Robert Wright's Nonzero (private feed for eveningglass@gmail.com)
Society & Culture:Philosophy
Words we loathe. Don’t “follow the science”! Mickey lives in Hooverville and he’s not too proud to say so. Bob claims he does too. Our wrongest opinions of the year. The biggest surprises. Who was the least deserving of the attention they got in 2021? What is undernews? Is there buzz about Biden’s cognitive status that we’re not hearing? Kevin McCarthy thinks his undernews is behind him. Mickey’s good news. What ever happened to hit pieces? Some suggested victims of them (like Anne Applebaum). Does Laurene Powell Jobs know the truth about Jeffrey Goldberg? Mickey sings the obscure song ‘Joseph Cotten.’ The compellingness of Killing Eve, the sloppiness of Westworld, and why The Expanse avoids Westworld’s problem (Mickey worries that they’ll turn Amos gay). Where are the Epstein tapes and why doesn’t the press tell us? Bob talks about the E.O. Wilson that the obituaries left out. For example: the Wilson-Trivers tension. Is Noam Chomsky left wing or right wing? How to avoid Michael Young’s meritocratic dystopia? And what about Herrnstein’s? Bob and Mickey stick to their guns on hair and LSD, respectively. Ever seen Bob and Fabio in the same room? Acute commenter provides some badly needed evidence for Mickey’s claims about the Beatles. Happy New Year!
This dialogue is (in part, at least) a continuation of a publicly available dialogue taped earlier in the day.
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