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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /518/ We Have Never Been Postmodern ft. Geoff Shullenberger
Description: On free speech, the tech right, and politicisation.
Geoff Shullenberger, managing editor at Compact, joins Alex and George to talk about Peter Thiel, René Girard, victimhood and the antichrist.
Does it make sense to talk of "right-wing cancel culture"? Is it different from the left's?
Is countercultural trolling in tension with "defending Western civilisation"?
What does René Girard argue about mimesis and scapegoating? Why have his theories become popular?
Is right-populism still politicising? How does it relate to libertarian anti-politics and hard-right militarisation?
How has Silicon Valley li...