Podcasts about american individualism

This week, Busy and Caissie both had a bit of familial friction over the turkey-based holiday. Plus, they both remember the druggies and drug dealers they dated in high school. Then, Roxane Gay, best-selling author of “Bad Feminist,” “Hunger” and editor of “Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture” stops by, in the middle of having a bloody nose, to talk about her new book, “Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business” and everyone shares some of their most surprisingly controversial opinions, along with thoughts on American Individualism, menopause and whether we're clueless about it because Oprah retired too soon, and who we could nominate to be our national mother. SPONSORS: http://ColorGuru.com CODE: BEST for 10% off any expert color analysis package to determine your best seasonal color palette whether you're choosing clothing or makeup http://Chomps.com/BEST for 20% off your first order of Chomps high-protein meat stick snacks http://FactorMeals.com/Busy50 to get 50% off fresh, flavor-packed meals delivered to your door and ready to eat in just 2 minutes with no prep or mess http://TRYARMRA.com/BUSY CODE: Busy for 15% off your first order of ARMRA Colostrum, the new superfood that can strengthen immunity & gut health, improve fitness & metabolism & even enhance the radiance of your skin & hair http://MarineLayer.com/BEST15 for 15% off your entire order of your new favorite fits! Order by December 18th to ensure Christmas delivery http://Betterhelp.com/BUSY for 10% off your 1st month of flexible, affordable, online therapy

Hey Listener, pack your bags and don't forget your katana because this week we're traveling to Shaolin. Bryce Oquaye aka MADHUNDREDS  and Justin 3000 Stewart return to the show to celebrate 50 Years of Hip Hop by talking about the Wu Tang Clan. Topics this week include: The importance of the Wu Tang Clan in pop culture. Swiss Army Lightsaber. American Individualism vs. working in a network. Justin 3000 aka Live Art Gandalf will be at Cincinnati Comic Expo and is taking commissions so hit him up. Bryce trying not to have beef with Staten Island and his biography. Being a musical group that has fictional lore. Having a logo that recognizable worldwide and your own color branding. 123 name your favorite Wu Tang member. Your host's Wu Tang Generator name is: Alarming Drifter. The various Wu Tang aliases. Who wins in a fight between Ghostface Killah and Iron Man? How do you get the nickname Golden Arms? Original Glocksmith. Wu Tang is basically the X-Men. Was RZA inspired by horror movies? Highlighting individual albums. They're a stable and not a tag team. The Wu Tang super powers. Multiple Wu Tang video games. Bryce's E-40 and Westside Gunn impersonations. RZA composing the soundtrack for Afro Samurai. The Man with the Iron Fists. Pigeon holing Rob Zombie and Halloween was a beautiful movie? Everyone was smoking weed then. How you gonna be in a metal band and be a racist? How High is always a must watch. Czarface.  Enlisting into Killarmy. The future of Hip Hop. Pro wrestling is for the people worldwide. The greatest outro in the history of What Ya Into?   

As we continue through our Breaking Through series, Pastor Nelson Akwari teaches on the topic of American Individualism, centering on the Scripture Matthew 28: 16-20, known as The Great Commission. Please note, due to technical difficulties the audio skips at minute 6:22.

In episode seven of Reviving Virtue, we analyze a chapter called “The Place of Reason in The Moral Life; Moral Knowledge” by John Dewey from his book Ethics, with a special focus on Immanuel Kant's philosophy as a counterpoint to Dewey's views. We delve into the philosophical underpinnings of morality, using a painter and her canvas as a vivid metaphor to articulate intuitionalism and Dewey's perspective on morality. Our discussion uncovers the criticisms of Kantian ethics and utilitarianism, and the shortcomings of strict moral systems such as intuitionalism and casuistry. We then present virtues as a dynamic, creative alternative for moral decision-making. The episode culminates in a compelling examination of the American healthcare system, drawing parallels with the contrasting ideologies of American individualism and European collective responsibility. It advocates for a more compassionate, equitable healthcare model that values collective wellbeing, effectively linking these philosophical debates to a vital, real-world issue.Topics Discussed: John Dewey's perspective on morality and its contrast with Kantian ethics Criticisms of utilitarianism and Kantian ethics The concept of intuitionalism and its limitations Casuistry and its potential pitfalls Virtues as a dynamic, creative alternative for moral decision-making Impact of strict moral systems on personal freedom American individualism and its effect on the healthcare system European collective responsibility and its reflection in healthcare Role of empathy and sympathy in healthcare Advocacy for a more equitable American healthcare modelBook Recommendations:Book Recommendations: "Ethics" by John Dewey - This book provides a comprehensive understanding of Dewey's views on moral philosophy. "Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals" by Immanuel Kant - It presents Kant's fundamental moral philosophy that would make for a good contrast with Dewey's ideas. "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion" by Jonathan Haidt - An exploration into the moral psychology that shapes our society and institutions, including healthcare. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reviving_Virtue Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/RevivingVirtue Contact: revivingvirtue@gmail.com Music by Jeffrey Anthony: https://open.spotify.com/album/1Q9wJCeuUa3wrHrKKtsTFW?si=NeyPJ-dzRBeWfHhYDPgvvw

Kristen Radtke's graphic novel Seek You builds connections between the rugged individualism embedded in American culture and the loneliness that we see around us in post-pandemic America. We often idealize the self-reliance, independence, and personal responsibility rooted in American history but at what cost? This faculty panel will explore this idea using literature, philosophy, and other disciplines as lenses through which to view this aspect of our culture. This event is part of our One Book program.

