Interview with Helen Lewis on culture wars and religion, that Jordan Peterson interview, and gurus generally
Decoding the Gurus
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Is the Wellness Space More Open to Women?
The wellness space does seem to be more open to women, but also heavily gendered. But when I think about the intellectual dark web, most of the women in that were anti-feminists and critical of Claire Lehman. And so you end up with a lot of very smart women that becoming their thing. So it dovetails with a whole bunch of the things that we've been talking about - like politics and culture war can have these metaphysical significance and this personality cult feature. That actually, that's not exclusive to religion, and never has been throughout history. Some people have always taken politics as the pure ideology, and it does function like a religion. Is that a new feature
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