Episode · No Stupid Questions · 2023-01-12
Books mentioned on Is It Okay to Hate Highbrow Culture? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 112
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Twilight
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is a blockbuster young adult romance novel that follows a teenage girl who falls in love with a century-old vampire posing as a high school student.
Discussed“I read the Twilight series in a week Stephen and I told I think four all-nighters”
Where to get it
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Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill is an 1861 foundational philosophical text that defends the greatest happiness principle and argues that actions are right if they tend to promote happiness and wrong if they produce the reverse.
Discussed“here is something that Jon Stewart Mill wrote in his Opus utilitarianism it's very long passage about higher and lower pleasures”
Where to get it
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Evil Geniuses
Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen is a non-fiction book that explores the historical and economic forces that reshaped American society and shifted wealth upward over the latter half of the twentieth century.
Recommended“Kurt Anderson has written a couple really good books on this topic one is called Evil Geniuses and the other was called Fantasyland”
Where to get it
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Fantasyland
Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen is a cultural history examining how magical thinking, pseudoscience, and a rejection of objective reality became central to the American character.
Recommended“Kurt Anderson has written a couple really good books on this topic one is called Evil Geniuses and the other was called Fantasyland”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“what were those famous books called oh Twilight Twilight there you go”