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Greetings from Bryan/College Station, TX… home of Ghislaine Maxwell and Texas A&M University!
I’m late to the Auntie/Unc discussion but was an early adopter of the Unc title. I accepted it after taking a job as a professor in 2012 and realizing (at the ages of 42) that I was old enough to be the father of my undergraduate students and the uncle of most of my masters and doctoral students. So now I’m 55 with a mostly grey beard and what got me f’d up recently is someone offered me a senior discount at a thrift store. After I pulled myself together I said yes… please give me all the discounts. Long story short, I’ve decided it’s time for me to add some “cool old Black dude” to my unc vibe. I already have a bunch of bow ties!
Thank you for your Master Class on epistemology (the study of knowledge)
Lesson one: using the allegory of FBA you addressed the need to acknowledge and understand lived experience in order to interact with people while also seeking a shared truth.
Lesson two: using the allegory of DOGE you addressed the need to acknowledge expertise. Not everyone’s opinion is equal. And, experience is not everything. A civil servant who trained for and worked in a government agency for two years is always going to have a more valuable opinion than a stooge hired based on loyalty. If I want an expert opinion on the Constitution I will ask Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, if I need expertise on destroying Constitutional rights while talking out one’s ass to defend absurd decisions I’ll talk to John Roberts.
Lesson three: using the allegory of twitademics, you showed that the importance of academia is not in it’s language, which has been abducted along with psychology speak by Twitter, but in it’s focus on data and rigorous scrutiny of analysis. I think that this actually goes back further, most notably Cornell West would often speak outside of his expertise without support. But it’s been accelerated, no doubt.
Finally, you gave us a case study of a breakdown in shared knowledge based on a doctor’s consultation. The doctor should have learned lesson one and framed their bedside manner better. The patient needs to focus on lesson two, their friend’s medical opinion means jack. And the friend needs to learn lesson three, data and rigor are more important than feelings when dealing with knowledge.
Thank you for your lecture, I look forward to your future Master Class on ontology!
I just finished listening to episode 3137, Lil Boosie Collins, whee you discussed Patreon and the RSS link they provide for your subscribers. I use the Patreon RSS Link for my subscriptions to Project Fandom and Tea with Queen & J. The link works perfectly. I listen through the Apple Podcast App and once you add the link (the instructions provided are spot on), all of the podcasts and announcements appear in the feed for the show. It is a seamless process, so your Patreon subscribers should have no problem accessing your content that way.
Back to the question about the WIghts and how they address their “aunt” or “uncle:” Growing up on both military bases (overseas and in the US), I have never heard them refer to anyone as auntie or uncle….They seem to have nicknames or the children use their first name instead of Miss Bunny or Mr. Chuck.
Btw one of my favorite things I enjoy outside of podcasting, movies, shows, anime, etcetera is watching Wired Tech Support on YouTube where different professionals tackle questions from mostly people on Twitter about subjects in their field. Ranges from questions you and I might have, to folks trying to sneak in conspiracies in their questions. I bring this up to say one of my favorite episodes just dropped. A biomedical scientist tackling how much damage the conspiracies led by RFk Jnr, Joe Rogan and more while based on bs, you can see how they twist it into truth. She didn’t shy away from naming them. Btw It was a Black marine biologist that got me into this series when he was talking about sharks. Here’s the biological scientist video dismantling a lot of health conspiracies for the audience (I wasn’t expecting it to be played during the show, the Paravai-Kaaran is understanding supporter)
https://youtu.be/hfBJTpewWos?si=jDnsdCzFdPKEKnmr
Have I told you that this The Best Podcast in The World!
I just want my good brother Dre to know that I’m a big fan of his messages and look forward to anytime he calls. The Paravai-Kaaran got to find a special TBGWT worthy award for this brother.
Conspiracy theories are another reason why I believe that society is cooked. I’m just glad that I got this podcast, cause oh my oh my… I’m gonna go play Paravai-Kaaran music cause Rod won’t play my music.
The experience in Germany with too much data in nazi Germany was:
1. They knew exactly who the Jewish people were
2. Jewish people had to wear a yellow star on their clothing
3. They were easy to identify and deported into concentration camps and killed.
That’s probably the reason for being extremely suspicious about that.
Speaking of conspiracy theories, what happened to QAnon? Why doesn’t anyone mention it anymore? Was it just to get Dump in office the first time because I haven’t heard a thing from them in years. I remember a documentary about it being run by some man in Asia and his son. Did they die?
Yes, Q killed them. You heard it here first.
Hi Rod and Karen,
Here’s my addition to the Politics Until You Get Mad segment.
I went to find out when the next COVID Booster will be available. I do this around this time each year because I am a mid-fifties age teacher with a pre-existing condition. Imagine my surprise when my pharmacist confirmed that a booster is scheduled to come; then don’t know when because its release date has yet to be provided. I was then informed that due to changes made by this administration of racist, classist, nightmares, people under 65 will no longer qualify to receive the COVID Booster. I then asked about pre-existing conditions, naturally these overriding qualifiers have yet to be revealed. I then questioned how much the booster would cost if I chose to get it out of pocket, to again be informed that they have asked, but the information has not been released to doctors/pharmacists.
I guess the decision has been made that if we are not young and strong enough to be enslaved, we can just be killed off.