Gurometer: Naomi Klein
Decoding the Gurus
Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of our Naomi Klein episode, the masses have spoken. And like the responsible Gurometricians that we are, we've taken your feedback to heart and thus open this episode with a series of scientific and spiritual recitations. Then it's straight back into the sweet science—and mystical art—of Gurometry, as we test how well it measures up to Naomi Klein’s anti-capitalist spirit. Fun for the whole family!
P.S. Don't worry—Chris Langan’s Gurometer has not been forgotten and will be arriving very soon!
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Gurometer: Naomi Klein
00:00 Introduction
01:29 Sponsor Shoutouts!
03:29 Naomi Klein Feedback
05:03 Podcast Format Limitations and Reading the Book!
11:37 Consistency in Standards of Evaluation
20:21 Evaluating the Arguments Independent of the Conclusions
24:53 The Importance of Disconfirming Evidence
26:28 Differing Definitions Cross-Culturally
29:36 The Gurometer
29:59 Galaxy Brainness
32:03 Cultishness
34:02 Anti-Establishmentarianism
38:12 Grievance Mongering
38:55 Self-Aggrandizement
41:29 Cassandra Complex
44:06 Revolutionary Theories
46:53 Pseudo Profound Bullshit
49:25 Conspiracy Mongering
53:57 Excessive Profiteering
54:48 Moral Grandstanding
56:04 Final Scores and Reflections
58:52 Quickfire Guru Bonus Points
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's Gerometer edition. |
| 0:31.7 | This is a sub-production of the Decodinguror's main podcast where we critically examine figures from |
| 0:41.1 | the modern sideguise and analytically decode the rhetoric and techniques and all that kind |
| 0:47.0 | of thing. |
| 0:48.0 | But here, we take people that we've covered and we score them on 11 characteristics that we have noted to be recurrent. |
| 0:58.0 | Using a very technical, very scientific, some would say mystical, spiritual, it's a whole bunch of things mixed together. |
| 1:05.0 | It's a Gorometer, okay? And it's Naomi Klein. That's what we're putting in. Over there, Matthew, the psychologist. |
| 1:12.2 | Over here, Chris, the psychologist and anthropologist, two things I have. |
| 1:17.4 | Okay. |
| 1:18.3 | I live in the in-between. |
| 1:21.5 | Don't try and reduce me down to one thing, Ma. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm too many things. |
| 1:25.0 | I break your paradigms. |
| 1:26.8 | Welcome. |
| 1:28.3 | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:29.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:30.3 | I just to let people know that this episode is brought to you by our good friends |
| 1:33.3 | of Johnny Walker, makers of the green label blended malt scotch risky. |
| 1:37.3 | Mm. |
| 1:38.3 | Brownest of the brown liquors, naturally intense with a distinct smokiness and a big multi-heart, just like me. |
| 1:48.2 | So thank you to them. |
| 1:49.8 | I'm glad you mentioned that because right here I have a relaxing twinnings of London, |
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