Supplementary Material 23: Content Shark Psychology, Rorschach Tweets, and the Art of Radicalisation

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Leisure, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Matt have their models exploded, the maps ripped up, and their minds blown as the Gurusphere expands into exciting new territory.

Supplementary Material 23

02:47 Chris Williamson blows our minds!

08:57 Content Predator psychology and motivational posting

12:28 Balancing the Scales

14:07 Eric Weinstein the master of Rorschach Tweets

20:26 Modern Sages Reunited: Bret Weinstein and Joe Rogan

24:29 Open-Minded Joe Rogan

34:26 Maybe prescriptions are actually bad!

37:38 Andrew Gold expands into Race & IQ

46:47 4 Warning Signs of Radicalism

56:45 Monomaniacal Fixation vs. Pluralism

01:05:26 Rejoinder: What if it is a diagnostic?

01:09:43 Lex wants to join DOGE

01:10:31 Lex's next world leader interview: Modi

01:14:57 Matt's Final Thought: People contain multitudes

01:16:57 Outro

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Sources

Eric Weinstein's profound tweet on history as we know it
The Joe Rogan Experience#2269- Bret Weinstein
Andrew Gold Heretics: CONTROVERSIAL: Are Some Races DUMBER? - Nathan Cofnas (4K)
Lex wistfully imagines joining DOGE and thinks deeply about his upcoming interview with Modi
Recent investigation of 'Race Realist' networks and outlets
Kruglanski, A. W., & Moskalenko, S. (2025). Psychology of the Extreme. Taylor & Francis.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm Hello and welcome to Decoding the Guru's supplementary material. We're back again with him,
0:36.6	psychologist extraordinaire, Matthew Brown, with me,
0:39.9	anthropologist of lesser renowned Chris Kavana.
0:43.4	Here we are in the supplementary material safe zone behind the shamrock and dangling cork.
0:50.0	Curtain.
0:51.1	Just hanging out, just shooting the breeze.
0:54.9	We are indeed. What are we shooting the breeze. We are indeed.
0:56.1	What do we shoot in the breeze about?
0:57.3	Anything smart.
0:58.2	Gurus mainly.
1:00.5	Mainly gurus.
1:01.4	That's right.
1:02.0	Yeah, you forgot.
1:03.5	This is the coding the gurus.
1:04.6	Right, that's right.
1:06.3	This is a supplementary materials episode.
1:07.5	I've lost track.
1:08.9	I've forgotten what we were recording.
1:09.9	Okay, that makes sense.
1:10.9	Hey, uh,
1:16.0	did you know Chris and I have started painting? I've started painting again. Um, you've started painting? Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. I've got a, I've got a canvas. I'm looking at it right now.
1:20.8	That's, um, it's coming along. Okay. Prounds? Using crowns. Yeah. And just holding them in my fist, holding them in my fist and drawing them like that.
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