Interview with Matt Johnson on Christopher Hitchens
Decoding the Gurus
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The Triangle of Intellectual Decay
I've always disliked Peterson. The first article I ever wrote for Quillat was about how impenetrable his arguments about God happened to be. It's just downright impossible to understand what he was saying until he'd say something that was perfectly clear, but terrible. Free speech is good. Self censorship is bad. Have an open exchange of ideas and the good ideas will rise to the top because that's what a democratic free society is all about. And in the current age where the various platforms and the algorithms make our reality, then at least for me, I'll become a little bit less idealistic and perhaps a little bit more cynical.
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