Rebel Wisdom

= Youtube channel and more

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Description

Erik Haines:

"Rebel Wisdom was founded in late 2017 and launched in 2018 by David Fuller, a filmmaker and journalist with over a decade at Channel 4 News and the BBC, and Alexander Beiner, a writer and meditation teacher who co-founded Open Meditation in 2012. Fuller’s departure from mainstream British broadcasting was driven by a recognition that legacy journalism was institutionally incapable of treating the kinds of cultural-philosophical questions the post-2016 moment was making urgent. Rebel Wisdom built itself around a different model: high-production-value YouTube documentaries and conversations focused on what Fuller and Beiner called sensemaking—the work of interpreting accelerating cultural complexity through perspectives drawn simultaneously from cognitive science, contemplative practice, embodied somatic work, and heterodox political analysis. The platform’s early identity was inseparable from its coverage of Jordan Peterson, whose ascent to mass cultural visibility through 2017 and 2018 produced the discourse that would eventually be named the Intellectual Dark Web, the meaning crisis, the sensemaking web, and finally the liminal web. Rebel Wisdom’s coverage of Peterson was substantively engaged rather than reductively oppositional; Fuller and Beiner approached him as a serious cultural phenomenon worth understanding rather than as a culture-war target to be either defended or denounced."

(https://www.erikhaines.org/p/on-enchanted-flatland-iain-mcgilchrist)