Once Upon a Time in Hollywood | The Roundtable Episode 6 Segment 4
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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“You can’t drive out corruption without material discipline”: editors discuss the rapidly intensifying decadence of Hollywood, touching on the Weinstein verdict, Peachy Keenan’s spicy take on the Spielbergs, and Ross Douthat’s new book, The Decadent Society.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we need to talk about Hollywood a little bit, we this great piece spicy piece controversial piece by |
| 0:25.2 | peachy Keenan one of our favorite pseudonymous commentators on American life today |
| 0:31.5 | at Americanmind.org and the post is called wrench inWorks, and it's a response to the unfortunate route that Mr. Spielberg's daughter has taken. |
| 0:48.2 | And, you know, there's a lot to talk about here. |
| 0:50.3 | Ross Douthit has a book out about decadence in our society coming off our drugs talk. |
| 0:56.6 | We should move into Hollywood and talk about sex a little bit. |
| 1:03.5 | This ties into the whole Weinstein saga as it stands today as well. I think, think you know the the cheer that went up when |
| 1:14.9 | when he was uh found guilty on a couple counts you know and great it's you say you know you |
| 1:22.1 | get up on your soapbox and you say you know Harvey should go to jail and he goes yeah yeah and then you go and all of his high-end enablers, Harvey should go to jail. And he goes, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:27.8 | And then you go, and all of his high-end enablers, they too should go to jail. |
| 1:32.2 | And you go, oh, you know, the crowd is so sure. |
| 1:34.7 | Oh, no. |
| 1:36.2 | And the decadence of Hollywood that is captured for me in the way, you know, you hang around in this town long enough and you start to |
| 1:47.8 | understand that there is a vast and powerful and deep network of decadence of professional decadence |
| 1:57.1 | that makes the city go and it stretches clear from malibu to downtown L.A. and probably beyond. |
| 2:05.5 | And it's so easy to just like high five each other when a guy like Harvey Weinstein goes down. |
| 2:14.0 | But then, you know, you look past Harvey's, you you know sort of sad visage as he tosses his |
| 2:21.2 | walker aside and is led off to jail uh and you see a much more disturbing landscape um you know |
| 2:29.8 | so you you don't need to spend you know a couple week couple of weeknights per week out on the smoking |
| 2:36.6 | lounge back patio of the Chateau-Marmant to get a flavor for what's really going on. |
| 2:42.0 | But you, you know, that's the crazy thing about L.A. |
| 2:44.5 | Is that even fairly ordinary people can, are free to, like, dip into parts of of that world you can go out and just find it |
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