Dan Carlin's Common Sense
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2015 8:16 pm
I recently posted on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History. While it's interesting stuff, and set the stage for me about his great ability to analyze things with context, after listening to several podcasts of his other show (on present-day politics)...
... I cannot recommend Dan Carlin's Common Sense enough!
http://www.dancarlin.com/common-sense-h ... ding-page/
When I imagine trying to debate this guy, I estimate that it would be like trying to debate Gumby on a topic he has studied well.
For conservatives, he destroys Obama on the press spying and IRS audit bias (which left me with a more hardened opinion on those issues against the adminisration). For libs/libertarians, he's a huge civil libertarian and is against many aspects of the war on terror. What got to me not his opinions, but his arguments, which are amazingly well-put-together, IMO.
I find myself either agreeing with him immensely on a topic, learning completely new things I didn't before, or if I don't agree with him on a topic going in, coming out the other end completely questioning if not damning my original views on something.
Guys, I can honestly say that if you want to discuss any of the following topics with a degree of perspective, you'd be wise to listen to at least just the free podcasts he has on the above link.
1) Civil Liberties and the 4th Amendment
2) The U.S. involvement in the cold war
3) The U.S. involvement on the war on terror
4) ISIS
5) Crimea/Russia
7) Net Neutrality
Torture
There are other things, but there are topics he attacks that not only leave me with different opinions on that topic, but make me completely rethink where my opinions are on what topics we should even be discussing, and the perspective we should hold when discussing them. It's not just the facts that he puts forth, but the juxtapositions he works on in discussion, and the opposing arguments he addresses when he does his show.
I can promise you that you probably won't agree with him 100% before he presents his arguments (as I did not), but I sincerely think you'll come out thinking about things differently. The way he presents the present civil liberty and war on terror issues as contributing to systemic problems with how our government and the world will work is really eye-opening.
If I have any amount of "trust capital" with any of you, I would like to use every ounce of it to get you to smash through these podcasts. Forget Monetary Realism or proving morality.
http://www.dancarlin.com/common-sense-h ... ding-page/
... I cannot recommend Dan Carlin's Common Sense enough!
http://www.dancarlin.com/common-sense-h ... ding-page/
When I imagine trying to debate this guy, I estimate that it would be like trying to debate Gumby on a topic he has studied well.
For conservatives, he destroys Obama on the press spying and IRS audit bias (which left me with a more hardened opinion on those issues against the adminisration). For libs/libertarians, he's a huge civil libertarian and is against many aspects of the war on terror. What got to me not his opinions, but his arguments, which are amazingly well-put-together, IMO.
I find myself either agreeing with him immensely on a topic, learning completely new things I didn't before, or if I don't agree with him on a topic going in, coming out the other end completely questioning if not damning my original views on something.
Guys, I can honestly say that if you want to discuss any of the following topics with a degree of perspective, you'd be wise to listen to at least just the free podcasts he has on the above link.
1) Civil Liberties and the 4th Amendment
2) The U.S. involvement in the cold war
3) The U.S. involvement on the war on terror
4) ISIS
5) Crimea/Russia
7) Net Neutrality
TortureThere are other things, but there are topics he attacks that not only leave me with different opinions on that topic, but make me completely rethink where my opinions are on what topics we should even be discussing, and the perspective we should hold when discussing them. It's not just the facts that he puts forth, but the juxtapositions he works on in discussion, and the opposing arguments he addresses when he does his show.
I can promise you that you probably won't agree with him 100% before he presents his arguments (as I did not), but I sincerely think you'll come out thinking about things differently. The way he presents the present civil liberty and war on terror issues as contributing to systemic problems with how our government and the world will work is really eye-opening.
If I have any amount of "trust capital" with any of you, I would like to use every ounce of it to get you to smash through these podcasts. Forget Monetary Realism or proving morality.
http://www.dancarlin.com/common-sense-h ... ding-page/