“A lame member of the body of Christ, the church... a weak believer; one that is ready to halt, either through the corruption of nature, or through the weakness of grace, or through want of light and judgment, and through instability and inconstancy; lest such a one should, through the irregular walk and conversation of others, be stumbled and offended, and go out of the way, and leave the paths of righteousness and truth. God takes care of, and has a regard to such, and he would have others also. The fallen believer be restored, the weak brother be confirmed, the halting professor be strengthened, and everyone be built up and established upon the most holy faith, and in the pure ways of the Gospel.” -John Gill

Howdy everyone, and thanks again for tuning in to The Jeffersonian Tradition. In today's episode, we wrap up our study of the Richard Weaver essay, "Two Types of American Individualism." If you want me to cover a topic or elaborate further on any given episode, then reach out to me through the show's private MeWe group, or by contacting me at the show email address, which is mrjeffersonian@outlook.com. If you find value in the podcast, please consider becoming a supporting listener. One-time contributions can be sent to the show's cash app, http://cash.app/$MrJeffersonian . Recurring contributions can be made through the Anchor supporting listener link. Thanks again for tuning in to The Jeffersonian Tradition! Sign up for MeWe today: https://mewe.com. Fuel the Jeffersonian Revolution today and buy your goldbacks here: Defy the Grid. Help us out with Little Miss Jeffersonian HERE --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mr-jeffersonian/support

Howdy everyone, and thanks again for tuning in to The Jeffersonian Tradition. In today's episode, I break down the first half of my all time favorite Richard Weaver essay, "Two Types of American Individualism." If you want me to cover a topic or elaborate further on any given episode, then reach out to me through the show's private MeWe group, or by contacting me at the show email address, which is mrjeffersonian@outlook.com. If you find value in the podcast, please consider becoming a supporting listener. One-time contributions can be sent to the show's cash app, http://cash.app/$MrJeffersonian . Recurring contributions can be made through the Anchor supporting listener link. Thanks again for tuning in to The Jeffersonian Tradition! Sign up for MeWe today: https://mewe.com. Fuel the Jeffersonian Revolution today and buy your goldbacks here: Defy the Grid. Help us out with Little Miss Jeffersonian HERE --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mr-jeffersonian/support

Essay 89: Failures of Utopian Creation Experiments: America's Founders and Their Warnings Against Attempts to Reinvent Human Nature by Chris Burkett. Click here to explore our 2022 90-Day Study: American Exceptionalism Revealed: The Historic Rise and Fall of Worldwide Regimes and How United States Founding Wisdom Prevails. America's Founders understood the failings of totalitarian regimes, and thus attempted an experiment in liberty they hoped future Americans would find invaluable and maintain. Constituting America's 2022 90-Day Study looks at the rise and fall of worldwide regimes throughout history, juxtaposed to founding principles of the United States Constitution and federalists' and anti-federalists' views of their day regarding what history taught them about human nature and what is required to preserve our freedom!

Essay 85: Empire for Liberty: The American Founders on Curbing International Domination and Overreach by Thomas Bruscino. Click here to explore our 2022 90-Day Study: American Exceptionalism Revealed: The Historic Rise and Fall of Worldwide Regimes and How United States Founding Wisdom Prevails. America's Founders understood the failings of totalitarian regimes, and thus attempted an experiment in liberty they hoped future Americans would find invaluable and maintain. Constituting America's 2022 90-Day Study looks at the rise and fall of worldwide regimes throughout history, juxtaposed to founding principles of the United States Constitution and federalists' and anti-federalists' views of their day regarding what history taught them about human nature and what is required to preserve our freedom!

Essay 84: Guarding American Sovereignty: The United States Constitution and Its Protections Against World Government Control by Andrew Langer. Click here to explore our 2022 90-Day Study: American Exceptionalism Revealed: The Historic Rise and Fall of Worldwide Regimes and How United States Founding Wisdom Prevails. America's Founders understood the failings of totalitarian regimes, and thus attempted an experiment in liberty they hoped future Americans would find invaluable and maintain. Constituting America's 2022 90-Day Study looks at the rise and fall of worldwide regimes throughout history, juxtaposed to founding principles of the United States Constitution and federalists' and anti-federalists' views of their day regarding what history taught them about human nature and what is required to preserve our freedom!

Essay 70: Power Concentrated in the Hands of a Few: Conflict of Progressive Government Toward American Individualism and the United States Constitution by Joerg Knipprath. Click here to explore our 2022 90-Day Study: American Exceptionalism Revealed: The Historic Rise and Fall of Worldwide Regimes and How United States Founding Wisdom Prevails. America's Founders understood the failings of totalitarian regimes, and thus attempted an experiment in liberty they hoped future Americans would find invaluable and maintain. Constituting America's 2022 90-Day Study looks at the rise and fall of worldwide regimes throughout history, juxtaposed to founding principles of the United States Constitution and federalists' and anti-federalists' views of their day regarding what history taught them about human nature and what is required to preserve our freedom!

  Join me and John Avlon as we discuss his book Lincoln and the Fight for Peace. This is an important account of Lincoln's plan to win the peace after the Civil War. It is a fascinating account of Lincoln's vision and leadership. This vision inspired future presidents and offers important lessons for lawmakers and citizens alike in our current times. Guest John Avlon John Avlon is an author, columnist and commentator. He is a senior political analyst and fill-in anchor at CNN, appearing on New Day every morning. From 2013 to 2018, he was the editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast, during which time the site's traffic more than doubled to over one million readers a day while winning 17 journalism awards.  He is the author of the books Lincoln and the Fight for Peace, Independent Nation, Wingnuts, and Washington's Farewell as well as co-editor of the acclaimed Deadline Artists journalism anthologies. Avlon served as chief speechwriter to New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists award for best online column in 2012. After the attacks of September 11th, 2001, he and his team were responsible for writing the eulogies for all firefighters and police officers murdered in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Avlon's essay on the attacks, “The Resilient City” concluded the anthology Empire City: New York through the Centuries and won acclaim as “the single best essay written in the wake of 9/11.” His first book, Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics was described by Barron's as "a rewarding portrait of a political trend the established parties have tried to ignore” and hailed by TheModerateVoice.com as "the best political book ever on American centrist voters.” Wingnuts: How The Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America was praised by President Bill Clinton, who said "Wingnuts offers a clear and comprehensive review of the forces on the outer edges of the political spectrum that shape and distort our political debate. Shedding more heat than light they drive frustrated alienated citizens away from the reasoned discourse that can produce real solutions to our problems.” The two Deadline Artists anthologies, which Avlon co-edited with Jesse Angelo and Errol Louis won acclaim from the Washington Post as “one of the greatest collections of newspaper articles ever compiled” while the American Journalism Review described it as “the most addictive journalism book ever.” Avlon has appeared on The Daily Show, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CNN, Real Time with Bill Maher, PBS, and C-Span.  He has spoken at the Kennedy School of Government, the Citadel, the State Department's visiting journalist program, and civic organizations around the nation. He serves on the board of Citizens Union of New York and The Bronx Academy of Letters as well as the advisory board of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.  He was appointed to the New York City Voter Assistance Advisory Committee in 2011.  Avlon is also a co-founder of No Labels - a group of Democrats, Republicans and Independents dedicated to the politics of problem-solving and making government work again. In a profile, author Stephen Marshall wrote “Avlon talks about politics the way ESPN anchors wrap up sports highlights.” Columnist Kathleen Parker wrote, “Americans who are fed up with the Ann Coulter/Michael Moore school of debate and are looking for someone to articulate a commonsense, middle path, may have found their voice in John Avlon.” He is married to Margaret Hoover, the author of American Individualism and host of PBS's Firing Line. The New York Times says, "Their telegenic union may be a lesson in overcoming the orthodoxies that divide us." They live in New York City with their son, Jack and daughter, Toula Lou.   Host Michael Zeldin Michael Zeldin is a well-known and highly-regarded TV and radio analyst/commentator. He has covered many high-profile matters,

