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was actually declared by Harvard Graduate School of Design the ugliest building in DC.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now keep in mind the Obama Presidential Libraries in Chicago.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not in DC, so that would have been challenged.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That would have been clearly a challenger for that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But all we have to understand is that this J. Edgar Hoover building reflected a particular architectural period in the mid-60s where federal buildings communicated the sterile administrative state that our federal government had become.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so again, this is the rhetoric of space architecture argues.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And here it just happens to argue for something that's pretty
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and President Trump has declared that era officially over.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, in short, this classical renewal teaches students that architecture is the rhetoric of civilization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's argument and persuasion without words.
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