background on Dr. Salmieri's new position at UT Austin
objectivity, higher education, philosophy

defining and differentiating between anti-concepts and package deals
Reality, concepts, Reason, epistemology, Logic

Q: are package deals and anti-concepts always bad?

Q: are concepts of imagination anti-concepts?

selfishness as a package deal & salvaging certain concepts vs. others
free will, individualism, values, epistemology

unpacking various package deals used in common parlance
truth, Reason, anti-concepts, politics, emotionalism, tribalism

Q: what is a better term than privilege to address real racial issues?

Q: Is luck a package deal?

Q: what role does peer pressure play in the rise of anti-concepts?

Q: what are some ways that one can check whether one is thinking objectively?

Q: How does one trace a concept back to its origin?

Q: Is race a package deal or anti-concept?

Q: Why are these fallacies so common?

Q: can the battle be won to change the culture without addressing bad concepts in the culture?

Q: what is the difference between white privilege and white fragility? how to unpack the package deals?

Q: why did Nazis reject egalitarianism while communists embraced it?

Q: what is the motivation between claiming there is no difference between a trans and cis woman?

Q: can America acquire a reasonable view of politics?