Episodes

Friday May 31, 2019
#18 - Propaganda 101: Corrupt Data & Telling Truth From Falsehood
Friday May 31, 2019
Friday May 31, 2019
“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.” “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” -Lippmann. At 35:25: The difference between clever & smart and more on the DIKW pyramid and what happens when citizens ignore corrupt data.
The first 35-minutes:
- Justin Amash and the criticism from the left.
- Mueller's fumble and the Democrat's ensuing demand that he star in their 2020 reality show/campaign ad.
- To Impeach or not Impeach: just do it or STFU!
- Democrats are politically impotent to stop anything Trump does. How does that "protest vote" look now?
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Thursday May 23, 2019
#17 - The Social Media Disease: The Illusion of Knowledge & Democratized Opinion
Thursday May 23, 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
Technology enables, and social media perpetuates, informational anarchy and prioritizes the cheap appearance of knowledge over fostering knowledge itself. Also, how the Internet changes cognition and the abandonment of expertise to the holy opinion: "my ignorance is equal to your knowledge."
Also:
-The DIKW pyramid and drowning in data.
-The Id on Parade, the natural state of man, and Leviathan.
-What happens when reasonable voices abandon the public square to mindless mobs of roving avatars?
-When avatars attack
-A classic full-frontal Toddzilla rant salvaged from The Lost Episode about Twitter, and more.
Elias Aboujaode's Virtually You:
https://www.amazon.com/Virtually-You-Dangerous-Powers-Personality/dp/0393340546
Nicholas Carr's The Shallows:
https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393339750
Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death:
https://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Business/dp/014303653X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1558613196&sr=1-1
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Tuesday May 14, 2019
#16 - The Social Media Disease: Virtual Mobs, Conformity, & External Truth
Tuesday May 14, 2019
Tuesday May 14, 2019
Unsophisticated media consumers and the failure to take personal responsibility for our own intellectual maintenance. The surrender of the individual's intellectual autonomy to the conformist mob. How mobs-cells no longer need to leave the couch and are now free to anonymously molest & terrorize the "other" via Twitter, Facebook, and their phones.
Also:
- Social Media Influencers and how the Media 101 Model applies to them
- Emerson on independent thought, conformity, and consistency
- The abandonment of external truth and the path to authoritarianism
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Thursday May 09, 2019
#15 - The Elephantitis Pandemic; Winter is Here
Thursday May 09, 2019
Thursday May 09, 2019
Haidt's elephant and how it relates to our constitutional crisis, rising authoritarianism, and our likely dystopian future. "Evolution didn't end with opposable thumbs."
- The thin veneer of civilization
- Self-dehumanization
- Extremists v. Moderate
- The Social Media Disease

Tuesday May 07, 2019
#14 - Political Orphans & Constitutional Hospice
Tuesday May 07, 2019
Tuesday May 07, 2019
Parties, their power-first representatives and constituents, fundamentalist ideologues, extremists, etc. are failing everyone.
Government institutions are melting down and the faith of the governed along with it.
Hey! What could possibly go wrong?!?
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Saturday May 04, 2019
#13 - The Boomerang Effect: "Hold My Beer"
Saturday May 04, 2019
Saturday May 04, 2019
Confused as to why your righteous demands aren't being met? Behold!
- Narratives, mythology, religion, and how they bind us together
- The Grand Design & Ideological Religions
- Making Enemies of Allies
- Haidt's Elephant
- Intellectual refinement and allowing yourself (and others) to make mistakes and change your mind
- External Truth and Reason
- Authoritarian creep
- No Hitler references!
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