 Now I'll link this up to another New York Times story over the last few weeks that happened Some of you might be familiar with a new social media app called clubhouse Clubhouse is by invitation only but everybody is slowly getting an invitation. So most of you will be on clubhouse ultimately but clubhouse is a Social media where you can go on you can with a bunch of other people you can create a meeting You can discuss ideas discuss anything you want other people could join they can listen They can raise their hand they can you can make them part of the conversation They can ask a question you can put them back into the audience. It's only on iPhones, you know, that's sign of real quality and And They will release an app for Android over time. No question. Anyway, it's the hip Social media platform of right now. It's the thing, right and people told us there was no competition to Twitter and Facebook and all these things This is hotter than anything right now and Let's say anyway There are tech writers for the New York Times who are cover Silicon Valley cover tech and one of these writers One of these writers Has been trying to get an interview with Mark and Driesen Now mark is not giving interviews and he won't be interviewed by her He just won't He doesn't like her. He doesn't think she's objective. Whatever the reason he won't give the interview to New York Times tech writer But mark goes on Clubhouse Joins in with Elon Musk. Elon Musk is on Clubhouse quite frequently Lex Friedman is on Clubhouse Somebody says he's Lex Friedman is on Clubhouse 12 hours a day Yeah, if you only do this if I only this was my only profession I'd have to be in Clubhouse now constantly I don't find the time to get on Clubhouse between preparing for this doing all my shows Doing, you know, I I don't interviews I actually have to come up with content and then and then You know working the hedge fund who has time and I have a life. I have a wife. I have a life Who has time to be in Clubhouse all day all our Eric Weinstein Eric Weinstein is on Clubhouse constantly I see him, you know, it pops up every time he's on Anyway, Mark and Driesen goes in Clubhouse and basically gives an interview on Clubhouse The New York Times reporter is pissed off because she can't get and she's important after all It's the New York Times Why is Mark and Driesen good doing this? Ad hoc interview on Clubhouse, and he won't give the New York Times an interview. That's disrespectful. That's wrong So first she slams Clubhouse for doing this, but then she gets on one of these Clubhouse meetings with Mark and Driesen and Then at the end of it she tweets That Mark and Driesen said the R word The R word, do you know that there's an R word that you're not allowed to say? I didn't know this But now I have to say the R word because I'm not allowed to say it because it's the word that the New York Times Says you're not allowed to say Right, so what is the R word? Anyone you want the R word is? No, you can say racism You can say reality you can say reason you can say all those when there's an R word ranch You can say ranch you can say Ronald Reagan. You can say Republican what you can't say is retarded You're not allowed to say retarded Now first so she accused Mark and Driesen of saying the word retarded now first Clubhouse people are talking. It's hard to tell at any given point who's talking it turned out It wasn't Mark and Driesen who said the word retarded. This is just a way for them for her him Oh, I think it's a it's a she to go after Mark and Driesen So somebody else said the word retarded But Retarded wasn't referring to any person the reason it was used Was to refer to a group. I think on reddit They cause themselves retarded So in order to refer to the people who call themselves retarded The person said not Mark and Driesen whoever it was the people who call themselves retarded and this was now used as a smear against smear against Mark and Driesen Which is a straight out line was the reporter, you know, was anything done to the reporter by the New York Times? Well, they criticize in any way the New York Times fire them today, you know, this this is lying and complaining and You know talk about this attitude of I Deserve I demand I'm a New York Times reporter. Therefore Everybody should do what I want Now New York Times did nothing She's still around. She's still thriving But who was fired at the New York Times? I'm sorry today's a fall on New York Times Complaining who was fired from the New York Times? Well, one of the most well-regarded journalists Science journalists at the New York Times was fired and New York Times still does some decent science journalism But I think last week of the week before I can't keep track of time anymore One of the most well-regarded science journalist was fired from the New York Times. Now. Why was he fired? now one of the things that Rich parents do for their kids is they send them on these they pay a lot of money to send them on these science tours science camps and and this journalist From the New York Times was was part of a science camp. I think that went to Peru with these with a bunch of You know kids from wealthy families New York families that were trying to get something good on the resumes they could get into college and There was a conversation that was happening between him and these 16 17 year old and Some of the 16 17 year olds within the group Were complaining about a one of the girls in the group who when she was 12 so a few years earlier Had put out a video or tweet something using the n word now There's a word you really can't say the n word and and I'm all for not saying the n word the n word is a Really bad word. It's disrespectful. It's it Hawkins back to a really ugly period in American history There's no reason to say the n word but anyway They were complaining about she did this video and and when she was 12 when she was 12 and That She needed to apologize or how could they even relate her? How could they have you know and and this was she'd never said it again She'd you know nothing And he was trying to inquire from them as they were having this conversation Why she was using the word in what context was she using it was she did they think she was a racist? Did they think it was just disrespect? What was they do and in the conversation about the use of the n word? He actually said it Not in a dismissive way. He said Well, why did she say the word Right, what was the context of saying the word in conversation? Anyway, a couple of weeks ago Somebody on Twitter revealed this probably one of those students from back then The New York Times initially said oh No big deal. I mean he didn't use the word as a slow. He didn't use the world. It was In conversation it was in context Then there was an uproar among the staff at the New York Times This cannot be tolerated this man cannot be This behavior cannot be tolerated and They fired him Long time science reporter New York Times fired because in some conversation with some students About a related topic. He said Dan would by it, I mean It's hard to take anything the New York Times now does seriously. It's been true for many years But this is absurd and crazy and nutty and just nuts insane Barry Weiss had a tweet thread I think that describes much of what's going on at the New York Times really well Barry Weiss as I think some of you know Work for the New York Times for a few years and was basically left fired from the New York Times a few months ago Because she said it was unpleasant to work there because people were harassing her and and because Of her views again Barry Weiss is a I don't know maybe slightly right of center very pro-israel, which is a very big sin at the New York Times And this is what she writes. I think this is quite interesting Barry Weiss is the civil war inside the New York Times between the mostly young wokes The mostly 40 plus liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country That dynamic is always the same The old God lives by a set of principles. We can broadly call civil libertarians civil libertarianism They assume they shared that worldview with young people that they hired who called themselves liberals and progressives But it was an incorrect assumption By the way, Barry Weiss has a substack The new God has a different worldview One articulated best by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lucianoff, you know, they've done a number of articles on this that are excellent They call it safe safetyism in which the right of people to feel Emotionally and psychologically safe Trump's what were previously considered core liberal values like free speech Perhaps the cleanest example of this dynamic was in 2018. So this has been going on for a long time When David Remnick under tremendous public pressure from his staffers This invited Steve Bannon for appearing on stage at the New York ideas festival But there are dozens and dozens of examples. I Been marked by many people over the past few years for writing about the campus culture wars They told me it was a sideshow but this And this is crucial, but this was always why it mattered The people who graduated from those campuses would rise to power inside key institutions and Transform them I'm in no way surprised By what has now exploded into public view in a way. It's oddly comforting. I Feel less alone and less crazy trying to explain the dynamic to people What I am shocked by is the speed I thought it would take a few years not a few weeks Here's one way to think of what's at stake the New York Times motto is all the news that's fit to print one group emphasizes The word all the other the would fit Now Barry Weiss Wrote this after she resigned from the Times this was written in June, but I think that is where we are today With the New York Times being dominated by young staff not by its leadership By the young staff who cannot tolerate to hear to listen To engage with Any ideas that might upset them any words that might upset them even if the words have spoken in a completely innocuous context The words the ideas their emotions their emotions are primary Nothing else matters So the New York Times now is is run by the mob It's run by young social justice warriors guided by emotion guided by fear Guided by safetyism. It's just not the best way to explain it. I think it's more Emotionalism it is driving out all the better people who have ever worked there Barry Weiss included And again, I don't agree with Barry Weiss. She doesn't agree with me She probably thinks Iron Man is terrible. I don't know what she thinks of Iron Man but The point is that Barry Weiss is one of the better people in the world in which we find ourselves Left or right and that's senior leadership in the New York Times Through the dynamic that I ran explained over and over and over again the senior leadership of the New York Times Cannot stand up to them Because the senior leadership the more New York Times has given up the mower high ground To critical race theory Postmodernism and the emotionalism the emotionalism of the mob So what can they argue against? Ultimately, they know that these young people are product of the ideas that the left has been preaching for decades The young people are product of the ideas that the left has emboldened for decades while they don't hold them they see That this was the inevitable consequence of what they do hold a lack of respect for objective reality a lack of respectful reason of ideology and a lack of respect for individualism and freedom Selectivity about what freedom they like and what freedom they don't like and what you're seeing today is The new left the new new left the emotionalist left That's what I'll we should call them the I mean they were always emotionalist I mean I ran remember I ran is great essay Apollo versus Dionysus one of the best essay she wrote is a great great essay should all read Apollo versus Dionysus by and ran she wrote this Apollo represented by the moon