“I’ve now listened to my first episode. The guest, Santiago Zabala, seems generally to be quite intelligent and thoughtful. However he belies his bias or, at best, his ignorance of the IDW when he makes the preposterous claim that they are in effect willfully blind to a variety of existential emergencies and instead favor order for its own sake.
Specifically, he mentions Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris. I don’t listen much to Peterson, so I can’t speak to his views. But having listened to and read Sam Harris, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Eric Weinstein for several years now, there is a preponderance of evidence FAR beyond a shadow of a doubt that those 4 individuals are quite terrified indeed about climate change. They speak about it frequently and characterize it as the greatest emergency of our time. So when Zabala takes such a cheap shot and grossly mischaracterizes a diverse group of thinkers, he not only insults the intelligence of his listeners, but his own intelligence, as well.”
G*G*2015* via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/15/21