E224. Mary Harrington Is Against Progress

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Author Mary Harrington sits down to discuss her new book Feminism Against Progress. She and Bridget discuss how it’s always taken for granted that progress is a good thing, but in order to view it that way you need to narrow your focus and ignore everything that doesn’t fit into the narrative, and the disturbing fact that slavery exists today and it’s never been more profitable. They cover Critical Theory and what it's doing to our society, how it’s not possible to be a disinterested observer ever, how you build back your life from major loss and breakdown, the importance of being embodied and what the internet is doing to us, irony poisoning, how to handle the internet and your kids, being a stay at home mom, the complicated moral questions of surrogacy, and how women’s interests are not the same across classes even within a single society and the repercussions of how that plays out. Sponsor Links: Headspace - https://bit.ly/WiWHeadspace The Jordan Harbinger Show - https://spoti.fi/3LhJBTP Progressive - https://pgrs.in/3Dp5ZIW

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0:00.0	this week we welcome Arthur Mary Harrington. I was an early adopter if you like the work paradigm
0:06.7	you know I was I was fully brought in to a lot of the stuff which I see being kind of written
0:10.6	into legislation now it was sort of fringe like this is this is a side effect of the psychosis
0:16.7	you experienced reading postmodernism at university so here we are like 20 years on I was reading
0:21.6	this stuff university thinking man this just ate the enlightenment this to state the entire
0:26.0	worldview western civilization where screwed it's all it's all going to come apart now
0:30.0	I don't know how long it's going to take but we're all basically screwed now and like 10 years
0:32.9	20 years later I'd like that immediate response was sprang on actually
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1:23.8	welcome hello it's great to have you i've been wanting to talk to you forever
1:29.3	i think thank you for having me on i'm so excited about your book i i've been reading your
1:35.1	columns that unheard for quite some time and for anyone who is not familiar with you they should
1:39.9	be reading you religiously and then now you have a book coming out feminism against progress
1:48.0	i do i'm a feminist and i do not believe in progress yeah that's it talked to me about that
1:52.8	that's so interesting well i mean i've spent i've spent like 10 years trying to answer the question
1:58.2	is it possible is it just even possible to be a feminist if you don't believe in progress
2:02.0	and the answer is well yes but also no i mean that's the answer to most things right yes but also
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