  Join me and John Avlon as we discuss his book Lincoln and the Fight for Peace. This is an important account of Lincoln's plan to win the peace after the Civil War. It is a fascinating account of Lincoln's vision and leadership. This vision inspired future presidents and offers important lessons for lawmakers and citizens alike in our current times. Guest John Avlon John Avlon is an author, columnist and commentator. He is a senior political analyst and fill-in anchor at CNN, appearing on New Day every morning. From 2013 to 2018, he was the editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast, during which time the site's traffic more than doubled to over one million readers a day while winning 17 journalism awards.  He is the author of the books Lincoln and the Fight for Peace, Independent Nation, Wingnuts, and Washington's Farewell as well as co-editor of the acclaimed Deadline Artists journalism anthologies. Avlon served as chief speechwriter to New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists award for best online column in 2012. After the attacks of September 11th, 2001, he and his team were responsible for writing the eulogies for all firefighters and police officers murdered in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Avlon's essay on the attacks, “The Resilient City” concluded the anthology Empire City: New York through the Centuries and won acclaim as “the single best essay written in the wake of 9/11.” His first book, Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics was described by Barron's as “a rewarding portrait of a political trend the established parties have tried to ignore” and hailed by TheModerateVoice.com as “the best political book ever on American centrist voters.” Wingnuts: How The Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America was praised by President Bill Clinton, who said “Wingnuts offers a clear and comprehensive review of the forces on the outer edges of the political spectrum that shape and distort our political debate. Shedding more heat than light they drive frustrated alienated citizens away from the reasoned discourse that can produce real solutions to our problems.” The two Deadline Artists anthologies, which Avlon co-edited with Jesse Angelo and Errol Louis won acclaim from the Washington Post as “one of the greatest collections of newspaper articles ever compiled” while the American Journalism Review described it as “the most addictive journalism book ever.” Avlon has appeared on The Daily Show, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CNN, Real Time with Bill Maher, PBS, and C-Span.  He has spoken at the Kennedy School of Government, the Citadel, the State Department's visiting journalist program, and civic organizations around the nation. He serves on the board of Citizens Union of New York and The Bronx Academy of Letters as well as the advisory board of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.  He was appointed to the New York City Voter Assistance Advisory Committee in 2011.  Avlon is also a co-founder of No Labels – a group of Democrats, Republicans and Independents dedicated to the politics of problem-solving and making government work again. In a profile, author Stephen Marshall wrote “Avlon talks about politics the way ESPN anchors wrap up sports highlights.” Columnist Kathleen Parker wrote, “Americans who are fed up with the Ann Coulter/Michael Moore school of debate and are looking for someone to articulate a commonsense, middle path, may have found their voice in John Avlon.” He is married to Margaret Hoover, the author of American Individualism and host of PBS's Firing Line. The New York Times says, “Their telegenic union may be a lesson in overcoming the orthodoxies that divide us.” They live in New York City with their son, Jack and daughter, Toula Lou.   Host Michael Zeldin Michael Zeldin is a well-known and highly-regarded TV and radio analyst/commentator. He has covered many high-profile matters, including the Clinton impeachment proceedings, the Gore v. Bush court challenges, Special Counsel Robert Muller's investigation of interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the Trump impeachment proceedings. In 2019, Michael was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he taught a study group on Independent Investigations of Presidents. Previously, Michael was a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as Deputy Independent/ Independent Counsel, investigating allegations of tampering with presidential candidate Bill Clinton's passport files, and as Deputy Chief Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Foreign Affairs Committee, October Surprise Task Force, investigating the handling of the American hostage situation in Iran. Michael is a prolific writer and has published Op-ed pieces for CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Hill, The Washington Times, and The Washington Post. Follow Michael on Twitter: @michaelzeldin Subscribe to the Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-said-with-michael-zeldin/id1548483720

