514: Social Justice. Socially Engineered. (With Jay Dyer)

09/26/17 • 129 min

School Sucks: Higher Education For Self-Liberation

(Above the Snowflakes Part 4) Our investigation continues...

This series aimed to examine the philosophical roots of the current intensifying social justice movement, and how messages from academia have spilled out into popular culture and consciousness. Today, Jay Dyer joins me to argue that the phenomenon actually has darker origins.

Jay is the author of Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film and host of Jay's Analysis Podcast. We'll spend the first half hour talking about film analysis and his TV show, Hollywood Decoded.

Then we'll discuss whether or not there is actually a kind of covert war against the minds of millennials that began a long time ago, and with designs far more grand in scale. We focus our conversation on the psychological experimentation of the Tavistock Institute and on the idea of "culture creation."

MONOLOGUE
A nautical metaphor for three types of behavior inside revolutionary social and political movements

INTRO (20:15 - 48:48)
- What is Hollywood up to?
- HG Wells, Star Trek and predictive programming
- Independence Day, Bill Pullman, 9/11 and George Bush
- Jay's TV Show, Hollywood Decoded
- Working with master Kubrick theorist, Jay Weidner

TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE (48:49 - end)
- The utility of social movements for oligarchs
- Definitions and Origins
- Is there a central mission?
- Rooted in pragmatism
- Eco and "Uber-Fascism"
- Veganism - experiments in group-think
- Altering "man's view of man"
- Culture creation
- Manufacturing guilt
- The Phoenix Program, turning neighbor against neighbor
- Identity politics - real and synthetic
- Media-induced mania
- Shame inversion
- Charlottesville, psychological warfare
- SJW trauma response to speech
- Tavistock's MK ULTRA connections
- The alienated youth and generational studies
- The creation and steering of socio-political trends

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513: Building Self Directed Learning Communities (With Diane Murphy)

(FreeCoast Fest - Day 2 - Dover, NH)
Diane Murphy taught in public schools for 30 years before she retired early to build BigFish, an innovative self-directed learning community in Dover, NH. I had the pleasure of speaking with Diane at the FreeCoast Festival and of hearing her presentation on BigFish. We sat down to discuss her past experience, current efforts and passion for self-directed learning and integrating teens into the real world.

Discussion:
- Diane's path out of public school
- properties of natural learning
- physical costs of school
- A new model for a self-directed learning center
- Cooperation and competition can work together
- Community networking for real-world education and training
- How teens move from a school to a self-directed learning community
- Outcomes for self-directed learners
- Building online portfolios
- How public school teachers are kept in line

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515: The Echo Chamber Wall Just Got 20 Feet Higher (With Nathan Fraser and Drew Sample)

Nathan Fraser and Drew Sample join me to revisit a past topic - how the internet is connecting and dividing us - since new problems and opportunities are presenting themselves on a very regular basis. We focus a large portion of our discussion of the echo chamber effect that exacerbates division in society. How susceptible are we? And what can we do to avoid this problem?

But first...both Drew and Nathan are making long trips to A Weekend With Thaddeus Russell in LA this November. We'll discuss why they decided to go and what they hope to get out of the event.
Drew's Podcast: The Sample Hour
Nathan's Company: Podcast Blastoff
The Nathan Fraser Show

Discussion:
- Is technology splitting humanity in two, making the divide between producers and consumers even wider than before
- for too many people, social media platforms function as overprotective parents; ideas speech can be emotionally devastating if you haven't ever engaged with them and been forced to intellectually defend against them
- understanding 2016 left meltdown and Trump derangement syndrome
- internet as tool for political mobilization, not for the exchange of ideas; the internet is amplifying what the left's impulses have been for a century
- don't blame Facebook for the echo chambers
- people are clearly and neatly divided into good and evil, and the echo chambers reinforce that everyday
- Tie in to Thinking Fast and Slow, heuristics and biologically driven impulses for survival applied to the digital age

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