Bonus Sample: No Moral Outrage Porn, No Punching Down

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

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

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Matthew had a plan for this week — a 4K word essay on what could be learned from studying the content of an outrageously offensive conspiritualist… but then he shelved it. Why?A last-minute, off-the-cuff discussion on what it means to indulge or not indulge moral outrage porn. What it means to punch up or down, and how we decide. How we might confront an influencer who has managed to monetize mental illness.Produced with an enormous debt of gratitude to the work of C. Thi. Nguyen.Show Notes“Moral Outrage Porn“: Nguyen and WilliamsNguyen’s public scholarship on gamification, value capture, narrowed morality, and the seductions of certainty.Nguyen on the gamification of public discourseAaron Rabinowitz on cheap talkMatthew’s elegy for Michael Stone -- -- --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.
0:08.5	Hello, Matthew here from the Conspirituality Podcast team.
0:12.5	The following is a sample of the bonus episode we produce every week for our Patreon subscribers.
0:18.8	You can support our work and have full access to bonus episodes and other premium content
0:23.7	by subscribing for as little as $5 a month at patreon.com slash Conspirituality.
0:31.1	Thanks for listening and your support which keeps us ad-free and editorially independent.
0:38.8	No moral outrage porn, no punching down.
0:44.4	Hey everybody, so this bonus episode will be a little more informal than usual.
0:51.2	I'm not going to plug in music, the production values might be a little bit lower.
0:56.2	I'm not going to start and stop if I flub on words because I'm out of time.
1:02.8	I did have something written out and almost produced which was an examination of the content of
1:10.4	a particularly volatile Conspirituality influencer. Now dozens of listeners had referred us to this
1:17.5	person's Instagram account and their antics. They have a dedicated but small-ish following
1:26.5	and the content is typical harmful QAJs and COVID denialism and vaccine disinformation.
1:34.2	The only thing that's original about it is the level of aggression the person performs as they
1:38.8	deliver it. This is aggression masquerading as feminist righteousness directed at the whole
1:47.1	world but also at their followers which is really weird. It's so over the top it's hard to believe
1:54.8	until you realize that the brand is outrageousness itself. So this person is some kind of weird
2:01.8	combination of Alex Jones, Alice Cooper and like a marina brome of itch for MAGA yoga moms.
2:10.6	As with so many of the influencers we study it was easy for me to be sucked into their feed with
2:19.4	his combination of fascination and nausea. So I spent some time there and carefully sifted
2:26.8	through the scorched earth to find something tender in the whole situation. Some fragile key to
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