Podcasts by The Daily Eudemon
A weekly podcast focused on the problem of modernity: Its rejection of the Tao. Related topics: What is the Tao? Why was it rejected? How does its rejection manifest itself in modernity and postmodernity?
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Existence Strikes Back and The Hemisphere Hypothesis: A Summary from 2023-04-18T00:38:58
Modernity is the left hemisphere gone wild. Gnosticism, with its dualistic approach and emphasis on knowledge that gives salvation and control, is a left-hemispheric political religion that ...
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How to Brand Yourself from 2023-02-27T11:51:36
Pick four traits. The last one must be "victim."
It's because we live in a gnostic culture that rails against the evil "structure." If there's a structure, there must be victims of the st...
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The Gnostic Hates the Structure from 2023-02-20T12:01:24
Belief in a structure drives the gnostic. Without a structure to defeat, the gnostic has no purpose.
Ancient Gnosticism Presupposed an Elaborate Cosmological Structure of Evil
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The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability and His Movement Will Bring It About from 2023-02-06T11:31:21
Parts IV and V of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits
Alienation is the Marxist bugbear. He sees alienation everywhere because it emanates from the economic substructure...
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The Gnostic is a Believer from 2023-01-23T11:59:22
Did you take a sociology class in high school or college?
Did you know sociology’s founder, August Comte (1798-1857), was kind of a dick? Listen
Why We Judge. And Why We Need to Stop from 2023-01-16T12:24:07
This is a podcast episode from "Outside the Modern Limits," a whimsical newsletter that comes out every Saturday that is geared toward helping people understand and thrive in modernity. Listen
The Gnostic Never Blames Himself from 2023-01-09T12:15:42
“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” Rousseau
Rousseau’s passage from the beginning of The Social Contract contends for the most famous in philoso...
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These Six Traits Make a Person a Gnostic from 2022-12-05T11:51:40
A Diagnostic of the Gnostic
Eric Voegelin was to modern gnosticism what Knute Rockne was to Notre Dame football. Rockne didn’t start the ND football program and Voegelin didn’t discover...
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A Dozen Quotes from Prometheus Bound: A Play about Spiritual Disease from 2022-11-21T11:44:14
Brains beat brawn. The Titan Prometheus knew that. He joined Zeus in his battle against the Titans.
Prometheus later befriended the race of men. He saved them when Zeus thought about exti...
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The Tao: The Transcendental Router from 2022-11-14T11:51:34
For the fortunate few, that router is hard-wired with fiber optic. Most of us only get a wireless connection, and a wobbly one at that.
Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Put Gnosticism Back into Our Awareness from 2022-11-07T11:21:18
If you want to understand how gnosticism flourishes in our modern world, you need to understand why it developed in the ancient world.
Solon was a Man of the Tao from 2022-10-31T11:06:20
Solon opened Athens to true order: the transformative order found through the Tao.
Why David Hume is Important from 2022-10-24T10:55:39
Within 100 years, the Cartesians used impeccable logic derived from Descartes' I think there I am to reach two conclusions: there is no earthly agent of movement and there is no matter....
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The First Amendment’s Separation of Church and State Goes Back to 500 BC from 2022-10-17T10:50:36
Something really bizarre happened around the year 500 BC, all across Eurasia. We started to realize that we live in the metaxy: an area comprised of transcendence and immanence. These ten thinke...
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Introducing Eric Voegelin from 2022-10-10T10:59:53
Voegelin was not charismatic. He was a “gentleman thinker.” He didn’t like small talk and valued his time. His personality didn’t attract a cult-like following. He didn’t establish a school or m...
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We're All Machiavellians Now from 2022-09-26T11:09:34
Before he published the Prince, Machiavelli published the seducer. Before he published a masterpiece of political philosophy, he published a comedy.
The Mandragola (...
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Keep Sweet and Have Sex from 2022-09-19T11:04:01
A 50-year-old man had ritual sex with a 12-year-old girl while adult women assisted.
And everyone was cool with it.
That’s just part of the bizarre story told in Netflix’s Listen
How to Cure Yourself of Modernitis from 2022-09-12T11:21:08
You're soaked in modernity. You think like a modern. It's not good. Consider doing the opposite of whatever your rationality tells you to do.
