Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-12-29
Books mentioned on 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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Madness of Crowds
Douglas Murray's provocative cultural critique 'The Madness of Crowds' examines contemporary social trends, identity politics, and shifting cultural norms surrounding gender and sexuality.
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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White Fragility
White Fragility by Dr.
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
Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda Paramahansa is a spiritual classic that chronicles the author's life and introduces readers to the profound traditions of Eastern mysticism, yoga, and meditation.
Discussed“so at his funeral he gave everybody a copy of autobiography of a yogi by Yogananda”
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Invisible Women
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez is an eye-opening exploration of how modern infrastructure, urban planning, and medical research systematically neglect female physiology by treating the male body as the default standard.
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”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“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”