“I am a leftist, or whatever. I’m pretty sure there isn’t any true threat to the advancement of political ideas and philosophies that have been under attack from cancel culture; I tend to find that framing of accountability the more ordinary means of deflection over reflection. It also gets nowhere, because it is guided only by the false pretense of “seeing truths and challenging assumptions” as it’s purpose and, in that way, is perpetually unsatisfied and wanting. I agree with Mounk here and there, and I generally end up listening by accident, my feed rolls to this one because Saturdays are more light in terms of offerings. All of which is to say: there are any number of reasons for me to delete this podcast, I likely will. And it’s also true that not a single reason motivates that choice in as far as I’ve yet found. Maybe the gut works here before the reason: I just read Mr Mounk as a bit uninspired, as a bit of a trope of the thoughtful, ever so softly worded misogynistic learned philosopher who knows that he knows it better than you, but invites you in to discover this, not in all episodes but most that’s the vibe. It’s arrogance and spite, it’s so sure that it’s the opposite of that that surely the world is its cancel antagonist. TLDR: just don’t, you’ll just feel sad.”
Kalfisher via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/04/24