We Choose Our Wage & Crime Rates (10-26-22)

00:50 John Fetterman stumbles through his debate with Dr Oz
15:00 We can set wage rates by dialing back immigration
22:00 We can choose our crime rates
26:00 Why was Elon Musk so threatening?
45:50 Alex Jones
55:50 Alex Jones complained Glenn Beck stole his shtick
57:00 Conservative media will always take your side
58:00 Conservative media supported Nick Fuentes, presented him as a guileless kid
1:01:45 Richard Spencer cares more about his dog than the Palestinians
1:05:00 Richard Spencer wants to become the anti-Christ
1:10:30 Power, Privilege, Parties: the shaping of modern Britain

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The Right To Sex (10-25-22)

00:45 Tucker Carlson on extremist ideologies
08:00 Hillary Clinton calls Donald Trump an illegitimate president
10:30 Why are only Democrats allowed to deny election results?
20:20 WP: A ‘right to sex’ is not the cure for what ails so many men
24:20 Sam Vaknin on the psychology of victimhood movements
36:00 Diversity, Debate, Decline | Amy Wax & Richard Hanania
49:30 Jennifer Rubin: There is no compromise with election deniers
55:00 Rep. Jamies Raskin declares holy war on Russia
1:01:00 PBS: LIES, POLITICS AND DEMOCRACY

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Kanye West vs the Jews (10-24-22)

02:00 Tucker Carlson on American crime
13:00 Richard Spencer looks forward to the apocalypse
15:00 Examining the posture and grace of political leaders
45:00 Hasidic School to Pay $8 Million After Admitting to Widespread Fraud
49:00 Report: Banner saying ‘Kanye is right about the Jews,’ hung over the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles
52:00 Dooovid joins
1:04:15 Ricardo joins to talk Kanye West
1:32:00 Liberals urge Biden to rethink Ukraine strategy

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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative

Peter Brook writes in this 2022 book:

* Seth Godin, who runs the Story Skills Workshop, much appreciated in the corporate world, posted his response to the events roiling the United States in the summer of 2020: “The way forward is through. Through empathy and through practice. We are each charged with standing up and telling our story, a true story of possibility, as we weave together a better future. We’ve all seen, firsthand, the effect of a powerful story. This proven workshop will help you craft one that makes things better.”

* Rita Charon and her followers have insisted on the importance of “narrative medicine,” based on listening to patients’ stories and reciprocating with stories about illness and recovery—and death.

* As the finale of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton asks, with a poignancy to which any of us can respond: “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?”

* Anthony Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner state in Minding the Law that the traditional view that adjudication could proceed by “examining free-standing factual data selected on grounds of their logical pertinency” has been superseded by the view that “increasingly we are coming to recognize that both the questions and the answers in such matters of ‘fact’ depend largely upon one’s choice (considered or unconsidered) of some overall narrative as best describing what happened or how the world works. ” 13 In other words, the “facts on the ground” are not cognizable at all until we make them into a narrative, and that narrative and its meaning are not determined by the facts but shaped by our expectations of narrative coherence and meaning, which in turn can derive from our preformed beliefs about human behavior, motivation, morality, gender identity, and so on.
Legal adjudication doesn’t in theory make a place for storytelling, though narrative may be crucial in creating facts, judgments, verdicts. Stories are regarded by law as suspiciously emotional, as making a kind of appeal to empathy—or prejudice—that legal rules must cabin and confine. 14 Yet there is ample evidence that the law relies far more than it is aware on stories, not only those of the courtroom —usually opposing stories, one of which will trump the other—but also at the appellate level, where the “facts of the case” established at trial must be retold as part of the attempt to judge whether the case has been decided according to the legal rules. And there are other stories as well: those of precedential cases, and maybe of the Constitution—its text and how it was decided upon and interpreted.

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My Better Stuff

Here are some of my better blog posts:

* Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives) (10-23-22)
* Wired: The High Cost of Living Your Life Online (10-3-22)
* The Nihilism of Illness (8-16-22)
* Dearly Beloved (7-30-22)
* NYT: How Streaming Stars Pay the Price of Online Fame (7-29-22)
* How The News Differs From Reality (7-28-22)
* Rabbis & Rapists: A New Novel Exposes California Judaism (7-9-22)
* Death Be Not Proud – A Celebration of the Life & Work Of Musicologist Robert M. Stevenson (7-1-22)
* Is The Washington Post Hinting That Cassidy Hutchinson Was Sleeping With Mark Meadows? (6-29-22)
* When Did Intellectuals Stop Supporting The Free Market Of Ideas? (5-29-22)
* Vouch Nationalism (5-28-22)
* American Fear (5-22-22)
* Blacks Ride Free (5-22-22)
* When Your Options In Life Dwindle (5-22-22)
* Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now? (1-4-22)
* Translating Inspiration Into Perspiration (11-25-21)
* Running Towards My New Life (11-21-21)
* Like Many Right-Wing Pundits, Dennis Prager Has Been Consistently Awful With Regard To Covid
* How did the American Right react to Covid? (8-12-21)
* HBO’s Small Town News & That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ (8-3-21)
* Dennis Prager Biography
* Antonio Villaraigosa (2007)

