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π Further Reading:
- Camus, Albert, *The Myth of Sisyphus*
- Camus, Albert, *The Outsider*
- Camus, Albert, *The Rebel*
- Camus, Albert, *Caligula*
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4:07 1. Suicide
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Could Neuralink accidentally turn all its users into a hive mind? Thatβs what weβre going to be exploring in this episode where we take a look inside the brain and at the possibility for Neuralinkβs high bandwidth and low latency to transform the nature of consciousness.
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π Further Reading:
Peter Watts' talk "Conscious Ants and Human Hives": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4uwaw_5Q3I Further reading on split brain 1: https://www.nature.com/articles/483260a](https://www.nature.com/articles/483260a) Further reading on split brain 2: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/split-brain-research-sperry-gazzaniga/399290/_________________
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0:00 Introduction
2:06 Split Brain Science
5:55 Watts Argument: Merging of Consciousness
9:14 The Age of BCIs
10:47 What Will a Super-Consciousness Look Like?
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If an alien arrived on this planet having read only the writings of Marx, Proudhon and other great leftist socialist thinkers, they would be very surprised by the reaction to Rich Men North of Richmond. Oliver Anthony's song was loved by some and hated by others with the usual weird subtextual energies of the Culture Wars infusing both. This episode looks at why, from a historical theoretical it could have been otherwise. And why it wasn't.
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π For Your Further Perusal:
- Oliver Anthony's Rich Men North of Richmond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro&pp
- Nicholas Kristof's article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/opinion/oliver-anthony-liberals.html
- Time article: https://time.com/6308121/oliver-anthony-country-music-divide-essay/
- Guardian "Punching Down" article: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/16/rich-men-north-of-richmond-oliver-anthony
- The Independent's article: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/rich-man-north-of-richmond-lyrics-oliver-anthony-b2394954.html
- Keith Woods's video "The Great Awokening": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOh_Ng0v1WE________________
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7:42 The Chthonic Populists and Pure Woke
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In this video we are going to tackle a challenging question: what is self-actualisation isn't what we should be doing; what if instead it is a big cope β a way of burying our head in the sand (rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic; playing our fiddle while Rome burns β choose your preferred analogy) while the world burns.-------------------
π Further Reading:
Penny, L. (2016). I'm With The Banned: https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932 Penny, L. (2016). Life Hacks of the Poor and Aimless: https://thebaffler.com/latest/laurie-penny-self-care Penny, L. (2018). No I Will Not Debate You: https://longreads.com/2018/09/18/no-i-will-not-debate-you/-------------------β Support the channel (thank you!)
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In this episode, we look at why you should listen to South Park's Butters over modern Buddhist gurus. We talk about the sales pitch used by spiritual gurudom to get people hungry for Enlightenment while hiding the truth about the awful reality of that path. Fun fun fun.
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π Further Reading:
- Mingyur, R.Y. and Swanson, E., 2010. _Joyful wisdom_. Random House.
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10:31 Who It's Really For
12:37 Spiritual Bypassing
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In this episode I talk about the books that rescued me in my darkest times by giving me the breath of heroic inspiration I needed to get moving out of the dark pit I'd found myself in. I talk about what these books had in common and why we need them.
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π Further Reading:
- _Iβm Not There_. (2008). [Movie].
- Dumas, A., *The Three Musketeers*
- London, J., *The Call of the Wild*
- Conan Doyle, A., *The Lost World*
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The aphoristic style of Friedrich Nietzsche is a wellspring of inspiration. In this episode, we explore the connection between this style and Nietzsche's hiking (10 hours of hiking a day, if he is to be believed). It is Nietzsche's walking that gave birth to the aphorisms in a passive form of thinking that stands in stark contrast to the thorough linear thinking of philosophers like Kant and Hegel.
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π Further Reading:
- Nietzsche FW (2000) _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_. translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library.
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Karl Marx is the most (in)famous critic of Capitalism. Or is he? As with all stories, it's not so simple. Marx isn't a reactionary dreaming of a tribal communal paradise but more of a sci-fi visionary looking to the society that will transcend Capitalism using its foundation as a jumping off point to a much more interesting, much better world.
