#832 - Rudyard Lynch - Is This The Most Absurd Time In History?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Rudyard Lynch is a YouTuber and a historian. Is the modern world weird? Whether it's incels, brat summer, a broken media landscape, godlessness or a decline in institutional trust it seems like lots of modernity is kind of odd. From the fall of empires to the rise of new world orders, how does our current timeline compare to the rest of recent history? Expect to learn whether we are actually living in a unique time in history, what a far-right backlash might look like, why the left is seen as more feminine, what would have happened if Trump actually had been killed, what it will take for young men to feel happy and fulfilled again and much more… Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period from Shopify at https://shopify.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get a 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Rudyard Lynch. He's a
0:05.1	Youtuber and a historian. Is the modern world weird, whether it's in cells, bratsummer, a broken
0:12.1	media landscape, godlessnesslessness or a decline in
0:15.0	institutional trust it seems like lots of modernity it's kind of odd from
0:19.9	the fall of empires to the rise of new world orders, how does our current timeline compare
0:25.5	with the rest of recent history?
0:27.6	Expect to learn whether we are actually living in a unique time, what a far right backlash might look like, why the left is seen as more feminine,
0:36.4	what would have happened if Trump had actually been killed, what it will take for young
0:40.0	men to feel happy and fulfilled again and much more.
0:45.5	But now ladies and gentlemen please welcome Rajard Lynch. As a guy who has spent a lot of time studying history, how unusual do you think that the time we're living in right now is?
1:15.9	We are the most absurd era in history by a very significant margin. And I can get into why I think that's true. I think there's only one under there's one easy underlying variable that explains all of it.
1:28.0	But I invented an acronym called saw and saw is studies in ancient wisdom.
1:33.0	And what that means to convey is that there's an underlying shared truth that all the world religions share,
1:39.0	all the world's folk ways going back thousands of years,
1:42.0	and then this is corroborated by modern
1:44.1	evidence and I think this podcast is a great example you might be like the one of the
1:48.9	biggest saw content creators where what you do is you compare ancient teachings with what modern science says.
1:55.8	And so there is a strong tether between the two and the 20th century is just a bizarre century
2:02.0	and that's true for about a dozen different reasons
2:04.0	the 20th century established different intellectual precedents as it related to
2:08.0	mating as it related to the idea of community the the nation, religion, how economic conditions worked.
2:16.2	And so you could kind of call the Blue Pill era of history from roughly the World Wars
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