The Paradox That Makes Truth Possible –  

The Deeper Thinking Podcast

A meditation on contradiction as condition—not conflict—and the quiet cultural systems that cleanse paradox from our narratives, technologies, and sense of the real.

What if truth doesn’t emerge from coherence, but from contradiction? In this episode, we explore the doctrine of paradox control: the idea that modern institutions, platforms, and psyches are structurally engineered to avoid unresolved complexity. Drawing from Søren Kierkegaard, Simone Weil, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Michel Foucault, we examine how paradox is not a problem to be resolved but a structure to be held—an ethical stance in the age of flattening thought.

This is not theory for theory’s sake. It’s a cultural diagnostic for the systems that demand simplicity when reality insists on mess. From AI to memory, faith to storytelling, we question how meaning survives in a world that mistakes polish for insight.

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When culture forgets how to hold paradox, it forgets how to hold itself.

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