Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-06-07
Books mentioned on The Problem With Political Correctness - Michael Knowles - #331
Michael Knowles is a political commentator, podcaster, and an author. Ostensibly, political correctness is the right thing to do if you're a responsible human that is respectful of other people's emotions.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel depicting a totalitarian regime characterized by extreme government surveillance, historical negationism, and psychological manipulation.
Discussed“I am I can't work out if we're closer to 1984 or Brave New World. It feels like some awful love child of both. I think it's Brave New World. I agree. Yes, it is but it's not a love child like 50/50. You know, sometime in the future they're going to figure out how to engineer our DNA so”
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Paradise Lost
John Milton's epic seventeenth-century poem Paradise Lost recounts the biblical narrative of the fall of man, detailing the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan and their subsequent expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Discussed“Another one of your countrymen, John Milton, I think described this quite well in Paradise Lost where and actually he described your your discussion of, you know, the guy who can't get his leg to work, right? He says, 'Well, I hate legs, you know, I don't want it.' When when Satan is cast down into hell, he says, 'Well,”
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The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters by C.
Discussed“And it actually another Englishman, C.S. Lewis, describes this kind of demonic love in The Screwtape Letters where he where he depicts this kind of love as a desire to consume. All your you know, the the uncle demon loves his nephew demon because he wants to eat him, you know, he wants to totally devour him.”
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Why Liberalism Failed
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J.
Recommended“Patrick Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed.”
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The Decline of the West
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, Arthur Helps, and Charles Francis Atkinson is a monumental historical and philosophical work that argues civilizations go through a predictable cycle of birth, growth, maturity, and ultimate decay.
Discussed“I mean, the Oswald Spengler's book, now it's a not really read quite as much, but, you know, 60, 70 years ago was read quite a bit, The Decline of the West, maps out why the West has to go into decline because of the circumstances that have arisen from within it.”
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Brave New World
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a classic dystopian novel portraying a technologically controlled future society engineered for easy pleasure and societal sorting.
Discussed“I am I can't work out if we're closer to 1984 or Brave New World. It feels like some awful love child of both. I think it's Brave New World.”
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The Unbroken Thread
The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari is a non-fiction book that examines traditional moral values, family structures, and meaning in the modern world.
Recommended“I'm thinking of guys like Sohrab Ahmari at the New York Post, who just wrote the Unbroken Thread, very good book on this topic.”
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The Virtue of Nationalism
The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony is a political theory text that examines and defends national sovereignty against the forces of empires and global governance.
Recommended“Yoram Hazony, the the writer of Virtue of Nationalism, Israeli philosopher, is really good.”
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