Wine Jar Cynics

Oneiromancy is a form of divination based upon dreams, and also uses dreams to predict the future. Oneirogen drugs may also be used to produce or enhance dream-like states of consciousness.

Mac, Dio and Gene discuss one of Aristotle's most famous quotes: "The mark of an educated mind is to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it." Technically he did not say this (apocryphal attribution) but the spirit of this main idea lives in his works.

Technically Aristotle did not say this exactly. But, in his Nicomachean Ethics he said: "when the subject and the basis of a disucssion consist of matters that hold good only as a general rule, but not always, the conclusions reached must be of the same order. The various points that are made must be received in the same spirit. For a well-school man is one who searches for that degree of precision in each kind of study which the nature of the subject at hand admits: it is obviously just as foolish to accept arguments of probability form a mathematician as to demand strict demonstrations from an orator." (Pg. 5 Niomachean Ethics, Aristotle The Library of Liberal Arts Trans. by Martin Ostwald, 1962)

The main idea of this episode is, are podcasts "sinister sounds" essentially spreading disinformation and misinformation.

-Role of podcasts in Information Ecosystem

-Misinformation and podcasts

-What is the solution for podcast misinformation and misinformation?

-Jack Dorsey CEO of Twitter

-Who is fact checking the fact checkers?

Sources/Further Readings:

-https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/10/09/twitter-book-dorsey-betrayal/2955847/

-https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/27/21305503/twitter-labels-5g-conspiracy-coronavirus

-Correction*** Dr.Todd Grande is "a licensed professional counselor of mental health, a licensed chemical dependency professional, and have a Ph.D. in counselor education" He is not a therapist

-https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/67/2/233/4082394?redirectedFrom=PDF

Mac, Dio & Gene answer three questions: What is the American dream? Does it still exist? How do you achieve it?

Is freedoom more important than security? Mac, Dio and Gene discuss the typical arguments on both sides of the debate.

This is the first episode of the Watch Dogs, a segment/series where we discuss topics ranging from: Censorship, philosophy of freedom, hi-tech/futurism, dystopian-ism, mass surveillance and corruption. Some overarching ideas will be tech-cynicism and watch dogs philosophy (hacker culture/ethics)

This weeks news does not inspire faith for a fair and free internet. Topics discussed below:

-Digital Civil Wars

-Partisanship/Internal Division

-Political/ideological shift

-Internet bill of rights

-Silicon Valley/Tech Titans

-Surveillance Capitalism

-Alt-Tech

-Internet infrastructure

-Rebuttals to common pro-censorship tweets

-Father of the web wants to re imagine the internet,

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-tech-bernerslee-interview/father-of-the-web-tim-berners-lee-prepares-do-over-idUSKBN29H1JG

-Silicon Valley funding democrats

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/30/21540616/silicon-valley-fundraising-donald-trump-joe-biden-analysis

After a month Warrior Philosopher mac is back! He's recovered the coronavirus and he's alive to tell the tale. Mac opens his christmas gifts and we talk about Brazilian steak house :)

Fear is the mind killer! And an old Norwegian speaking about Stoicism will calm you...

The American Creed was an idea proposed in Thomas Paine's book named "Common Sense". But when WWI began the USA wanted to create a national identity for the American people. Dio & Gene speak about what are these common beliefs? And, what does this Creed mean in 2021?

On our final episode of the year we will discuss: stoic indifference, critic the idea of new years resolutions and cynical predictions for the new year.