Decoding the Gurus

The podcast is fun, and good. But it is almost entirely uncharitable. I get the sense that most of the time they are not accurately representing their person of interest, and I would be more interested in even-handed takedowns. If you can never grant a person with opposing viewpoints makes occasional good points then I will doubt your analyses. Of course, some of this comes with the territory, they are not randomly sampling people they disagree with, but constant dunking on “gurus” gets old.

Normally the thought of listening to two academics pontificating endlessly about people I find extremely annoying would make me want to slit my wrists. But since these two are constantly taking the piss out of so called intellectuals who are even more pretentious than they are I’m willing to give them a pass. The fact that I get one or two good chuckles out of every episode makes it totally worth the price of admission, which is nothing. Thanks eggheads, keep “sticking it to the man”!

Love to hear a couple of smart, thoughtful and knowledgeable guys (politely and with humor) take down some of the plethora of pseudo-intellectuals or outright crackpots out there. Scratches an itch I didn’t know I had.

Don’t be fooled by Matt’s agreeableness or Chris’s faux Scientism. The DTG team might act like they are bringing a critical lens to the content and rhetoric of modern polemical gurus - thats exactly what they want you to think! Don’t be fooled! In reality these revolutionary thinkers have run the seventy paradigms, simultaneously (and not with the aim of distilling them into a single master paradigm), and therefore converged on a clear mission to spread the good word first uttered by the likes of the Weinsteins, Petersons, and Adams of the world. Listen closely, and you will find that Brown and Cavanagh fully endorse the whole range of takes on offer from Sam Harris, they recognize the profound political insights of Hassan Piker, and persistently deliver content with the tact of Destiny at his most unhinged. Just beware of falling into their weird and desperate cadre of polyamorous orbiters, for these guys are master manipulators of para-social relationships. You have been warned, now dive in and enjoy the show!