Crazy Wisdom
What does it mean to be a public intellectual? - Anna Gát: CEO of Pychon
- public intellectuals
- social media
- mainstream culture
- decentralization
- intellectual influence
About this episode
Anna and I sit down to talk about what it means to be a public intellectual in the current age and what is the difference between a mainstream public intellectual and a niche public intellectual. You will like this episode if you like to understand more about the context of what social media is doing to our social relationships.
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Episode transcript
When it comes to the mainstream of 2019 and the mainstream of the future, I think when I say mainstream, I see this as something far more decentralized and fractured than, I don't know, mainstream looked like in the 1960s in America or, you know, where I grew up in Eastern Europe, when I was a small child, there was only one TV channel, right? So, you know, mainstream actually meant, like, there's only one. It's almost like mono stream. There was one TV channel, you know, one of each. So. But I do think, when I say mainstream, I think about the effect. I think about an effect that goes beyond your subculture, that goes beyond your genre, and I think that's very important. I think in 2019, in some ways, we focus, feel the presence of the mainstream in negative ways.
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. Today I interviewed Anna Gatt. Anna has a lot of interesting things to say, and we talked a lot about what it means to be an intellectual, and particularly a public intellectual, and what that means in 2019 in the age of social media. I find it interesting because I never expected to be doing a podcast. This is very, very far away from anything that I ever thought myself to be doing. And then in order to market the podcast, I've gone on Twitter and I've started to be more public with my thoughts and the thoughts that my guests. And so I've entered this realm of. I don't. I wouldn't say I'm a public intellectual yet, but I do think a lot,
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