What a pleasure to see Dr Paul back. Thank you for that conversation! A few years ago my 13 yr old daughter made me watch the movie "The red pill", no idea how she knew about it. She was determined to start a non profit organization, as soon as possible considering her age, that would help wrongly accused or battered men. We lost her two years later so now I'm considering doing smth about it in her honor. Unfortunately, grief has not been kind to my mind... Thanks to some of Richard's videos though I'm pushing through the pain without meds and shenanigans. You two, please keep doing what you're doing now! Common sense and truth need to be heard!
I was a student in an Advanced Nursing program in the early 90's. I would record every lecture & the REwrite my notes at night in order to retain the huge amt of information we were expecting to retain. My fellow classmates actually paid me $2/pg to get copies of my notes. We also had to take a 16 hr/ 4 book / 1000 question test to pass our licensing boards. We needed to get 75% of 1,000 questions correct to pass our boards. Now they take the test on a computer and if they get the 1st 75 questions correct THEY PASS!!!! 75 FREAKIN QUESTIONS to aquire a NURSING LICENSE!! 😮😮😮
Dr. Taylor, a pleasure to see you back on the podcast. Your insights & erudite discussion are always illuminating & quite refreshing in these stale times. Regarding your last point about places where the police do not police, I'm planning a trip to San Francisco, to see for myself what's going on. Thank you, Richard, for bringing Dr. Taylor back and facilitating this excellent & timely discussion. Bravo, gentlemen!
Richard, I done my degree at a similar time and my dissertation "Education Education Education" and was concerned with the Blair government and its claims to improve the system for the working class. In my humble opinion, they fucked everyone over. Diluting quality and prestige, massaging unemployment figures by filling unis and creating mass debt which, was sold on to private companies.
1:00:25 I'm curious what each of you would recommend as an effective solution and response to gender dysphoria aside from transitioning. I understand the reluctance to say transitioning is the best response, but I have yet to hear a currently better known approach?
I was one of your students some years back Paul. I will say that I always appreciated the fact that you encouraged us to question the institution of the university itself. You introduced me to a lot of critical theory and what would form the basis of my politics later on. That said, if Douglas Murray is someone you have a deep admiration for, then I'm seriously questioning the apparently deep understanding you purport to have of anything. It's a shame you seem to have fallen off this hard. If you see this, genuinely watching this made me sad.
Hi there, can you explain why Douglas Murray is verboten? I don’t agree with him on everything E.g. I’ve spoken about how profoundly wrong he is about postmodernism/cultural Marxism but he has stood up for free speech like few others and is a world class public speaker - two qualities that are true irrespective of your response to his political opinions. I’m sad that you’re sad, but I’m genuinely curious as to what standards you’re using to decide he’s beyond the pale? I’m disappointed that you seem to have joined the cancel culture brigade. Best, Paul.
@@DrPaulAT I would say that Murray grifting a living opining that the bright light of reason, enlightenment, and civilisation that is Europe is besieged and at the risk of immanent collapse by contamination from the lesser cultures of brown people puts him well beyond the pale. > "but he has stood up for free speech like few others and is a world class public speaker - two qualities that are true irrespective of your response to his political opinions". Luckily, you taught me to have better critical thinking skills than that. "Free speech" as is described by Murray amounts to little more than "I should be allowed to keep certain political agendas on the table in perpetuity". As Slavoj says, I don't want to live in a world where we need to debate whether rape is philosophically possible every single day. I also don't particularly want to live in a world where debunking Murray every day is something that needs done. If you shit yourself in the public baths every day and people get sick of it you aren't being cancelled and it isn't an issue of "free expression". Murray's modus operandi is a deliberate act to keep the range of acceptable discourse firmly where it is. Regarding being a world class public speaker? I don't know Paul, as a fellow Northerner I thought you were above thinking that dressing in a Saville Row suit, acting magnanimous, and speaking in an RP accent was what constitutes great rhetoric, but it seems I was mistaken. Unfortunately, I commented that before deciding to be intellectually honest and watch the rest of the video, and frankly I'm disgusted. When people ask me why I'm doing a PhD, I more than often than not reply that I want to pass on the intellectual curiosity that was instilled in me (a deeply deprivileged working class boy) by you - the person who gave me my first real, structured, leftist education via Marcuse, Althusser, Benjamin, McGowan, etc. Now, I'm thinking back to wonder if this was always there or if you've suddenly had some breakdown that caused you to double and treble down on some nauseating late-middle-aged man obsessions - "wokeness" and "cancel culture". > "I’m disappointed that you seem to have joined the cancel culture brigade". ...The cancel culture brigade? You're a man in your mid-50s and you don't feel embarrassed traipsing out this shite? What platform do I have? What power do I possibly have to "cancel" anybody? Unfortunately, you seem to have joined the ranks of fragile cretins who take any countervailing opinion to their own to be "cancelling". All of this doesn't even touch on the sneering at trans people at the end. Congratulations Paul, if you've left academia for your late-life project to be a podcast with the world's most divorced looking man who nods while you land knowledge bombs on him then I wish you all the success that's coming to you.