landing by by Apollo 11 and Dionysus is represented by Woodstock Dionysus is about emotion Apollo is about reason that is the conflict I ran saw this in 1969 I think which you wrote this Was it eight or nine anyway? Emotions as the key as the root as the cause of the left emotions as An excuse for not thinking there's an excuse for not valuing as an excuse for Nihilism and while those emotions by the hippies and Woodstock were Rain in if you will during the 70s primarily in the 80s and 90s Woodstock was 69. So this was essay was in 69 Return of the primitive many of those hippies Woodstock emotionalists became university professors and launched The ID the ideas that have fueled the left in academia for the last 50 years and The chickens are coming home to roost The students of that 60s generation who are taking it seriously now Who have taken their ideas to their ultimate conclusion? To their ultimate disintegration to their ultimate Nihilism They are now leaving universities and gaining significant. They're leaving Ivy League universities and gaining significant positions in their culture at the New York Times and many other publications and corporations Brian says today Coca Cola made a statement committing to critical race theory training within their company I take a cynical approach and think they're intentionally dividing and demoralizing their workflows your thoughts well, I think no I think this is The same people as at the New York Times young ambitious passionate Idealistic if you could call it idealistic, you know, it's not really I did there's nothing no ideal there People at Coca Cola and and those people they don't go into manufacturing They don't go they're not yet old enough to be senior management. So where are they? Where do these people get jobs? Where do they hire them in Ivy League schools? Where does Coca Cola put those Ivy League graduates in human resources and human resources in every big corporation is always the center the hub of Crazy leftist ideas and therefore I wouldn't be surprised if this has come from the bottom Then you the Coca Cola management is going. Yeah, okay. What the hell that's okay, you know go for it What do we know? We don't understand this stuff. We're actually in this to make money and to produce a product But human resources they're in charge of training and let them do what they want a and they went to Yale and Harvard They must be right And they have them all high ground. They're passionate. They're young They're excited to understand what the world needs to understand what a new workforce requires. So let them do it They don't know the sea of Coca Cola doesn't know what critical race theory means. I'd bet you anything so it really is this abandonment by The older generation that stands for nothing, right? What are older liberals and older conservatives? Neither here nor there they have no clear Unequivocal view of the world not one they can defend not the one they'll stand by not one. They'll fight for we've seen that for years decades And when a a young group comes along with What seems like a coherent set of ideas they're not coherent a complete mumbo jumbo and it's willing to fight for those ideas and is out to destroy They're gonna have the upper hand because they they are the more intellectual They are the ones that come from schools. They are the ones that understand. They're the ones that know and The American businessmen are just letting them in. Yes, do all the training in our business Please do it all and you see it over and over and over again, and that's how this country is gonna sink And you see it at Facebook at Twitter, it's not even that Zuckerberg is this radical leftist No, it's people it's his young staff that are far more radical far more leftist than he is You see the same thing at other tech companies. It's the young people coming in who are bringing in this cancel cancel cultures not the right terminology, but this Culture that limits people's ability and willingness to think Limits it constrains it and this is what we are today tragedy it it's it's just tragic to see the United States of America heading in this kind of direction But this is that we are allowing the left to set the terms and The way we want to the way we want to combat them is with the Donald Trump You can't combat emotionalism with emotionalism You can't combat irrationality of the left with irrationality of the right collectivism the left with collectivism the right Nihilism of the left with nihilism of the right The only way to combat the woke mob the only way to combat critical race theory You know post-modernism and the rest of the Ugly ugly phenomena intellectual phenomena on the on the left the only way to combat it is with a set of ideas That is rational reality oriented Elevates the individual above the tribe above the group above the collective That views and understands what individual rights mean what freedom of speech means what? property rights mean You don't deal with populism with populism irrationality with irrationality emotionalism with emotionalism none of that will ever work It's not fighting It's not fighting there's no fight When you have nothing To say nothing to fight for just to fight against being ugly doesn't mean you are fighting Attacking your enemy doesn't mean you're fighting not if they attacks are useless and by the way by the way Lose you the house the Senate and the presidency so So much for that fighting didn't work very well What we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that men's life must be guided by reason by the intellect Not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not get want to give in to today's of the third cynicism and impotence and does not Intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist All right before we go on reminder, please like the show we've got a hundred and sixty three live listeners right now 30 likes That should be at least a hundred. 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