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#832 - Rudyard Lynch - Is This The Most Absurd Time In History?

2024/8/31
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Rudyard Lynch, a YouTuber and historian, discusses the absurdity of our time, citing the decline of institutional trust, a broken media landscape, and the rise of incels. He argues that our era's uniqueness stems from a single underlying variable that connects ancient wisdom with modern evidence, highlighting the 20th century's unprecedented intellectual shifts in mating, community, and economics.
  • Modernity is marked by a belief in human perfectibility, infinite progress, and the sameness of men and women.
  • The 20th century witnessed a surge in social engineering, leading to unprecedented levels of inequality.
  • Our era's economic, social, and spiritual assumptions are vastly different from those of any other historical period.

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Rudyard Lynch is a YouTuber and a historian.

Is the modern world weird? Whether it's incels, brat summer, a broken media landscape, godlessness or a decline in institutional trust it seems like lots of modernity is kind of odd. From the fall of empires to the rise of new world orders, how does our current timeline compare to the rest of recent history?

Expect to learn whether we are actually living in a unique time in history, what a far-right backlash might look like, why the left is seen as more feminine, what would have happened if Trump actually had been killed, what it will take for young men to feel happy and fulfilled again and much more…

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