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π Further Reading:
- The British rule in india: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/06/25.htm
- Predictions of revolution: Robert Payne, Marx. p. 338
- Other quotes: Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1848) *The Communist Manifesto* https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/
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Following on from the last episode on Jordan Peterson's brilliant 2005 essay on "Peacemaking" this time we look at what went wrong and at JBP's arc as that of the classical tragic hero. And having a bit of fun with this we compare him to the villain in one of my favourite fantasy series Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. We look at Aristotle's definition of tragedy, and at mapovers between Peterson and Mistborn's Lord Ruler and also Dune's Paul Atreides. ____________________π Further Reading:- Herbert, F. (1965). *Dune*. London: Penguin- Peterson, J.B. (2005). _Peacemaking Among Higher Order Primates_ in _The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts_ ed. by Mari Fitzduff, Chris E. Stout. Michigan: Praeger Security International- Sanderson, B. (2015). *Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set: Mistborn, The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages*. London: Gollancz________________β Support the channel (thank you!)βΆ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophyβΆ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy_________________ π¬ More from The Living PhilosophyβΆ Discord https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9βΆ π¨ Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/________________πΌ Music:1. Juniper β Kevin MacLeod2. Allegro β Emmit Fenn3. Density & Time β Ether Real4. Fresh Air β Kevin MacLeodSubscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic________________πΈ Mistborn Images: Ruin and Preservation: reddit.com/r/Cosmere/comments/k9dg2a/ruin_and_preservation_again_but_this_time_in_a/Kredik Shaw: https://www.deviantart.com/somnicide/art/Kredik-Shaw-315216988Mistborn Mistbank Wiki Fandom: https://mistbank.fandom.com/wiki/Mistborn?file=Mistborn.jpgLord Ruler: https://medium.com/@inkimpressionsss_30394/mistborn-unveiling-the-allomantic-symphony-a-journey-through-brandon-sandersons-great-trilogy-17c18f230604The Skaa: https://readingseconds.com/the-skaa-explained-mistborn/Rashek: https://www.tumblr.com/runmienn/709526582105112576/mistborn-spoilers-another-compilation-of?source=shareThe Deepness - Reading Seconds: https://readingseconds.com/the-deepness-explained-mistborn/The Well of Ascension: https://medium.com/@jazznyul/the-mistborn-trilogy-the-well-of-ascension-part-one-my-book-review-57f7dfedefe2Alendi and Rashek: https://adonalsium.tumblr.com/post/186149488793/sometimes-i-worry-that-im-not-the-hero-everyoneLuthadel with Kredik Shaw, Mist and volcano in bg: https://mistborn.fandom.com/wiki/Mist?file=Kredikshaw_luthadel01.jpg_________________β Timestamps:0:00 Introduction2:16 Summary of Peacemaker5:54 Mistborn11:02 The Mapover with Peterson
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In 2005, long before he became a household name, Jordan Peterson wrote an article with the title "Peacemaking Among Higher Order Primates" and it is amazing β partly for its own beauty and pathos and partly for the contract it provides with The Daily Wire Peterson we have today. It is a brilliant ode to what peace looks like and how it might be achieved and a stark reminder of the potential pitfalls for even the best-intentioned.____________________π Further Reading:- Peterson, J.B., (2005). Peacemaking Among Higher Order Primates in The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts ed. by Mari Fitzduff, Chris E. Stout. Michigan: Praeger Security International- Peterson, J.B., (2002). Maps of meaning: The architecture of belief. Routledge.________________β Support the channel (thank you!)βΆ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophyβΆ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy_________________ π¬ More from The Living PhilosophyβΆ Discord https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9βΆ π¨ Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/________________πΌ Media Used:1. Anguish β Kevin MacLeod2. Promising Relationship β Kevin MacLeod3. Disquiet β Kevin MacLeod4. Alone With My Thoughts β Esther Abrami5. Dark Times β Kevin MacLeodSubscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic_________________β Timestamps:0:00 Introduction3:50 Peacekeeping Among Higher Order Primates7:40 What Separates Them9:50 Different Localities as Different Paradigms11:56 As Sowellian Visions13:53 Patreon Aside14:26 The Peacemaker16:41 Reflections
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Why it Matters is back (kind of). This video revisits the Prophet archetype with a bit more passion and a little less bookishness. It is great to have the previous video as a foundation but as with the old Why it Matters videos the point of this video is to get into why I care so much about this topic and why I think you should as well. We're going to be looking at the Prophet through the lens of Richard Rohr's description of the Prophet's position as being at "the edge of the inside" and we are going to look at some examples of this Prophetic archetype like Karl Marx, Jordan Peterson, Contrapoints and Donald Trump. ____________________π Further Learning:- The original video on the Prophet archetype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnaYn6WpwuA- Jonas Ceika/Cuck philosophy video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHtvTGaPzF4- Szakolczai Γ (2003) _The Genesis of Modernity_. Routledge studies in social and political thought 36. Londonβ―; New York: Routledge.________________β Support the channel (thank you!)βΆ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophyβΆ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy_________________ π¬ More from The Living PhilosophyβΆ π¨ Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/________________πΌ Media Used:1. Allegro β Emmit Fenn2. Anguish β Kevin MacLeod3. Alone With My Thoughts β Esther Abrami4. Dark Times β Kevin MacLeodSubscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic_________________β Timestamps:0:00 Introduction1:14 What is a prophet?5:27 Ad spot7:21 The Marx example10:17 Jordan Peterson10:42 Derrick Bell12:30 Reflection15:57 Personal reflection
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In approaching the underworld there are a couple of terms that people use. Sometimes it can get a bit confusing who's using what and what we should be using. In this episode we look at the term subconscious vs unconscious and what the meaning and background is of each. As we'll see it wasn't always so clear cut β the French psychological heritage from Pierre Janet started with one term then with Freud it bounced to another and Jung and Adler followed in their direction now using unconscious instead of subconscious.
