#13 of Podcast: Progressives vs Liberterians / Politics Part 2

March 10, 2021 #13 of Podcast: Progressives vs Liberterians / Politics Part 2

Posted at 13:02h in Podcast by Frieda Vizel 1 Comment

I want to share with you what I mean when I describe myself as a leftist, so I begin with a layman’s, severely unqualified person’s primer on the basic ideologies. Part one: liberalism, neoliberalism, libertarianism. Also in part one, a New York mask ordeals.

The Very Not Normal Podcast; Episode #13: Political Checkboxes / Part 1

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MENTIONED:

• #IMAGE: Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
• #LINK: Liberalism on Wikipedia
• #LINK: Karl Popper’s The Paradox of Tolerance
• #ARTICLE BONUS: Good piece in the Guardian on the myth of meritocracy
• #ARTICLE: Companies using the women’s suffrage movement to sell cigarettes.
• #LINK: Edward Bernays of modern propaganda
• #LINK: Penis envy; Freud’s idea
• #VIDEO: The Simpson’s episode from which I took that sound bite. Season 32/ Episode 13
• #LINK: The cognitive bias I mentioned (I called it a fallacy but now I know!) is the Self-serving bias.
• #WEBSITES: Early lockdown critical US voices were American Institute of Economic Research and Law Liberty
• #LINK: The AIER.org piece on Thomas Sowell
• #LINK: The AIER.org explaining the lockdown objection from a Liberterian position
• #LINK: The Great Barrington Declaration and the criticism calling it a “Dangerous Liberterian Strategy”
• #LINK: Simon Elmer from Architects Social Housing on the problem with the Liberterian position
• #LINK: My podcast on how conformity works.
• #VIDEO: The Ted Ed explanation of the Tragedy of the Commons here: