The Trouble With Activism Dec 28, 2021

Flip and Chris poke through Beautiful Trouble, a do-it-yourself kit praxis (theory in action) activism website. We watch the start of Jonathan Haidt's famous talk on the two incompatible sacred values of universities, truth v activism. Then we take a little look at galaxy-brained, theory-laden critiques of western music theory and the Beatles that use the welded-on race/gender/blahblahblah lenses to deconsssssschhruckt the identities of classical musicians and rock bands. Then finish off reviewing a New Discourses article by a clinical therapist that lays out the reasons "critical theories" clash with a field like therapy.