I don't believe Beardown leaves his house.

FF or IMU...who else lives near the mecca?

Denis...or Grid stalked him while out on an adventure.

FF or IMU...who else lives near the mecca?

I don't believe Beardown leaves his house.

Beerdown is going to win the 2018 brackets at this rate

I also think that, whether purposeful or by chance, the actual intended meaning of "SJW" is blurred or even changed to suit the narrative one wants to push. Parkins takes the "SJW" acronym literally, portraying it as used pejoratively by people who simply don't want social justice or equality.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I was always under the impression that the term was used to denigrate those whose whole identity is wrapped up in social justice, if only as a means to signal their own virtue or win the "Oppression Olympics". It's not that railing against SJW's is meant to rail against equality, but rather that MANY of these "warriors" are only outraged when it suits them and their cause. They're not really interested in equality, they're interested in being seen calling for equality.

Your time on the couch with Dr. Ken was better than Parkins. Both were a little long. But your explanations were more thought out. Parkins was a bit too aggressive, and kind of missed an opportunity there. He still did fine with the question, just came more more defensive than I think he needed to be.

Overall really fun listen.

The Vampires’ Castle specialises in propagating guilt. It is driven by a priest’s desire to excommunicate and condemn, an academic-pedant’s desire to be the first to be seen to spot a mistake, and a hipster’s desire to be one of the in-crowd. The danger in attacking the Vampires’ Castle is that it can look as if – and it will do everything it can to reinforce this thought – that one is also attacking the struggles against racism, sexism, heterosexism. But, far from being the only legitimate expression of such struggles, the Vampires’ Castle is best understood as a bourgeois-liberal perversion and appropriation of the energy of these movements. The Vampires’ Castle was born the moment when the struggle not to be defined by identitarian categories became the quest to have ‘identities’ recognised by a bourgeois big Other.

While in theory it claims to be in favour of structural critique, in practice it never focuses on anything except individual behaviour. Some of these working class types are not terribly well brought up, and can be very rude at times. Remember: condemning individuals is always more important than paying attention to impersonal structures. The actual ruling class propagates ideologies of individualism, while tending to act as a class. (Many of what we call ‘conspiracies’ are the ruling class showing class solidarity.) The VC, as dupe-servants of the ruling class, does the opposite: it pays lip service to ‘solidarity’ and ‘collectivity’, while always acting as if the individualist categories imposed by power really hold. Because they are petit-bourgeois to the core, the members of the Vampires’ Castle are intensely competitive, but this is repressed in the passive aggressive manner typical of the bourgeoisie. What holds them together is not solidarity, but mutual fear – the fear that they will be the next one to be outed, exposed, condemned.

Your time on the couch with Dr. Ken was better than Parkins. Both were a little long. But your explanations were more thought out. Parkins was a bit too aggressive, and kind of missed an opportunity there. He still did fine with the question, just came more more defensive than I think he needed to be.

Overall really fun listen.

The best examination of the social justice movement and its excesses is Mark Fisher's "Exiting the Vampires' Castle," and everyone should make sure to read it if they haven't already. Four years ago, he correctly identified them all as handmaidens of the ruling class who are too concerned with fighting among themselves for personal advancement to achieve genuine solidarity. Sound like anyone we know?





Fisher has since committed suicide but I would like to think he'd be pleased with the small steps in the right direction that we're seeing, i.e. the return to form of the Labour Party.

Very interesting, but also very British. It seems to me that the British working class is much more anti-immigrant than anything we have in the U.S. There's a entire set of British politics of which I have very little understanding.

Good show.

Parkins was good but aggressive. Kind of a "feeling out" session.

Parkins, if you're reading, join the board. This is your target demographic.

Maybe he can join you for the next storm staring sesh

The technology made it difficult to interrupt him. This was a trial for me.

I basically had to let him talk and then I talked. Interrupting was problematic.