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Confirmation bias, commonplace assumptions, and the zeitgeist itself are disassembled, examined, and reassembled in a detailed autopsy on our current ideaspace. Everyday concepts you probably take for granted are examined in a new light.
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Jordan Peterson is a right wing polemicist who shouldn't have any measure of celebrity. The fact he does is due to some deeply flawed ideas that were not properly debunked in the moment when he was gaining popularity. I say better late than never.LinksPrevious Truth Unrestricted episodes mentioned in this episode:The Two Selveshttps://www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/10973742-the-two-selvesGender Yin-Yangism https://www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/13315113-gender-yin-yangism-with-lydia-greeneSchrod...
Game theory gives us terminology to understand the fundamentals of the games we play. How inforation is hidden and/or discovered is a big part of how we play games and why we think some of them are fun. David Bloomberg and I explore how it is that information affects the strategies used in the games we play and watch.Linkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theoryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
Content warning: this episode of the Truth Unrestricted podcast contains graphic descriptions of drug addiction and some of the ways that people suffer from drug addiction. Listener discretion is advised.Conspiracism as compared directly to drug addiction. What does it mean to be so pulled into the idea that conspiracies surround us that giving it up would take an intervention or rehab? The habits that make us feel good encourage us to do them again but what about the habits and situations th...
David and Spencer breakdown the current state of the 2024 Us election. This is recorded one day after the Manhattan verdict of 34 guilty counts involving hush money payments made by Trump to hide affairs.LinksTimelinehttps://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/trump-stormy-daniels-hush-money-payments-timeline-of-events/5462838/List of witnesseshttps://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-21-24/h_15e34ea2c68ae046a5738937ff53dd94
Crowdsourcing is the process of using a lot of different people all adding a little bit of effort to accomplish a large task. Crowdsourced Storytelling is about the way in which we tell stories online in an attempt to understand the world but also in a way that can go terribly wrong. All feedback for this episode can be sent to truthunrestricted@gmail.com.
Schrodinger's Cat is a thought experiment which is meant to illustrate some of the absurdity of what is happening with Quantum Mechanics. In the thought experiment the life of a cat is directly related to the state of a particle. Quantum Mechanics says that without observing the state of the particle it could be in either state. Erwin Schrodinger was attempting to show how ridiculous this was by attaching the particle state to a mechanism inside a box which would kill a cat trapped inside. Th...
Reality Inversion is a psychological concept seen among conspiracists wherein evidence that should show them the truth instead reinforces their fantasies. Stephanie Kemmerer joins me for a discussion about the topic with many relevant examples.LinksThe Collapse of World Trade Center - The Complete Physicshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkBfLBov5QRobbie Parker (Sandy Hook parent) press conference (full)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fr1-YejnY4https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_p...
Audience Capture has a second meaning! It describes when a person is stuck having to perform for their audience. David Bloomberg and Spencer discuss this aspect in an addendum to the previous episode about Audience Capture.
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These US Election Update episodes are an attempt to chronicle the twisting tale of history as it is happening for an event that we are certain will affect the future. We discuss each of the major candidates and what is currently affecting their progress toward the title of president.Linkshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/28/marianne-williamson-presidential-campaignhttps://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4544764-robert-f-kennedy-jr-rfk-jr-aaron-rodgers-nicole-shanahan-andrew-yang-jess...
Why are there people who believe the Earth is flat? How is it possible to get so far turned around about something so basic? I sit down with Reds Rhetoric, a person who has been pushing back against Flatearthers for a very long time, to discuss it.Linkshttps://www.youtube.com/@RedsRhetoric1998 Space Shuttle Endeavour launch videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNdaUMND_Yw
How do we talk about transgenderism? Why should we talk about transgenderism? What is going on with pronouns? Are there really 52 new pronouns that we need to learn? How do we have these conversations without insulting trans people or their experiences? Grace Leder joins me for a meta conversation about how to have the Transgender Conversation.Linkshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorderhttps://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/trans-adults-united-states/Neil deGrasse...
Audience Capture is the process of mimicking another influencer's strategy and messaging so as to gain some or all of their audience share. What does this mean for the US political situation and how should this shape our decisions?Linkshttps://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/26/ron-desantis-texas-border-mexico/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Wordshttps://newrepublic.com/post/177373/watch-vivek-ramaswamy-embrace-every-disgusting-right-wing-conspiracy-theory-can-think
In what ways are conspiracy beliefs psychologically addictive? Can a person get a "good feeling" from a turn down the rabbit hole that they would want to experience a second time?Linkshttps://news.uchicago.edu/story/scientists-studied-brains-more-800-prisoners-heres-what-they-foundhttps://www.jta.org/2020/04/07/ny/memory-plays-tricks-about-mengelehttps://www.dailydot.com/debug/amanda-moore-undercover-far-right/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shootinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/w...
LinksDr Dan Wilson - Is there DNA contamination in COVID vaccines? No.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61OPhZ3eO8https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2024/01/20240103-halt-use-covid19-mrna-vaccines.pr.htmlhttps://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/24/florida-surgeon-general-covid-vaccine-00093510https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/rfk-jr-hires-del-bigtree-anti-vaccine-activist-communications-director-rcna131859RFK Jr gets confronted about antivax claims in interviewhttps://www.youtube...
The human mind creates models and symbols to represent everything that it "knows". When these are models of tangible items it is clear what the mind is doing. But when it comes time to represent intangible things it is a little less clear. Very often we use comparisons between tangible and intangible things to assist in communicating to each other what we think of the intangible things. In this way, it is possible that there is a bridge that can be built in the mind between the tangible and i...
What does it mean to be a zealot? How do we measure a person's zealotry? Do we exaggerate ideas when they support the things we are zealous about? Do some of us openly and knowingly lie about things simply because it supports our ideas?
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