484: Rise of Radical Beliefs with Lucas Rockwood
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
You've probably noticed the media right now is filled with polarizing voices, rage, and vitriol; but have you noticed that these extreme views are not your own? Have you noticed that hardly anyone you know is truly radical in their views? Most people are reasonable, thoughtful, and concerned.
On this week's podcast, I'd like to share my own experiences with courting radical viewpoints, and why they pop right now on social media. I'd also like to address some of the hatemail, critical inquiries, and listener feedback I've received.
Listen & learn:
- My own politically flip flopping views
- The dire need for critical thinking amidst a sound-bite media frenzy
- Why listening to people you disagree with might be the most important conversations to have
- How so-called "hot issues" of the day are not actually popular, they're simply salacious
- My (un)safe space hope for the podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show. |
| 0:05.3 | If you're new here, I'm your host, I'm a yoga teacher, a teacher trainer, a serial |
| 0:08.9 | entrepreneur, I'm a father of three kids, but first and foremost, I'm a student. |
| 0:12.7 | I use this podcast as a way to learn things and share what I've learned with you. |
| 0:16.7 | Normally, I feature guests, experts, authors, medical doctors, yoga teachers, meditation |
| 0:22.0 | teachers, all of the above, but this week will be a departure from that. |
| 0:25.3 | It's almost an interstitial episode. |
| 0:27.9 | And I would like to do a solo show called The Rise of Radical Views Online. |
| 0:32.9 | I'd like to address the radicalization of mainstream media, which I have no part in, alternative |
| 0:37.5 | media, which I have a little bit of a part in, and then podcasts, which I guess you could |
| 0:40.9 | say, here I am almost 10 years in. |
| 0:42.6 | I have somewhat of a placeholder in the zeitgeist of podcasting. |
| 0:48.6 | The reason I thought it would be appropriate to make a show like this now, to talk about |
| 0:52.4 | radical views online, is because I've had a number of listeners, particularly in the past |
| 0:57.4 | 12 to 24 months, who've written in questioning my politics, who've written in highly critical |
| 1:03.9 | of guests whom I've had on the show, some of which, some of the criticism was justified, |
| 1:08.9 | much of which was simply just identity politics rearing inside my head. |
| 1:13.7 | And everyone has a right to ask. |
| 1:15.9 | And it is true that at least half a dozen of my past guests, some of them have been completely |
| 1:20.2 | unhinged and nobody is more alarmed by this than me. |
| 1:24.0 | Some of them have gone alt-right, some of them have gone extreme anti-vac, some of them |
| 1:27.8 | are extreme left trolls, really everything in between. |
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