The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1323
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 32 minutes
Words per Minute
188.4208
Hate Speech Sentences
112
Summary
In the final episode of the Low Seaters for 2025 podcast, Dan, Harry and Ethan discuss a recent article by Jacob Savage about the 'lost generation' of men in the media and politics. They also discuss the rise of feminism and the impact of TikTok on chivalry.
Transcript
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the final podcast of the Low Seaters for 2025.
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I'm joined by Harry and Dan, and today we're going to be revisiting the lost generation of men,
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because you were ill when this was sort of hit.
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And so we're going to discuss it. And then we're going to go on to talk about the consequences of this.
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In women on TikTok realising, hang on, we've killed chivalry.
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And actually, this wasn't as fun as we thought it was going to be.
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And then we are going to be pushing the mind up the hill, Sisyphean style,
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by trying to teach Femi the meaning of per capita for Christmas.
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And it does also tie into the other stuff. It'll come nice and full circle,
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because I do think part of this may be Femi feigning ignorance,
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so that he can support the government initiative to longhouse children in school.
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No, I'm going to be generous and challengeable towards Femi and assume he's just an idiot.
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So I wanted to talk about this article, The Lost Generation by Jacob Savage,
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which had a bit of cut through. Lots of people were talking about it.
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I think it even went to the vice president's desk and he tweeted about it.
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The only thing that annoyed me is I've seen lots of commentary on it,
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and there seems to be a lot of missing the point.
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There's a lot of accepting the arguments more or less at face value.
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And actually, the more interesting article is the one between the lines,
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So I wanted to get into it and discuss what the author misses on this
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and what a lot of people have been missing on this.
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Goes through basically the story of a left-wing millennial man
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who is trying to make it in left-wing industries
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and finding the door is firmly slammed on his face.
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So I'm not going to revisit the article too much.
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I'll just read you a couple of passages from it,
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just in case you haven't seen it and don't know what it's all about.
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For 15 years I've scalped tickets to pay the bills,
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but in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.
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But of course by 2016 we were already too late.
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The year that DEI became institutionalized across America.
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Basically he thinks that in 2014 most of the Gen Xers were now 40
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That's essentially the argument that he's making.
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Well, it's something that I've seen other American commenters echo as well,
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but I think one of the things they attribute it to is
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He can go through all of his policy aims that he wanted from the beginning.
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And so he pushes through a load of affirmative action policy.
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I mean, it's certainly been building up to that point.
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is that it was massively helped and pushed along well,
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And it would have been funded by Obama as well.
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I mean, this is why I ended up starting a YouTube channel
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This was everywhere, and it was growing in prominence.
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Up until about 2014, where it had the tipping point
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So I don't mind talking about it as perhaps an acceleration,
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but it's certainly wrong to think it started at that day.
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I mean, I'll just read a couple of other very quick bits,
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In fact, it's deliberately rooting against you.
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Like so many middle-class millennials in the Obama era,
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Ethan believed that he was on the right side of history.
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He had entered academia after an unsatisfying stint
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precisely because he was interested in issues of inequality.
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Society was moving in a direction that felt more fair.