• Supplementary Material 18: The Clown Car Cometh

  • Nov 16 2024
  • Length: 38 mins
  • Podcast

Supplementary Material 18: The Clown Car Cometh

  • Summary

  • Still in the land of the free and restocked with important new insights from his US travels, Matt is confronted with the Gurusphere's predictably depressing reaction to the election. And what's that we hear in the distance... is it a honking car?

    Supplementary Material 18

    00:00 Matt's American Ethnography

    10:59 Eric Weinstein is waiting for the call

    14:32 Huberman, Krauss, and MAGA Sycophancy

    18:39 Boghossian and other would-be Intellectual Clerics of the MAGA regime

    22:52 Sam Harris criticises Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and MAGA

    32:05 The Fifth Column, The Free Press and World Weary Both Sides-ing

    53:19 Election Reflections: Macro and Micro Causes

    01:04:40 Longer Term Trends

    01:10:08 Sarah Haider and the Hip Vibe of the New Right

    01:24:00 Richard Dawkins Dual Nature

    01:31:08 A Plea to Sean Carroll and our Listeners

    01:33:06 An important note on Bouldering

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    Links

    • Eric's phone is not ringing
    • Huberman making his pitch
    • Krauss being a sycophant to Elon
    • Boghossian's lack of interest in protests in Hungary
    • Sam Harris Making Sense 391: The Reckoning
    • A Special Place in Hell: Adios Amigos: The Special Place Finale
    • That graph mentioned about the loss of support for incumbent regimes
    • Dawkins being a fool on Twitter
    • The Fifth Column: #234 - Come On and Zoom! (Wagnerian Opera Edition)

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