#331 - Michael Knowles - The Problem With Political Correctness
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#331 - Michael Knowles - The Problem With Political Correctness includes mentions of The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, 1984 by George Orwell, Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick Deneen, and The Unbroken Threads by Rabahmari, with indexed source context and timestamps where available.
Indexed context: The host references Oswald Spengler's 'The Decline of the West' to illustrate the historical roots of contemporary political issues. They argue that…
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Indexed context: The host references 'Why Liberalism Failed' by Patrick Deneen to explore the historical roots of contemporary political issues and the evolution of r…
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- Referenced books include The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler and 1984 by George Orwell.
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Oswald Spengler's book, now it's not really read quite as much, but, you know, 60, 70 years ago it was read quite a bit. The decline of the West maps out why the West has to go into decline because of the circumstances that have arisen from within it.
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The breadth of your language is directly proportional to your ability to think the thoughts that the language enables. And given that the quality of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts, the quality of your thoughts depend on the breadth of your language.
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The thesis has been advanced in recent years by people like Patrick Deneen in Why Liberalism Failed and other writers and thinkers, too, that something went wrong somewhere along the way.
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Rabahmari at the New York Post, who just wrote The Unbroken Threads, a very good book on this topic.
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John Milton, I think described this quite well in Paradise Lost. He says, well, I hate legs. When Satan is cast down into hell, he says, well, good. Who needs heaven? I don't.
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George Orwell, as you point out, saw this happening 60 years ago, 70 years ago. So was he a conspiracy theorist? Aldous Huxley saw this happening around the same time.
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Yoram Hazoni, the writer of Virtue of Nationalism, Israeli philosopher, he's really good.
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The host references Oswald Spengler's 'The Decline of the West' to illustrate the historical roots of contemporary political issues. They argue tha…
The host discusses the importance of language in shaping thought and reality, referencing Orwell's insights from '1984' on how limiting language re…
The host references 'Why Liberalism Failed' by Patrick Deneen to explore the historical roots of contemporary political issues and the evolution of…
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