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De: Christopher P. Carter
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At times we are hilarious. Sometimes we are outlandish, others provocative, but always informative. More Content Talk dares to peel back the veneer of proper manners, and bring the news to you straight, no chaser, In order to do that we have to call things how we see it. The world unfolds very much like a true crime saga. Whether you are reading about the abuse of power of current leaders, the intrigue of European monarchs or the religious conquests of Ancient Rome, there is no escaping it: we are surrounded by criminality. We bring you the crime sagas of history that most have merely skimmed. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/morecontentplease/support

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Christopher P. Carter Ciencia Política Política y Gobierno
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  • The Downside of Hero Worship

    The Downside of Hero Worship
    Nov 22 2025
    For years now I have warned people about the very real downsides of hero worship, how it clouds our judgement and makes us susceptible to the whims of scam artists, snake oil salesman and cult leaders. It is, without question, one of the very real problems that we have in society today. It could be the worst problem that we have today. If you are always looking to some concept of a perfect human being to inform your every action and direction in life, they will eventually steer you off course. It is not a question of if, but of when. It will occur. It is inevitable. This does not have to be because of malice. There often is not a conspiracy to misinform folks. It often occurs in a way that is organic and unintentional. Someone may truly believe, for example, that women are inferior to men. They may find this observation to be correct because the women they have interacted with in life have not been as intelligent or moral as they are. But this observation is, of course, anecdotal and incomplete. There is not enough factual information to support this claim. I have to recognize that lack of data when I am interacting with a hero of mine that gives me bad advice, otherwise I will be misled into a world of misogyny and ignorance. I will not become wiser because of such information, but instead I will close myself off to a whole world of knowledge from some very smart women. The easiest way to avoid being misled in this way is to avoid having heroes altogether. That is not to say that I think I am better than everyone else or that I do not acknowledge anyone's talent. I only mean to say that placing an individual on a pedestal as if they are somehow set apart from the rest of us normal humans is a huge mistake that needs to be rectified and, really, abandoned altogether as an acceptable societal practice. There is no need to worship any man or woman for that matter. It serves no purpose other than gleaning bits and bytes of stories and quotations that one uses to motivate themselves, and, if I so desire that form of motivation, all I have to do is read from the internet or a book. The person who wrote down that motivating information is irrelevant because, inevitably, for every few things they are correct about, they will most certainly be wrong about something else. This is the main reason that, when you go to college, they encourage you not only to have references, but also to check the quality of said references. Who owns the publication. Who are the shareholders. In what nation is the publication based. Who is providing the funding. What are the political leanings and biases of all the parties involved. What are their various political affiliations attempting to accomplish. What is it that they are wishing me to take from this article, and, most importantly, why. The average person is not consuming information in this way. They find someone that, for whatever reason, they trust or like, and just assume that they are a good source of information. This is incorrect. Even someone with good intentions can engage in fallacious thinking that leads them to the wrong conclusion. Further, it is incorrect to assume that everyone has mostly good intentions. The internet in particular is full of folks motivated purely by the need for more money and power. That is not to say that money and power will always lead to be bad, but it is to say that it often does. We should be concerned only with the truth when it comes to information that is given to us by those we like or respect. It does not matter if we may want to agree with them out of some sense of awe of their talents. When the time comes, and they are wrong, we must be able to call them out on that. We cannot be silly and look at all the others around us agreeing with that person because of hero worship and simply follow the herd. We have to access our individuality. The same goes for when they are correct as well. We cannot disagree with them just to be unique or contrarian.

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    28 m
  • The Weak Mans War on Women and Femininity

