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\nGenerally in this podcast:
\nWe criticise the left for obsessing over identity politics while ignoring the poor, for using offensive speech as a reason to restrain free speech and for being duped by Steven Pinker.
\nWe criticise the right for conservative social values, neoliberalism, favouring the rich and for glorifying Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson.
\n1:58 Stephen Fry put it well
\n\u201cA grand canyon has opened up in our world,\u201d\u00a0Fry said. On one side is the new right, promoting a bizarre mixture of Christianity and libertarianism; on the other, the \u201cilliberal liberals\u201d, obsessed with identity politics and complaining about things like cultural appropriation. These tiny factions war above, while the rest of us watch, aghast, from the chasm below.
\n2:58 Left Vs Right
\nI was listening to the John Anderson podcast and picked up one fun fact.
\nThe terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president’s right and supporters of the revolution to his left. One deputy, the Baron de Gauville, explained: “We began to recognize each other: those who were loyal to religion and the king took up positions to the right of the chair so as to avoid the shouts, oaths, and indecencies that enjoyed free rein in the opposing camp” … The contemporary press occasionally used the terms “left” and “right” to refer to the opposing sides.
\nThe use of the words Left and Right spread from France to other countries and came to be applied to a large number of political parties worldwide, which often differed in their political beliefs.
\nThe Scottish sociologist\u00a0Robert M. MacIver\u00a0noted in\u00a0The Web of Government\u00a0(1947):
\nThe right is always the party sector associated with the interests of the upper or dominant classes, the left the sector expressive of the lower economic or social classes, and the centre that of the middle classes. Historically this criterion seems acceptable. The conservative right has defended entrenched prerogatives, privileges and powers; the left has attacked them. The right has been more favorable to the aristocratic position, to the hierarchy of birth or of wealth; the left has fought for the equalization of advantage or of opportunity, for the claims of the less advantaged. Defense and attack have met, under democratic conditions, not in the name of class but in the name of principle; but the opposing principles have broadly corresponded to the interests of the different classes.
\n5:57 We have to talk about the Morrison government. Should we start with a prayer?
\nLet us pray.
\n6:44 The Latest Ipsos Poll
\nOh dear …\u00a0A Royal Commission and its aftermath exposed this pathetic government but the conversation turned to illegal boat people and their polls numbers went up?
\nConducted by Ipsos and\u00a0published overnight by Nine newspapers, the poll finds Labor\u2019s lead being slashed from 54-46 to 51-49 \u2014 which,\u00a0The Australian\u00a0proclaimed this morning, showed that Labor was being \u201cbadly punished\u201d for its position on the bill.
\nDid a boat people scare campaign do the trick?
\nAs it happens, there was another,","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}