Daily Archives: March 21, 2022

Loving Putin Is The New Holocaust Denial (3-21-22)

00:00 Holocaust denial has long been the most socially deviant opinion you could offer 01:00 Dooovid joins the show 03:00 When you moralize the news, the IQ of the conversation goes down 05:00 The dominant narrative about the war in … Continue reading

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The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (1998)

Here are some excerpts from this book sociologist Randall Collins: * The long-term tendency of an active intellectual community is to raise the level of abstraction and reflexivity. * Individuals who participate in IRs [interaction rituals] are filled with emotional … Continue reading

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