What If They're Right? How to Practice Intellectual Hygiene by Challenging Your Own Views

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4.9 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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When you practice Intellectual Hygiene, you regularly subject your views to critical examination. If you cling to the truth, you're unafraid of the consequences of the challenge. In this episode of The Virtue Signal, we demonstrate the method. Bill Whittle and Alfonzo Rachel create two new episodes of The Virtue Signal each week, thanks to our Members, who fund this enterprise, and provide countless ideas, and effective discussion approaches in the Member-written blog, forums and comments. You can connect with thousands of like-minded people at https://BillWhittle.com when you tap the big green button to become a member. If you'd like to make a donation with PayPal or credit card in support of this work, tap the big blue button at https://BillWhittle.com See much more of The Virtue Signal at https://billwhittle.com/category/shows/the-virtue-signal/

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0:00.0	They're a negative image of everything good that should happen to people in life.
0:05.0	And that's why I think they're wrong.
0:27.1	Well, hi everybody, welcome to the Virtue Signal. I'm Bill Whittle here with my friend Alfonza Rachel and strap yourself in because it's going to be a bumpy ride.
0:38.3	Zoe, I heard somebody refer to this process. I'm about to go into as intellectual hygiene. I thought that was a perfect term for it.
0:40.3	So my topic for today's show is, what if they're right?
0:45.3	I think it's a really important and valuable thing to do, but mostly an important thing to do.
0:52.3	On a regular basis, I refer to it as kind
0:55.7	of pre-flighting my belief system, you know, making sure everything's secure and there's no fuel
1:01.2	leaking. You know, I want to be on the truth. I really do, and it's real important to me. And so one
1:07.5	of the things that you do to test your own strength is to test your own strength.
1:12.6	So I'd like to start with this premise of what if they're right?
1:18.6	When I say they, I mean like the leading edge, bleeding edge on the left.
1:23.6	What if all the woke social justice warriors are right? For example, they stopped
1:32.8	teaching cursive in school. In fact, they stopped teaching in school. They did, and everybody
1:39.0	knows it. Recent things on interviews on the street with Gen Z. What's the nation's capital?
1:44.6	I don't know.
1:45.1	Name three countries other than the U.S.?
1:47.0	I don't know.
1:48.9	But what if their argument is correct?
1:52.2	They don't need to know these things.
1:53.3	They've got smartphones, any information that they could possibly want.
1:56.4	They simply ask the phone and they get it.
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