Welcome to Episode 2 of The Caves of Altamira. Please join me and the good Dr. James Batcho as we contemplate why we've all decided to become annoying second year grad students and obsess endlessly over matters of ontology. Hear James warn me about unwittingly obliterating my son's soul. Join us again in welcoming the tortured souls of Nietzsche and Marx to the caves as they as they encounter their ebullient predecessor Jean-Jacques Rousseau in our dissection of how things have gone so awry and some alternatives courses available. All this and more in our most recent junket into the Caves of Altamira.

Links

The Caves of Altamira Facebook Group:
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James' book:
https://www.amazon.com/Terrence-Malicks-Unseeing-Cinema-Audibility-ebook/dp/B07D8L7HF2/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=james+batcho&qid=1608990027&sr=8-3

Byung-Chul Han’s book:
https://www.amazon.com/Disappearance-Rituals-Topology-Present/dp/1509542760

Jill Lepore's book:
https://www.amazon.com/If-Then-Simulmatics-Corporation-Invented/dp/1631496107/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=If%2FThen&qid=1608990121&sr=8-1

 

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Where do Donald Trump, Adam Smith, Sam Harris, Friedrich Nietzsche, Kellyanne Conway, Karl Marx, Jordan Peterson, and Saddam Hussein all meet up and converse over a tacocoptered meal? But of course within the depths of The Caves of Altamira. Join me and my guest George Khoury for a wide-ranging exploration of the contemporary state of American society and the forces past and present shaping the times. Hear us confront our looming middle-agedness as we struggle to recall nearly ubiquitous facets of popular culture. Applaud or wince at our efforts to punch up as this scrappy upstart podcast goes after some of America's most cherished charlatans. Lastly, stick around to the end to hear George make his first public announcement of a book project that centers on a genuinely mind blowing aspect of his recent family history. All that and more in this inaugural episode of The Caves of Altamira, a safe place to do unsafe things. Thanks so much for listening! Please leave a rating or review and subscribe.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theinterestingtimes.substack.com