Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-08-26
Books mentioned on Investigating The Incel Community - Naama Kates - #363
Naama Kates is a writer, producer and creator of the Incel Podcast. The world of involuntary celibates continues to be thrust into the public limelight with incidents in the United States and most recently in the UK with Jake Davison's shooting in Plymouth.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Game
The Game by Neil Strauss is an infamous investigative memoir chronicling the author's immersion into the secretive, highly structured subculture of professional pickup artists and the psychological dynamics of dating.
Discussed“And it started with this man, Neil Strauss, who wrote a book called The Game, that was um considered pretty controversial or or misogynistic at one point, but it was basically just kind of game, like how men can um gamify the system when it comes to human behavior and mating and what makes people attractive to each other, etc.”
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The Moral Animal
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright is a foundational exploration of evolutionary psychology that examines how natural selection shapes human nature, mating habits, and everyday morality.
Discussed“There's a quote from The Moral Animal by Robert Wright. Mhm. I'm not sure if you're familiar with this book. I'm going to guess it'll probably be quite popular in in circles. It was one of the first big evolutionary psychology books. And there's this quote that just hit me. I knew that I had it somewhere and I saw”
