This exercise is also showing that two-person podcasts tend to promote high-quality discourse. I speculate that this is because when you have to focus on another person, you are aware of the need to be reasonable. If one person starts to go off the rails, the other person is there to pull them back. This is in contrast to Twitter, where your focus is on the audience, and where you can be rewarded for intellectual malpractice by people who enjoy seeing another person being attacked without any consideration for fairness.
Perhaps the single most important insight in the history of mankind…
“when you have to focus on another person, you are aware of the need to be reasonable.” I’m not sure ‘reasonable’ is the key concluding word in a definitive expression, but paying attention to ‘another person’ gets you into the world of Kant, Buber, and so on.
out of curiosity, how does your substack traffic compare to your askblog traffic?
Whoever drafted Jonathan Turley is a complete genius. What round?
I recently re-discovered him prior to the draft and his analysis has been amazing.
Thanks to New Neo a few months ago, I drafted him in April. And again in May.
He always has respect for both sides of an argument – but I’ll guess he’ll also be in the top 3 of “points denied”, as well as in the top 3 of total points (if not the final leader).
Plus he’s brief while usually being comprehensive enough.
I’m still looking for a good Speech (file) to Text open source/ system. I’ve found a couple nice trial versions, and one that’s free that is just OK in quality AND is limited to 2 min at a time. Help here would be …
helpful. Me don’t like podcasts so much 🙁