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It might help to expand your horizons a bit. I see a lot of dudes on there I easily spotted for having limited range from the start. The trouble is people like
by Kye 3y ago
It might help to expand your horizons a bit. I see a lot of dudes on there I easily spotted for having limited range from the start. The trouble is people like this float too far off the ground and never come down to catch up. They usually lose their touch long before they gain the limelight, but are able to cruise a bit.
The big tell: is "being a public intellectual" all they have? Do they have no experiences with the real world to temper flighty, assumption-based beliefs? Bad news. Even Zeno of Citium saw the world as a merchant while Stoicism was cooking in his head. You can't create or benefit from philosophy isolated from people who challenge your assumptions.
Here's some people to get you started:
On Malik (some interesting photography too): https://om.co/ https://om.co/
Anil Dash (appreciates a good Prince pun): https://www.anildash.com/ https://www.anildash.com/
Judith Butler, just about anything they put out in public.
bell hooks (deceased, but has a lot worth reading)
Adam Savage (lots of good life advice in Q&As): https://www.youtube.com/@tested https://www.youtube.com/@tested
Wil Wheaton (yeah I know, but he hit a new gear once he got past alcohol and started really dealing with his childhood trauma): https://wilwheaton.net/ https://wilwheaton.net/
Michael Rosenbaum (played a solid Lex Luthor and now does great interviews): https://www.youtube.com/@InsideOfYouPodcast https://www.youtube.com/@InsideOfYouPodcast
Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating (from Enterprise to interview show): https://www.youtube.com/@ShuttlepodShow/ https://www.youtube.com/@ShuttlepodShow/
- ubermonkey 3y agoI can't hit the link --- getting a 503 -- but I'd add a few. Rebecca Solnit (Men Explain Things To Me, widely awarded) Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me, MacArthur Fellow) Ibrahim X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist, MacArthur Fellow)
- Kye 3y agoTa-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" was eye-opening on a topic I thought I was already well-informed on, and it barely scratched the surface. So much stuff boiled to the surface in the almost 10 years since.
- migro23 3y agoOnce I heard Kendi's definition of racism (1) I could no longer take that guy seriously. He is a social justice warrior public intellectual of the post modernist variety leading me to think he is either innocently and unknowningly deluded or an intentional and nefarious grifter profitting from giving apparent credence to the hard left hardliners. A similar role that Jordan Peterson leverages to make a living arguing or giving theoritical support for the religious right. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IpV9rrcGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_IpV9rrcGc (it's a 2 minute video and totally worth it!)
- Kye 3y agoNot knowing anything about him, do you think I should weigh a 2 minute off the cuff answer in a Q&A segment over what I might find in the 320 page book ubermonkey suggested? The framing of the video is plainly and severely biased, so I have to be suspicious about editing and what context or expansion/correction I might find in a longer clip, plus how the framing itself affects my own interpretation. edit: Having read all...this, I think I'll still go with the free book, courtesy of my library.
- migro23 3y agoGranted a book can contain much more context that might help the author save face but claiming that the "framing of the video is plainly and severely biased" is tenuous. Why? Because the clip was self contained, It contained 1 question "Please give your definition of racism" and 1 answer that was a definition of racism that was self referential. You could claim he mis-spoke but c'mon, here's a guy who wrote a book about racism, his full time gig is lecturing primarly around the topic of racism in a University and appears all over the place speaking about it. If he cannot give a straight-up coherent definition of racism off the cuff then there is something seriously wrong. My guess is that this compeletely inadequate definition he gave truly reflects how he thinks and frames the topic of racism and articulating it so briefly it highlights how ridiculous it is. You may disagree with this interpretation and that's fine but claiming the clip is biased is weak because the clip itself is complete, no editing/cutting and contains 1 very simple question and a complete albeit incoherent answer. Indeed the video contains added text but ignore that, just focus on what he (Kendi) says. That should suffice to support my previous comment.
- overrun11 3y agoI've read several of these works excited to hear intelligent challenges to my worldview but they always have the opposite effect. The arguments are _so_ bad, so fallacious and ridiculous that I can't help becoming more convinced that they must be wrong. Kendi's grand plan involves an unelected review board with full veto power over any law or policy (no more separation of powers) made at any level of government (no more federalism!). Could someone more sympathetic to these views help me out with what I'm missing?
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- KittenInABox 3y agoI'll throw my hat in and suggest also: "I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World" by Kai Cheng Thom Really tackles the issues with non-nuanced public discussion on political topics in an eye-opening way.
- Loughla 3y agoI'll add for the field of education: Paolo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed)
- racked 3y agoAdding to that: Stephen Fry. His documentary about bipolar disorder, for instance.