Utopia is Now

Finding Amusement in Absurdity | feat. Kellen Harrison


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Kellen is a student, entrepreneur, actor, and comedian dedicated to telling stories and learning about others. In this podcast, Kellen and Shashwat discuss the role of expectations in our everyday life, finding amusement in the absurdity of life, finding the courage to experiment, alongside various philosophical tangents. 

Links 

Kellen's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gravitys-not-real/id1448172943 

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Instagram: @utopiaisnow 

Twitter: @UtopiaIsNow 


Timestamps

0:00 - Intro 

1:55 - Keller’s Story 

3:12 - Gravity’s Not Real 

7:11 - Finding Amusement in Absurdity 

12:57 - What Motivates Kellen? 

15:50 - Kellen’s Social Experiments and Experiences 

26:00 - Where to find the courage to experiment 

38:24 - Subverting Expectations 

41:43 - Purposeful Purposelessness & Immanuel Kant 

48:40 - Kellen’s actions: Treating action as ends in themselves or consequentialist reasoning 

53:47 - Kellen’s Utopia


Mentioned in this Episode

Immanuel Kant 

John Mulaney 

George Carlin 

Aldous Huxley


Credits

Art Work: Pablo Picasso - The Weeping Women (1909) 

Music Credits: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X

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