Billionaire tech bro Marc Andreessen recently claimed introspection is a pathology. Derek and Julian discuss the Trump advisor's claims while the investor continues making bank from defense technology.
Show Notes
<a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248531/the-mind-is-flat/">The Mind is Flat: Nick Chater</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vspX6NaLxdc">The Mind is Flat | Nick Chater | Talks at Google</a>
<a href="https://www.susanblackmore.uk/review-of-the-mind-is-flat-the-remarkable-shallowness-of-the-improving-brain/">Susan Blackmore Review of The Mind is Flat</a>
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Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in times of crisis. At worst, it fronts and recruits for the fever-dream of QAnon. As the alt-right and New Age horseshoe toward each other in a blur of disinformation, clear discourse, and good intentions get smothered. Charismatic influencers exploit their followers by co-opting conspiracy theories on a spectrum of intensity ranging from vaccines to child trafficking. In the process, spiritual beliefs that have nurtured creativity and meaning are transforming into memes of a quickly-globalizing paranoia. Conspirituality Podcast attempts to bring understanding to this landscape. A journalist, a cult researcher, and a philosophical skeptic discuss the stories, cognitive dissonances, and cultic dynamics tearing through the yoga, wellness, and new spirituality worlds. Mainstream outlets have noticed the problem. We crowd-source, research, analyze, and dream answers to it.