How the lockdowns drove us all crazy | Nellie Bowles | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

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The former New York Times reporter explores the collective madness that washed over us in 2020, tracing the path from #MeToo to “Intifada Revolution!”
00:00- The Morning After The Revolution
2:30- First sparks of the revolution
5:30- the working class victims of The Reckoning
9:37- BLM’s property empire
11:16- Bowles’ New York Times dispatch from CHAZ
13:40- Black and Asian White Supremacists
15:55- White women’s tears & DEI trainings
20:25- Dismantle capitalism, but not too urgently!
24:10- The Progressive Stack
26:01- Academic “Pretendians”
29:20- The Bon Appétit Cancellation Turducken
34:37- The Creation of Non-man
37:52- Woman: a submissive vessel?
42:40- The Current Thing Speedway
44:06- San Francisco: Progressive Libertarian Nihilism?
48:33- Nellie Bowles’ politics
50:25- Positive social change
54:17- Q&A
reason.com/podcast/2024/05/21...
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Today's guest is Nellie Bowles, a co-founder of the immensely popular Substack publication The Free Press, where she writes TGIF, a weekly news roundup that has earned a fanatical following. She's also the author of the new book Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History, a deeply reported account of how America responded to COVID lockdowns and racial unrest in 2020 and 2021 and her tumultuous tenure at The New York Times.
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@NFTeve 25 дней назад

People are not the same. Many people have not come back out :(

@theStacyJames 25 дней назад

In 2020 I scramed to a small Mexico town with no lockdowns, mask mandates, and the quackcine was nowhere to be found. My mental health (and physical health) are pristine at the moment, thank you very much.

@infowarriorone 25 дней назад

Anti-vaxxers aren't mentally well.

@sellingacoerwa8318 21 день назад

as we know any reasonable assumptions made from data sampling should have a sample size of 1

@theStacyJames 20 дней назад

@@sellingacoerwa8318 you want your own sample size? Haha! Come on down

@jaycarver4886 9 дней назад

Good for you! Bet you had a lovely time there.

@sellingacoerwa8318 5 дней назад

*eye roll

@macdisciple 25 дней назад

As an introvert I flourished during lockdown.

@jamesbizs 25 дней назад

Sure you did

@jimpollard113 9 дней назад

@@jamesbizs It is true. For introverts, Covid was the same old lifestyle; stay to yourself, get things done, and the world you live in exists inside your head. Extroverts have no idea how easy covid was for introverts. Go ahead and doubt, but it is a fact.

@jaycarver4886 5 дней назад

@@jamesbizsIntroverts don't rely on the external world to be happy or survive. Find one to cling to when TSHTF.

@matthewrawlings1284 25 дней назад

It's the shift in narrative that is shown in 1984. To paraphrase, 'We've always been at war with east eurasia, stop saying otherwise.'

@Tonkarai 25 дней назад

I never changed. I still don't listen to the state and still don't give a shit about what others think of me. Only bootlickers were affected the hardest besides hard working folks.

@thunderstreet78 20 дней назад

Her book is fantastic. Really worth reading to get the full picture of just how insane things have gotten. And the worst part is that NYT and other mainstream press refused to cover it. Really eye-opening!

@NFTeve 19 дней назад

Trump was right Fake News is 100% real. Thats what I learned in 2020

@debravictoria7452 13 дней назад

@@NFTeveBetter late than never.

@NFTeve 25 дней назад

I was violently assaulted and injured 2 times in DC for no reason and the police did not make a crime report. The police laughed at me the first time.

@scsmith4604 25 дней назад

Had you defended yourself they would have cared....and charged you.

@Caper1144 25 дней назад

Man, everyone went nuts over ventilators. Just the worst thing the US didn’t have 1000s of Ventilators on hand. I remember being so mad and everyone being so mad. Right now, I could give af about ventilators.

