Alex and Macon discuss the Individual/Institution dichotomy with its asymmetries of power, information, and the resulting difficulty of discerning the truth of things in a world where you don’t have scale without abstraction.

Show Notes:

Macarena - Original Version ← with more saxophone than you ever expected

Macarena - the one you know

So many songs about traveling!

YMCA

A Blues Traveler Top 10

Stadium Rock

Jump Around

The Hook Brings You Back ← with more harmonica than you probably needed, but the music video stands up still in 2023

1999

Ken’s job is just beach.

Cajun Man

Back in 2020, MIT published A Complete History of Pandemics

It was actually Bethel, New York.

Jesus People

Family Ties

It’s actually Two Minutes of Hate, but 70+ years of inflation gets us to Five Minutes, at least.

The amazingness of having bread on the shelves.

Chapter 8, Do Christians Worship the Same God as Those from Other Abrahamic Faiths?, in Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God.

Luke 18:9

Founding Brothers ← recommended

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