I made it to the final 12 minutes, so I’ll just say one more thing. He talks about the need to gatekeep and all this. This guy already had the Republican Party and right wing in general he so badly wanted under George W Bush. It failed horrendously, and was totally rejected, and he seems to have learned nothing at all from how or why. Younger right wingers are not with him at all, and if he has any capacity at all to actually learn things and not just dismiss whatever he dislikes, he’ll see that soon enough.
I’m towards the end, and could highlight a lot of different areas, but one big thing I think he gets very wrong is when he says the problem is when the elites seek to overrule the experts, and you mentioned Covid and BLM as an example. But in that case, both classes were fundamentally corrupted. They were working together, and lockdowns didn’t work anyway and never did, so even though they abandoned them at a moment’s notice for cynical reasons, both elites and experts revealed their corruption at massive scale. As such, I think his attitude of “We had all these wonderful institutions that just got highjacked” is completely wrong. I think “The purpose of a system is what it does” is much closer to the truth.
That was one of the best pods I have ever listened to. It is surprising that he comes from Saskatchewan but then folks there do have more common sense than most. Farming and mining will do that to people. My only (slight) disagreement is regarding the corruption of the humanities vs the corruption of the sciences. It is clear that the former suffers more than the latter, but some sciences (psychology, climate anything, sociology) are screamingly compromised. I don't know enough about physics or chemistry to comment, but I suspect biology and medicine have been bamboozled by transnuttery. Anyway, thanks for that. I learned a lot.
This was awesome.
Mind-blowing how insightful and common sensical it was.
Thank you Ms. Phetasy !!
There are few things more insufferable than postmodernism. Except maybe the attempt to refute postmodernism using postmodernist lingo.
Wish I had him round when these nitwits irritate me with their horshit !!
I made it to the final 12 minutes, so I’ll just say one more thing. He talks about the need to gatekeep and all this. This guy already had the Republican Party and right wing in general he so badly wanted under George W Bush. It failed horrendously, and was totally rejected, and he seems to have learned nothing at all from how or why. Younger right wingers are not with him at all, and if he has any capacity at all to actually learn things and not just dismiss whatever he dislikes, he’ll see that soon enough.
I’m towards the end, and could highlight a lot of different areas, but one big thing I think he gets very wrong is when he says the problem is when the elites seek to overrule the experts, and you mentioned Covid and BLM as an example. But in that case, both classes were fundamentally corrupted. They were working together, and lockdowns didn’t work anyway and never did, so even though they abandoned them at a moment’s notice for cynical reasons, both elites and experts revealed their corruption at massive scale. As such, I think his attitude of “We had all these wonderful institutions that just got highjacked” is completely wrong. I think “The purpose of a system is what it does” is much closer to the truth.
Wow. My mind is blown. But I knew it all along...
That was one of the best pods I have ever listened to. It is surprising that he comes from Saskatchewan but then folks there do have more common sense than most. Farming and mining will do that to people. My only (slight) disagreement is regarding the corruption of the humanities vs the corruption of the sciences. It is clear that the former suffers more than the latter, but some sciences (psychology, climate anything, sociology) are screamingly compromised. I don't know enough about physics or chemistry to comment, but I suspect biology and medicine have been bamboozled by transnuttery. Anyway, thanks for that. I learned a lot.
One your most engaging interviews yet, I really enjoyed it.