Human Meme

Human Meme

By David BolesSociety & CultureArtsPerforming Arts
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Human Meme episodes

  • Rescuing the District
    Washington, DC is, and always must remain, a golden city. Here's my story of landing, fresh-faced from Nebraska, in our nation's capital during the summer of 1987 -- and how life there is now irrevocably changed by the January 6, 2021 insurrection.
    12 min
  • A Cosmic Latte and the Cult of Ignorance
    Sometimes simple is not so smart. Americans tend to prefer the dumb over the keen -- just because one is easier to understand, and share, than the other. That lackadaisical mendacity must not be allowed to be a substitute for greatness. Reject Boaty McBoatface. Rejoice in the genius of others!
    12 min
  • Always Too Late
    We spend our lives apologizing. We express regret for thoughts and feelings we cannot repress. Not every thought need be shared or spoken. Even when we know better, we still take a step too far, we still arrive at peace too late, we are still unable to stop the inevitable spew of hurt in reclamation.
    10 min
  • Just Because You Did It...
    Our system of law is broken. The guilty are set free. The innocent are doing hard time. Is there any way to get out of this moral morass that enrobes us like tar and sinks our highest aspirations?
    11 min
  • On Anticipation of the Eve
    The night before is more powerful than the event of the day. We place great cultural value on moon anticipation of the moment when the result of the next sun often churns to disappointment and decay.
    7 min
  • Bruce Lee on Being Water
    There is no doubt Bruce Lee was a SuperGenius. If you want an example of his brilliance beyond the screen and Martial Arts, learn here today how he viewed the form and the substance of water and how we are what we become.
    11 min
  • On Caring Less
    Careless. Could care less. Couldn't care less. Caring is important, but too often too many of us focus on happiness and not caring, and that's when the monsters among us act to strike down our smiles in a walk-by grin sniping.
    11 min
  • Real Minority Rules
    Noam Chomsky warns us the real minority in America are the wealthy. We need to wise up and get smarter! The Founding Fathers created these United States, not for the benefit of the many, but for the few. Our government was constructed to protect the particular minority interests of the rich, not welfare of the common person, and the sooner we know that, and act upon that information, the better off we'll be accepting why 50% of us hates the other half of us.
    12 min
  • Canned Food and the Food Desert
    No body chooses to go hungry. How do we feed a universal hungering that starts in the food desert and ends on the urban street corner? We are Constitutionally obligated "to promote the general welfare," and that includes getting food, and healthcare, to every body that needs the assistance.
    11 min
  • Letter of Recommendation
    There is an Art to writing a good letter of recommendation. A right letter takes time, and thought, and today, we look at both sides of the recommendation writing dyad: the writer and the person of interest. Plus, as a bonus, we dig into the Nebraska Mafia to reveal a hit job that nobody saw coming -- except the superior one firing the gun.
    22 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…