27. Dangerous Ideas

A conversation with Kaden Endres. We discuss the untrustworthiness of memory, the recidivism rate of sex offenders, free will, determinism, and compatibilism, the overinflated danger of drugs, how a healthy social life provides resilience to addiction and criminal behavior, the evils of capitalism and individualism, communism, centralized economies, corporate lingo and speaking ironically, whether competition is a bad thing and whether communism functions, the wastefulness of capitalism and unfair comparisons between capitalism and communism, book reading ASMR, the Texas Tower Shooter, Kluver-Bucy Syndrome, and the culpability of sex offenders (I realize that Bucy should probably be pronounced like bew-see rather than boo-see), possible solutions to pedophilia, whether certain discussions need to be had at all, the problem with an earlier discussion, platforming people with evil ideas, stupidity and the limitations of human cognition, environmental activism and eco-terrorism, whether it's better for cows to be slaughtered or eaten by wolves, Kaden’s argument for the abolishment (or dissolution) of gender, whether gender is at all tied to biology, gender norms and individualism, why we use pronouns to refer to gender rather than sex, equality and the hierarchy of values, and Kaden’s book recommendations. Turn Leftist Podcast Books to read: The People’s Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm Note that while I would not call myself a communist, I’m not as anti-communist as I may sound in this episode. Some critiques of communism that I throw at Kaden are sincerely held, while others I just want to hear his response. My comment at 1:31:13 is in reference to the very loud siren in the background. Earlier I was telling Kaden the annoying part of recording in my apartment is that I live very close to a fire department. I was straight up wrong about the FBI’s definition of terrorism. https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism