This would probably find a less substantial audience if people like Michael Brooks stopped trying to resuscitate Marxism-Leninism. Brooks contrasts the reactionary Left-baiting of the IDW with his own fruitless search – encapsulated in the pages of the socialist magazine Jacobin— for a “rejuvenated, humane, internationalist, and appealing version of the politics of the Finland station”. This is a welcome blast against the dominant fetish for what Brooks describes as “drawing artificial lines between cultures”.
What I see in those “members” about whom I have some knowledge is a willingness to speak out against dogmatism and certain other groupthink-inspired traits whether it is on the left or right. This does not require any unifying political ideology. A few decades ago The IDW would have been described as left of centre. But the they havnt changed, it is the centre that has shifted to the left as it has been gradually doing perniciously since the second World war and they now can be called right of centre.
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And to the fellow above who dismissed the Bible as “all bonkers”, I beg you to set said everything else and read just the Gospel according to Matthew. The Bible is a complex document charting the history of not one but two religions. But if you cannot find words of extraordinary beauty and wisdom in Matthew, plus the incredible and symbolic story of the power of sacrifice and love, then you are not the man I take you for from the many words you have written on these Unheard articles. That particular interview is not the point to make this on though. Until seeing that interview I would have wholeheartedly agreed with you on Newman’s general ability as an interviewer. However I came across him first when he picked apart Cathy Newman.
- Over the past year, I have forced myself to adopt a more open mindset and try to understand other perspectives in a move towards applying a ‘steel man’ approach.
- The book’s author is Michael Brooks, an American political YouTuber and a socialist.
- The reasons for the IDW’s demise are worth exploring because, in principle, having a group of influential people championing the vigorous and open exchange of ideas, regardless of whose ox is gored, could be a good thing.
- All this because they opposed a “Day of Absence,” in which white students were asked to leave campus for the day.
They lived through World War II, the great depression, the Holocaust. They know what true suffering looks like, and it doesn’t look like being called by the wrong personal pronoun. Of course if the standard meaning were applied, the author would find it much harder to trash. It is precisely this kind of intellectual dishonesty that has made today’s Left so repellent to people like me. In other words, your critique of “power” is lacking. However, I agree that Ben Shapiro seems like an insufferable twit.
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The IDW’s leading lights uncritically defend capitalism while drawing on biology and the dreary science of ‘IQ’ to bolster the status quo. They aim to “naturalize or mythologize historically contingent power relations”, as Brooks puts it. Behind every one of Peterson’s self-help homilies is an unbending fealty to the status quo. Hierarchies are hard-wired because lobsters follow them. Gender differences are real because women gravitate towards people and men towards things. Envy and resentment at the success of others will rot your soul.
I appreciate the level and depth of discussion that members of the IDW have via podcasts and YouTube. I see them as an antidote to the reflexive Twitter-like responses so prevalent in most social media. We live in an an analogue world and need to appreciate the various shades of gray afforded by different points of view. I suspect that a survey doesn’t really do justice to their views because, and this is kind of their point, they insist that context and nuance are critical to exploration of and ultimately understanding complex issues. To reduce a point of view on a complex subject to a Likert scale is what many of them are fighting against.
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Pundits, journalists, and scholars have confidently espoused their “hot take” of the IDW without the slightest bit of systematic data collection to back up their claims. This empirical study of members of the IDW offers a preliminary summary of their beliefs on a wide range of issues. Yoel and Mickey grudgingly host their rivals from Very Bad Wizards, Tamler Sommers and David Pizarro, to talk shit about psychology, philosophy, and the Intellectual Dark Web.
This, says Brooks, means going beyond both traditional social democracy and the sometimes well-intentioned but ultimately wrongheaded culturalist politics still found throughout much of the contemporary left, without slipping into crass economic reductionism. Here, drawing on the internationalist perspective that will be familiar to regular viewers of his YouTube show, the author cites a number of potential inspirations ranging from the 1955 Freedom Charter of the African National Congress to the writings of Cornel West and the Bengali Marxist M. N. Roy. The implication is that zero-tolerance prohibitions in many newsrooms, classrooms or on social media that forbid dissent on these subjects has contributed to some once-reasonable people going down conspiracy theory rabbit holes. YouTube also discontinued its “related channels” feature, which factors heavily in the study, back in May, according to a post on the YouTube community forum. But even in light of these changes, due to the lack of transparency surrounding YouTube’s algorithms, it’s difficult to know how effective these changes have been, or whether an even broader swath of YouTube users were exposed to such content prior to the researchers authoring their study. Though they are demographically similar to one another , they share many of the same concerns of moderate secular liberals generally.
It sounds as if the only thing they share is a knack for being pissed off about the wrong stuff. Politically correct academia, the mainstream media, that lot. Whatever peoples feelings about the book surely £6.99 or £7.99 for a 96 page book is quite steep. C) I laughed when I realize he was basically telling the same story as the Johnny Cash song “A Boy Named Sue” by Shel Silverstein.
