This YouTube video is WAY too long for most of us, I realize...but it was fascinating to me, I have watched it twice and will prolly look a 3rd time...it gives an understandable explanation of the current thought process underpinning SJW, and other 'liberal' (so-called) movements...so here are some interesting points...
Niall Ferguson is an historian, and I have read two of his books, around 2008 I think...his assessments to me were fascinating, helpful...but it seems he has a conservative bias to history. And he found himself a part of this web by default, because he got attacked based on his reputation as a conservative rather than evaluation/discussion of his ideas.
So apparently, Bret Weinstein (liberal/progressive) would be defaulted to the Intellectual Dark Web also, because he is open to discussion, dissent, and exchange of ideas opening to the possibility you could be wrong and might learn something.
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There is SO much here, I learned so much. For example, this interview gives some insight on why my idealist hopes for the Internet have not unfolded as I envisioned. Also, the sinking feeling I have had that these 'leftist' movements (so-called) resemble the superstitious non-thinking persecutions of the Middle Ages and even later...example the Spanish Inquisition, maybe? Or, pogroms against Jewish people because people blamed them for the Black Plague? Bloody Mary burning-at-the-stake Protestants while praying for their souls?
THE CONCERN: I thought that the Age of Reason brought us into something more wholesome...what has happened? Why are we going through all this, why are people who discuss and question and dissent, why are they getting marginalized now, why are they seemingly in a minority, called the Intellectual Dark Web?