Ep. 100: The State of the West
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
We are officially 100 episodes into the Young Heretics journey. Looking back with gratitude at the growth of the show during its lifetime, Spencer Klavan gives an assessment of where the West currently stands, where hope lies, and why a classical education is more urgent than ever. Plus: a secret Locals announcement.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a young heretics 100th episode Bonanza edition. |
| 0:09.6 | Hooray you guys we made it to 100 episodes I do not have any like confetti or party hats to wear |
| 0:16.6 | or anything like that but know that in my heart I am tossing confetti all over the room. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm really is amazing to me to think about the fact that we are 100 episodes into this journey together. |
| 0:35.1 | I don't think when I like you know thought up the idea for the show and sort of like I guess I would |
| 0:40.4 | like to do a podcast I always say and this is really true that when people told me I you should |
| 0:46.1 | you should have a podcast you're good at writing you should have a podcast I thought like all right |
| 0:49.4 | fine if you want like everybody has a podcast so I'm just going to do the podcast that I want to do |
| 0:54.4 | and you know I'm not going to try to make it like super current events and I'm not going to try |
| 0:58.5 | to make it as big as I possibly can make it I'm just going to talk about the good stuff of the |
| 1:03.3 | West I'm going to kick out all this stupid identity politics nonsense I'm just going to give people |
| 1:07.9 | the high quality you know great works of literature philosophy history poetry that that they've been |
| 1:14.7 | missing out on because the culture wars have basically just obscured everything right that was |
| 1:20.8 | that was the idea and I thought like five people were going to listen to me talk about Homer right |
| 1:25.5 | that's the thing is you know you make something in the sort of media world and it's kind of a |
| 1:31.9 | commonplace that in order to get eyeballs on the internet in order to get attention you have to |
| 1:37.2 | cheapen stuff you know you have to like throw red meat to the crowd you have to play to certain |
| 1:42.4 | dark demographics or whatever and I was just like not into doing any of that and so I thought well |
| 1:48.4 | that this was just going to be a passion project and the the thing that I discovered is that you |
| 1:54.4 | you hold the great works of the West out there and it's sort of like food it's like nourishment |
| 1:59.8 | you're holding that you're saying is anybody hungry and it turned out people like devour the food |
| 2:05.0 | you know because they're so because we are all I think so starved for real substantive discussion |
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