Hello Interactors,We all intuitively feel the world is falling into selfishness, defensiveness, and pettishness. Me, my, and eye for an eye. If the words we see in the books we read are any indication, it’s not just intuition but fact. And the shift started right around 1980.As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…WE PRAY FOR NOT FOR US, BUT MEDo you use words like believe, hope, fear, sense, feel, pray, soul, or mystery? Or are you more likely to use words like science, technology, model, method, fact, data, analysis, transmission, or system? If you’ve read even one Interplace essay, then I believe that my preference is no mystery! And I hope and pray you’ll read more than one. After all, I search for facts and data and then perform some analysis of the science of systems.What if I asked whether you use the words I and me more than we and us? One look at social media and it would be apparent. All the social strife, climate fright, or COVID concern has many people screaming into the digital void or retreating to the nearest corner curled up mumbling to themselves and their rectangular shiny black mirror of a screen. This is a very personal and individual reaction that commonly begins with the word “I” followed by “hope” or “pray.”What if I told you the world has both been increasingly using feeling words, like sense and soul and individual words, like I and me since 1980? What’s more intriguing is these two uses are correlated. The band R.E.M. was sending us clues back in 1987 when they released their song, “It’s the end of the world as we know it – [and I feel fine]. In it they sing,“Save yourself, serve yourselfWorld serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed”A paper came out just last month that provides evidence of this dialectical drift. The researchers, led by Martin Sheffer, of Wageningen University in The Netherlands, assembled a massive corpus of text from millions of books found on Google Books dating from 1850 to 2019. Reading and analyzing the text of this many books is humanly impossible, so they put machines to work. They used text analysis tools to search, count, find correlations, and detect sentiment.A simple example of this can be done by anybody with access to the internet. There are websites that will count the occurrences of a given word in a body of text and then arrange them into a word ‘cloud’. The largest word in the cloud represents the most frequently used word and the smallest the most infrequent. Here's a word cloud of the over 130,000 words I wrote on Interplace in 2021.But these simple clouds don’t say anything about what kind of words they are or what associations they may have with other words or ideas. And they don’t lend insight into what words are likely to occur together. But there are statistical methods and software tools that, if given enough clean data, can cluster words of similar meaning and correlate them to the occurrence of other words.What these researchers discovered is that “words associated with rationality, such as “determine” and “conclusion,” rose systematically after 1850, while words related to human experience such as “feel” and “believe” declined.” Words to do with senses, spirituality, emotions, and personal relationships are “sentiment” laden words that reflect a “personal world view.” Over time, they were displaced by “fact based” words used in argumentation of “societal systems”. They also found this pattern correlates with the rise of we and us and the decline of I and me after 1850.And then, starting around 1980, this trend peaked and then flip-flopped and the trend accelerated in 2007. That is when, the authors write, “across languages, the frequency of fact-related words dropped while emotion-laden language surged, a trend paralleled by a shift from collectivistic to individualistic language.”Of course, explaining why this happened is much harder than finding the evidence, which is also no small feat. The researchers speculate that 1850 was a time when the Industrial Revolution was hitting its stride. Science and technology were credited with economic prosperity and the promise of logic and rationalistic determinism seeped into culture and then books. Out with the mystical and in with the technical. It’s what the sociologist Max Weber called a process of “disenchantment”.But sociologist and political theorist, Steven Lukes, researched and wrote a book on the origins of “individualism.” He reveals the word ‘individualism’ has multiple ‘semantic histories’ and meanings. It entered the scene in the nineteenth century along with two other big ‘isms’ – ‘socialism’ and ‘communism.’The first use came in 1820 in France in response to the French Revolution. Because conservative elites, especially religious leaders, viewed the revolt against the establishment as a result of Enlightenment thinkers and doers, individualism was a derogatory term. Lukes writes,“Conservative thought in the early nineteenth century was virtually unanimous in condemning the appeal to the reason, interests and rights of the individual.”Put simply, it was seen as the beginnings of anarchy. According to French dictionaries, it remains a pejorative word in France to this day. There were reasons for suppressing individualistic thoughts, principles, and beliefs and they had everything to do with maintaining political, social, and religious order.Meanwhile, for the socialists of the 1800s, the term ‘individualism’ offered a counter to their ideal ‘collectivism.’ They believed that individuals who drift from the herd become prey to exploitive laissez-faire industrial capitalism. Lukes points to the French philosopher and economist, Pierre Leroux, who argued individualism would lead to“’everyone for himself, and…all for riches, nothing for the poor’, which atomized society and made men into ‘rapacious wolves’…”Individualism as a counterweight to collectivism is also what the British latched onto well into the late nineteenth century. So both the political, religious, and philosophical left and right had their own reasons for squelching individualism and their associative words in the nineteenth century.THE BELOVED RUGGED HUGAfter the French aristocrat and politician, Alexis de Tocqueville, extensively toured America in 1831 he concluded democracy, of which he was dubious, is rooted in individualism. Lukes writes that Tocqueville warned that individualism led to“the apathetic withdrawal of individuals from public life into a private sphere and their isolation from one another, with a consequent weakening of social bonds. Such a development, Tocqueville thought, offered dangerous scope for the unchecked growth of the political power of the state.”As we sit her nearly 200 years later amidst rising authoritarian threats, he may have a point.As the nineteenth century came to a close collectivist social and political structures were weakening. This is what Lukes claims gave rise to the beginnings of a turn toward individualism. He writes, “For the last quarter of the century was the period in which the market-driven politics of neoliberalism swept across the globe.” He notes that it was the “crisis of the welfare state and the spectacular fall of communism” that led to a “depletion of the meaning of ‘socialism.’” He says the term could no longer be “used with the same confidence” especially “in contrast to its two traditional antonyms, ‘capitalism’ and ‘individualism.’”And then, in 1922, then U.S. Commerce Secretary, Herbert Hoover, published a small but influential book called “American Individualism.” He then campaigned on the idea of ‘rugged individualism’ and the romantic, though overstated, idea of the self-reliant American frontiersman. Having spent time in Europe at the end of WWI witnessing its devastation he returned to write in his book that there were “’two convictions … dominant in [his] mind.’The first was that “the ideology of socialism, as tested before his eyes in Europe, was a catastrophic failure.” “Socialism”, he wrote, went against “the fundamental human impulse of self-interest” and “was unable to motivate men and women to produce sufficient goods for the needs of society.”The second conviction was that America, “The New World” as he called it, was far removed from European “imperialism, fanatic ideologies, ‘age-old hates,’ racial antipathies, dictatorships, power politics, and class stratifications.” And to be fair, Hoover’s book portrays a fairly progressive stance on individualism. He believed there is a limit to individualism and warned that “We shall never remedy justifiable discontent until we eradicate the misery which the ruthlessness of individualism has imposed upon a minority.”Of course, his actions spoke otherwise as he blamed the