DiscoverThe Portal30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall
30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall

30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall

Update: 2020-04-1633
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Just before the great indooring due to the Pandemic of 2020, Eric sat down with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss his book "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success." Over champagne flutes filled with bubbly, the two discussed the various ways that the success and excesses of American Capitalism were now distorting the American Dream into a dystopian fever vision, making it far harder to wake up from this stasis in time to avoid the previous fates of fallen empires. 

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Comments (3)

Pedro

Studio 64? Decadence devalues like currency??

Nov 30th
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Stephen Maloney

109:40 "You're always conditioned by the last election you've watched." - Ross laying down the cognitive truth of information bias and its effects on us all.

Apr 20th
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martin nagy

20:45 is the start of the conversation

Apr 17th
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30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall

30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall