Silver Eye Society

Could you survive the Cube?

A group is a microcosm of society. Whether a tyrant rules over three people or 3 million, the same patterns and psychology are at play.

Knowing what those patterns look like on the individual level makes you better able to see them when they're beginning to appear on the societal level.

 

◬ In this episode:

⋗ Word of the podcast: Cube ⋗ Could Lex Friedman escape The Cube? ⋗ How to appreciate older movies and effects ⋗ The psychology of tyrannical leaders ⋗ Guns may create more equality than less ⋗ How individual dynamics play out across entire societies ⋗ Will violence be our ultimate end as a species? ⋗ Guilt prevents progress ⋗ How family redeems the individual

 

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The far-left politics that have gained popularity today aren't new—they were also popular with a figure whose ideals led to the deaths of millions.

 

No conversation about today's lite far-leftist views can be complete without an understanding of Vladimir Lenin's views.

 

And when you find that your views on free speech overlap with a figure who didn't hesitate to execute political dissidents, it might be time to reevaluate your path.

 

◬ In this episode:

⋗ Word of the podcast: Tradition ⋗ Background on Vladimir Lenin ⋗ The difference between career activists and true radicals ⋗ Why the left attacks traditions and culture ⋗ The history of leftism suppressing free speech ⋗ How academia has cultivated far-leftism ⋗ Free speech is the decisive battle

 

◬ Book Mentioned: Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

 

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Our culture might feel intensely serious but it's never been more absurd. 

 

Somewhere child soldiers march into battle while our college kids hyperventilate over "bad" words. Absurdism is exactly what's needed to make sense of a nonsensical society.   

 

◬ In this episode:   

 

⋗ Word of the podcast: Absurd ⋗ The absurdity of our meaningless existence ⋗ Have our conversations become interrogations?   ⋗ We don't realize how technology is damaging our communication ⋗ The importance of podcasts and rejecting censorship ⋗ We haven't reckoned with how social media addiction may afflict society ⋗ Our culture is simultaneously absurd and overly serious ⋗ Inflating minor issues prevents us from alleviating genuine hardship ⋗ Why is there no Lady Jackass?

 

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In the Silver Eye Society's AMA, we consider your questions in our usual absurdist form.

 

In this public portion of March's AMA, we answer:

⋗ Q: Why are those who presume to have free, open minds often so adversarial? ⋗ Compassion is often a mask for its opposite ⋗ Q: How to move beyond the Afro-Pessimism lens of progressive leftist racial worldview. ⋗ Pessimism leads to the natural conclusion of revenge. ⋗ The future is a post-ideology society ⋗ How to spot a pending societal collapse ⋗ Q: What in the world are you looking to encounter? ⋗ Understanding the world outside of a pre-formed worldview ⋗ The pandemic turned us into hampsters

 

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It's a movie you've never heard of told in a way stories are rarely still told today.  

 

Everyone has a camera and everyone has a public profile, but instead of sharing unprecedented levels of the human experience, most people perform and conform.   

 

Every person is capable of offering us insight, whether intentionally or accidentally. But when our culture seems increasingly contrived and guarded, does it influence us to become just as insincere?  

 

◬ In this episode:   

 

⋗ Word of the podcast: Tenacity ⋗ Art is ruined by rigid, cynical narrative-seeking ⋗ Does each generation get weaker?   ⋗ The insight of the average person ⋗ The omen of the Island Boys ⋗ Is our culture afraid of sincerity?   ⋗ Technology changes the way we present and understand ourselves ⋗ Why are we losing real-world connection as we gain an unprecedented amount of online connection?

 

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Was this year's Oscars ceremony a psy-op or the perfect encapsulation of contemporary American culture?

 

◬ In this episode:

⋗ Word of the podcast: Oscar ⋗ Why does no one care about The Oscars anymore? ⋗ The Oscars isn't for us, but a tiny subculture of Americans ⋗ When political displays are popular, not a personal sacrifice ⋗ Leave Chris Rock alone!!! ⋗ Hollywood once made dreams, now it kills them ⋗ Chaos erupts

 

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You're addicted to screens that seduce you away from everything meaningful in life with neon flashes of phantom happiness.   

 

You haven't had an original thought in weeks because the newsfeed-to-brain pipeline we call a smartphone is ever-flowing.   

 

Issue after issue is either created or compounded by the man-made mechanisms that connect and then control mass populations. But don't worry, the creators of these problems have inspiring ideas of what the future can be—and this time everything will be different.   

 

Right?

 

◬ In this episode:   

 

⋗ Word of the podcast: Dilemma ⋗ Can the problems tech people created be solved by the same people?   ⋗ We disagree more, but we also see our disagreement like never before ⋗ The arrogant utopianism of tech culture threatens society ⋗ The danger of conflating healthy dissent with unhealthy division ⋗ What would a social media credit score look like?   ⋗ Revisiting the concept of the mad scientist   ⋗ 🎵Facebook sees you when you're sleeping, it knows when you're awake🎵

 

 

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In the Silver Eye Society's AMA, we consider your questions in our usual absurdist form.

 

In this public portion of February's AMA, we answer:

⋗ Video games we've played and their philosophical interpretations ⋗ Q: Is the mainstream media coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine reliable? ⋗ What the media has already gotten wrong about Ukraine & Russia ⋗ Let's not have opinions on everything at every moment ⋗ You don't get to choose your thoughts anymore ⋗ Q: At what point is consideration for others a problem? ⋗ When consideration for others harms us all ⋗ Q: Is there a shard of meanness necessary in life and art? ⋗ Great artists must be willing to be disliked ⋗ Q: What made you start the podcast?

 

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Fear is ancient, but so is the desire to exploit it. V for Vendetta is a crash course in how fear is used to control entire populations.

 

When it seems like illness and violence are constantly competing for our attention today, understanding how fear changes us and our society is crucial.

 

◬ In this episode:

⋗ Word of the podcast: Vox Populi ⋗ Powerful figures use fear to sow insecurity and take control ⋗ There is no "normal" to get back to ⋗ The cost of using fear to control people ⋗ Organic fear versus imposed fear ⋗ The danger isn't fear, but the desire for fear ⋗ Fighting false enemies lets real problems fester

 

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It's hard to recognize tyranny when your belief system isn't built on principles, but on politics.

 

The West has no shortage of art about government corruption and human rights horrors—unless those crimes come from the political left instead of the right. Are we doomed to learn that no government is immune to authoritarianism the hardest way?

 

◬ In this episode:

⋗ Word of the podcast: Archon ⋗ Cultivate your anarchist tendencies ⋗ The overwhelming parallels between pandemic restrictions and V for Vendetta ⋗ Ideology blinds its adherents to everything outside it's narrative ⋗ Why the West is more threatened by leftwing authoritarianism ⋗ Politicians, not data, decided when the pandemic ended ⋗ What kind of emergency spans two years? ⋗ A prediction on the Freedom Convoy and Trudeau

 

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