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π Further Reading:
- Freud, S., 1969. _Questions Of Lay Analysis_. WW Norton & Company.
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8:41 Which one is right?
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In this palette cleanser we are going to talk about the philosophy of romcoms for a change. I reckon this should remove any accusations of important work being done on The Living Philosophy. We'll be looking at two romcoms β the classic Norah Ephron When Harry Met Sally and the lesser known Just Like Heaven starring Reese Wetherspoon and Mark Ruffalo.
One is reflective of a type of art that strives for psychological accuracy (Dostoevsky, When Harry Met Sally) category β while the second category (Just Like Heaven, Alexander Dumas's The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo) dispense with reality and works at the hyperreal level of the archetypal underworld.
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When Harry Met Sally. (1989). [Movie] USA: Columbia Pictures. Just Like Heaven. (2005). [Movie] USA: DreamWorks Pictures. Dumas A (2014) The Three Musketeers. United States: Shine Classics. Dumas A (2004) The Count of Monte Cristo. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics. Dostoyevsky (1993) Notes from Underground. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.***
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0:00 Introduction
2:30 The True vs the Fantastic
3:15 Just Like Heaven
3:56 When Harry Met Sally
6:12 The Unrealistic Just Like Heaven
7:31 The Fantastic As Archetypal Dynamism
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It's rare that you encounter a fresh take on a path as well-trodden as happiness. I've read a lot of books on the topic and I have to say that Ryan Bush's take is fresh and yet simultaneously ancient. I think this is part of the reason I'm so enthusiastic about it: it integrates a trend in academic philosophy that I've yet to see anyone else talk about: Virtue Ethics. This is an ethical approach to philosophy that goes all the way back to the ancients especially Socrates, Aristotle and the Stoics. Bush integrates this old esteemed tradition with very 21st century fields like Cognitive Science and neuroscience to produce a thought-provoking map of the good life that I can't recommend highly enough.
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π Further Reading:
- Pan W, Liu C, Yang Q, et al. (2016) The neural basis of trait self-esteem revealed by the amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations and resting state functional connectivity. _Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience_ 11(3): 367β376.
- Bush R. (2023) _Become Who You Are_. USA: DTM Press
- Davey CG, Pujol J and Harrison BJ (2016) Mapping the self in the brainβs default mode network. _NeuroImage_ 132: 390β397.
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0:00 Gain and Loss
2:45 The Third Dimension of the Good Life
4:00 How to Eudaimonia
5:21 The Spiritual Path
7:06 The Neuroscience of Self-Esteem
9:43 Virtue: the Royal Road to Eudaimonia
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We modern serfs have forgotten something: we've forgotten how to live. You don't question the meaning of life when leisure is the heart of life rather than work. But with the rise of modern urban life, the intrinsic mode of living has died at the hands of the instrumental mode of life. Our entire lives have been colonised by "utility". We don't relax or rest for their own sake anymore β now we rest so that we are more productive. In this episode we explore these two relationships with time: the leisurely intrinsic mode and the future-oriented instrumental mode.
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π Further Reading:
Burkeman O (2021) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. First edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Burnham, B. (2021) Inside. Los Angeles, CA: Netflix. Available at: https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=81289483. De Botton A (2005) Status Anxiety. First Vintage International edition. New York: Vintage International. Seligman MEP (2013) Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. Atria paperback edition. New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Atria Paperback._________________
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Before the Axial Age the religious archetypes were those of the Priest and the Magician. But with the increased complexity and evolution of society a new archetype emerged: that of the Prophet. This is the archetype of liminal transformation in the midst of a society paralysed by its own success. The Prophet comes in from the edge of inside and shows the society where it has lost its way.