depression he failed to remedy as President on low wage minority Mexican immigrants southern farmers relied on to keep costs down. He deported one million Mexican Americans after enacting a program he called “American jobs for real Americans.” Sound familiar? I guess individualism matters only if you’re white. And perhaps, ruthless.Many different philosophers, politicians, and practitioners have nuanced variations and interpretations of the word ‘individualism’ over the last 200 years, but Lukes found that only these three have survived. The far right believes individualism leads to anarchy, the far left believes individualism is a symptom of selfishness, and hardcore capitalists believe individualism breeds progress and prosperity for all.Which makes it all the more difficult to pin down what happened around 1980 that marked a shift from collectivistic ‘we’ to the more individualistic ‘me’? The authors of the study offer a clue: The Information Age. The 1980s was when the information age was just getting rolling. In 1980 Microsoft had been around for five years already. The Apple II, the first mass-marketed personal computer, had been selling for three years. And a new internet consortium was formed called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). They quickly invented and adopted three very familiar suffixes: .com, .gov, and .edu. By 1985 Prodigy, Compuserve, and Quantum Computer Services – later named America Online (AOL) – were connecting people with access to a computer to the internet.People with such means started expressing themselves to people around the world using words and pictures over the internet. By the time 2007 rolled around the iPhone had come out and with it the ability to tap, type, and shoot from a pocket-sized super computer/phone. We may fret over the time spent on screens passively consuming massive amounts of information, but we forget not all of it is passive. If you consider all the thumbs and fingers typing into chat boxes, messaging apps, and comment streams, or posting and broadcasting pictures and videos on social media platforms, there are more people writing and publishing than ever in the history of humanity. It’s bound to have an effect on the language we use.The 1980s also marked the beginning of what has become out-sized income inequality in America. While Jimmy Carter had spent four years making peace in the world, trying to get us on solar power, and adopt the metric system, he struggled to make progress on inflation. Meanwhile, neoliberals from both parties had grown tired of attempts of social reform since the 60s and 70s. Just as in the 1800s, neoliberals became disenchanted with the passivist and collectivist attempts at another FDR style Great Society that wreaked of socialism.Instead, they stood on principles of American exceptionalism, classical liberalism, traditional family values, free markets, free trade, Judeo-Christian values, limited government, moral absolutism, natural law, rule of law, protectionism, Republicanism, and tradition. It was the celebration of the individual, singular beliefs, and individual gain – I/me – over the promise of a diverse collective; a systematic community of reciprocity – we/us.WISELY AND SLOW; THEY STUMBLE THAT RUN FAST. — SHAKESPEAREWhat held constant through a string of both Democrat and Republican presidents are neoconservative economic policies that have left the United States with the most extreme wealth disparity in its history. For those who have benefitted the most, it may be easy for them to point to individualism as the reason for their success. This fits with Hoover’s idea of the rugged individualist who ‘earned’ their way to the top through no means but their own effort. Like Frank Sinatra’s song, “I did it my way.” It’s just as Leroux warned in the 1800s, ’everyone for himself, and…all for riches, nothing for the poor.’For those who have seen their relative income decline since 1980, it may be easy for them to feel, as the socialists of the 1800s worried, that they were exploited by capitalism and corporate America. Perhaps they may feel, as Tocqueville warned, an apathetic withdrawal from public life from unchecked growth of a political power that has seemingly turned their back on them over the last 40 years.The economists at Oxford’s Our World in Data show that from 1980 to 2014, “independently of where you are in the US income distribution, those who are richer have seen larger income growth.” But they go on to point out that this hasn’t always been the case. In 1980, “independently of where you were in the income distribution, those who were poorer used to enjoy larger income growth.”Trump preyed on the beliefs and emotions that surround this science and these facts and it got him elected.Meanwhile, other fears and anxieties have led many more to retreat to hyperbolic emotion and self-righteousness. A pandemic hit stoking fear and uncertainty. Climate change has caused extreme variability in weather patterns heightening existential anxiety in many. The list goes on and on.Consequently, we all have reasons to be afraid of something and it can influence the words we use. The authors of the paper lean on what some scientists believe are two different cognitive modes of operation: System 1 (fast) and System 2 (slow). System 1 is intuitive, effortless, and without control. System 2 is deliberate, effortful, and rational. The researchers plotted System 1 words that relate to “belief, spirituality, sapience, intuition, and senses” and System 2 words that are rooted in “science, technology, and quantification”.  They show the frequency of System 1 words decreased after 1850 and then increased after 1980 while System 2 words increased after 1850 and then declined after 1980. They plotted words found in American English, British English, German, French, Italian, and Russian and similar patterns emerged.Could it be the more connected we become and the faster we consume and react to information, the more reliant we become on System 1? Are we too quick to respond, leaning on our beliefs, intuition, and senses? But what does it mean to slow down and let System 2 kick in? Is it even possible to slow down a global society connected through a vast and complex digital network?Or did the lethargy of the tools, technology, and social and political structures of the eighteenth and nineteenth century slow us down enough to reason and rationalize? Or maybe rational thought is an illusion. After all, these bi-modal cognitive scientists claim 98% of our daily cognition is System 1. We react, they claim, more than we ponder.It was Daniel Kahneman who won a Nobel Prize for his advances in bi-modal cognitive research. It led to a best selling book called, “Thinking Fast and Slow.” But in subsequent interviews he reveals more nuance into what is happening. He’s beginning to believe our choice of beliefs and the words we use to describe them are more chance than anything. Kahneman asks,“What does it mean to know something?...It has very little to do with actual evidence…it is anchored psychologically by the fact that other people you trust also believe in this thing. And it is only then that you invent reasons for it. It’s because the reasons that they cite for their beliefs have very little to do with their actual beliefs, which are usually informed by chance social factors.”He claims it’s what makes people create nonsensical associative beliefs. For example, those who are against gay marriage also typically don’t believe in global warming. He says,“It has an associative and emotional coherence, that’s all.” System 1. Emotion, intuition, and belief. Kahneman believes, for example, that “if you want to influence people about global warming, you have to speak to System 1 – we overestimate the influence of speaking to System 2. It’s quite disturbing when you realize people consider facts irrelevant.”I’m no Nobel prize winning cognitive psychologist, but I question whether we can boil cognition down to two modes. But, I have no evidence; though others are collecting it. And in a global vote between ‘we’ and ‘I’, I doubt the ‘I’s’ have it. Just as our own eyes can’t see themselves, an “I” can’t be itself alone. The only way an eye can see an eye is by looking into the eye of another being. We did not come into this world alone, we did not survive birth alone, we did not learn to walk, talk, learn, or earn alone. And we’re not alone, around this world. Many, though not all, are on social media, blogs, newsletters, or podcasts writing and saying words that we believe – in volumes unparalleled in human history. We are alone together, bounded by words, tethered forever. Even if we are just echoing the people we trust. Subscribe at interplace.io

