On the one year anniversary of their first episode, Matt and Derek re-visit the subject of mental health.  They both share how their mental health has been doing this past year, including what helped and what aggravated their mental states.

Take care of yourself and one another, and if you need help, please speak with someone who can help.

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Matt and Derek introduce the Redeemer Representative archetype a.k.a. the Political Saviour, an original framing they devised to characterize some leaders.

They define it as "a gnostic figurehead that promises to guide adherents towards an aspirational future provided they comply with challenging and suspect tenants, who seeks a covenant with you."  They can be characterized as seeking and enjoying power, use of aspirational claims, possessing fundamentally gnostic elements, use of grandiose rhetoric, high quality performativity, proclivity for propaganda, requests that faith be placed in them, they are a con artist that never delivers, and they are born typically out of a cultural or social crisis that they capitalize on, and they characterize it as an existential crisis.

Examples are provided in the episode, as well as their more honest and wise counterparts, and they discuss why we are susceptible to their lies as humans.

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Matt and Derek discuss the value of stories and mythos in human culture and the dangers of diluting potent archetypal products.  Humans crave meaning and if we erode the richness and complexity of codified truths found in the wisdom of stories, we make it increasingly more difficult for us to discover sustaining models of purpose.  This episode focuses on the diminishing value of vampires as a cultural product due to their frequency in modern fantasy, marketing, and as sources of sex appeal.  Vampires didn't always suck, but now they do.

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Matt and Derek discuss the social obsession with the Rittenhouse trial.  They both express their confusion and concern regarding the coverage, the predictable and inappropriate tribalism that ensued, the fact that politics ruins everything, and that relying on perceived justice associated with court cases, even highly televised ones, is unlikely to provide you with meaning.

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On this first instalment of Elegant Ethics, Matt discusses the ethical considerations surrounding the recently implemented COVID-19 Vaccination policy for Federal Public Servants.

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Do we enjoy burning witches?  Matt and Derek review a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail that showcases the insanity of human behaviour. 

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Matt and Derek discuss human commodification and various examples that may incline or train us to perceive reality and others through the lens of a psychopath, and how this leads to the destruction of social interaction and individual value.

Topics include the effects of reducing humanity to objects or instruments, the human attribution of meaning,  online dating, cannibalism, pornography and prostitution, human trafficking, large populations, and those with which we disagree, such as dissidents during the pandemic.

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Matt and Derek discuss the concept of playing the hand you've been dealt, or rather, recognizing your circumstances and navigating your unique position relative to others, and the value of this approach.  This includes implications regarding truth, reality, ethics, excellence, work ethic, vulnerability, disparities and reciprocity.

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Has Canada become a monarchy?

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Derek visits Canada and shares his experience entering the country and his impressions about the state of Canadian life during the pandemic.

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