Lost in Thought

I sat down with Dr. Charlie Bresler, Exec. Director of The Life You Can Save, a charity founded by Peter Singer to advance the ideas of his book under the same title.

We chatted about the act of giving, why we do and don't give, and negotiating the space between building a career, financial security, and marginal returns. 

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An introduction to one of the most important philosophers... ever... Wittgenstein talks about language, sense, meaning, and the responsibility of language users to use language properly.

 

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This episode explores sobriety and alcoholism in anglo society. I talk about my reasons for being sober. I also talk about depression, hangovers, and alcohol as a social lubricant. 

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I saw down with Dr. Paul Cammell and spoke about the relationship between psychiatry and philosophy, the origins of depression, and the nature of therapy. 

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I ask whether it is possible to think of morality as something that is entirely subjective.

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I talk about the dull and plain moments of depression that make it very difficult to find reasons to do anything.

I reflect on my depression and how it impacts my everyday experience of the world. Sending love your way.

 

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Back in October 2018, my friend Liam and I sat down with Julian Burnside AO QC. Julian is a barrister, human rights and asylum seeker advocate, and has recently turned to politics as a way of making change.

What's most curious about our interview with Julian is that he told us again and again that he wasn't interested in politics, and that he wasn't willing to comment on political topics (outside human rights and asylum seeker related themes). 

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In this episode, I explore what it means to be happy, what form happiness takes, and whether it's a meaningful thing for us to strive towards.

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I regularly ask myself something along the lines of "F*ck, why do I wake up in the morning? Is it always going to be this cyclical?" At the moment, I feel aimless; directionless; purposeless; confused; displaced; uprooted. I feel very uncertain about my past, present, and future. Is it ok to feel this way? Probably? Will my life be punctuated by these crises? Probably? I reflect on all of these things in this episode.

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