Supplementary Material 44: Peasant Archmages, Moral Panics, and LOTR Parenting Tips

We descend once more into the Gurusphere, encountering secret peasant archmages, decline narratives, Epstein emails, and endless moral panics.

The full episode is available to Patreon subscribers (1 hour, 37 minutes).

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00:00 SM 44 PF

00:23 Introduction

01:30 Konstantin Kisin: Not Left Or Right, Just Right

05:20 Boghossian is shocked by pessimistic French people

08:50 Konstantin and Warren Smith as relics of the anti-SJW era

12:45 A PSA! Hyper Capitalism Tier Update!

18:36 Matt's AV Setup

20:01 Recommendation: Successville (British version)

21:40 My peasant farmer dad is secretly an Archmage!

28:14 Scott Galloway talks with Gwyneth Paltrow

40:18 American Capitalist Culture and the Gurus

48:54 Bryan Johnson vs AG1

51:45 Bryan Johnson & Epstein Schmoozing

58:09 Bari Weiss's Peter Attia Woes

59:14 Epstein and QAnon Conspiracies

01:03:23 Overinterpreting Epstein emails

01:09:04 Shermer promotes Dave Rubin to hawk his book on Truth

01:10:37 Conspiracy Theory prevalence on left and riht

01:17:44 Jonathan Haidt and his anti-social media crusade

01:23:15 Plato on the Corruption of the Youth

01:24:30 The Eternal Appeal of Decline Narratives

01:26:22 They won't let you enjoy things anymore...

01:30:24 Matt's laissez-faire parenting tips

01:31:45 Life lessons from Lord of the Rings

01:34:17 The Witch King of Angmar defeated by a Woke White Women

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