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General Update (Patreon)

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2023-07-28 22:41:38
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Hey everyone,

Thought it would be good to give a general update on our plans for the next few weeks.

We are going to be pretty busy with content and while some things might get pushed around all of the following is coming relatively soon.

So for Decodings, we have:

1. Chomsky2. Matthew McConaughey's weird Self-Help cult3. Bret Weinstein & Neil Oliver on UFOs4. Sam Harris*5. Andrew HubermanAlso floating in our mental space are Curtis Yarvin, Destiny, RFK Junior, and Peter Turchin.*For Sam Harris, we wanted to do a full decoding for a long time but couldn't really get content that was recent and seemed fair (highlighting his good and bad points) but we have now found the perfect content.We are also aware that all of the above are men so that is something of a concern but we might bump in alternatives, let us know if you have any suggestions.

The next Decoding Academia should be recorded and released on Monday and then we have another paper already teed up that we will get to shortly after. The monthly live stream will also be scheduled for next week as soon as Matt and I work out a time that suits.

For interviews, we will soon have the Conspirituality guys, Julia Ebner, and Brent Lee (from Some Dare call it Conspiracy podcast).

And academic-wise... the talk I gave at Temple University about gurus and conspiracy theories will be up soon and Matt & I are committed to finishing the secular gurus paper, submitting it, and getting a preprint up in August. I"m mentioning this so I feel some pressure to make sure our target is met.

We have other things planned but that is probably enough of an info drop for now.

Thanks for the support as always!

Comments

Peter

Plenty to look forward to, cheers guys

Michael

You guys said you were going to do Red Scare, what happened to that? Why not apply the Gurometer to each other, or yourselves as a whole?

Emma

Lots to look forward to!! The female gurus thing is tricky because female influencers seem to mostly stay in quite separate areas from the topics male gurus dabble in. Two female influencers that spring to mind are Mel Robbins and Esther Perel who are popular in my circle. But I'm not really aware of them creating much controversy, they seem to pretty much stay in their own area of expertise. The Kardashians are probably more typical of the female versions of gurus. Having a massive unearned cultural power & influence and giving their hot takes on a wide range of subjects. I don't know if anyone could handle an episode on them though.

Kirsten Greed

I also wondered if the female gurus are hiding in plain site with the likes of the Kardashians... but I find it a depressing thought.

Kirsten Greed

With some googling and thinking I made the following list.. but not all of them will rate high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gilbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Goldstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Cain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Pinker (The sexual paradox could have some clues abut the lack of women gurus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wolf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Swisher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ita_Buttrose Fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Swift Deceased: Anne Hamilton-Byrne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Australian_New_Age_group) (5 on cultish) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

Dee Loves Ketchup on Eggs

Ooohhh tackling the Sam Harris and the Andrew Huberman! I await with glee!! (And anytime you guys hang out and hash stuff out with Matthew, Julian and Derek of Conspirituality, I learn!) Can’t wait!!!

Diane Morrison

i have an idea for a female guru but it might get into tricky territory 😂 - Isabella Malbin

Michael

How about Taylor Swift? People hang on her every word, she has a cult around her. A lot of these grifters, er, gurus present as some variety of alpha dog and traffic in male insecurity and women express their insecurities differently. I would look at any woman having an outsized influence on today’s young women and work backwards.

Riku

Really looking forward to the Sam Harris one. I always wondered how you could find the right mix of content to try and give a good impression of his work. Personally, I think the stuff on Waking Up is benign (and genuinely excellent for anyone interested), as are some of the opinions on moral philosophy. I would prefer more of an analysis of a lot of the political takes, and how all of his friends have gone genuinely insane - and whether it was naivety or just being wilfully blind to have ignored early signs.

LaserRange

Boy o boy am I looking forward to the Huberman episode. I do enjoy some of his content, but I really despair at his bromance with some of the tools out there like Lex, Jocko and Tim Ferris. Speaking of Ferris, maybe he can be decoded.

SHOUNAK SARKAR

Looking forward to all of the upcoming content guys, especially the Chomsky, McConaughey and Harris ones. For Harris, I am curious as to which content you have found. Just to let you know he did a recent interview with Chris Williamson, where he spoke about his opinions/ friendships with JP & Douglas Murray (amongst other things). Would be really interested to know if he still fawned over Murray. Also please do cover his promotion of Charles Murray and race-IQ as well. Plus his continuously framing things from a reactionary standpoint and doing false equivalences - latest one was where he equated RFK’s anti-vaxx shtick to anti-racism. Idea being that both are as crazy as each other which is a mind boggling statement. With regards to the interviews, really looking forward to the Julia Ebner one. Saw that she’s doing some undercover reporting on incel groups now. But please do ask her about her past work for Quilliam, Maajid Nawaz and also about the experience of being aggressively confronted by Tommy Robinson on live video for Rebel Media.

Brice F

For a female guru, why not examine Vandana Shiva?

Artemis Green

I (a woman) don't find the all-male thing a problem but you could always incorporate some critiques from/discussions about women into the decodings you have planned... like for Sam Harris, there's his rambling non-apology to his remarks about the 'critical posture' of the new athiest movement being 'to some degree intrinsically male' - https://www.samharris.org/blog/im-not-the-sexist-pig-youre-looking-for. And according to a random blogger, as at June 2021 only 14.74% of his 'Making Sense' podcast guests were women - https://www.eliseloehnen.com/blog/we-need-to-listen-to-more-women There must be at least one woman on the internet who has given some thought to Matthew McConaghey's weird self-help cult... I have no interest in celebrity culture and even I knew that the hot priest guy from the sci fi classic Contact had turned into a dodgy self-help guru :P And he's certainly been out there giving dating advice aimed at women - https://www.howtogettheguy.com/blog/how-to-find-love-by-loving-life-with-matthew-mcconaughey/

Play Hurling In The USA

Huberman decoding would be a cool opportunity to do a cross-over with StrongerByScience. Yall could pick content that's got some lifting/bodybuilding/dieting/nutrition advice and get Eric Trexler and Greg Nuckols (and/or new host Lindsay Nuckols?) to bring that well informed bite. They got good epistemology. Check the recent 5 hour episode about aspartame, or the solo review/overview episodes Eric Trexler was doing around the start of the year. They can also help yall clarify your understanding of how nut/seeds macros impact Chris' body composition goals

Paul Bowman

V late to this thread. Just going to voice an interest in Peter Turchin. Some folks I knew on the more techbro/stemlord side of leftism fell into his cliodynamics circle (me, not so much, for reasons). So I keep an eye on his stuff. Also I noticed recently, looking into the background to Chris and Julia Ebner's paper on social fusion and manifesto language, that Harvey Whitehead is on the board of the Seshat global history database project. So another connection there!