Vlogs:

* Process (Liberals) Vs Ends (Conservatives) (10-23-22)
* People Never Say What They Mean (10-21-22)
* Kanye West and the Rise of Christian Nationalism (10-20-22)
* Kanye West is not a Political Philosopher (10-19-22)
* Two Live Jews Discuss The Rise Of Christian Nationalism (10-6-22)
* What If Social Media & Universities Prohibited Christ Denial? (9-22-22)
* Fordy’s Great Leap Forward In Moral Thinking Begins Now (9-21-22)
* A voice and character analysis of Alt Right livestreamers (9-19-22)
* The Ballad of Richard Spencer (9-18-22)
* How do we spread multi-culturalism to uncontacted peoples? (9-4-22)
* Pain, Fear, Stigma: What People Who Survived Monkeypox Want You to Know (8-31-22)
* Dearly Beloved (8-1-22)
* TRS Exposed (7-28-22)
* Dispelling The Ugly Myths About Orthodox Judaism (7-10-22)
* The Sinister Path (6-27-22)
* The Monster Inside (6-19-22)
* Biodiversity Crisis Drives Eradication Campaign Against Super-Predators (6-10-22)
* Where can marginalized losers get self-esteem? (6-3-22)”>
* What Unites Opposition To Nationalism? Disdain For Individual Dignity (6-1-22)
* The Media Are The Lapdogs Of The Experts (5-31-22)
* The Market for Goods and the Market for Ideas (5-29-22)
* A Solution To Social Media Censorship (5-27-22)
* Can you change your personality? (5-22-22)
* I Want To Break Free (5-21-22)
* How Do Republicans Build A Counter-Elite? (5-19-22)
* Should we bring souls out of hiding? What’s our right level of visibility and responsibility? (5-19-22)
* Don’t trust anyone under 25 (5-13-22)
* What’s The Purpose Of Politics? (5-12-22)
Competing for your attention — Baked Alaska declares himself innocent (5-11-22)
* Fame and Friends (5-10-22)
* Please Respect My Rebrand: The Mia, Nick & Richard Story (5-10-22)
* My chat room is not a public toilet (5-9-22)
* What if cults and livestreams are our only hope? (5-1-22)
* Only the Lonely (5-1-22)
* Why Do Entrepreneurs Embrace Woo-Woo Ideas? (4-19-22)
* The Alt Right Hagadah (4-14-22)
* Checking out of the national project (4-14-22)
* Teal Swan – The Suicide Catalyst (4-13-22)
* Tucker Carlson Talks To Amy Wax About Saving Western Civilization (4-11-22)
* Ordinary World (4-7-22)
* The Flight 93 Election Reconsidered (4-3-22)
* How Did Russia Vs Ukraine Become A Battle Of Good & Evil? (3-31-22)
* Historian Matthew Ghobrial On Russia Vs Ukraine (3-29-22)
* Will Smith, Chris Rock and the downward spiral of the dissidents (3-28-22)
* The Energy Stars (3-20-22)
* Putin Seems Disrespectful Of Human Rights, Bro (3-1-22)
* What is Fascism? (2-20-22)
* Dr. Fordy Will See You Now: Be Quiet And Accept Reality (2-9-22)
* Saturday Night Right: Joe Rogan’s apology, the rise and fall of internet blood sports (2-5-22)
* Deconstructing Holocaust Denial With Graduate Student Matthew Ghobrial Cockerill (1-22-22)
* Living by principles in an unfair world (1-25-22)
* The One Study That Changed JF Gariepy’s View On Vaccines (1-2-22)
* The Lies We Tell Ourselves: How to Face the Truth, Accept Yourself, and Create a Better Life (12-31-21)
* Walkabout Guru: Decoding Joe Rogan, Jocko Willink & Life After Youtube (12-29-21)
* The magic key vs the situational key (12-28-21)
* Self-verification theory (12-24-21)
* Shabbat on Christmas (12-26-21)
* Why Are Americans Bowling Alone While Aussies Bowl Together? (12-7-21)
* Sometimes You Need Less Faith (11-19-21)
* The Structure and the Situation (11-8-21)
* America is not a hell hole – the hole is in your soul (10-18-21)
* How talk radio makes people worse (10-18-21)
* What are the spiritual lessons of Covid? (10-7-21)
* Pompous Luke (9-27-21)
* It’s easy to dismiss information you don’t understand (9-3-21)
* You can’t pray your way out of a problem you behaved your way in to (9-3-21)

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