@stevenw5013 24 дня назад

Iirc it turned out that ventilators were actually harmful in many cases. It was more effective just to put patients in a "prone position."

@vicnighthorse 25 дней назад

I live in rural WY and there was no lock down here, as far as I could tell, although many if not all schools closed for some time. I posit that a person is extremely foolish to live in NYC (looking at you Nick) or even worse DC these days.

@SDsc0rch 25 дней назад

some of us have never gotten over covid : /

@NFTeve 25 дней назад

Thats amazing info, you really great journalist! I am not fragile, I know my mind, so I never got into that BS. Interesting to hear about it

@quin2203 25 дней назад

I'll have to get back to this. I got to about 20:00. It's an interesting interview. She effectively breaks down the woke psyche and explains their thought process. Within that context she explains why the last several years have been so crazy.

@NFTeve 19 дней назад

yes, it was great and then an apologetics for a sytem that has been in place for decades, just obvious now that we have other ways of getting info. (Google is BS tho)

@Highwayman589 25 дней назад

The need to tip toe around the influence of female psychological chaos hamstrings this conversation to a grave degree. Not that I blame them for doing it. If they address it directly, women would use relational aggression (false accusations, ostracism, etc.) to try to destroy them. This chaos is driving society to a pretty hopeless place.

@Hollis_has_questions 7 дней назад

The Covid lockdown felt like a warm hug to me. I had a great time doing what I've always done. I'm an Aspie (Asperger's), definitely not an introvert. But I hate being the center of attention, which happens all too often. I don't go to parties for that reason. Phone conversations and RU-vid video comments (like this) are my preferred Pro nouns. I am always working on sharing the stage, being careful to talk with, not to or at, others. Y'all may consider yourselves "back to normal," but the only thing that has changed for me is ... nothing. Until 7 October 2023. Now I finally have a Jewish identity! Hatred and all-too-real threats of pogroms and genocide can do that. It's not so much that I'm an atheist - ever since my first few hours of life as a blastocyst - but I realize that now is the time to accept the glove thrown at my feet by Hamas terrorists, their supporters, and their defenders. I can confront their irrational ideology, their admiration of martyrdom, their denial of reality, and their flagrant fabrications and defamatory accusations. I have become an online soldier using objective reality and fact-based argumentation to expose the fallacies inherent in my enemies' faith-based assumptions. And what is Jew Hatred if not a faith-based assumption?

@equinoxb8711 18 дней назад

Thanks for making sense of what she's saying. For an author, she sure has a hard time explaining things clearly. 😂

@DianaHylandTX 25 дней назад

Love Nellie! I recently read some great reviews on Good Reads. Can’t wait to real her book.

@NFTeve 25 дней назад

Nails it!

@sweeperbart 25 дней назад

I hope that Nellie grows more famous and speaks more than her wife Bari. Nellie is so light and endearing!

@JP34. 24 дня назад

Love P.J. O'Rourke

@xaspirate8060 23 дня назад

I don't know of any other author who made me laugh so consistently over the years/decades. Can't believe I still have not read all of his books (but most). Underappreciated =YES!

@davids4610 25 дней назад

Nick got a new jacket - suede fringe!!!!

@chrisocony 25 дней назад

The arc of the universe does not give a shit about justice. But humans do.

@upStomp 23 дня назад

As a reader of Reason for 20+ years, it always saddens me that they haven't faired better during the social media age (view numbers of this stellar interview being an example). Though I take solice in knowing that they'll survive its looming collapse.

@angelozachos8777 17 дней назад

No they won’t survive Nick and REASON are perpetual “fence-sitters” on most topics , and routinely move with the ‘Overton Window’. Their time is up

@tombussio4979 День назад

Loved the lockdown.

@TheKrazyk2010 25 дней назад

Lockdowns turned me into an even more insecure asshole

@NFTeve 25 дней назад

fight back and get your core self back

@DuffyLew91 18 дней назад

As a libertarian, redefining marriage is not the role off the state .

