Ewe made a post in another thread and one particular line reminded me to bring this topic up.
This is something I wholeheartedly agree with and if you pay close enough attention you can see the shift.
Anyone else up on this Intellectual Dark Web thing? It's a silly name but for purposes of discussion I think it gets the point across. People like Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Eric Weinstein, Joe Rogan, Dave Rubin etc. Not an official group or anything, just a bunch of people kinda getting lumped together (you know, since we have to group people and all). Some of yall know I just basically did a 6 week road trip and I listened to hours upon hours of these folks and others and it's fascinating. Podcasting and long form discussion around intellectually stimulating ideas is here to stay and people are craving it. It 100% makes you look at MSM with a total eye roll.
The best part is the political ideologies are so wide ranging and it just doesn't get in the way. Everyone just shares a general hunger for truths and discussing interesting ideas.
"The closest thing to a phone book for the I.D.W. is a sleek website that lists the dramatis personae of the network, including Mr. Harris; Mr. Weinstein and his brother and sister-in-law, the evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying; Jordan Peterson, the psychologist and best-selling author; the conservative commentators Ben Shapiro and Douglas Murray; Maajid Nawaz, the former Islamist turned anti-extremist activist; and the feminists Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Christina Hoff Sommers. But in typical dark web fashion, no one knows who put the website up.
The core members have little in common politically. Bret and Eric Weinstein and Ms. Heying were Bernie Sanders supporters. Mr. Harris was an outspoken Hillary voter. Ben Shapiro is an anti-Trump conservative.
But they all share three distinct qualities. First, they are willing to disagree ferociously, but talk civilly, about nearly every meaningful subject: religion, abortion, immigration, the nature of consciousness. Second, in an age in which popular feelings about the way things ought to be often override facts about the way things actually are, each is determined to resist parroting what’s politically convenient. And third, some have paid for this commitment by being purged from institutions that have become increasingly hostile to unorthodox thought — and have found receptive audiences elsewhere."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
Anyone else find themselves exploring this dark web? Who are some of your favorite podcasters?
This is something I wholeheartedly agree with and if you pay close enough attention you can see the shift.
Anyone else up on this Intellectual Dark Web thing? It's a silly name but for purposes of discussion I think it gets the point across. People like Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Eric Weinstein, Joe Rogan, Dave Rubin etc. Not an official group or anything, just a bunch of people kinda getting lumped together (you know, since we have to group people and all). Some of yall know I just basically did a 6 week road trip and I listened to hours upon hours of these folks and others and it's fascinating. Podcasting and long form discussion around intellectually stimulating ideas is here to stay and people are craving it. It 100% makes you look at MSM with a total eye roll.
The best part is the political ideologies are so wide ranging and it just doesn't get in the way. Everyone just shares a general hunger for truths and discussing interesting ideas.
"The closest thing to a phone book for the I.D.W. is a sleek website that lists the dramatis personae of the network, including Mr. Harris; Mr. Weinstein and his brother and sister-in-law, the evolutionary biologists Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying; Jordan Peterson, the psychologist and best-selling author; the conservative commentators Ben Shapiro and Douglas Murray; Maajid Nawaz, the former Islamist turned anti-extremist activist; and the feminists Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Christina Hoff Sommers. But in typical dark web fashion, no one knows who put the website up.
The core members have little in common politically. Bret and Eric Weinstein and Ms. Heying were Bernie Sanders supporters. Mr. Harris was an outspoken Hillary voter. Ben Shapiro is an anti-Trump conservative.
But they all share three distinct qualities. First, they are willing to disagree ferociously, but talk civilly, about nearly every meaningful subject: religion, abortion, immigration, the nature of consciousness. Second, in an age in which popular feelings about the way things ought to be often override facts about the way things actually are, each is determined to resist parroting what’s politically convenient. And third, some have paid for this commitment by being purged from institutions that have become increasingly hostile to unorthodox thought — and have found receptive audiences elsewhere."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
Anyone else find themselves exploring this dark web? Who are some of your favorite podcasters?
