Cass Eris Seeks To Marry Science With Leftism

On the merits of scientific discourse within leftist communities, the Intellectual Dark Web, content creation, and so much more.

Courtesy of Cass Eris on YouTube.

When starting a new creative venture, one can almost never foretell if the winds of good fortune may blow their way. Yet aware of ballooning interest in leftist content online, cognitive psychologist Cass Eris didn’t know if audiences would take to her perspective on leftist politics–after all, there was no reason to believe a field dominated by philosophy, economics and the occasional hint of media analysis would suddenly warm itself up to a more scientific slant of those very same analyses. A little more than two years later, the modest success of Eris’ YouTube channel proves there is interest in the intersection of science and political theory — beyond the obvious study of the human condition — and between her retorts of self-appointed experts on human psychology and the more intimate reflections on depression, isolation… the content spans a pretty wide gamut.

It’s not always obvious when breaching a nascent space that one would know success, but Eris reckoned that a scientific spice peppered across the well-learned field that is leftist theory would make for an interesting mix, especially considering that opposite ends of the…