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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 104 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone watching and listening. Today I'm speaking with author, journalist, and |
0:19.5 | political commentator Glenn Greenwald. We discuss the war on myths and disinformation, |
0:26.7 | how a false social moralism, religious rhetoric, conceptions of safety, and false compassion |
0:34.2 | have been used and misused to reshape the Western world into a good versus evil polarity. |
0:42.8 | We also explore the human need for meta-narratives, the basis of morality, and the case, perhaps, |
0:50.0 | for God in a world that offers nihilism and totalitarianism as stark alternatives. |
0:56.7 | All right, so I was looking today through your biography and your books and trying to figure |
1:04.8 | out what we could most productively discuss and discuss, and I thought that this comment |
1:10.0 | by Rachel Maddow in 2014 might be a good place to start. She described you in theory, |
1:18.0 | as the American left's most fearless political commentator, and so I have a bunch of questions |
1:25.6 | about that, and the first one might be, what the hell is the American left? And do you |
1:31.1 | think that that's an accurate portrayal of you? I'm not being smart asking that question. |
1:37.5 | It isn't obvious to me at all how the political lines are drawn now. I'm up in the air |
1:44.4 | about it constantly. So were you the American left's most fearless political commentator? |
1:51.3 | Are you still in what do you think the left is? One thing I can tell you for certain is |
1:56.9 | that that is not something she would say in 2023. My recollection is that was actually |
2:02.9 | a little bit earlier. I think it might have been 2009 or 10th at the start of the Obama |
2:07.5 | administration when I became a very vocal critic of the Obama administration, and there |
2:14.9 | weren't a lot of people who were willing to take the same critique that was being applied |
2:18.7 | to George Bush and Dick Cheney regarding the war on terror and the assault on civil liberties, |
2:23.2 | and the name of the war on terror and apply it to Obama, even though Obama not only continued |
2:28.3 | many of those policies that he campaigned on the vow to uproot, but extended a lot of |
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