Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2024-03-14
Joe Rogan & James Lindsay: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #2119
#2119 - James Lindsay
James Lindsay is a writer, political commentator, mathematician and podcaster. His latest book, "The Queering of the American Child," co-authored with Logan Lancing, is available now.
James Lindsay discussed The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper and Thought reform and the psychology of totalism by Robert Jay Lifton.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper is a renowned philosophical defense of liberal democracy and critical rationalism against totalitarian ideologies.
Discussed“Carl popper wrote a book in 1945 called the open society and its enemies and so the open Society is what we've been taking for granted basically in the post World War II era”
Where to get it
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Thought reform and the psychology of totalism
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism by Robert Jay Lifton is a psychological study examining coercive persuasion, ideological control, and the methods used to reshape human belief systems through brainwashing and totalitarian environments.
Discussed“literally the title of his his book that he wrote off of this is called thought reform and the psychology of totalism a study of brainwashing in China”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I wrote a book about the trans stuff it just came out on the 29th um called the queering of the American child to talk about how schools have been turned into like indoctrination centers”