    The Weak Mans War on Women and Femininity
    Nov 20 2025
    We have all heard of the male loneliness epidemic by now. We have not had much of a choice but to hear about it because, well, the news has drilled it into our skulls in a similar way that they made an entire generation fear millennials and marijuana. It seems as if everywhere you look, the male loneliness plague is taking over the headlines of newspapers and the nine o'clock news. Author Shannon Carpenter states, We hear a lot these days about men not finding the kind of deep friendship that helps them through the ups and downs of life the way many women do...In the United States, many men have become disconnected from the societal institutions that have anchored dads to each other and our community. These are compelling words to be sure. There is no doubting that. They steer you toward this kind of empathy for men in general. But the question then becomes why. Why are men experiencing this loneliness. As a man myself, initially I wanted to point the finger at society. It becomes quite easy to say that women do not pay attention to me enough or that women in human resources are conspiring against us men folk to create a more feminine working environment. It is always easier to blame an enemy than it is to own up to your own failures as a human being. But the truth, as always, is much more complex than that. I truly believe that if you were to completely remove feminism from society today that most men would still be lonely because men themselves have always struggled with creating meaningful relationships. I can recall very vividly the first time I really tried to show affection to my father, and how oddly hesitant he was to receive it. I was seven or eight, still quite young at the time. I remember my dad sitting on an old green recliner we had at the time. My mother was there too. I had just kissed her on the cheek, which I had always done, and figured I would kiss my father as well for once. After all, he took care of me too. I wanted to show him I appreciated that just as much as I did my mother. After I kissed him, he gently pushed me away, saying, okay Chris, as if to say, that's enough of that. Don't do that again please. And you know what. I didn't. It was embarrassing being pushed away like that, having someone I loved essentially tell me that I was loving him the wrong way. Men do this all the time. They do it with their sons. They do it with their friends when they call them gay for giving them a hug. They do it to their lovers when they push them away when they try to cuddle with them. They do it acquaintances and coworkers and political adversaries when they mock everything that is even slightly feminine or refer to women in negative ways. The message is clear. Get away from me. I hate love and companionship. I view those things as being anti male and do not desire any of them. Leave me alone. In short, you get what you ask for. If you are going to communicate to the world that you are a closed off, go it alone, emotionally unintelligent individual, then you are going to be lonely. There is no way around that and you, my dear man, brought that on yourself. You see, male loneliness is not new. It was handed down to us by our fathers and their fathers before them, men who used words like gay and queer to describe any physical form of affection outside of a hearty handshake. But I have good news for you too because loneliness is also a choice. You can choose to be in a healthy emotional relationship with those in your community by simply dropping the alpha male shit or the longer introvert act. Just knock it off. Recognize that you are human being who needs care and affection, that that stuff is not just for girls. And if you want a woman, for crying out loud, be respectful and treat them like they are more than just your concubines. There are solutions to every problem, especially the ones you create for yourself. You are addicted to loneliness. Question is, are you willing to admit that you have a problem.

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    17 m
  • The Coming Blue Wave

    The Coming Blue Wave
    Nov 17 2025
    Believe it or not, midterms are just around the corner, so it is just about time for me to make my biannual election predictions for Congress and it is not looking great for conservatives to say the least. After suffering several losses across the country this year, there is no reason to believe that it will get any better a year from now. The economy, by nearly every metric, is the worst it has been in several decades. That alone is a key indicator for the incumbent party will fair in any election, but especially in Congress where economic is molded into law before being sent to the president for his seal of approval. Job losses are now in record territory. Inflation remains high. And, perhaps most jarringly, Americans are now defaulting at levels not seen during the Biden administration on thigs like student loans, car payments and credit cards. Voters came out in full force to reject Bidenomics and, unfortunately for them, it is starting to look like doing so was the wrong choice. Obviously, I argued that conservatives had no idea how to deal with such a volatile economy last year during the elections, but the reality is that there is very little you can do to convince voters that things can get any worse when they are already bad. The truth is though that things very much did get worse and, in all likelihood, will continue to worsen while conservatives are in charge. It is just a fact that, for all their downsides, Democrats have always done better when it comes to the economy. Sure, they can be annoying, elitist and even unsavory, but liberals know how to make money and keep the working class afloat. It is what they are best at. Once conservatives lose their three branch super majority to a blue wave next November, the sitting president will be a lame duck, powerless to really do much more damage to an already reeling American workforce, though his kangaroo supreme court and serial executive orders will still be able to cause them even more pain, that pain will be greatly dulled and since there will be a lot of folks hurting and very little action coming from the White House to prevent it, a Democrat will likely sail into office a few years from now. This all could have been prevented had Trump taken a smarter approach to the economy, even just avoiding archaic and, frankly, ridiculous methods like imposing tariffs on neighboring countries just because you are mad at them would have staved off a great deal of suffering for the average small business owner and consumer alike. But we all know by now that MAGA is not known for moderation. They are always overdoing it and shooting themselves in the foot. It is kind of how they operate. They cannot help themselves. But the modern right is not just MAGA. There are more moderate members, like certain Christian sects that tend to vote conservative to avoid things like taxes and just out of moral obligation to their values. They are not necessarily the kind of folks who are trying to take over the world like Steve Bannon. They just disagree with things like gay marriage or legal cannabis. This more moderate section of the right is very unhappy that MAGA has embraced groypers. If you do not know what that word means, you will soon because they are very much the future of the modern right and they are even more extreme than MAGA. This openly racist group looks takes the phrase America First and essentially applies that to a white Christian nationalist mindset. MAGA is not just composed of white folks. They are definitely in the majority, but there are black, brown and Jewish members of MAGA as well. Groypers are no fans of Jews. In fact, Nick Fuentes, the oddly mixed-race leader of groypers, who, believe it or no, happens to have Mexican ancestry, has been extremely hostile to Israel, a hot button issue that has divided many conservatives on whether or not it is right for Israelis to continue to receive funding while white Americans starve. It is all coming tumbling down.

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    15 m
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