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π Further Reading:
- Szakolczai Γ (2003) _The Genesis of Modernity_. Routledge studies in social and political thought 36. Londonβ―; New York: Routledge.
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01:14 Priests and Magicians
03:33 Prophets
04:13 Power and the Priest
06:11 Refusal of the Call
08:19 Personal Aspect and Revelation
09:16 Exemplary and Ethical Prophecy
11:31 Elitist Exemplarys
12:34 Conclusion
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Philosopher and anthropologist Rene Girard once described justice and public vengeance. Nietzsche expressed the same in his Genealogy of Morals. Why then do we value justice so highly and look down so judgingly on revenge? And what, if this is true, is the purpose of justice? How is it in any way different from vengeance? The answer is that it is profoundly different and in this video we explore why.
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π Further Reading:
- Prisoner abuse data: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032885500080004004
- Death penalty data: https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/death-penalty-international-poll
- MP support of death penalty: https://ukandeu.ac.uk/big-differences-on-economic-and-social-values-between-mps-and-voters-new-academic-survey-finds/
- Recidivism in Norwegian prisons - 1 year: https://medium.com/wagovernor/how-norwegian-prisons-prepare-inmates-to-become-better-neighbors-534409a90f33
- 3-year Norwegian recidivism: https://www.firststepalliance.org/post/norway-prison-system-lessons
- 1980s Norway recidivism: https://www.firststepalliance.org/post/norway-prison-system-lessons
- Nietzsche, F. (2000) *Genealogy of Morals* in _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_ ed. by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library.
- Girard R. (1979) _Violence and the Sacred_. Baltimore: Hopkins Univ. Press.
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β Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
01:33 Rehabilitation vs Punishment
06:29 The Dark Side of Justice
10:15 The Hegemony of Justice
13:26 Further Avenues for Research
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Would you rather live in a better world or a happier one? In this video we are going to explore how equality has made the world a better place but also how, like the Edenic apple of knowledge, it has come with a cost. The world looks better from the outside but seen from the subjective side it seems that things have only gotten worse.
This is following up on the recent episode on Nietzsche's concept of ressentiment that we examined in the previous episodes and follows along our explorations in to the social and political radical theme of modern times.
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π Further Reading:
- De Botton A (2005) _Status Anxiety_. First Vintage International edition. New York: Vintage International.
- Nietzsche FW (2000) *The Genealogy of Morals* in _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_. ed. by Martin Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library.
- Orlowski, J. (2020) _The Social Dilemma_ Netflix.
- Scheler M (1915) Ressentiment. 1915.
- Seligman MEP (2013) _Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment_. Atria paperback edition. New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Atria Paperback.
- Tocqueville A de, Bevan GE, Kramnick I, et al. (2003) _Democracy in America: And Two Essays on America_. Penguin classics. London: Penguin.
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13:48 The Limitations of Meritocracy
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In The Ritual Process the anthropologist who put Liminality on the map Victor Turner gave a list of contrasts between Liminality and Structure. There is an uncanny resemblance between these values and the values of Leftism. That is what we are going to explore in this episode which in the final episode in our exploration of Victor Turner's work in this field.
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π Further Reading:
- Szakolczai Γ (2003) _The Genesis of Modernity_. Routledge studies in social and political thought 36. Londonβ―; New York: Routledge.
- Turner VW (1995) _The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure_. The Lewis Henry Morgan lectures 1966. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
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01:31 Liminality
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05:09 The Liminal Left - Economic/Political
07:10 Authority and Liminality
10:07 The Cultural Left and Liminality
13:39 Conclusion -
"When all you have is a hammer every problem begins to look like a nail." Good philosophy is always trying to break up and recreate its map of the world. In this episode we are going to break up the Individualist model of the world a little and broaden our map to include the Collectivist perspectives. We talk a lot about Nihilism and the Meaning Crisis as if they are only to be understood as individual problems but the challenges and solutions that face us in the 21st century can't be understood merely from one angle. This episode is a case study in the Homelessness Crisis and how it looks from the vantage points of Individualism and Collectivism.
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π Further Reading:
- Jerusalem Damsas's article for The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/homelessness-affordable-housing-crisis-democrats-causes/672224/
- Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page's site with some fascinating graphs and a link to their book: https://homelessnesshousingproblem.com/
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