Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-12-29
Chris Williamson & Helen Lewis: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #570
Investigating The World Of Modern Gurus - Helen Lewis - #570
Helen Lewis is a journalist at The Atlantic and an author Humanity has become much less religious and in the ruins of this fresh, listless world, bereft of traditional insight, a cadre of new gurus have risen to take the high priests' place of dispensing insights about how to live.
Chris Williamson discussed The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray and Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. Helen Lewis discussed Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez, White Fragility by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, and Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda Paramahansa.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Madness of Crowds
Discussed“would you not say so Douglas is The Madness of crowds oh lot of that was about the collapse of grand narratives that people no longer had the existing institutions and understanding of traditional wisdom”
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Invisible Women
Discussed“my friend Karen and creative Paris wrote about in her book invisible women that one of the things these studies won't do often they will often exclude women from them if you're looking at any kind of medical study”
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Four Thousand Weeks
Discussed“I think Oliver's approach in 4 000 weeks is the best one that I found it's like look you're not going to be able to do all of this stuff prepare in advance what you're going to suck at”
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White Fragility
Discussed“and and and white fragility there is a chapter called white women's tears which is all about how you know that it is emotionally manipulative when white women are confronted with their racism that they will burst into tears and everyone will Comfort them”
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Discussed“so at his funeral he gave everybody a copy of autobiography of a yogi by Yogananda”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Difficult Women
“and like I did have a and the conclusion that okay eventually came to in difficult women is that you have to have a kind of policy-based idea of feminism”