Podcast 420 – “Grover Norquist at Burning Man”

Psychedelic Salon

Lorenzo Hagerty

Personal Journals, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences, Philosophy

4.8 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2014

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Guest speaker: Grover Norquist PROGRAM NOTES: The final speaker at the 2014 Palenque Norte Lectures, which are held at Burning Man each year, was Grover Norquist. According to Wikipedia, “... he is an American political advocate who is founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases and a co-founder of the Islamic Free Market Institute. A libertarian-leaning Republican, he is the primary promoter of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.” While to those who haven't yet had an opportunity to attend Burning Man, his attendance at such an event may seem unlikely, in the extensive Q&A that followed his brief talk, it is quite evident that he has many admirers on the playa. I think that you will be fascinated as he very candidly discusses not just tax matters but also touches on what he thinks about Burning Man itself, as well as his position regarding psychedelics, legalizing cannabis, and mandatory minimum sentencing. Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option

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0:00.0	Greetings from
0:05.0	musical
0:06.9	linguistic art chips
0:09.1	and I've been looking
0:11.1	greetings
0:11.7	greetings
0:13.8	from cyberdallic space
0:19.6	this is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the Psychedelic Salon.
0:23.8	And I've been looking forward to publishing today's podcast ever since I first learned that
0:28.9	Grover Norquist was to be the final speaker at this year's Palenque Norte lectures.
0:34.0	And if you aren't already familiar with Grover Norquist, you really won't understand the significance of his attendance at Burning Man.
0:41.0	But of those who are aware of Norquist's significance in American politics, well, I'm afraid not everyone was as supportive of him delivering a Palenke-Norte lecture as I was.
0:51.2	Hopefully this podcast will change those opinions.
0:56.5	To give you an idea of how polarizing Grover can be, I actually received several emails saying that the senders would never go to
1:01.8	Burning Man again because, are you ready for this? Because he had ruined everything by attending.
1:08.7	Now, that's got to be one of the most idiotic things that I've heard
1:11.8	in a long time. So, let's get a grip here, and first of all, recall last week's podcast, where
1:18.2	Lily and Niche were suggesting that our community be more open about airing our dirty laundry
1:24.1	in public. And to me, some of our dirty laundry includes being extremely
1:29.2	closed-minded about people who we have political disagreements with. If you're new to the
1:34.8	salon, you haven't learned this yet, but in the 1980s, while I was living in Dallas, Texas, I at
1:40.9	the time was an Irish Catholic Republican lawyer.
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