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Growing Up: Liberal social justice vs woke & history lovers
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Hey guys, This week on the pod I interviewed someone who worked at JP Morgan for 19 years. He tells the story of sitting at the memorial of one of his friends who passed away at 48 and thinking to himself "if I died at 48 is this how I would have wanted to live my life?". The answer was no, so he left and returned to his first love HISTORY. (Nothing against JPM). He now runs a history magazine, promoting the work of authors (historians and historical fiction writers). On his podcast he's interviewed Andrew Roberts, Charles Spencer (Diana's bro), Nigel Biggar, Ben Macintyre, Douglas Murray, Konstantin Kisin, Tom Holland etc. HOW COOL. (I just realised this list is largely Oxbridge educated 60+ year old white men. Oops... they were just the names I recognised!!) The first paragraph on his website links with the idea I am sharing this week (what's that old Soviet joke about the ever-changing past... 'the future is certain, it's the past that's unpredictable'): Aspects of History encompasses a range of views from our heritage. The past isn’t dead. It’s not even past. But, equally so, the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. The study of history should be encouraged, as opposed to erased. We have no intention of no-platforming any voices. Indeed, we encourage writers to arrange permanent platforms with us through this site to enable historians and novelists to promote their work in an ongoing way via interviews, podcasts, blog posts, short stories and book reviews. History should be both championed and challenged, disseminated and debated. More details about the pod below but first: Liberal Social Justice vs Woke (Tim Urban) Someone then asked him to please expand on how these two things are diametrically opposed and he replied with the following (I have changed the formatting to make it more clear): This week on Growing Up with Delia Burgess aspectsofhistory.com Previous editions here. Forwarded this and want to subscribe? Click here. |
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