About Reality Podcast

The world seems to be hanging suspended, in a limbo state, caught in between the reality of the past and that of the future, the latter of which has yet to be determined, yet no one seems to be offering any clear vision of what that future reality might look like. As a result there is a lot of tension in the mind of the average individual, who no longer knows how to plan or invest for their future—they can't count on things remaining so stable as they have been for the last few decades; even the land under their feet is changing, and entire cities worth of people may soon be on the move, in need of more hospitable terrain. What is the path forward?

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I would just like to add, as far as 'where the knowledge is found', and our relationship to the wisdom accrued through our contact with deep time – it is a wisdom to be gained through our bodies too, which are a product of deep time, of billions of years of evolution of life. This is why I emphasize the body – not that the body has or possesses such wisdom, but that it is the wisdom which we need to meditate upon.

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Would the philosopher be wise to do so? Is it the project of the statesman? Has it been the naive project of the west all along? What mode of being, given the state of nature and the world at present, is actually the wisest of all? Such are the questions asked in this episode.

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In the first half of this episode I reintroduce the 'About Reality' project, to outline the intention of both the podcast as well as the companion Substack as we head into the new year. In the second half I get to talking about the language the philosopher might use to capture and convey philosophical ideas that are worth considering in the world of 2022.

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The second stage of philosophical development is a self-discipline or even a self-denial—but toward what end?

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An argument for the return of our attention to areas of linguistic, artistic, and cultural expression outside of the domain of the institutions of our time, which dominate the cultural and social narrative the individual has to attend to, for the fact that they mediate most of our cultural, and cross-cultural, communication. We have to find other spaces (call them platforms, if you'd like) in which to express our concern for other facets of the human experience, which these institutional narratives seem to be forgetting, or outright ignoring.

The first question in this episode is what is good writing, and we say the answer is that good writing is necessary writing. The second question in this episode is, what exactly is necessary to write about in the context of the modern world, and how can a (literary) writer still manage to capture it organically, given the commercialism of literature in its contemporary form?

This being a philosophical undertaking, and one of the main pursuits of philosophy as well as art: to satisfy the primitive impulse to confront the unknown, so as to overcome it, or else simply to live in its proximity.

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You're asked, as global citizen, to never stop developing opinions on events occurring, and people speaking, likely hundreds of miles away from wherever you are situated, as individual. The task of the global citizen, on the daily, is to evaluate such information which is so far removed from your locale, where you live and breathe and work, and dream and perspire. In this episode I recommend dropping out of the global 'sense-making' project that is underway, to instead think your own thoughts, and to dwell in your own, local experience, even if the global mind forming on digital space implicitly, through their/its lack of attention given to you, says that what you are doing is of no value, or is even nonsensical, or irrational—as if your insistence on experiencing what reality you've been built up to experience, as human body and mind, made you some kind of erratic abnormality.

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My Substack: https://aboutreality.substack.com

In this episode, speculating upon what the world of tomorrow may look like, now as for the past nineteen months the whole globe seems to be suspended in this limbo state where it seems as likely to slide completely into chaos as it does into order, into absolute destruction or tyranny. Or maybe I'm being too dramatic. Too dramatic or not, how might we act today, now, when the future really does seem more uncertain than ever, is the question of today's episode. Then we end it with the flourish of a poet!