Why 1/3 of Gen Z Don’t Drink; & How Feelings Took Over The World
The High Low
The High Low
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🗓️ 16 October 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Everyone’s talking about Kanye’s nutty meeting with Trump in The Oval Office last week; whilst Melania, in her most frank televised interview yet, described herself as the most bullied person in the world. Meanwhile, Fendi has made a £750 scarf which looks like a vulva (transcendental experience of being ‘born again’ presumably baked in to the price), the Duchess of Sussex is having a baby and we discuss the juiciest tidbits of the 850-guest royal wedding that we both, accidentally, got really quite into.
Also this week we discuss why 1/3 of Gen Z don’t drink (and interview two Gen Z authors Scarlett Curtis and Charly Cox about their differing attitudes to alcohol) and some brilliant pieces of journalism this weekend by Josh Glancy and Max Hastings, that discuss how feelings have trumped rational thought. Is The Enlightenment’s 300-year intellectual tenure under threat? And what are the dangers of placing heart and gut above facts and mind?
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Links
It’s time to do away with the gay best friend, by Philip Ellis for Man Repeller https://www.manrepeller.com/2018/10/gay-best-friend-stereotype.html
I’ll Be There For You, by Kelsey Miller https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Kelsey-Miller/Ill-Be-There-For-You/22458067
Motherhood, by Sheila Heti https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Sheila-Heti/Motherhood/22325906
The xx, by Angela Chadwick https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Angela-Chadwick/XX/22437212
Christene Barberich interviews Hanya Yanaghihara for Refinery29’s UnStyled podcast https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/hanya-yanagihara-on-making-your-mark-in-brave-new-media/id1171140955?i=1000421309939&mt=2
@brian_bilston on Instagram for poetry
How have we let feelings obscure rational debate, by Josh Glancy’s column for The Sunday Times magazine https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/josh-glancy-brett-kavanaugh-case-has-ignited-online-fury-like-never-before-how-have-we-let-feelings-obscure-rational-debate-6nq6h6hpq
We’re in a dark age where hearts rule minds, by Max Hastings for The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-re-in-a-dark-age-where-hearts-rule-minds-5p7gl6g5q
For millennials, thinking and emotions are equals — more or less, by Karl Moore https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlmoore/2017/06/26/for-millennials-thinking-and-emotions-are-equals-more-or-less/amp/
Sophie Wilkinson on Cara Delevigne for Grazia:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 73 of The Highlo, the weekly pop culture and current affairs pop |
| 0:20.1 | cast brought to you by writers Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:24.2 | The peddence of which we have a few who listened to The Highlo may notice that last week was |
| 0:29.9 | also episode 73. We did our calculations wrong. It was because Charlie Jones, DJ C.J. |
| 0:37.1 | or producer wasn't here and everything basically falls apart when he's not here. |
| 0:40.3 | But he's come back with a pretty sexy new haircut actually. |
| 0:43.9 | And he's informed us that we got it wrong last week. So thank you Charlie. |
| 0:49.8 | So welcome again to episode 73 of The Highlo. |
| 0:53.7 | How was your week in Pandora? Didn't you find Saturday the most perfect October day? |
| 0:59.0 | It was sensational weather. Beautiful sunlight. |
| 1:01.5 | It was like I was walking through Regent's Park. |
| 1:03.9 | I was like I gasping away knowing you. |
| 1:05.8 | Gasping away. |
| 1:07.3 | Thinking I could not dream up. |
| 1:09.5 | Wearing a knee-high boot in a beret. |
| 1:12.2 | You know me so well. |
| 1:13.2 | Fondling a conquer in your pocket. |
| 1:16.7 | Listen to an inspirational podcast. |
| 1:18.8 | I was doing exactly that. |
| 1:20.0 | Did you even shave your knees for the occasion? |
| 1:23.1 | Oh yes I did shave my knees. |
| 1:28.8 | How was your Saturday on the perfect October day? |
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