We watch in awe as the guru-sphere grapples with a host of 'alternative' theories:

• Bret promotes pseudoscience on Polio and alternative theories on evolution
• The Gurusphere collides with Tucker's takes on evolution
• Rogan and Tucker praise Alex Jones' prophetic abilities
• Tucker's views on spiritual UFOs
• Hasan endorses Lex Fridman as the most genuine centrist
• Contrasting Destiny and Hasan's transparency
• World War 3 Warnings
• The Great Archaeology Debate: Dibble vs. Hancock
• Graham Hancock- A Grievance Mongering Masterclass
• Intentional Misrepresentation
• White Supremacy angers Great Joe
• The Cass Review Controversy: A lesson in misinformation

Links

• The Untold Story of Polio – Forrest Maready on DarkHorse
• Jerry Coyne's old takedown of Bret's confused theories about evolution
• Bret's tweets defending Tucker
• Joe Rogan Experience #2138 - Tucker Carlson
• Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble
• The Iced Coffee Hour- Confronting Hasan Piker on Socialist Grift, Hypocrisy, and How “The Top 1%” Keeps You Poor!
• The Iced Coffee Hour- Destiny on Debating Ben Shapiro, Toxic Wokeism and Getting Divorced
• A comparison of the reactions to Iran's missile launches
• More or Less (BBC)- 98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
• The Cass Report
• Systematic Reviews from the Cass Report

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In this episode, Matt and Chris dive deep into the world of online streamers, focusing on the pioneering and controversial figure Steven Bonell II, better known as Destiny (AKA Mr Borelli). As seasoned explorers of sense-making jungles, Petersonian crystalline structures, and mind-bending labyrinths in Weinstein World, they thought they were prepared for anything. However, the drama-infused degeneracy of the streamer swamps proves to offer some new challenges.

Having previously dipped their toes in these waters by riding with Hasan on his joyous Houthi pirate ship (ignoring the screams of the imprisoned crew below decks), Matt and Chris now strip down to their decoding essentials and plunge head-first into streamer drama-infested waters as they search for the fabled true Destiny.

Destiny is a popular live streamer and well-known debater with a long and colourful online history. He is also known for regularly generating controversy. With a literal mountain of content to sift through, there was no way to cover it all. Instead, Matt and Chris apply their usual decoding methods to sample a selection of Destiny's content, seeking to identify any underlying connective tissue and determine if he fits the secular guru mould.

In so doing, they cover a wide range of topics, including:

• Destiny's background and rise to prominence in the streaming world
• How much of his brain precisely is devoted to wrangling conservatives?
• What's it like to live with almost no private/public boundaries?
• What are the ethics of debating neo-Nazis?
• The nature of the Destiny's online community
• Whether murder is a justified response to DDOS attacks?

Whether they succeed or fail in their decoding will be for the listeners to judge, but one thing is certain: if this is your first exposure to the streaming world, you are in for a bit of a ride.

Links

• The Institute of Art and Ideas: Destiny and the new world of Internet politics | Steven Bonnell full interview
• End of the Leftist Arc? - Destiny Addresses the Recent Drama
• Iced Coffee Hour: Destiny on Debating Ben Shapiro, Toxic Wokeism and Getting Divorced
• Helpful Reddit thread with a bunch of relevant videos and summaries
• Documentary on Destiny Lore by Dingo: The Steven "Destiny" Bonnell II Iceberg
• Destiny's Positions page on his dedicated Wiki
• Destiny's Manifestos
• MrGirl's anti-Destiny 'Report'

We ponder whether, due to our naivety, do we actually deserve the gurus and other topics, including:

• Is Hasan Piker even better than we said?
• The ethical quandaries of online therapy with Dr. K
• The False Halos of Status and Success
• The Rest is History Luther series and parallels with Secular Gurus
• The Power of Polemicists: Peterson, Trump, and Martin Luther?
• Secular vs. Religious Gurus
• Shit-posting Missives
• Orthodoxic Atheism and Orthopraxic Religion
• Lex Fridman's Reflections on Intellectual Humility
• Some important Messages from the hosts

Links

• Game Rant Article about Hasan Piker's donation to Strike Funds
• Uncovering the Higher Truth about Jay Shetty by John McDermott
• Coffeezilla Interview with John McDermott
• Dr. K and Doctor Mike: Debating The Value Of Eastern Medicine (Ayurveda)
• That stream with Dr. K and his wife
• The Rest is History: Series on Martin Luther
• Article by Chris in Aeon about Orthopraxic Religion
• Lex's extremely humble tweet about his intellectual humility

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