NEW PODCAST EPISODE: On The New Yorker, Nathan Fielder, empty rebellion, and the learned helplessness of the chattering classes.
What does the scientific method have to do with the late Andy Kaufman reading The Great Gatsby to an angry crowd?
I hate The New Yorker, but I like their podcast Critics At Large — even though they discussed a frustrating subject in a way that further frustrates me. What does it say about our culture that we enable “rebels” even as the chattering classes wring their hands over the way rebels break the rules? And how is this related the dawn of the scientific method and the pervasive absence of mysticism? Lend me your ear and I’ll give you 2 cents…
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