Jung describes Americans as having an “astonishingly feeble resistance to collective influences” which he found “positively terrifying”. His 1931 article on the uniquely American psychology is filled with novel insights into American psychology: its herdlike nature, the Heroic Ideal driving it as well as showcasing some of Jung’s more unsavoury Shadow elements — his racism which we’ll talk more about in the next episode.

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📚 Further Reading:

- Jung, C.G. 1931. The Complications of American Psychology

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⌛ Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

0:50 It’s Complicated

06:52 The Heroic Ideal

09:25 The Source of American Psychology

📚 Further Reading:

- Camus, Albert, *The Myth of Sisyphus*

- Camus, Albert, *The Outsider*

- Camus, Albert, *The Rebel*

- Camus, Albert, *Caligula*

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⌛ Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

4:07 1. Suicide

5:41 2.Philosophical Suicide

7:36 3. Absurdism

12:57 4. The living philosophy of Absurdism

Could Neuralink accidentally turn all its users into a hive mind? That’s what we’re going to be exploring in this episode where we take a look inside the brain and at the possibility for Neuralink’s high bandwidth and low latency to transform the nature of consciousness.

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2:06 Split Brain Science

5:55 Watts Argument: Merging of Consciousness

9:14 The Age of BCIs

10:47 What Will a Super-Consciousness Look Like?

The phrases "evil" and "sociopathic" (not to mention "indecent") were some of the responses to a passing joke about Jordan Peterson's crying in the episode on his 2005 manifesto "Peacemaking Among Higher Order Primates". In this episode we explore why some people find it funny to laugh at a grown man crying when so much work has been done to destigmatise male shows of vulnerability. We look at the three explanations for Peterson's crying and who believes which explanation and which justifies memes and jokes.

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📚 Further Reading:

- I was Jordan Peterson’s strongest supporter. Now I think he’s dangerous (Bernard Schiff article): https://www.thestar.com/opinion/i-was-jordan-peterson-s-strongest-supporter-now-i-think-he-s-dangerous/article_085724d2-94de-5fd2-81c3-b3b2822fd38a.html

- Jung, C.G., (1953) *Two Essays on Analytical Psychology* in Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 7

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⌛ Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

00:00 Introduction

07:38 1. The Unhinged Hypothesis

10:24 2. The Marilyn Monroe thesis

14:43 2.1 Mythological Tears

17:50 3. The Performative thesis - intro

19:10 3.1 The Four Types of Fart

22:16 3.2 The Performative thesis proper

23:12 3.3 What's to Gain from Performativity?

24:46 3.4 A Motte Full of Tears

If an alien arrived on this planet having read only the writings of Marx, Proudhon and other great leftist socialist thinkers, they would be very surprised by the reaction to Rich Men North of Richmond. Oliver Anthony's song was loved by some and hated by others with the usual weird subtextual energies of the Culture Wars infusing both. This episode looks at why, from a historical theoretical it could have been otherwise. And why it wasn't.

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📚 For Your Further Perusal:

- Oliver Anthony's Rich Men North of Richmond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro&pp
- Nicholas Kristof's article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/opinion/oliver-anthony-liberals.html
- Time article: https://time.com/6308121/oliver-anthony-country-music-divide-essay/
- Guardian "Punching Down" article: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/16/rich-men-north-of-richmond-oliver-anthony
- The Independent's article: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/rich-man-north-of-richmond-lyrics-oliver-anthony-b2394954.html
- Keith Woods's video "The Great Awokening": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOh_Ng0v1WE

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⌛ Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction
2:42 Why the Left Should Love Rich Men North of Richmond
5:08 Why the Left Hated Rich Men North of Richmond
7:42 The Chthonic Populists and Pure Woke
11:31 What to do about the Oliver Anthonys?

In this video we are going to tackle a challenging question: what is self-actualisation isn't what we should be doing; what if instead it is a big cope — a way of burying our head in the sand (rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic; playing our fiddle while Rome burns — choose your preferred analogy) while the world burns.

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0:00 Introduction
2:58 Non-Leftists: Desperate Narcissism
6:33 Leftists: Crushing Misery

In this episode, we look at why you should listen to South Park's Butters over modern Buddhist gurus. We talk about the sales pitch used by spiritual gurudom to get people hungry for Enlightenment while hiding the truth about the awful reality of that path. Fun fun fun.

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📚 Further Reading:

- Mingyur, R.Y. and Swanson, E., 2010. _Joyful wisdom_. Random House.

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0:00 Introduction

3:32 Everything is S ** T

6:08 The Horrors of Spiritual Attainment

8:40 Who's Falling for It?

10:31 Who It's Really For

12:37 Spiritual Bypassing

In this episode I talk about the books that rescued me in my darkest times by giving me the breath of heroic inspiration I needed to get moving out of the dark pit I'd found myself in. I talk about what these books had in common and why we need them.

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📚 Further Reading:

- _I’m Not There_. (2008). [Movie].

- Dumas, A., *The Three Musketeers*

- London, J., *The Call of the Wild*

- Conan Doyle, A., *The Lost World*

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The aphoristic style of Friedrich Nietzsche is a wellspring of inspiration. In this episode, we explore the connection between this style and Nietzsche's hiking (10 hours of hiking a day, if he is to be believed). It is Nietzsche's walking that gave birth to the aphorisms in a passive form of thinking that stands in stark contrast to the thorough linear thinking of philosophers like Kant and Hegel.

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📚 Further Reading:

- Nietzsche FW (2000) _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_. translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library.

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⌛ Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction

3:48 The Walking Philosopher

6:20 The Walking Muse

10:41 How to Think Like Nietzsche