Wise Hypocrite

Wise Hypocrite

By Patrick DanielSociety & CulturePhilosophy
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Wise Hypocrite episodes

  • Is Diversity Inherently Good?
    Today we discuss diversity and whether it is inherently good, or if by focussing on diversity we are ignoring something fundamental that may be more important. Are we missing the forest for the trees?
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    19 min
  • Culture Bite - Julius Caesar n stuff
    Today I discuss my all-time favourite human: Julius Caesar. Ok, maybe he was a bloodthirsty tyrant. But maybe he wasn't! And he had a bunch of other good qualities, so let's focus on those shall we?
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    25 min
  • Romanticism
    Are you Romantic or Classical? No not 'romantic' as inbringing your girlfriend flowers, I mean Romantic. Capital 'R'. You know. Romanticism. Goethe? Byron? Schumann? Actually yeah, Schumann, let's talk about him too.
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    13 min
  • On Tyranny
    Some thinking aloud on Tim Snyder's new book: On Tyranny - 20 Lessons from the 20th Century. What are the tell-tale signs of an approaching tyranny, and do we see those signs today?
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    31 min
  • What Is Leadership?
    What is leadership? What are the origins of hierarchy? How does it tie into history and culture? Do we need leaders today? So many questions!
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    23 min
  • Quest for The Great Everything (feat. MRX)
    What defines Greatness? It's a day of existential questions, including a request for The Great Everything's origin story, courtesy of the illest medical MCs around - Dee and Reesh of Medicine Remixed!
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    20 min
  • On Cultural Appropriation
    Do we all agree that the notion of cultural appropriation is abysmal bullshit? Oh we don't? Ok then listen to this episode. Now. Now we all agree.
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    30 min
  • The Leftovers
    What would it be like if 2% of the world vanished? Peak TV means we really have got a tonne of Great shows these days. The Greatest is HBO's 'The Leftovers'.
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    19 min
  • On Free Will
    We've got no choice! Today, I reflect on free will and the notion of moral responsibility in a deterministic world.
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    25 min
  • A Plan for Changing Minds
    How do we change people's minds? What's so wrong about being wrong? In this episode I discuss the psychological "backfire effect" that stops us from changing our minds when presented with facts contradicting our cherished beliefs. But fret not! I have a plan. Also, a story about my chat with a KKK sympathiser.
    https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-tapas/201006/stop-being-such-jerk
    • The man who convinces Klansmen to defect http://goo.gl/LkxRJl
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    20 min

About Wise Hypocrite

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A podcast on The 10 Questions of Human Existence.