Silver Eye Society

Two peasants make a podcast discussing the great achievements of the Expert Class, such as releasing a deadly virus across the world and in Ex Machina, releasing a murderous A.I. into the world.

 

The success of science and technology is seductive, tricking us into believing we can do all things at no cost. Ex Machina is a reminder that sometimes the chaos of nature is safer than the control of man.

 

◬ In this episode:

⋗ Word of the podcast: Machine ⋗ Does technology make us weaker? ⋗ You're the Experiment ⋗ Have a little humility—especially if you're an Expert ⋗ Covering up your errors only breeds suspicion ⋗ Unrepentant liars can't demand trust ⋗ Our glass smart-prisons ⋗ Actual experiments that have been secretly run on you ⋗ Big peasant energy

 

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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 January's AMA, we answer:

⋗ What substantial issue have you changed your mind on recently? ⋗ Do your political views shift or does the culture shift around you? ⋗ What places around the world still champion freedom? ⋗ Don't procrastinate on your abortions ⋗ National divorce fallacies ⋗ Canada isn't okay ⋗ The danger of using divisive political rhetoric and tactics ⋗ What happens when everything, even medicines, become politicized

 

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We usually stick to the classics for analyzing our modern cultural problems, but Don't Look Up puts society's problems under a spotlight.

 

This movie makes some of the painfully common errors contemporary art does, but those errors accidentally reveal important truths.

 

◬ In this episode:

⋗ Word of the podcast: comet ⋗ What makes your art lazy and temporal ⋗ Power attracts ego and greed, not competence and integrity ⋗ Are experts to blame for their inability to communicate issues? ⋗ Your inability to solve a problem is your problem ⋗ How alarmist messaging desensitizes people and creates disbelief ⋗ Gratitude is a tool of clarity

 

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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 December's AMA, we answer:

 

⋗ Can you be genuinely be friends with people of different ideologies? ⋗ How do we pursue truth in a society of fractured, competing narratives? ⋗ Is our inability to pursue truths collectively the biggest obstacle to progress? ⋗ What sub-genre of horror movie would you prefer to live through?

 

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◬ Submit your questions for our next AMA on Reddit.

"It's coming from inside the house!"

Media haunts us wherever we go today, in our homes on the TV, in our cars on the radio, and there and everywhere in-between on our phones.

At a time when the corporate media has never been less trusted and when censorship is increasingly popular, understanding how media has manipulated us throughout history and today, whether for profit or government favor, is crucial.

In this episode on Network, we discuss how to deal with our unusual and overwhelming media landscape.

 

◬ In this episode:

⋗ Corporate media's desperation is degrading our culture ⋗ Has the media quietly morphed into entertainment? ⋗ Journalism's unethical and forgotten past ⋗ Why today's chaotic media landscape may still be the best ⋗ How social media creates a homogenized, global culture ⋗ What's more real: how the media describes today or how we experience it? ⋗ Refusing to be manipulated by fear and anger

 

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It's the holiday season, which is the perfect time to contemplate the meaning of your existence.

 

It's a Wonderful Life takes the battle against nihilism all the way back to the 1940s, where working class struggles, resentment, and the value of the individual are shown sans the cynicism of our modern culture.

 

Merry Christmas all!

 

◬ In this episode:

⋗ The other pandemic: cynicism ⋗ It's a Wonderful Life is The Shining with a happy ending ⋗ How can resentment infects good people⋗ Answering nihilism: why should you bother existing? ⋗ Ethical time travel experiment ⋗ Material kids in a material world ⋗ Feel wonder and praise electricity ⋗ The overlap between enlightenment and insanity ⋗ Have faith in the value of the individual ⋗ Who decides the value of your life

 

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When the people who yell the loudest about kindness are the cruelest and the people who preach morality commit the very acts they condemn, Jung's concept of the Shadow is as relevant as ever. 

The Shadow is one of the better known Jungian archetypes, but its popularity means it suffers from mischaracterization. The Shadow isn't only your dark side, but can be the good qualities you're afraid to share. An entire society can have a Shadow side just as an individual can.

This episode is a deep dive on Jung's concept of the Shadow presented in a non-lecturing, everyday conversational format. 

 

◬ In this episode:  

⋗ The archetype of the Shadow  ⋗ What is the Shadow and how does our culture influence it? ⋗ Why evil is relative and when we repress our better qualities ⋗ The role of curiosity in facing our Shadow ⋗ Creativity is inevitably linked with darkness ⋗ Projection and possession by archetypes  ⋗ Jung's ideas can kill you ⋗ You are the adventure  ⋗ Societies have a Shadow side  ⋗ The Nietzschean Void-Staring Finishing School for Children ⋗ Jungian Geography and the integration of the U.S.  

 

◬ Watch the first part of our primer on Jung.

 

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As the debate over what should and shouldn't be taught in schools rages on, we're in danger of obsessing over the details and missing the larger picture: what's the true point of education?  

The Dead Poets Society puts a tradition of conformity in battle against a tradition of liberalism. 

What should the education of children in a free society look like?

◬ In this episode:   

⋗ Differentiating between education vs. indoctrination ⋗ Should education cultivate individuality? ⋗ Is education actually meant to corrupt the youth? ⋗ Are we battling ideas or battling traditions? ⋗ Monti-Solo School ⋗ Why is the education system a web of confusion? ⋗ Teaching values vs. beliefs ⋗ Succumbing to subjectivity vs. aiming for objectivity ⋗ Do we have a culture of inherent mistrust? ⋗ Teacher! Leave those kids alone!

 

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Does failure make you weak or does weakness make you fail? 

The Shining is a classic horror movie that features the only monster that's most dangerous when isolated: you.  In the solitary setting of The Overlook Hotel, Jack Torrance can no longer escape his failure. 

Sometimes the most terrifying monster is a man who refuses to face himself.  

 

◬ In this episode:    

⋗ Solitude is a threat to the examined life ⋗ Moon business opportunities ⋗ The maze of your mind ⋗ Psychedelic thinking ⋗ Logos: the pursuit of clarity over chaos ⋗ Does failure make you evil or does evil make you a failure? ⋗ Weak people are the employees of darkness 

 

◬ Watch this episode on YouTube

 

◬ Other episodes mentioned: Solitude, Socrates, and Censorship or: How to Be a True-Man 

 

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Whether it's Q or CRT in schools, our eternal panic over whose got our kids is epitomized by the kid-killing monster, Freddy Krueger.  

 

As the family structure changes, the problems and panics we face change too. Was Freddy Krueger solving over-population by enacting a zero child policy? 

 

A Nightmare on Elm Street also makes the subtle argument that the way we defeat our enemies can create danger for us down the line.  

 

◬ In this episode:   

⋗ The ever-transforming boogeyman   ⋗ Is Freddy Krueger a victim of cancel culture? ⋗ Individual evil can transcend an individual's mortality   ⋗ The need for ritual in dispelling evil ⋗ Does the decline of family life increase our panic over kids? ⋗ When the state competes with parents for control over child ⋗ Why leftwing authoritarianism views the family unit as an obstacle ⋗ The Freddy Krueger "Zero Policy Child" Plan

 

◬ Complementary episode: 

⋗ What You Ignore Will Eat You | Texas Chainsaw Massacre 

 

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