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Decoding the Gurus

Gurometer: Iain McGilchrist *Patreon Preview*

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science, Leisure

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this Gurometer edition, Matt and Chris feed Iain McGilchrist into the sacred instrument to see where exactly refined country-parish-minister vibes land when combined with galaxy-brained hemispheres, civilisational decline narratives, decorative scholarship, and the other features of guruosity.

Iain McGilchrist Gurometer

00:27 Introduction

01:00 Iain McGilchrist Reactions

04:40 Galaxy Brain-ness

06:39 Cultishness

08:28 Anti-Establishmentarianism

11:39 Grievance Mongering

14:30 Self-Aggrandizement and Narcissism

17:21 Cassandra Complex

19:54 Revolutionary Theories

20:48 Pseudo-Profound Bullshit

24:10 Conspiracy Mongering

25:08 Excessive Profiteering

26:10 Moral Grandstanding

27:15 Overall Score

28:47 Bonus Round

33:04 Guru Binary Scores

37:18 Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's Gerometer edition with Mafie Brown and Chris Koutan.

0:36.7

You know the drill.

0:37.8

We're here to put a recent guru into the gorometer and see how they score on the 11 attributes

0:46.2

that we regard as fairly consistent amongst this secular guru set.

0:50.8

How are you doing, Matt?

0:52.0

Are you ready, willing, and able?

0:55.0

All three.

0:56.7

I've got the trifecta of willingness.

0:59.1

Yeah, good-a-gay.

1:00.6

Ian McEaucrist, eh?

1:04.0

This should be straightforward.

1:06.8

I think it's pretty clear-cut what he does do and what he doesn't do.

1:19.3

I'm going to mention this elsewhere, probably, but I did notice yesterday, Matt, that Dr. K was on Jubilee.

1:24.8

You know that thing where they are surrounded by 20 people and they like rush to get to the seat, right?

1:30.5

And it's like a Democrat versus 20 conservatives or that kind of thing is the way it's usually done right, or like a doctor versus 20 anti-vaccine people. In this case,

1:36.1

they had Dr. K versus 20 depressed people. But it was it was more like a, you know, like a therapy thing where each one he was kind of talking

1:47.2

about their problems.

1:48.0

They won't vote on or off.

1:49.8

But I mentioned it because the very first thing he said with the first person that came up

1:53.5

who was talking about having these, you know, difficulties where they have like conflicts

1:58.5

in their brain over different things.

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