What Is More to Blame (Looking Back)

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Fine.

If you insist, then Peterson is, at best, the Coldplay of intellectuals. Curiously overrated for passably doing their job in the most underwhelming way possible, but technically meets the definition of 'a band.'

[Kazmyr]

Fine.

If you insist, then Peterson is, at best, the Coldplay of intellectuals. Curiously overrated for passably doing their job in the most underwhelming way possible, but technically meets the definition of 'a band.'

So who does what Peterson does, but better? Legitimately curious.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Fine.

If you insist, then Peterson is, at best, the Coldplay of intellectuals. Curiously overrated for passably doing their job in the most underwhelming way possible, but technically meets the definition of 'a band.'

So who does what Peterson does, but better? Legitimately curious.

That kind of depends on what we are saying he 'does.'

I am sure he is a perfectly engaging and knowledgeable professor, and performs his job adequately.

As for all the other stuff, I don't know... Aleister Crowley, Tony Robbins?

If you want something about culture, archetypes and symbols of western civilization that is critical of society's uncritical modernity, I like Jacques Barzun or GK Chesterton.

The whole public intellectual shtick of trying to have a unique hot take on everything just results in not being interesting to listen to about anything, and I don't know if there is a 'better' version of that.

The field of liberal anti-progressives is so crowded these days that it is hard to pick anyone out of the jumble. I mean, our very own Fife is always posting stuff about how language is corrupted to manipulate people, and is much more concise than watching 4 hours of JRE.

(Hat-tip on the Pynchon/Orwell link.)

[heydaralon]

If you are interesting in language, you might try hooked on phonics. It did wonders for me. Some of the later lectures in the series where they discuss moral relativism are pretty thought provoking!

[Fife]

Reading more about the French Revolution make me really wonder why the American Revolution didn't become more radical or totally degenerate into more of a civil war with countless partisan killing on both sides.

You were saying?

Thanks, Hamilton.

[Fife]

When did (will) the French Revolution come to a close?

Another good McClanahan show, reviewing a book I haven't looked at: Episode 135: The Long War, 1789-Present

Historians like to keep things neat and tidy and thus often compartmentalize different periods in Western Civilization. The profession's infatuation with monographs has led to a climate where the "longue duree" is often overlooked. That is unfortunate because it misses the conjunction between political, military, economic, and social history. As we reflect on American involvement in World War I, it is important to see that conflict in the "longue duree."

[GloryofGreece]

Reading more about the French Revolution make me really wonder why the American Revolution didn't become more radical or totally degenerate into more of a civil war with countless partisan killing on both sides.

You were saying?

Thanks, Hamilton.

Your saying Alexander Hamilton is a major reason the United States didn't rip itself apart until a 100 years later?

[Fife]

Your saying Alexander Hamilton is a major reason the United States didn't rip itself apart until a 100 years later?

More like three score and fourteen years, but yeah the federalists packed the powder keg full and tight in Philadelphia. Union at all costs. It is pretty amazing that it took so long to physically blow up.

[GloryofGreece]

Reading more about the French Revolution make me really wonder why the American Revolution didn't become more radical or totally degenerate into more of a civil war with countless partisan killing on both sides.

You were saying?

Thanks, Hamilton.

Your saying Alexander Hamilton is a major reason the United States didn't rip itself apart until a 100 years later?

Sorry I don't automatically know your thought pattern. With a little cursory research I found out that the podcast you linked is an author that likes to write about how people screwed up America. The 30 minute podcast episode was interesting though. Thought provoking. I'm guessing he wanted the Confederation to stay over a Federalist form of government?

[Speaker to Animals]

But without federalization, your little pajeet buddy couldn't claim the power to preempt state laws..