23: Antifragility, Gut Feelings, and the Myth of Pure Evil (with Jonathan Haidt)

Does that which doesn’t kill you make you weaker? Should we always follow our emotions? Is life a battle between good people and bad people? And critically, what might the adoption of these three popular, but unwise, ideas be doing to a rising generation of young adults? Jonathan Haidt joins Igor and Charles to discuss the three great untruths of modern life, the nature of antifragility, the 'great awokening,' rising violence on US university campuses, and the origin story of the Heterodox Academy. Igor suggests that diversity can help some projects while hindering others, Jon shares his ultimate conflict-resolving ninja skill, and Charles learns that conservative voters come in radically different shapes and sizes. Welcome to Episode 23.

Special Guest: Jonathan Haidt.

Links:

• Jon Haidt's Home Page
• Heterodox Academy
• The Coddling of the American Mind
• Jonathan Haidt: Can a divided America heal? | TED Talk
• A Conflict of Visions - Thomas Sowell
• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• More in Common - Publications - The Perception Gap / Hidden Tribes
• Reparations, systemic racism, and white Democrats’ new racial liberalism (On the Great Awokening) - Vox
• The Authoritarian Dynamic - Karen Stenner
• E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century - Robert D. Putnam
• The emotional dog and its rational tail: a social intuitionist approach to moral judgment - Haidt (2001)
• The Coddling of the American Mind - International Coddling
• World Happiness Report 2019 - Chapter 5: The Sad State of Happiness in the United States and the Role of Digital Media - Jean M. Twenge
• The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science: Amazon.co.uk: Jonathan Haidt: 8601300074849: Books
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion: Amazon.co.uk: Jonathan Haidt: 0884607571077: Books