@debravictoria7452 13 дней назад

Many things are not their role, yet people accept it and some scream for more overreach.

@kh9242 11 дней назад

She lost me with the stimulus, for god sake it was $300 not $300,000. Me, I replaced the alternator in my 14 year old car, guess that makes me rich

@kimdavid4406 18 дней назад

She seems like a sweet person but she is wandering around in the clouds. I watched all this shite going on while she was participating and loving it! And now she has a book going, Oh my gosh! Look at what was really happening! Wasn't that crazy and so funny??!! 🙄

@WhizzingFish12 День назад

Yes, I do not lionize her at all. She was an enthusiastic practitioner of cancel culture until they came for her, so her "awakening" didn't arise out of principle. Plus she's shilling a book.

@tylerwhitney3443 17 дней назад

Bari Weiss is a lucky woman

@mikec3756 11 дней назад

The fact that she went from pro- to anti- in only a few short years makes me suspicious. She wasn't a hanger-on -- she was right there in the thick of it. It reminds me of the Canadian writer Jan Wong, who was a rabid Maoist in China during the 1970s (despite being from Canada), actually turned people in for "thought crimes", and then completely flipped in the 1990s and began writing books about what an idiot she'd been and criticizing everything about Chinese society. It's entertaining listening to Bowles, but I can't help thinking: you're obviously a super-smart person. Why would you fall for this crap? She wasn't just going along to get along -- she was attending all of these idiotic sessions that she presumably had to pay thousands of dollars for. I'm glad she got out of that mindset, but it's still really strange. Maybe it's some kind of status thing, where participating in this kind of stuff reinforces the feeling that you're part of the elite (i.e., it pretends to be about helping vulnerable minorities, but it's really about reminding you that you're the one with the power and agency).

@WhizzingFish12 День назад

Agree. She was an enthusiastic practitioner of cancel culture until it came for her. She didn't "awaken" out of principle.

@The_Infinite_Squirrel 24 дня назад

It seems that many in this comment section did not listen to the interview... or maybe they are so closed minded, they lack any ability to be "reasonable".

@angelozachos8777 17 дней назад

Disagree … Nellie adds no philosophical /psycho-sociological annotation to the conversation . She merely restates what we already experienced. It’s like listening to a sports announcer giving a recap of last nights football game.

@DuffyLew91 18 дней назад

Two women cannot make a baby. Who is the father?

@laughingliberaldad 12 дней назад

Nick seems displeased with Nellie lol

@chriseastopher 24 дня назад

This woman is not very insightful. And, that’s fine, I’m probably not either. But, no one is asking for my opinion about grand narratives and why the course of history is what it is. Her lack of nuance and focus on whacky shit as if that is the face of these movements she’s discussing reveals that she doesn’t really know what she’s talking about. People who know what they’re talking about are able to give valid insight into the beliefs of people they disagree with. And, I guess what I’m saying is, just like people don’t give a shit about my ignorant opinion, no one should take this idiot’s opinion seriously either. For instance, “All these labels are dumb!” Clearly a very thoughtful person would say this in response to where do you stand politically. I reject being labeled, but regardless I can recognize the utility of these labels and can say “I’m of the left.”

@RobertMcInerny 24 дня назад

😂😂😂

@robyncohen8542 15 дней назад

A very large problem is that most journalists are mathematically and statistically illiterate.

@infowarriorone 25 дней назад

The lock downs didn't bother me, because I understood the reasons.

@HarryF-tz5fo 25 дней назад

you supported lockdowns because you believed the lies. a lot of the suffering right now is because of the lockdowns. lockdowns were worse than the virus.

@jamesbizs 25 дней назад

Lol what.,, please tell me you’re not trying to claim they didn’t bother you, because you “knew” they were necessary .

@xaspirate8060 23 дня назад

@@jamesbizs At some point you had to ask "Is this really necessary?" .... like a year later for instance>>>