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Today, many young people are looking for personal liberation in all the wrong places. Discussed: - Thaddeus vs. Jordan Peterson: common ground? - letting go of a conspiracy theory - over-corrective responses to to Enlightenment problems - The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory - Postmodernism and identity politics - redeeming Marx from the horrifying political consequences - making a better world: the top-down and individual-up approaches - the consequences of biological determinism - the benefits of identity politics - the trap of identity politics (essentialism) - how people accidentally make themselves political pawns - subjectivity and its philosophical problems - my unfortunate history prioritizing group identity over my self (knowledge and improvement) Get Your Tickets! Please Support School Sucks Our ...

Osborne, Gardner Goldsmith and I continue our once-a-month listener participation live show where we discuss our recent shows, projects, challenges, investigations, etc... Discussed:A chronology of film and television self-censorship with many tangents 1. WHY THIS TOPIC? -censorship of the film, The Interview by Sony Pictures entertainment -What's unique about this situation? What isn't? -It is unlikely that North Korea is behind the hack: -Whether it's a legit cyber attack, an inside job by Sony or a government false flag the response from Washington is predictable 2. HISTORY - ESCALATION OF CENSORSHIP -Censorship increasing and decreasing were both gradual processes -first film censorship laws -movies were considered evil, similar to all new mediums at first -The First Amendment and "Community Standards" ...

Part One: Gratitude for bein' 'merican? - the revolutionary spirit of the Brits - History Lessons (Book) - How is history taught in North Korean schools? Poorly. - 9 things you didn't know about the Declaration of Independence - Amanda BillyRock's Declaration of Personal Independence - Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States Part Two: Q&A with the chat - People in the chat discuss Kokesh loading a gun on video in DC - Osborne's thoughts on Tragedy and Hope - caller: NSA recruiters at the University of Wisconsin - Monsanto and GMOs - Stef's review of World War Z - the supposed limits of racial/ethnic comedy