Bonus: Bullying Gates, Bullying Biden: The Conspiracy of Male Violence

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Bill Gates is unknowable—except to close and estranged friends, family members, his therapist if he has one. His empire sprawls; his philanthropy is tangled. He’s clearly not any one thing. But what is the one thing conspiritualists fantasize him to be? What archetypal role does he play for those who hate him?In this meditation, Matthew zeroes in on the briefly-mentioned biographical datum that Gates was bullied as a boy to unfold his symbolic power as neuroatypical scapegoat. If we listen carefully, he argues, we’ll hear something very high-school-ish, laced with homophobia and latent violence, in the lazy defamations slung at Gates. Is it a surprise that Trump graduated from the New York Military Academy in 1964—the same year that a horrific hazing incident cost several administrators their jobs? Is it a surprise, given what we saw in that so-called debate, that Trump’s school had written hazing into their cadet manual? No, it’s not. And when Biden pauses and smiles, and shakes his head, and his gaze falls, is he remembering what it was like to have had a stutter in an all-boys school? We spend a lot of time on this podcast unravelling the shoddy thinking at the heart of our conspirituality and political landscapes. These 24 minutes tackles primal cruelty that is up to men to address—if they can remember it, and challenge that sad assumption that it’s simply the way of the world. -- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Bullying Gates, Bullying Biden, the conspiracy of male violence.
1:10.0	For this week's bonus episode, I want to look at the primal violence we call bullying, especially
1:15.7	as it plays out between boys and men.
1:18.9	The first meditation is on The Mystery of Bill Gates as the poster boy for conspiruality and Q-Anon hatred.
1:26.3	The second meditation is on Trump bullying his way through that awful debate. So I've read a little bit of the available Gates biography out there and I scrubbed through the Netflix special inside Bill's brain which seems pretty good. He's obviously a complex character.
1:46.0	There's also a great investigative article from the nation on The Money Maze of his philanthropy
1:52.0	and how much of it is a self-serving client. on the money maze of his philanthropy
1:53.0	and how much of it is a self-serving closed loop
1:55.8	whilst also doing considerable work in the world.
2:00.2	It's complex.
2:08.8	But I won't rely on that data too much. Those who assert that he's evil incarnate aren't really interested in who he is or in the complexities of his role in the world, so there's no point in trying to get that
2:16.4	record straight. I'm going to focus mainly on what he seems to symbolize. There is one biographical detail I'll focus on, aside from what's commonly known of his industry accomplishments, is that he was small as a boy and he was bullied.
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