Well this interaction at least reassured me that there’s little that can now reach past your ad hominem vitriol. The Cancel culture point - you don’t necessarily need a platform to be a signed up member, you just need to have a Maoist sense of moral certainty and be of a mindset that is unwilling to engage with anyone of a different political stripe. Good luck with the PhD, although I am certain you’ll do well, you already have all the appropriate attitudes and attributes…
@@DrPaulAT > "your ad hominem vitriol" Excuse me, I thought I just watched an hour and a half of you calling everyone you disagreed with squealing spoiled children and "blue-haired" - god forbid someone might have blue hair. Guess it's only ad hominem vitroil when it's other people doing it, much like "cancelling". Immanent critique and all that.
Both blue hair and Saville Row suits are both a type of uniform, perhaps we can both agree on that? One difference, however, is that those wearing the suits at least tend to communicate with words rather than barking like dogs. If you genuinely pride yourself on being intellectually curious then please a) acknowledge that words are a basic necessity for a debate (so I can’t technically disagree with people who are barking [I wasn’t calling everyone I disagreed with blue- haired, I just associate it with barking from visual experience and b) please re-read your comments and ask yourself if they really reflect an intellectually curious mind. I disagree with people’s arguments when I can find them but I call out non-verbal Maoists when they avoid actual arguments that is not the same as the routine ad hominem vitriol you engage in. Unlike you, I don’t psychologically project and assume that my opponent is having a breakdown, at least a couple of times in the interview I point out that I don’t want to impute motivations to other people since that’s what I’m criticising and you are so eloquently illustrating. Whatever the reason you are being so intemperate, it really doesn’t demonstrate intellectual curiosity. Best, Paul.
Men are men and women are women and we are different and have different skill sets. Women like real men. We can respect each others strengths. Can’t imagine many men wanting to give birth. Feminism may have worthy origins but it has become something most of us have no connection to. Good for the women who want to live in a man’s world, it just doesn’t mean we all want to do it.
I had no idea that so many were getting 1/2:1s. What happened to the even distribution graphs for grading? I was a few marks off a first 20 odd years ago and the amount of people who've said "you could have got it bumped up with re-marking." Us poor kids didn't know this. Not that i'm salty😮
Reactionaries blame mythical Marxist wizards for every capitalist wasteland they encounter. Here's to Hilarious abuses of irony 🥂🍻🍾🍺. I appreciate both of you. Intellect, clarity, wisdom, and humor 🩵💙💚 combination.
Feminism exists because there’s an imbalance of equality and respect for women’s inherent value, needs and contributions in society. For example, research shows that cultivating relationships and community are more important to women than to men, yet when women focus on relationships and community as a priority, they are insulted and attacked. As a case in point, I think it’s incredibly patronizing and rude to imply that the audience who watches and comments on your videos (who are 90% women) are “maladjusted” and “without a life”. This is a perfect example of how women are attacked for prioritizing what’s important to them. Feminism will exist until this imbalance is rectified. Would you think it’s equally justified for women to insult men for prioritizing their work over relationships? Just because women and men value things differently, doesn’t mean they’re not equally well adjusted, valuable contributors, and/or with a good life.
Hi LoveStar, I don’t think either Richard or I were criticising women in our comments about online contributors- I think you’re stretching with that one E.g. nearly all my bad experiences have been with men. Also, I don’t recognise your 90% figure. A good faith discussion requires good faith arguments and statistics. Best, Paul.
Well, sometimes certain people are better at things than other people. Secondly, I say that because I don't see any time in the near future either guy mentioning Richard Grannon. It's just life I suppose. @@crumpetclaire9690
What is the solution for å child in autisme spectrum at school? Child with No interest or understanding about theory, but Art? What the abstract mind can do against the concret mind society?? 🧩🧩🧩
Hi there, people with special learning needs should be catered for, but the point being made in the discussion is that education for those without special needs (the vast majority) is currently suffering from a Lowest Common Denominator approach. We celebrate high standards in sport and the less talented play at lower levels - we should all participate in education, but we should also encourage high standards. Best, Paul.
