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reversing the enlightenment. perfect!
hitting the nail on the head as usual
you guys are Edward Gibbon for the 21st century
Big fan of the podcast but one small bugbear. At least twice in this episode, you use the expression ”committed suicide.” It might be better to use something non-judgemental that doesn’t suggest a sin or a crime, such as ”died by suicide”
Aside from anything else, when you buy a return ticket you don’t know whether you will die in that action, be injured badly, lightly or walk away. It wasn’t a common action for anyone to kniw
The population have no freedom, agency or independence and are dependent on the whims and indulgence others be taken too seriously? Also, I’m not a fan of the way your major takeaway from the fact that a woman was not allowed to marry the man of her choice was that it made her lonely. Perhaps it did, and contributed to her role in the movement. But I also feel that are much more significant things to say about it.
I really love this podcast in general. It’s great chemistry between the hosts and balance between humour and information make it a must listen for me. I’ll be returning as a Patreon supporter when my finances allow. But there are certain episodes when it suffers from the fact that it’s researched, written and presented by men. I just had to pause this episode to comment on the fact you referred to a women writing in her own blood as taking it too seriously. Can the fact that this woman and half
This is f’ing brilliant
It’s reassuring to hear you mention the part about de-industrialisation, removing meaning, resulting in people finding meaning in the nation, in race, in identity in general. I came to the same conclusion. Trump and Brexit and hatred of globalisation, where the right are taking a protectionist stance, which was the view of the left pre-neoliberalsim, are all different manifestations of the same issue. As an analogy, it’s like taking laws away and letting nature run it’s course.
Part of the issue is that once we have de-industrialised (under Pinochet, Thatcher, Reagan etc.) and opened our markets to foreign capital, selling off our public assets, then you can’t just reverse that. (Though bizarrely, Trump talked about trying to reopen coal mines on the rust belt. Even though it was the Republicans who sold it off 4 decades before) Thus, we see Blair, Clinton, Obama et al accepting neoliberalism as they have no alternative. The 2008 crisis should have been the death of it
Have genuinely never liked him nor believed he was a genius. He’s obviously fairly bright but nothing more.
A lot of these climate denier academics are used to being the smartest guy in most rooms and they REALLY don’t like being told they’re wrong, especially by anyone who doesn’t have a better degree or whatever. Pure ego.
Sad that we readily accept the mob’s phraseology and refer to it as ”The Peadophile’s House”
Brilliant. Absolutely fascinating. And so damning about the US bullying everyone else over this issue.
There’s a liberal bias in arts and academia because liberals are frankly not stupid enough to fall for all this religious & right wing rubbish
So smooth so flavoursome.