Academia Has Fallen - Dr Paul A. Taylor

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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SPONSORED BY: ExpressVPN. Go to https://www.expressvpn.com/trigger and get an extra 3 months free on a one-year package! SPONSORED BY: easyDNS - domain name registrar provider and web host. Use special code: TRIGGERED for 50% off when you visit https://easydns.com/triggered/ Dr Paul A. Taylor is a critical theorist who read economics and politics at Edinburgh University before conducting his PhD thesis on the early history of computer hackers. Paul has appeared on a number of Radio 4 and Radio 3 programmes including Woman’s Hour, The Verb, Thinking Allowed, and You and Yours. He is critical of the largely unchallenged rise of the bureaucratic mind-set and its deleterious effects on public discourse and professional standards. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ YouTube: @xentricapc Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 Intro 02:03 Why Dr Taylor is Here Today 08:03 First Educational Experiences 24:22 Dr Taylor’s Academic Career 31:12 Sponsor Message: ExpressVPN 33:03 What is Postmodernism and How Does it Impact Us? 41:29 Our Need to Think More 51:19 What is Happening in Modern Academia? 1:00:24 How Herd Mentality Stops People from Speaking Out 1:15:42 Similarities of Postmodernism & Marxism to Religious Belief 1:19:45 Sponsor Message: EasyDNS 1:25:48 Ideology is Destroying Meritocracy 1:32:49 Consequences of Universities Being Driven by Data 1:45:51 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.0	I was in infant schools. I must have been about five.
1:04.0	And we had books got delivered every month.
1:07.0	So, I'm sat next to this land, and he had this bright yellow book that was about red Indians.
1:14.0	Sorry, I can't say that. I'm Native Americans, red Indians at the time.
1:17.0	I could see they had an ink drawing of a Native American with his arm on the ground.
1:22.0	He was lying down, listening.
1:24.0	And I, you know, read enough even at that age, no, he was listening for things in the distance.
1:28.0	And he said, no, he's dead.
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