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Zealotry in a single person is characterized as the amplification of the importance of one single subject to the point that all other subjects have little or no relative importance. Anyone can engage in zealotry and it can lead to many negative consequences for the zealot. How this manifests in social scenarios is discussed in this episode.


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https://www.newsweek.com/los-angeles-synagogue-attack-everything-we-know-1916345

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No notes for this episode. David and I sat down to record on a completely different topic and then decided very suddenly to do this conversation instead. Was it the right decision? Would this impulsiveness be good in other situations? 

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Jordan Peterson is a right wing polemicist who shouldn't have any measure of celebrity. The fact he does is due to some deeply flawed ideas that were not properly debunked in the moment when he was gaining popularity. I say better late than never.

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Previous Truth Unrestricted episodes mentioned in this episode:
The Two Selves
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/10973742-the-two-selves
Gender Yin-Yangism 
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/13315113-gender-yin-yangism-with-lydia-greene
Schrodinger’s Meaning
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1947369/15033732-schrodinger-s-meaning

Content directly mentioned in this episode:
Decoding the Gurus ep 19 - Bret Weinstein & Jordan Peterson: Two Gargantuan intellects stare into the abyss
https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/two-gargantuan-intellects-stare-into-the-abyss
British GQ Helen Lewis Oct 30, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZYQpge1W5s
Some Dare Call It Conspiracy ep 2 - Cultural Marxism & Great Replacement Theories (Brian Kurvie)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/466Ye8QTwZqpyZQNZj9F8S
Waking Up ep 62 - What is True? (with Jordan B Peterson)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lO6WJ9rfs4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_elk
Cathy Newman Channel 4 Interview - Jan 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
The Google Memo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber
Vice Interview re makeup in the workplace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9dZSlUjVls



Twitter credits
@jordanbpeterson
@GurusPod
@somedarepodcast

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Game theory gives us terminology to understand the fundamentals of the games we play. How inforation is hidden and/or discovered is a big part of how we play games and why we think some of them are fun. David Bloomberg and I explore how it is that information affects the strategies used in the games we play and watch.

Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information

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Content warning: this episode of the Truth Unrestricted podcast contains graphic descriptions of drug addiction and some of the ways that people suffer from drug addiction. Listener discretion is advised.

Conspiracism as compared directly to drug addiction. What does it mean to be so pulled into the idea that conspiracies surround us that giving it up would take an intervention or rehab? The habits that make us feel good encourage us to do them again but what about the habits and situations that make us feel bad? How do those factor into how we choose to shape our lives?

These questions and more are explored in this episode of Truth Unrestricted.

Links
https://www.healthline.com/health/dopamine-addiction
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11939075/Zombieland-continues-Philadelphia-dealers-addicts-seen-sleepwalking-street.html
https://www.phs.ca/the-insite-story/
https://twitter.com/Ankh_Morporkian/status/1795555393029931093

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David and Spencer breakdown the current state of the 2024 Us election. This is recorded one day after the Manhattan verdict of 34 guilty counts involving hush money payments made by Trump to hide affairs.

Links
Timeline
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/trump-stormy-daniels-hush-money-payments-timeline-of-events/5462838/
List of witnesses
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-21-24/h_15e34ea2c68ae046a5738937ff53dd94

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Crowdsourcing is the process of using a lot of different people all adding a little bit of effort to accomplish a large task.  Crowdsourced Storytelling is about the way in which we tell stories online in an attempt to understand the world but also in a way that can go terribly wrong. 

All feedback for this episode can be sent to [email protected].

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Schrodinger's Cat is a thought experiment which is meant to illustrate some of the absurdity of what is happening with Quantum Mechanics. In the thought experiment the life of a cat is directly related to the state of a particle. Quantum Mechanics says that without observing the state of the particle it could be in either state. Erwin Schrodinger was attempting to show how ridiculous this was by attaching the particle state to a mechanism inside a box which would kill a cat trapped inside. The state of the particle then would have a non-quantum event that was consequential and non-reversible. The cat obviously could not be both dead and alive at the same time and therefore we should question why we think that a particle might be in two separate states simultaneously.

This experiment works fine for an attempt to understand one of the many nonintuitive findings in Quantum Mechanics but we often use the story of Schrodinger's Cat in other contexts when something has contradictory states. This episode is about Schrodinger's Meaning. Some people attempt willfully to obtain two separate (and often opposite) meanings from the things they say. This goes beyond simple double entendre and into fully realized and conflicting narratives which cannot coexist or both be correct at the same time.


Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990274685/how-extremists-weaponize-irony-to-spread-hate

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Reality Inversion is a psychological concept seen among conspiracists wherein evidence that should show them the truth instead reinforces their fantasies. Stephanie Kemmerer joins me for a discussion about the topic with many relevant examples.

Links
The Collapse of World Trade Center - The Complete Physics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkBfLBov5Q
Robbie Parker (Sandy Hook parent) press conference (full)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fr1-YejnY4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_phenomenon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World
https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
https://twitter.com/Shayan86
https://twitter.com/jaredlholt
https://twitter.com/PokerPolitics/status/1511535745252708355