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Ep 309 - Anthony Rispo | Power, Privilege & the Psychology of Politics

Episode 309 Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Anthony Rispo came up on the progressive left — a gay man who found a home in an ideology that rewarded his grievance, teal hair and half-mohawk included. Then the pandemic, BLM, and the campus orthodoxy around him stopped adding up, and he read his way out. Now a writer, independent researcher, and Columbia psychology graduate studying cognitive neuroscience, he maps the wiring beneath our politics: identity fusion, moral conviction, selective empathy, and the resentment Nietzsche named. We get into why the left cancels hardest in the name of compassion, why “power and privilege” became a substitute for a self, how the same rigidity shows up on the right, and what common sense on borders and belonging really means.

(00:00) Palestinians Then Vs Now

(00:35) Opening Conversation

(04:20) Anthony's Origin Story

(11:35) From Woke to Doubt

(27:56) Losing Friends Finding Voice

(37:15) Psychology of Ideology

(54:54) Clarity Over Conformity

(58:33) Nuance Through Exposure

(01:02:44) Individualism Vs The Tribe

(01:08:18) Intersectionality Critique

(01:14:54) From 9/11 to Academia

(01:24:42) The Problem with No Borders