The Sleepover Club: The Death Of Nuance, Why Being 'Chronically Online' Gives You Brain Worms, And The Era of Anti-Intellectualism

The Polyester Podcast

Society & Culture, Arts

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Anti intellectualism is having a moment. Express an opinion online and they'll be at least five people in your mentions telling you that you're wrong. Maybe you spend your morning drinking coffee with your partner, causing uproar from those who have to be at work in the early hours. Perhaps you hate Marvel films, or dare to prefer one type of bread over another. But is our inability to contextualise the posts we see a form of anti-intellectualism? Are the binaries of 'high' and 'low' culture changing? And should we just let people enjoy things? This week Ione and Eden are discussing whether this constant dumbing down of discourse, art, and everything in between is more insidious than it may seem.

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0:00.0	Hi, Eden. Hi, Ione. And hello to the listeners. Welcome to the Polyester podcast. I'm
0:06.3	I'm the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester and the author of Poor Little Sick Girls.
0:11.9	And I'm Eden, the managing editor of Polyester and the co-host of this podcast.
0:16.1	This is The Sleepover Club, a feminist pop culture podcast. We pull apart the hashtag discourse in the hope of making some sense of it all.
0:23.3	Before we get started, please like, rate, review and subscribe.
0:27.0	Sorry to sound like, do.
0:28.2	Do we have any reviews?
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0:33.9	This review is five stars, gold star nourishment, the pariscial relationship you need in your life.
0:40.4	Love this podcast. That is by Yellow Friday in Great Britain. Not so great Britain. Thank you. It's true.
0:47.1	Thank you. All the star nourishment is very sweet. Yeah. And I like, you're all welcome to have parisocial
0:54.0	relationships with me.
0:55.3	I don't mind.
0:56.4	I don't mind either.
0:58.0	I welcome it.
1:00.5	Arrest and Taylor Swift, done, done, done.
1:02.7	Exactly. Taylor Swift episode in coming.
1:07.4	Okay, so today we are talking about whether we are living through an era of anti-intellectualism.
1:15.7	So I feel like basically the reason we started thinking about this podcast episode was because
1:20.4	Gina, who works with us, kept sending us things about it and saying, do our podcasts,
1:24.9	don't podcast, so A, we've caved.
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