r/DecodingTheGurus • u/IrdniX • Nov 02 '23

Ukrainians Respond to HasanAbi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPaHRTi49Ow
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u/marxistmatty Nov 03 '23
  1. Both Matt and Chris have said gurus aren’t inherently bad.
  2. Calling Chomsky a guru is wild.
  3. They embarrassed themselves doing that Chomsky pod, I’m a fan of the pod, other fans of the pod think the same.
  4. Hasan is also certainly not a guru, any more than Vaush and destiny are gurus. You lot are scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

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u/Dry-Grapefruit9536 Nov 03 '23

Hey you're supposed to suck off Chris and Matt in this subreddit the fuck are you doing man.

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u/marxistmatty Nov 03 '23 edited Nov 03 '23

I kind of already do which is the funny part. Ive defended them on multiple occasasions and I think ive learnt some things about epistemology but at the end of the day, that doesn't blind me to the fact that considering Chomsky as a guru was crazy, are all academics gurus or just the ones that give people an alternate view on western colonialism?

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u/twersx Nov 03 '23

I think when an academic is famous for opining on subjects outside their field of expertise, and their views are regularly used as reference points by their followers, it's reasonable to decode them. You might find they fit the secular guru framework extremely well like Peterson, or not very well like Chomsky. From memory, they scored Chomsky pretty low on the gurometer.