One of Michael’s axioms is “There is an objective reality, and I have a subjective experience of it.” Matt objects to this statement, and they unpack issues of objectivity by way of art, creativity, lies, stories, fiction, god, and humility.

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. - Carl Jung

Politics, culture, relationships - what is the suffering that has been substituted with crazy?

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What do you do when lies are all around you? Take the risk of telling the truth.

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We discuss the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the hope that can be seen through the cracks in a weakening narrative, and what 200 episodes of Shores has meant to us.

“You cannot gaslight an entire nation of free people into hating each other this completely for this long…

…pretending that *everyone* who sees a buck naked emperor is a charlatan is no longer working very well.” - Eric Weinstein

Eric Weinstein quote: https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1813439562234150935

Darkhorse analysis of the assassination attempt: https://open.spotify.com/episode/49Oy1xwAaJ9GQOl75lZSXF?si=794e3d9284974793

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“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!”

― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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We may be victims of our circumstances, but we may also be prodigies of our circumstances.

Dostoevsky Quote - https://x.com/coffeewclassics/status/1803477508580356351?s=46

Abolition of Man - https://a.co/d/0i2VWvLZ

All In with Trump - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0qrvFuvlvecGC1tict7kgc?si=a4645412fb6b4fcb

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Medici Coffee - https://mediciroasting.com/collections/coffee

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Biden, Trump, RFK Jr - What problems does the future hold, and can we see and agree on them? In part this is a problem of perception, and in part the result of everyone standing with daggers out.

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We discuss bitcoin, climate change, recycling, vaccines, covid, relationships, lord of the rings, and how the Truth is relational, explorational, and adventurous.

I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you… the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both.

- C.S. Lewis

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Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't

want their illusions destroyed.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

References:

C.S. Lewis Quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10198766-patriotism-has-then-many-faces-those-who-would-reject-it

Chris Cuomo Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3cdErzfQnI

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Hemingway’s meditation on the futility of masculinity, the role of men and women in society, solar flares, and the risk of creativity.

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