Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-04-25
Books mentioned on Why Do Western People Hate Themselves? - Douglas Murray
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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White Fragility
White Fragility by Dr.
Critiqued“and of course the author of white fragility which sold about half a million copies after the death of george floyd um says there is no good form of being white”
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Antiracist Baby
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X.
Critiqued“there's also a very slightly less grown-up version called anti-racist baby which he explains among other things for two-year-olds that you should talk to your two-year-olds about the fact that policies not people are the problem”
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Stupid White Men
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore is a sharply satirical and politically charged critique of American politics, corporate greed, and foreign policy during the turn of the twenty-first century.
Discussed“in the early 2000s the uh filmmaker michael moore wrote a book called stupid white man which i reference in my book”
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The Genealogy of Morals
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is a profound philosophical critique that investigates the historical origins and evolution of Western concepts of morality, good, and evil.
Discussed“and you know it brings to mind a phrase of nietzsche's in the genealogy of morals he's a people who there's a type of person who who who tears that wounds long clothes and then shrieks about the pain they feel”
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Candide
Candide by Francois Voltaire is a classic 18th-century satirical novella that follows an optimistic young man through a series of absurd, exaggerated catastrophes designed to expose the folly of naive optimism and uncritical philosophical systems.
Discussed“they forgot to forget by the way that voltaire also wrote in candide one of the great great uh attacks on slavery”
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Orientalism
Orientalism by Edward W.
Critiqued“one of you like critique in the book edward syed who wrote the book orientalism which always all students still read unfortunately accuses western scholars and approaching the middle east and looking at it through orientalist eyes”
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Arcadia
Discussed“it's what tom stoppard in arcadia describes he says at one point something like he says you know the character um this is the the student says”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Madness of Crowds
“paperback of madness of crowds that's right and the world's only got better”
Own book The Madness of Crowds
“i mean i think we talked about this when we talked about the matters of crowds we talked about the fact that there's a there's such a thing as an over correction in social issues”