Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode

Selected References:

•  “No one can opt out of this pandemic. And that will change us forever.”  by Alissa Wilkinson published by Vox on April 13, 2020:
• “The Pre-pandemic Universe Was the Fiction” by Charles Yu published by The Atlantic on April 15, 2020

This episode was recorded in August 2020

The “Beautiful Illusions Theme” was performed by Darron Vigliotti (guitar) and Joseph Vigliotti (drums), and was written and recorded by Darron Vigliotti

Visit our website BeautifulIllusions.org for a complete set of show notes and links to almost everything discussed in this episode

Selected References:

• 1:46 - Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the Overman (Superman, or Ubermensch) as presented in the prologue of Thus Spake Zarathustra: “I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man? All beings hitherto have created something beyond themselves: and ye want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than surpass man? What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. And just the same shall man be to the Superman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame.”
• 2:40 - Jean Baudrillard , Hyperreality, and Simulacra and Simulation
• 4:56 - “Of 2 Minds: How Fast and Slow Thinking Shape Perception and Choice” from Scientific America, excerpted from Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (book overview from Wikipedia)

The “Beautiful Illusions Theme” was performed by Darron Vigliotti (guitar) and Joseph Vigliotti (drums), and was written and recorded by Darron Vigliotti