Totally Classic

This week on Totally Classic, Andy & Brendan wrangle with the novel semantic system progressives may have somewhat silently proposed. From topsy-turydom of classic semantics (first is typically primary) to embracing novel definitions of "racism" and "gender" and "person," much of the modern progressive philosophical set is based on these proposals.  Is new always better? Is ancient wisdom always the best? Is language always ev...

This week, Andy & Brendan inquire as to the conclusions about Google's all time boondoggle of a launch of their AI platform, Gemini. Gemini was swiftly revealed to be racist, intensely politically biased and, perhaps strangest of all, heavily subjective in its output.  Many germane questions resound: does AI, like children, require someone to teach them to be racist? Is this a failure of technology or ideology? Is this the sum...

This week, Andy & Brendan play cultural critics (with a side of armchair psychoanalysts), attempting to ascertain whether the popular online diagnosis of TDS is a genuine phenomenon... and maybe a genuine mental illness, to boot?

We consider it highly likely you've encountered someone with TDS in your life. And maybe didn't even know it!

TDS was popularly coined as a term to describe folks who cannot seem to have a rational con...

This week, with the removal of Dr. Gay as President having finally transpired (after a month plus of extensive pressure), Andy & Brendan ask whether the theory offered by many that racism was vital in her loss of position.  Specifically, they skip through the presentation of such a thesis by DEI advocate & Northwestern University (where Andy & Brendan met) Professor Alvin B. Tillery to guide their examination of how to...

In recent weeks, both Colorado & Maine have struck likely Republican Nominee for President, Donald Trump, from their state ballots, on the basis of having been involved in "insurrection." This centers on the activities of the afternoon of January 6 at the Capitol in D.C. in 2021.  Which Brendan would classify as a "nothingburger" & Andy is comfortable with "insurrection."  Today, they'll question the premise under the pr...

Andy & Brendan explore what "restorative justice" is, how it's being implemented & how it may or may not have become a straw man for noted recent imbroglios in legal policy. Does it center the perpetrator & abandon the victim OR does it aim to do what justice has always classically been intended to do? Does it reward misbehavior or seek to understand & remedy misbehavior? Is "Restorative Justice" anything truly i...

In an era where headlines call Latinos, Muslims, Asian-Americans agents of "white supremacy?" it is naturally incumbent upon us to ascertain A) whether such accusations are true, in specific and B) whether such accusations are true, in the broadest sense. That is, does White Supremacy exist? Is it real? Does it permeate every thread in the fabric of our culture? Or is it a boogieman based in a blend of fact & fiction? 

This wee...

Have we reached the next "big switch" re: our two big, cola wars political parties in the United States? The US is a culture built upon the framework of liberalism, generally, but has it reached such a point where our popular moniker for The Left/The Democratic Party is more akin to using "literally" as "figuratively?"  Would the term "liberal" now better describe The Right/The Republican Party? Is it possible the secular religio...

A black and white thinker & a moral relativist walk into a Zoom &... talk about binaries.  As popular as the swap-out of "binary" for "spectrum" has become, does the binary still have a use in our culture? The question below that question is Andy & Brendan's question today - a version of "Do binaries exist?" Is binary thought or binary construct fundamental to the very fabric of things or only (IF that) our perception of the unive...

This week, Andy & Brendan question whether the populist response to incidents of gun violence are relevant or irrelevant... or somewhere in between! When a mass shooting tragedy unfolds AGAIN, the political and personal response seems to have been funneled into a univariate focus of "Gun Control NOW!" Is this a reasonable or unreasonable response, FUNDAMENTALLY (being that it's next to impossible to prove or disprove whether any i...

Where do babies come from? Okay... when a Helicopter Dad meets a Tiger Mom and they love each other very very much and when they kiss and their bodies figure out from pheromones and saliva that their offspring would be more resistant to disease...

Blah blah blah they have a baby!  A baby that's safer than they are. And we've been doing this for eons & getting even more serious about safety in the last few generations than ever bef...

This week, Brendan brings his question to bear with Andy, positing a theory that this Pandemic offers us a glimpse into the multiverse and tells us with stunning accuracy how we would have behaved in, say, Germany in the 1930s... or in Northern California in 1942... or Mississippi in 1955 OR... OR...

In what ways did we fail to live up to our own code of ethics these past three years and what ways did we succeed? And who would t...

It is hard to enjoy anything these days.  It has become very haute to not simply appreciate art & entertainment but do seek to divine and judge the worldview the creator is setting forth. Have we all become Neo-fundamentalists, seeing "the work of the DEVIL!!" everywhere or have we begun to enact a pre-technocratic synchronicity with the virtual world and we are finally seeing the binary flow everywhere of The Matrix? Or do we j...

Within the swirl of winter, within the season for giving, within the happy holiday vacation run... how much attention to we pay to actual rest? 

Do we give ourselves... rest? And what is rest? 

As a culture, what are we lacking? Are we OBSESSED with rest or with productivity? What are we, individually, lacking? OR should we be turning our focus away from lack altogether?

This week, Andy & Brendan, themselves lacking rest in the mid...