If you thought that all those who are into herbs and holistic medicine are firmly ensconced on the Left side of the aisle, you haven't met Judson Carroll. Introduced to his podcast by my girlfriend, Cj - and after listening specifically to his episode No. 52, it was apparent that he had to be introduced to the Underground USA audience. It also became apparent that the world of herbalism and holistics is actually a gateway to independence...Sign-up for our weekly mail out here:https://www.undergroundusa.com/contact-subscribe

Today I am going to take an unapologetic look into the current state of this country when it comes to vaccines, shaming, and American individualism. This episode I'm going to get real about this pandemic, what I think one of the major problems is that uniquely sets America up to be ravaged by this disease, and how we can fix it.  Spoiler, I do not think this is the patient's fault. I do not think this is the fault of those that are not vaccinated. Listen to today's episode to learn how we can come together to truly end this pandemic.

Will begins with some Ayn Rand quotations about the nature of collectivism, and uses them as context for a discussion of: 1) The Left's reaction to Phil Valentine's COVID case; 2) The Left's demand that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retire; and 3) The Left's reaction to billionaires in space. #AynRand #Collectivism #Individualism #Statism #CommonGood #COVID19 #Vaccinations #MandatoryVaccinations #PhilValentine #CNN #TheNewYorkTimes #Biden #Trump #Dementia #SupremeCourt #StephenBreyer #JeffBezos #RichardBranson #ElonMusk #BillionairesInSpace #Falcon9 #Dragon #BlueOrigin #NASA #SpaceTravel Follow Will Anderson Twitter: @will_show2020 Instagram: @willandersontalk Facebook: www.facebook.com/thewillandersonshow www.thewillandersonshow.com Support the Indoor Cat Mental Health League… http://anchor.fm/bigintheusa

Episode 3 features special guest Cortney Umoelin (ig: @cortneyumoelin). We discuss the effect American Individualism has had on the COVID-19 pandemic and what we expect to see in the next few months when it comes to COVID. chill. by sakura Hz https://soundcloud.com/sakurahertzCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported  — CC BY 3.0  Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/chill-sakuraHzMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pF2tXC1pXNo

Si & Veronica are braving the Atlanta storms for episode 161! Billie Eilish got the full pin-up treatment with her British Vogue cover. She’s standing up for being able to show skin and still be a role model. She will be joining Timothee Chalamet, Amanda Gorman, and Naomi Osaka as co-chairs for the Met Gala in September with the theme of “American Individualism”. Marvel has us in our feels with their Phase 4 trailer. If you come across Ben Affleck on Raya, believe that it is him. Bill and Melinda Gates are dunzo after 27 years and their divorce settlement is set to rival that of the Bezos. Vee laughed and went “Yikes!” to T-Pain not knowing how to filter through his IG DMs request folder. Let us work for you, T-Pain! For our Mini Main topic, we dove into the pros and cons of going back to an ex. Can it ever work out or is it doomed from the jump? Bachelor Nation is getting incestual with Brandon and Pieper getting cozy and some season crossover hangs. Join us for what is always a good time and leave us a rating and review for a shoutout! Follow us @thefuturebachelor on Instagram! Thanks to you all who have subscribed! -- For fun, great music updated weekly, follow FUTURE BACHELOR on Spotify!   ***SLAPPER OF THE WEEK*** “Vampire” by Dominic Fike -- Follow us on Instagram!  

Welcome back, everyone. This week we continue our discussion on the polarization of America by diving deeper into the idea of the Unchanging Core of American Individualism. If you haven't listened to Part 1, go check out episode 25!  Sit back, relax, and enjoy!    ・・✧ LISTEN TO US ON ✧・・ Rate and Review us on iTunes! Pandora | Amazon Music | Audible | Google | iTunes | Stitcher | Spotify | Tune In   ・・✧ FOLLOW US ✧・・ Facebook |  Instagram | Twitter | Website   Resources Matilda (Danny Devito) TTP Episode on Sensationalism (Episode 9: Spectacular, Spectacular and the Fly on Pence's Head) 47 states with voter suppression laws being introduced Georgia Voter Suppression Laws explained by the New York Times Cheryl Cox Richardson Blog on Georgia Voter Laws Countries with Compulsory (required) Voting Simon Sinek Infinite Game Kushner: The federal stockpile is ours, not the states' Representative Cannon arrested for knocking on door during Georgia law signing ** Note: As of 4/7/2021, the District Attorney declined to prosecute. Republicans launch group to defeat Stacey Abrams FIRST THEY CAME By Martin Niemöller

Welcome back, everyone. This week, we delve into The Polarization of America (Part 1): how did it come to be, and more importantly, what can we do about it? Join us as we chat about the unchanging nature of American Individualism and its detrimental effect on society.    ・・✧ LISTEN TO US ON ✧・・ Rate and Review us on iTunes! Pandora | Amazon Music | Audible | Google | iTunes | Stitcher | Spotify | Tune In   ・・✧ FOLLOW US ✧・・ Facebook |  Instagram | Twitter | Website     Resources: Episode 24: “The Social Dilemma”: Let's Talk. How We Depolarize Our Society | Simon Sinek  

Special guests, KALONJII CHANGA, activist, organizer, & host of the Renegade Culture podcast and LT COL (RET) MARICO TIPPETT, former AF pilot, financial advisor, & founder of Community Wealth Builders drop by to discuss the benefits & disadvantages of American individualism on the BLACK COMMUNITY. Activist KALONJII CHANGA will probably agree that our AFRICAN ANCESTORS were brought here and not only was our names and history stolen from us as their descendants; but RUGGED AMERICAN INDIVIDUALISM stole the communal nature from us as well and we have yet to adapt. LT COL (RET) MARICO TIPPETT will probably argue that we as AFRICAN AMERICANS are quite capable of adapting and if more of us did, we could COLLECTIVELY succeed in AMERICA despite the OPPRESSION of the past. They both aim to help the BLACK COMMUNITY, but the questions are should we adapt, or can we adapt? MENTAL DIALOGUE asking the questions America's afraid to ask. ALL I ASK IS THAT YOU THINK --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/montoya-smith/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/montoya-smith/support

Episode 3 features special guest Cortney Umoelin (ig: @cortneyumoelin). We discuss the effect American Individualism has had on the COVID-19 pandemic and what we expect to see in the next few months when it comes to COVID. chill. by sakura Hz https://soundcloud.com/sakurahertzCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported  — CC BY 3.0  Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/chill-sakuraHzMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/pF2tXC1pXNo --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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On episode 3 of Overthink, Ellie and David delve into the rise of Anti-Mask protests across the country. The two discuss American individualism in our conception of freedom, the role of breath in the Judeo-Christian tradition, how much freedom we actually have when choosing lunch, and so much more!Interested in the works discussed? You can find them here:  G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of RightJohn Locke, Second Treatise of GovernmentSimone de Beauvoir, America Day By Day and The Ethics of Ambiguity Nietzsche, The Genealogy of MoralsThe BibleKate Manne, Down GirlDeep Throat (adult film)Website | overthinkpodcast.comInstagram & Twitter | @overthink_podEmail |  Dearoverthink@gmail.comYouTube | Overthink podcast

