Human Meme

Human Meme

By David BolesSociety & CultureArtsPerforming Arts
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Human Meme episodes

  • Hoping the World Will Return to You
    As the world spins forward, we, the newly aged, get left behind. What are we to make of the changes in a culture that cancels the opposite opinion, and where booty shaking overrules the arched foot? In the end, we shall all return together for the yearning of the faraway fire lighted just for us.
    10 min
  • Life of a Ghost
    Ghosts get the work done. Ghosts become us. Ghosts are up from the grave to provide solace against "Cancel Culture" -- because you cannot kill what does not care!
    12 min
  • Camp Kitaki and One Tin Soldier
    Music connects us to the living, and reminds us of our demise. In the Summer of 1973, the Coven song, "One Tin Soldier" was on the top of the music charts, and that tune was sung by 8-year-olds in the yellow school bus, on the way home from Camp Kitaki, in Nebraska. Music supplies the memories for our memes.
    16 min
  • David Boles Bells: A Recantation
    If you're pressing over 50, then you need a good Kettlebell workout! Welcome to the new BolesBells.com website and blog -- the right place for those who have lived over half a century, and for those who also want to keep their health and power. As we age, there are more specific concerns about health, strength and agility that we need to address as we do our best to always move forward from the grave.
    13 min
  • Sex and the Vegan
    Naming conventions matter. Words have definitions beyond simple branding. The sexualization of Veganism for profit is a dangerous copulation with afterbirth results. Being Vegan is more than a sexual slur!
    14 min
  • The Final 20 Minutes
    Why do so many dramatic stories fail in the final 20 minutes? Today, we will find out together using Denzel Washington's, THE LITTLE THINGS, movie as a template for a disaster in storytelling. We'll also discuss The Greeks, Aristotle, THE CURE AT TROY, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, CITIZEN KANE, and the SEVEN SECONDS television show. Here's your three-year, Ivy League, MFA in Playwriting earned in 36 minutes!
    37 min
  • Don't Bet on the Grave
    Be not enchanted by death. Take a risk with the living and propel your ideas forward into imagination, and not eternal dreaming. History is a context of what was about to happen, not about what is about to begin now. Wager against the headstone and insist on touching the horizon.
    12 min
  • Ritualistic Releases
    We use rituals to provide contextual meaning for human progress. In that systemic release of both joy and disappointment, the ritualistic flow defines the ongoing morality of a community. If we choose not to be a part of the flow, then we have become an impediment to the progressive means of humanity.
    10 min
  • Old Timers for Young Folks
    Here are some thoughts for young people. Sometimes we need to test our values beyond our boundaries, we must often forsake our happiness for the greater good; and, finally, it is only up to us to actually get something done that is everlasting.
    14 min
  • Bob Dylan Sold Us Out
    Bob Dylan betrayed us for a buck. What does an artist owe an audience? Faithfulness? Predictability? The assumption of kindness? Bob Dylan sold his songs for a fortune, and in the process, lost the world. Now let's use his own words against him.
    13 min

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The Human Meme podcast examines what separates human consciousness from mere biological existence. Each episode investigates the inherited behaviors, cultural transmissions, and cognitive patterns…