The Crossover Podcast - Episode 1 - Anne
Channel: TheCrossover
Date: 2018-04-29

Apologies: There is on-and-off static between 4:00 and 11:00, but it goes away after.  Bear with us!

3 years ago, Anne was in the middle of a Ph.D in environmental engineering, wanting to save the planet with cleaner energy.  20 kg overweight and listening to the body-positive crowd, she felt good for about 6 months, telling herself she should not worry about her eating disorder.  

Then, Anne quit smoking and felt better.  She started to go to the gym and lose weight.  One year later, she cringes at all the blogs she used to read, and her sister tells her “you became like the people we used to hate together”.  

In this juicy conversation, Anne and Guillaume talk about how this change came about, how change often comes in “avalanche”, the risk of ideological swing when changing your mind, echo chamber, ideological purity, the role of theories and abstraction in the process of radicalization, how demonization and censorship fuel radicalism.