Episodes
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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Saturday Mar 24, 2018
#11 - The Social Media Disease: Cyber Space Monkeys
Saturday Mar 24, 2018
Saturday Mar 24, 2018
First Social Media Disease antibiotic treatment. Starting with an X-Pod flashback to 2014, Todd discusses Cambridge Analytica before turning to more recent effects of our collective addiction to social media on society and how a bilateral abandonment of a commitment to basic common facts--in favor of tasty propaganda--is having a dehumanizing effect and rapidly eroding the social contract. Also: cyber space monkeys, avatars showing off for each other in the Matrix, and the digital-organic hybrid: meme belching Cyborgs.
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Thursday Mar 15, 2018
The Demon (2014)
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Recorded shortly after Robin Williams committed suicide in 2014, this was one of the most popular episodes from the old podcast. It covers many topics Friar Chris and I discussed in the previous podcasts, including the fraud of "normal", misguided identity, the emptiness of success, depression, and the performers need for praise and validation. Some of the early ideas surrounding the Social Media Disease such as personal “branding” and virtual facades are here as well as kernels of things that will become familiar to the regular listener, such as The Marrow of Humanity.
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Monday Mar 05, 2018
Friar Chris - Walking Savannah to Seattle
Monday Mar 05, 2018
Monday Mar 05, 2018
In this politics-free second of three, I continue chatting with Chris Dyson about his walk from Savannah, Georgia to Seattle which included enduring a turbulent breakup on the side of US-287 in northern Colorado, getting lost in rural Wyoming, and anecdotes and observations about some of the fascinating people he met along the way. Deeper topics include self-generated baseless fear, choosing existential isolation in the name of personal security, internal narratives, religion & spirituality, restless escapism, travel and aging, and more. (E)
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