Ep. 55: Don't Eat the Bugs
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We are surrounded these days by people who tell us our natural assumptions are all wrong: patriotism is evil, gender is a construct, everyone should eat bugs. Using the writing of Edmund Burke, Spencer Klavan argues that you have a right to be suspicious of billionaires who want to reduce your life to mere mathematics.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk about prejudice. |
| 0:07.0 | Pregidus is like an enormous buzzword these days, and it is the big bad. |
| 0:12.2 | It's the thing that you're not supposed to have. |
| 0:14.3 | You're not supposed to have prejudice. |
| 0:16.0 | You're not supposed to be bigoted, right? |
| 0:18.1 | And prejudice has become synonymous with something that truly is evil and bad, |
| 0:23.1 | which is racism, right? |
| 0:24.4 | Pregidus usually means this kind of just gut. |
| 0:29.7 | Feeling this un-informed, illogical hatred of people who are different than you. |
| 0:37.2 | That's prejudice the way we use it today, right? |
| 0:40.4 | And you can have prejudice against all kinds of marginalized groups, right? |
| 0:44.5 | You can have prejudice against black people. |
| 0:46.8 | You can have prejudice against gay people, you know, and if you're prejudice, |
| 0:50.4 | it's like, you know, it's almost like the cardinal sin. |
| 0:53.4 | It's the great sin, right? |
| 0:55.4 | And this I'm going to argue today is like a really silly way of thinking about prejudice. |
| 1:04.5 | Because the word, right, what are the two words that are in that word, right? |
| 1:08.6 | Pre-judge, right? |
| 1:10.2 | It's a judgment that you have in advance. |
| 1:12.6 | Maybe you didn't think your way to it on your own, right? |
| 1:15.4 | It sort of exists. |
| 1:16.5 | It's just, it's there as part of your intuition, right? |
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