INTP Live

Share all your spiciest videos, books, and podcasts expanding your overton window, supplying your talking points and thought-terminating clichés, and enumerating the revised list of two minutes hate subjects!

I will start things with Gail Dines' "Neo-Liberalism and the Defanging of Feminism" from 2012, with the note that everything mentioned here has become significantly worse in the time since.

I fear that Chomsky would be the only man to get the job done.

Not sure what video to post, but here's one.

Utisz wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:47 am

I fear that Chomsky would be the only man to get the job done.

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" remains a great looming presence in my mind, and I still consider it essential reading. I disagree strongly with what he has to say about some subjects, but completely agree that few people are quite so compelling and convincing when he is in peak form.

Utisz wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:47 am

I fear that Chomsky would be the only man to get the job done.

So, did you not watch the video or just not find her arguments convincing?

In about 1999 in university I was a fan of "the Unabomber's Manifesto". It promotes "primitivism". I had an idea for a game where you are in a team of pro-primitivist fighters. Later that year I went to a seminar similar to Tony Robbins and it also involved fire-walking. During the event I had to imagine how bad my life would be if I kept on my current approach.... I thought that maybe I'd end up in jail like the Unabomber and I didn't think that was so bad.I
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/n ... o.text.htm
In the year 2000 I wrote an essay promoting a society that had a ratio of 5 women to 1 man. It would also promote lesbianism and artificial insemination. The mostly socialist-run university newsletter committee called the idea "fascist". I also wrote about eliminating copyright.
At around that time I was interested in speed seduction which partly involved using a form of hypnosis.
I posted the following to a "free thinking" message board and I got into big trouble:

Chapo Traphouse, of course. Also Matt Christman's Video blogs are really good.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCokqzN ... czldVuHAww

Never cared much for the subreddit, though, and apparently they didn't either.

I have to go through phases of paying attention to this stuff, though.

ashi wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:49 am

So, did you not watch the video or just not find her arguments convincing?

Haven't watched it but it's on my list.

Thomas Frank on Chapo Traphouse...

I read "What's the Matter with Kansas?" way back when Dubya was president and it's obvious now that it had a huge effect on me.

Dunno why but this felt like some kind of deprogramming session. Ya know?