Christian college professors Matt Parks and David Corbin explore the ideas behind today's headlines.Part 1 (starts at 0:55): Headlines - We review the major themes of the Republican National Convention, including the Republican response to the Democratic case against Donald Trump and for Joe Biden. Link: Don Lemon on CNN. Part 2 (33:45): Required Reading - Professor Corbin assigns a selection from Herbert Hoover’s 1922 book, American Individualism, Hoover’s 1941 speech, “The Fifth Freedom,” and Robert Penn Warren’s 1946 novel, All the King’s Men.   Part 3 (54:36): Open the Grade Book -We wrap up our coverage of the Democratic and Republican Conventions by giving an overall grade to each.  Part 4 (1:00:01): Tocqueville's Crystal Ball - After discussing our (relatively successful) predictions for the Republican Convention, we look ahead to the post-convention polls in the six “top battleground states.” Link: “Top Battleground States” polling at RealClearPolitics. Opening and closing music is from the beginning of "Happy Life" by Ryan Andersen from his 2018 album, Americana volume 1. Available here. Licensed by Creative Commons.Matt Parks is an Associate Professor of Politics at The King’s College in New York City. David Corbin is a Professor of Politics and the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Providence Christian College in Pasadena, California. All views expressed in this podcast are their own.

Today we discuss America’s downfall, doing your research before you post, rejecting American Individualism, and how billionaires have ruined it for everyone.

Some topics covered in this wide ranging conversation: The film Joker American; Individualism; Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism; The need for religion; Monism; Patriarchy and Matriarchy; Imploitation vs Exploitation; The Garden of Babel; The need for a Heroic principle Ecotopia DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Links to books by Alexander Bard with Jan Söderqvist: The Futurica Trilogy (2012) Syntheism – Creating God in the Internet Age (2014) Digital Libido - Sex, power and violence in the network society Writing etc by Andrew Sweeny: Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Intro music: Beautiful Machines, By Andrew Sweeny --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andrew-sweeny/message

This is the questions and answer session from Yaron Brook's lecture, American Individualism and the Fight to Limit Government. The full lecture and QnA were part of the Ayn Rand seminar at Keio University. Filmed at Keio University, in Minato City, Tokyo, Japan on May 24, 2019.Like what you hear? Become a sponsor member, get exclusive content and support the creation of more videos like this at https://www.yaronbrookshow.com/support/, Subscribestar https://www.subscribestar.com/yaronbrookshow or direct through PayPal: paypal.me/YaronBrookShow.Want more? Tune in to the Yaron Brook Show on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/ybrook). Continue the discussions anywhere on-line after show time using #YaronBrookShow. Connect with Yaron via Tweet @YaronBrook or follow him on Facebook @ybrook and YouTube (/YaronBrook).Want to learn more about Objectivism? Check out ARI at https://ari.aynrand.org.

Yaron Brook lectures on American Individualism and the Fight to Limit Government as part of the Ayn Rand seminar at Keio University. Filmed at Keio University, in Minato City, Tokyo, Japan on May 24, 2019.Like what you hear? Become a sponsor member, get exclusive content and support the creation of more videos like this at https://www.yaronbrookshow.com/support/, Subscribestar https://www.subscribestar.com/yaronbrookshow or direct through PayPal: paypal.me/YaronBrookShow.Want more? Tune in to the Yaron Brook Show on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/ybrook). Continue the discussions anywhere on-line after show time using #YaronBrookShow. Connect with Yaron via Tweet @YaronBrook or follow him on Facebook @ybrook and YouTube (/YaronBrook).Want to learn more about Objectivism? Check out ARI at https://ari.aynrand.org.

In part 6 of my review of Alexis de Tocqueville's DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA we look at his views on egoism and individualism as well as their impact on American culture and intellect. Is individualism good? What will individualism coming through democracy mean to the aristocratic cultures of Europe?

How does radical American Individualism play itself out in the most meaningful relationships of life? How does it define love for us? Is that definition leading to more or less life?

Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, his wife of nearly 45 years, were two of the most significant, most influential Americans of the entire 20th Century. Unlike any president and first lady who came before and only a handful who came after, they were true partners. Considering how this adventurous couple came of age in the late Victorian years, this indicates something quite extraordinary — almost singular — about each of them. So, if all you know about the Hoovers is the fact that he was president when the stock market crashed in 1929, and nothing about her, you might want to spend a few minutes with their great-granddaughter, author, and CNN contributor, Margaret Hoover.     Key Takeaways: [1:06] From her earliest memories, Margaret was aware that her great-grandfather, Herbert Hoover, had been somebody special in American history. She has a picture of herself at three, sitting in the back of a golf cart with Barry Goldwater in front of her great-grandparents’ gravesite in West Branch, Iowa. [2:17] Margaret was also told about her great-grandmother, Lou Henry Hoover, and her accomplishments as a partner of her husband the president, together taking on the world in a time of extraordinary social, industrial, and geopolitical changes. [3:14] Stanford graduates and world-wide adventurers, Lou Henry and Herbert lived like millennials. They had circled the globe five times before aviation, having lived among people of several nations. They understood the different governments and economic systems around the world, what worked and what didn’t. [4:01] Herbert knew he was advantaged as an American. An orphan, he was in the first class at Stanford. Lou Henry was the first woman to graduate with a degree in the hard sciences at Stanford. They met in Geology Lab. When Herbert graduated, he had $40 as a self-made product of American economics. [4:33] As an orphan, Herbert had been separated from his siblings and raised by various relatives. In one cottage, his room was under the stairs. In any other country, it would have been unlikely for him to amount to anything. Living up to his Quaker values, he worked the graveyard shift in a mine at $2 a week after graduating from Stanford. [5:40] A renowned mining engineer in San Francisco took him on as a stenographer. He later recommended Herbert to go explore properties in the Australian outback for a mining engineering firm out of London, named Bewick, Moreing & Co. He discovered the most profitable vein of gold in the outback, that still produces to this day. [6:03] Herbert returned and married Lou Henry; the next day, they went to China. They were there at the Boxer Rebellion, in the last camp of foreigners rescued from Tianjin by Marines and escaping on a German mailboat. Before leaving, Herbert was organizing a foreign mining acquisition and Lou was organizing the encampment under daily siege. [7:23] Their Chinese adventure marked the beginning of their travels exploring the tide of revolutions sweeping the world at the start of the 20th Century. After the Boxer Rebellion, they saw the rise of Bolshevism, Fascism, and other “isms” around the world. Herbert had mining properties on five continents by the outbreak of WWI in 1914. [8:04] In 1922, with firsthand experience how the old and new governments of the world worked, Herbert wrote American Individualism to crystalize how the American system of government and economics was better than the others. He had seen the rivers of blood of Bolshevism. The world didn’t accept these lessons at the time. [8:42] The Hoovers were the first international couple of prominence. Later in the White House, they would speak privately together in Mandarin Chinese. [9:03] In 1914, Herbert, then a mining consultant, and Lou Henry, set up in the Savoy Hotel in London, at the request of U.S. Ambassador Walter Page, to help 150K Americans stranded when no credit was accepted. He lent over $1 million of his money to help them sail home. After the ordeal, he found that all but $40 had been repaid. [11:28] At that moment, Herbert recognized the inherent goodness in the ordinary American. He realized he could rely on Americans for their voluntary spirit and good-naturedness. The experience also elevated the Hoovers in the eyes of the diplomatic set. Then, a massive food crisis hit 8 million people in occupied Belgium. [12:15] Ambassador Page asked Herbert to help feed the Belgian people. He organized international food relief to deliver 40 000 tons of food in November and 80 000 tons every month from December 2014 to the end of the war. [12:54] President Woodrow Wilson named Herbert Hoover as the first and only head of the U.S. Food Administration. Lou Henry was named the head of the Food Administration’s Women’s Committee. She asked a willing nation to ‘Hooverize’ or conserve, for the war, through Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, and drives. [13:41] Lou Henry had also just become involved in the new movement of the Girl Scouts to get girls hiking and camping, as her father done with her, growing up. [14:56] Lou Henry became Vice President and then National President of Girl Scouts, and became Chairman of the national board. She asked First Lady Edith Wilson, to serve as Honorary National President of Girls Scouts. The First Lady has since traditionally served the Girl Scouts as Honorary National President. [15:18] Lou Henry started a Girl Scout Troop in Washington, D.C., which was an integrated troop. As a Quaker, she believed in the ‘individual spark’ of every person. She wanted every girl to have the same outdoors experience she had gotten. She was instrumental in establishing the Girl Scouts as a national organization. [15:56] In the 1920’s, Lou Henry Hoover was one of the most important white voices for racial equality. As First Lady, she invited, one at a time, the wives of all the members of Congress to tea. This included the African-American wife of Congressman De Priest of Chicago. In response, Herbert invited Congressman De Priest to meet with him. [17:19] Lou Henry designed the first Presidential Retreat at Camp Rapidan in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Herbert was an avid fisherman of all kinds of fishing, from casting to deep-sea fishing. Camp Rapidan is preserved as part of the National Park Service. The Hoovers also built and funded a school for children of the Blue Ridge Mountains. [18:36] Lou Henry was an athlete and equestrian. She raised $700K in the late 1920s for an organization that promoted women’s athletics. [18:47] Margaret would like to have five to ten minutes to chat with Lou Henry if she could get a sense of her charisma and delightful personality. The best parts of learning about Lou Henry have been reading the letters of those who interacted with her. [19:40] Margaret Hoover was born 33 years after her great-grandmother died, quite suddenly in New York, in 1944. She was born 13 years after her great-grandfather died, in 1964. And she couldn’t be more proud of them.     Mentioned in This Episode: Margaret Hoover Herbert Hoover Lou Henry Hoover Stanford University Boxer Rebellion American Individualism, by Herbert Hoover The Girl Scouts of the USA Camp Rapidan

There is, of course, some truth to the idea that we need to make our own way, make our lives our own. But the idea that our family is not a crucial part of that process, this lone ranger mentality we have in America, is foreign to the whole history of humanity! When Jesus came as a man, he chose to live his first thirty years as a part of a family, so he knows the struggles we face there. Mundane family life has been divinized, it is worth the fight!

Rugged individualism poses some big problems to the Christian life which is a life lived in community—a spiritual family. Rugged individualism is also a sure way to shoot yourself in the foot when it comes to accomplishments. We don’t get anything done by ourselves. Epic Every Day is available on iTunes, Google Play, Sticher and YouTube. Join our Facebook group! Twitter: @AKindOfLying @ElizFrerichs @EEDCast EpicEveryDayNow.com Liz'z book: Tales From A Spacious Place Music by: Nu Skiffle Brigade used under creative commons license

David Bosworth is a professor in, and the former director of, the University of Washington’s Creative Writing Program. His fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural essays have been published in numerous journals. His collection of short fiction, The Death of Descartes, was selected by Robert Penn Warren for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and won a special citation from PEN and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. His novel, From My Father, Singing was a recipient of the Editors’ Book Award. Bosworth’s work has been reviewed or discussed in Newsweek, New York Times Book Review, U.S. News and World Report, The Washington Post, The Nation, and elsewhere. He has given readings, lectures, held workshops, and conducted colloquia at various locales, including Harvard University, Pomona College, Boston College, University of Louisville, and the New America Foundation. Brett and David sit down to discuss American Individualism, its philosophical roots, and its cultural manifestations. Topics include: The Enlightenment, American culture, The philosophical and historical roots of Individualism, the connections between individualism and capitalism, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Paine, and how 40 years of capitalist decadence has given rise to Donald "The U.S. Id Monster" Trump. David Bosworth's website, where you can find his books and essays, is here: http://www.davidbosworthauthor.com Our Outro Music is "Precarious Work" by Mohammad Ali which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLB2Y7JAtPE Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio and follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio This podcast is officially affiliated with the Nebraska Left Coalition: https://www.facebook.com/TheNebraskaLeftCoalition/ and the Omaha GDC: https://www.facebook.com/OmahaGDC/

Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author and host of the "Revisionist History" podcast joins Chuck to talk about the differences between American and Canadian health care policies, and why good Samaritans sometimes act badly.

Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author and host of the "Revisionist History" podcast joins Chuck to talk about the differences between American and Canadian health care policies, and why good Samaritans sometimes act badly.

Magaret Hoover on American Individualism... defending the family name.  Then Steve Deace is coming back on the air...issues.  Straw Poll ahead.