Listening to this I was reminded of Sheldon Wolin's Inverted Totalitarianism, as Rechtenwald talked about how everything is turned upside down. Not a precise correlation, but apt. Everything is backwards and upside down, fact checking is gaslighting, safe and effective is dangerous and otherwise worse than useless, gender treatment is sterilizing young girls and making eunuchs of boys aka eugenics, tolerance is visceral hatred, and on and on.
Can't actually remember specifically. But I think I wrote a bit about that in the Introduction to the book. Basically, I've done work for the publisher for years. I did a handful of radio/podcast interviews about the book in the late 2000s, and wrote some articles (a few of which I've republished here). Then in 2020ish figured it was time for a new edition.
I enjoyed the first part of this interview but when I clicked on watching the full interview on epoch tv it took me to a page to sign up as a “free” subscriber to epoch times but my personal information is the price I learn after reading their privacy policy. Maybe epoch tv is something different you do pay for? This is the second time today where my personal information is the price after earlier today reading the privacy policy for Eventbrite which I also decided to forgo for this reason. Anyway thanks for the first half of this interview as it was very informative. It’s kind of scary that one’s personal information is being gathered online by not only said company but 3rd party companies and on and on. All the easier to locate and track us with I guess.☹️
Listening to this I was reminded of Sheldon Wolin's Inverted Totalitarianism, as Rechtenwald talked about how everything is turned upside down. Not a precise correlation, but apt. Everything is backwards and upside down, fact checking is gaslighting, safe and effective is dangerous and otherwise worse than useless, gender treatment is sterilizing young girls and making eunuchs of boys aka eugenics, tolerance is visceral hatred, and on and on.
This is a great start! I hope this trend continues.
Excellent interview!
Thanks, very helpful for a newbie. Btw, do you explain in your early posts how you came to become involved in promoting this book and it’s editor?
Can't actually remember specifically. But I think I wrote a bit about that in the Introduction to the book. Basically, I've done work for the publisher for years. I did a handful of radio/podcast interviews about the book in the late 2000s, and wrote some articles (a few of which I've republished here). Then in 2020ish figured it was time for a new edition.
Yes, he does.
I enjoyed the first part of this interview but when I clicked on watching the full interview on epoch tv it took me to a page to sign up as a “free” subscriber to epoch times but my personal information is the price I learn after reading their privacy policy. Maybe epoch tv is something different you do pay for? This is the second time today where my personal information is the price after earlier today reading the privacy policy for Eventbrite which I also decided to forgo for this reason. Anyway thanks for the first half of this interview as it was very informative. It’s kind of scary that one’s personal information is being gathered online by not only said company but 3rd party companies and on and on. All the easier to locate and track us with I guess.☹️