Human Meme

Human Meme

By David BolesSociety & CultureArtsPerforming Arts
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Human Meme episodes

  • 10txt in Podcast Performance
    Here are three 10txt stories performed for the first time! In this edition, you'll hear, "I am the Night Train Killer" and "Beanie Blue, Queen of the Undernight" plus, "Marston Swain, Jr. Waits for His Life to Begin."
    12 min
  • The Sorry Legend of the Great Bootsock (Podcast Edition!)
    Here is the starry, sorry, legend of the Great Bootsock! In this original story -- and published November 8, 2013 at BolesBlogs.com -- we learn of a great high school football player who fell in the glittery days of college, and who had to settle for a life, not in the heavens, but stuck, hard, in the ethereal ground.
    9 min
  • Only Tomorrow Matters
    What kind of life do you want to have? We compare the Anarchist to the Passivist and how the memes of knowledge become moments of sharing beyond the classroom. What we know, defines us, and what we do not know, defeats us.
    8 min
  • American Gargoyle: A Cloven Hoof in the Homeland
    In this original fairytale, you meet an orange-faced Gargoyle. That short-fingered, cloven-hoofed, Vulgarian God is set upon the destruction of the world, and is served by three, misshapen, children as the rest of humanity are rendered mute with nukes. Then -- a child appears -- to tame the hatred, and stanch the drooling, with the gift of kindness; and the world is able to be re-birthed again, in the valley of the homeland.
    17 min
  • A Pineal Annealing
    Our pineal gland is the key to healing. We share the ways and means of annealing your pineal gland -- your very own grain-of-rice-sized pinecone in the middle of your brain in perfect Fibonacci Golden Spiral form -- for greater health, and insight into your world, and galaxies beyond the human meme!
    15 min
  • Of Wealth and the Starless Eye
    How do we measure success: Using the wallet and social status? We explore the common themes of winning and losing; and we shares the story of a young woman we used to know who sold her future, and the futures of her children, to the highest, social, bidder.
    12 min
  • Life of Curation
    Our greatest duty is to curate each other. We investigate what we decide together to improve, provide, and empower. We also share a mistake he made during a Freshman year of teaching Freshman writing!
    13 min
  • Disability and Indifference
    Do we still care to care for the disabled -- or do we only want them fixed? We discuss why we may think there are right protections​ in place​, like the Americans With Disabilities Act, to guarantee and ensure equal access; but as society changes, ​​Eugenics rises again, The Ugly Laws become revitalized, and we have a return to those who prefer to cull the herd instead of lifting up everyone. Even 23andMe are disaffected in wanting to fix instead of help!
    15 min
  • Omne Trium Perfectum: The Rule of Three
    We believe in Threes -- for there is power in the multiple choosing! -- but, why? We consider Sigmund Freud's fascinating essay, "The Theme of the Three Caskets" to help divine answers in our need for a triple choice. Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and "King Lear" hold clues to caskets of gold, silver and lead and -- in the final absorption -- we find the unadorned, instinctual, reflexive, viral, choosing of The Goddess of Death as the real value in every human life.
    24 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…