E66. Meghan Daum Believes We Have Lost the Ability to Sustain Complex Arguments

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Meghan Daum is the author of The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars, in which she examines her own cognitive dissonance as a liberal and a feminist, and her feeling of alienation in today's cultural climate. She and Bridget discuss how society has changed dramatically in the last 10 years, the gulf between Gen X and Millennials, coming of age in a culture where there's a conversational chokehold happening and what the effects might be, and the death of cultural gatekeepers. They dive into the minefield of being writers in the age of social media when a provocative piece can get you cancelled, reminisce about growing up reaping the benefits of the feminist movement that came before them, explore why learning to stick up yourself is such an important skill for a woman to have, and wonder what happened to the "life isn't fair" philosophy that they were raised with. It's a fascinating conversation between two women on the front lines of the culture war who still believe that nuance is something that should not be vilified. Full transcript available here: WiW66-MeghanDaum-Transcript

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0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
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0:34.4	This week I'm excited to have Megan Dom. Megan Dom is the author of The Problem
0:39.8	with Everything, My Journey Through the New Culture Wars wars which was a 2019 New York
0:44.6	Times notable book a columnist for the Los Angeles Times from 2005 to 2016 she
0:51.0	now writes a bi-weekly column for Medium's Jen magazine.
0:55.8	Megan and I are culture war sisters in the battles
1:00.4	in the crossfire.
1:01.8	I think we were both Jen Xers caught in the crossfire. I think we were both Jen Xers caught in the crossfire so there's a lot of
1:06.6	overlap in our story and she's just very insightful so enjoy. I'm with Megan Dom everyone. Hello. Hi. This is the first time I've ever done the
1:18.0	this is the first time I've done back to back. Yeah. I've never had the the marathon switch, the switch
1:25.4	a row. Well we're gonna have all new material. I know I'm so excited. I'm so
1:29.3	excited to have you. I read I often have people on and don't have a chance to read their book and I'm so excited I got to read yours before you came on.
1:38.0	I'm so honored that you read it. A lot of people don't even fake it. They just say, I haven't read a warning.
1:43.2	Oh, I'll be honest if I haven't read someone's book.
1:45.5	But I read it in like three days.
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