Bonus: Digital Soldiers, Purity Tests, & Word Magic

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

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

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As more of the world has gained access to mobile internet, populism, and the perception (rightly or wrongly) of government, corruption has steadily increased. But what is “populism?” How do populist ideas on both the Right and Left identify “the people” and their enemies? With the size of the online megaphone and Balkanized social media audiences, what role does the word magic of emotionally-manipulative language play in perpetuating division, even when claiming to do otherwise?Show NotesVox Eu on mobile internet, populism and government confidenceSteve Bannon’s far right “school of gladiators“ for young populists in ItalyPopulism is Morphing in Insidious Ways via The AtlanticColeman Hughes review of “How To Be An Anti-Racist” and open letter To Ibrahim X. KendiJohn McWhorter’s review of White FragilityIn Defense of Looting —one author’s controversial opinion via NPR -- -- --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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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
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1:09.1	Today is November 13th, 2020 and you may have noticed that yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Alito gave an ultra-partisan speech to the Federalist Society, in which he spoke
1:17.5	about reproductive freedoms, same-sex marriage, and the unconstitutional nature of quarantine measures and
1:25.0	listening to experts. This is almost too on the nose of what I want to talk
1:31.2	about today. Since 2016, behind the scenes, all of our current presidents
1:37.0	distracting and erratic attention-grabbing behavior,
1:41.0	groups like the Federalist Society have calmly been enacting an actual
1:46.2	conservative quiet revolution, the most recent gambit of which, of course,
1:51.5	saw Trump's third Supreme Court appointment create a decisive
1:56.2	six to three majority. Part 1, the Information Age. I'm thinking this week about the difficulties of communication and how we live neck deep in the information age yet find ourselves less well informed and more prone to being misinformed than at any time I can
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