The Liam Maxwell Podcast

A frazzled, on-the-spot analysis of some of the key depictions of Carl Jung, which are often overlooked and thus go unnoticed which unfortunately is the common fate of thinkers or minds of such depth. For example, through his 30-year-long study in the latter stages of his life, Jung's identification of what he termed "the spirit of the times" as distinct from "the spirit of the depths", which, like Newton when he famously declared "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" or Goethe "He whose vision cannot cover, History's three thousand years, Must in outer darkness hover, Live within the days frontiers"- Jung, and any person who has undertaken such a lifelong study and devoted oneself entirely to the study of history and human beings, have so often produced diamonds from otherwise dirty, muddied, or obscure fields... And still are misconstrued and thus misinterpreted by the general layperson.

Another podcast recorded by and of yours truly, whereby I read and add some extra commentary of some miniature essays I've written and over the past few years or so...

The topics covered in this podcast mostly relate to the theme of mass conditioning through means of manipulation, coercion, passive unquestioning acceptance of "truth", and how easily we might be persuaded, conditioned or convinced into holding certain views, which can quite easily (and often do) become deeply-held collective prejudices or cultural beliefs...

An account of Socrates' life and the absurdity of his death sentence, as according to A.C. Grayling, from his "History Of Philosophy", with small segments of my own two cents thrown in for good measure...

If more people were aware, or cared to think upon the fact that so much of how we live, how we think about the world, how we relate to things, what we value, even the different branches of learning which comprise education itself- we owe to Aristotle (and the early Greek philosophers who allowed for Aristotle's education and thereby helped him in realising the intellectual ideas and conceptualisations he eventually achieved and contributed to the world), and simply as a result of this one man and his philosophical inquiries and devotion to understanding all that it might be possible to understand- we now take for granted so much of what, if it were not for Aristotle- we depend upon for how we think and how the history, especially of the West, though so too for all of human civilization- has unfolded since...

Don't mind the photo of some gourmet sausages, avocado and broccolini I cooked once. It was the only photo I could find and I was too lazy to find another one so I just went with it. Love you all 💕