The Culture of Narcissism (Ft.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
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This episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast is about Christopher Lasch and his famous book "The Culture of Narcissism." As I am new to Lasch's work, I decided to bring on friend of the show C. Derick Varn, who has read all of Christopher Lasch's work and wrote about it. C. Derick Varn is an author, poet, veteran podcaster, educator, and host of the podcast Varn Vlog and co-host of the mortalscience podcast.
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This podcast is primarily about The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch and why Lasch's work and legacy is relevant to society today. In particular, this book is especially relevant to new age spirituality, hippies, the counterculture, individualism, neoliberalism, identity politics, performance activism, as well as the general widespread increase in egoism and self absorption in society.
In Part 2, Varn and I talk about campism on the left, anarcho-liberalism, social justice warriors, and the phenomenon of new Stalinism/“Tankies”
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I'll be honest, when I first read it, some of the actual psychological/cultural complaints felt kinda prudish or uptight but a lot of the trends (not shaming anything, exhibitionism but not emotional honesty etc.) are incredibly relevant with things like Twitter and even the specific dynamics of social media.
Tbh when I first read it I thought he was a conservative Freudian, didn't realize he was a marxist
The TiR discord brought me here
I dont think anyone has made me so aware of my own horizon of ignorance more than Varn.
Do one with Hakim please! Great video!
Hakim will actually be of my next guests hehe
@@1DimeRadio awesome!!!!! I'll look forward to it 😆
@@1DimeRadio no way
Anyone that reaches out to our Iraqi amigo is a frend of mine!
Hey 1Dime, I enjoy your interviews a lot. I’m curious if you went to college and what you studied? Just because I in the future want to develop my understanding on these topics.
Excellent conversation. More, please.
As usual I probably understood less than half of this as I don't know theory, however it was such an interesting discussion.
I really appreciate you asking your guests to explain some of the terms they make reference to, even though sometimes they find it frustrating 🤠
I could've listened to this conversation for another few hours 💜
Good convo. Unlike so much of debate bro garbage online
At the time CoN came out I took it to be a critique of tendencies coming out of the 60s and setting up housekeeping in academia. This academic caste would later give rise to identity politics. As a young Marxist I liked his focus on the abandonment of class but thought that the Freudian spin took his fastball away. Was John Patrick Diggens involved with Lasch? Diggins hated the left as a whole. Very depressive guy. Catholicism?
Looking forward to it. If you’re looking at next guests, it’d be interesting to hear you talk to Matt Christman. Although you may butt heads about MMT, I think he doesn’t dispute its conclusions on how the monetary system works and theoretically could work to benefit actual human beings but I think disputes the efficacy of advocating for it under a bourgeois dictatorship. He does have a good breath of knowledge of history and has really interesting perspectives on things.
I actually hold a similar position with regards to MMT. Ive talked about it on Varn's podcast and on the Macro and Cheese podcast. I think MMT is fully valid as a descriptive theory for the economic phenomena it describes. However, it is not a theory that accounts for power or class conflict. Hence why I am also skeptical of social democrats who think MMT will ever be accepted by a bourgois capitalist state. I am more for a synthesis of MMT and Marxism. A MMT view of money and fiscal policy, and a Marxist view of class, power, and relations of production.
@@1DimeRadio what do you think about CASP?
In my experience, when people say "hippy", they just mean "the popular culture and Woodstock".
I am livestock
I am monkie
@@1DimeRadio Another Homo Sapien sans sapience. We are all slaves and the carrot on a string is made of plastic (not food), but the stick to whack us with is real.
Varn is drinking Coke zero
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artificial sugars 🤮 Bleccch
This dude looks like Shaun King on the thumbnail haha
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