In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, editor-in-chief Iona Italia spoke to Rob Henderson about his turbulent upbringing, the culture shock that was university for him and why he believes that educated elites have misplaced moral priorities.
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Rob Henderson
Rob K. Henderson writes about psychology, social class, and success. He is perhaps most known for being the discoverer of "luxury beliefs," a term he coined to describe a new way of looking at the American status system. He is currently working on a memoir. For more news about Rob's work, follow his newsletter here.
Iona Italia
Iona Italia, PhD, is Areo's editor in chief and hosts the associated podcast Two for Tea. A Parsi of mixed Scottish and Indian ancestry, she has lived in five countries and speaks four languages and is a dual citizen of the UK and Argentina. She is the author of Anxious Employment (Routledge, 2003) and the two-part Our Tango World (Milonga Press, 2018). Iona lives in London with old college friends and also spends a lot of time in India.
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You gotta take into account the fact that bodily existence is intrinsically terrifying and therefore in this always chaotic world which is always full of violence and the threat of violence, everyone will always do whatever they can to maintain their always tentative level of security lest they fall into bankruptcy and/or poverty. Once upon a time such debtors or bankrupts were thrown into debtors prisons, and as far as I know such a modified situation is now being being put into practice in some areas of the USA. Such obvious fears were played upon by Hitler who in one way or another seemed to present a way of “saving” everyone from the threat of leftists, socialists, bohemians, non-conformists,”deviants” and of course the Jews. So everybody, including the tentatively prosperous members of the “upper” middle classes et al in the USA desperately want to maintain their relatively secure safety. And… Read more »
Nothing whatever to do one way or the other with the content or ideas of this particular podcast, but couldn’t it perhaps be argued that putting an essay in the form of a video or a podcast deprives people who are visual readers by upbringing, habit, and temperament? Just sort of wondering! I’d LOVE to have READ this post!