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Adam Kinzinger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1484 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

Yeah, I mean, it's totalitarian. You're allowed to think and say what the government allows you to think and say. And if you don't do that, then there will be consequences. Sometimes, you know, the administration has people who are sophisticated enough to talk around these things and talk about them in euphemism. But obviously, Ms.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

Yeah, I mean, it's totalitarian. You're allowed to think and say what the government allows you to think and say. And if you don't do that, then there will be consequences. Sometimes, you know, the administration has people who are sophisticated enough to talk around these things and talk about them in euphemism. But obviously, Ms.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

Yeah, I mean, it's totalitarian. You're allowed to think and say what the government allows you to think and say. And if you don't do that, then there will be consequences. Sometimes, you know, the administration has people who are sophisticated enough to talk around these things and talk about them in euphemism. But obviously, Ms.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

McMahon, perhaps due to her career in professional wrestling, is not one of those people. There was another revealing moment during her confirmation hearing where they asked her whether a black history class would be illegal. And she said she didn't know. And it's like, what? You know, it's always good when you have the people who are not quite clever enough to veil what's actually going on.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

McMahon, perhaps due to her career in professional wrestling, is not one of those people. There was another revealing moment during her confirmation hearing where they asked her whether a black history class would be illegal. And she said she didn't know. And it's like, what? You know, it's always good when you have the people who are not quite clever enough to veil what's actually going on.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

McMahon, perhaps due to her career in professional wrestling, is not one of those people. There was another revealing moment during her confirmation hearing where they asked her whether a black history class would be illegal. And she said she didn't know. And it's like, what? You know, it's always good when you have the people who are not quite clever enough to veil what's actually going on.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

I mean, I think you're probably right to worry about the technology. I think the thing that sticks out to me is the vaccine stuff. So it's not just that knowledge is destroyed or the ability to accumulate and synthesize it is harmed, but it's replaced with junk, right? So you have this issue with, you know, this outbreak of, you know, measles in the Southwest and we're talking about cod liver.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

I mean, I think you're probably right to worry about the technology. I think the thing that sticks out to me is the vaccine stuff. So it's not just that knowledge is destroyed or the ability to accumulate and synthesize it is harmed, but it's replaced with junk, right? So you have this issue with, you know, this outbreak of, you know, measles in the Southwest and we're talking about cod liver.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

I mean, I think you're probably right to worry about the technology. I think the thing that sticks out to me is the vaccine stuff. So it's not just that knowledge is destroyed or the ability to accumulate and synthesize it is harmed, but it's replaced with junk, right? So you have this issue with, you know, this outbreak of, you know, measles in the Southwest and we're talking about cod liver.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

I mean, that stuff is really bad. My fear is partially not just that they're going to mess with technology or our ability to advance technology, but that people will stop accepting scientific conclusions because their brains are so cooked by the stuff that they're seeing on social media.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

I mean, that stuff is really bad. My fear is partially not just that they're going to mess with technology or our ability to advance technology, but that people will stop accepting scientific conclusions because their brains are so cooked by the stuff that they're seeing on social media.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

I mean, that stuff is really bad. My fear is partially not just that they're going to mess with technology or our ability to advance technology, but that people will stop accepting scientific conclusions because their brains are so cooked by the stuff that they're seeing on social media.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

As far as Black history is concerned, I mean, on the one hand, the internet means you can do a book burning that is much bigger than an actual literal book burning. On the other hand, it is hard to delete anything from the internet now that it exists. It's not a Library of Alexandria situation where there's only one book, yeah.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

As far as Black history is concerned, I mean, on the one hand, the internet means you can do a book burning that is much bigger than an actual literal book burning. On the other hand, it is hard to delete anything from the internet now that it exists. It's not a Library of Alexandria situation where there's only one book, yeah.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

As far as Black history is concerned, I mean, on the one hand, the internet means you can do a book burning that is much bigger than an actual literal book burning. On the other hand, it is hard to delete anything from the internet now that it exists. It's not a Library of Alexandria situation where there's only one book, yeah.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

We're not talking about like, you know, there are plays that Aeschylus wrote that we're never gonna get to read. You know, me personally, I grew up in Washington, DC. I went to a public school. I went to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

We're not talking about like, you know, there are plays that Aeschylus wrote that we're never gonna get to read. You know, me personally, I grew up in Washington, DC. I went to a public school. I went to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

We're not talking about like, you know, there are plays that Aeschylus wrote that we're never gonna get to read. You know, me personally, I grew up in Washington, DC. I went to a public school. I went to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

And there were classes that I took there, classes on the Harlem Renaissance, classes on black history that were there because DCPS serves a mostly black student body. And when I got to college, I knew things that other kids had not been taught because of that.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1054: Adam Serwer, Lauren Egan, and Justin Jones: The Attack on Knowledge

And there were classes that I took there, classes on the Harlem Renaissance, classes on black history that were there because DCPS serves a mostly black student body. And when I got to college, I knew things that other kids had not been taught because of that.