Taylor and Shawn talk with Josh Neal about his latest book, Intolerant Interpretations, and its analysis of the 20th century social theory of Karl Popper, Richard Hofstadter, and others, examining the ways in which they have contributed to a culture of suspicion and conspiracism which reinforces modern, post-war Western regimes against the interests of their folk populations.
0:00 - Introduction to Josh’s books
11:22 - The folk metanarrative
21:22 - The collapse of metanarratives vs competition of ethno-metanarratives
30:33 - Technique and the mechanisms of suspicion culture
45:40 - Managerialism
52:16 - Social theorizing as ideological warfare, and characteristics of modern conspiracy theory
1:00:23 - The antagonists of the book
1:14:20 - Update: It’s still the Jews
1:18:32 - Conclusion
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