Seven Early Symptoms of the Mental Disease “Modernitis” from 2022-09-05T11:14:51
Your reason isn’t reasonable.
Stuff that in your pipe and smoke it.
And smoke it and smoke it and smoke it, until you smoke rationality out of your head, until a love for the absur...
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When Western Civilization Submitted Itself to a Lobotomy from 2022-08-29T11:10:04
Descartes was a philosophical surgeon who lobotomized common sense from the modern mind without most people even noticing. It helped that western civilization was thoroughly prepped and anesthet...
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Descartes Praised Lycurgus. It’s Our Earliest Glimpse of the Problem with Modernist Thinking from 2022-08-22T10:33:14
Descartes, by placing ultimate importance on one's ideas, gave credibility to the outrageous ideas that littered modernity.
Lycurgus put the “Spartan” into Sparta.
Before Lycurgus,...
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This Monk Understands David Foster Wallace from 2022-08-15T10:54:22
A Cistercian monk in Austria writes eruditely about David Foster Wallace. He appears to embrace "The Bridge Option" when dealing with modernity: embracing postmodernity and premodernity . . . by...
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Jack Kerouac: The Tao on Steroids from 2022-08-08T10:56:21
He sat on his mother’s couch, smoking marijuana and watching the McCarthy hearings, cheering Tail Gunner Joe. He was 32 and it was 1954. In his 20s and the 1940s, he said he’d like to join his R...
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New Course/Newsletter: Raising Intellectually-Sound Children. Maybe from 2022-08-01T11:20:03
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Montaigne: Godfather of 4Chan? from 2022-07-25T11:01:41
Montaigne was the godfather of modern skepticism. His was a “negative skepticism,” which disturbed Descartes enough to prompt him to come up with a positive response, which in turn gave us moder...
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71 Thoughts to Improve Your Thoughts from 2022-07-18T11:00:40
1. The wise know they start each morning as beginners. Robin ...
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Why Francis Bacon is a Founding Father of Modernity from 2022-07-11T11:05:40
Bacon’s books proposed a new method of inquiry.
In technical language, he pr...
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Top Ten Mystics of the 14th Century from 2022-07-04T11:19:06
The fourteenth century was an era of singular richness in the history of Christian mysticism. Frank Tobin, Henry Suso, The Exemplar, with Two German Sermons. Listen
Blaise Pascal: First Anti-Modern from 2022-06-27T10:45:25
Rene Descartes was kind of a dick.
His famous saying, “I thin...
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Mystical Erections, Violence, and Theft from 2022-06-13T10:52:52
No, that isn’t a passage above the front door of Jeffrey Epstein’s residence on Little Saint James.
It’s a popular saying of a medieval sect known as the “Brethren of the Free Spirit,” wh...
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From Renaissance "Follow the Magic" to Modernity "Follow the Science" from 2022-06-06T10:59:27
The Renaissance Believed in Magic Like Moderns Believe in Science
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The Satoshi Nakamoto of Mysticism from 2022-05-16T00:22:56
He first articulated the western mystical tradition. We don’t even know who he was. But he pointed to the Tao.
Dr. Faust and Mr. Lao-Tzu from 2022-05-09T10:48:16
When Dr. Faust insulted the Tao, the devil appeared.
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We Golf. Therefore, the Tao is. from 2022-05-02T10:42:04
We intuit the Tao. That’s why our active hobbies engage us.
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Thomas Aquinas: Pinnacle to Obsolescence in 200 Years and Why It Matters from 2022-04-25T10:38:56
Thomas Aquinas was an existentialist, in his own way. His existentialism was forgotten . . . to western civilization's detriment.
Five Pieces of Furniture for Your Intellectual Living Room from 2022-03-07T11:29:13
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How to Start Detaching the Door of Reality from its Hinges from 2022-02-28T10:00
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Who Exactly is Trying to Take Down Joe Rogan from 2022-02-07T00:29:01
The full-court breakdown of Joe Rogan has begun.
Neil Young started it when he demanded Spotify remove his music because Rogan permits a compelling COVID narrative to exist that violates ...
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An Elf Lays Down His Harp to Kill an Orc from 2022-02-02T11:46:11
Synopsis: Owen Barfield wrote about the importance of pre-rational thought and language. It heavily influenced Tolkien’s work. Iain McGilchrist has written about the same thing in The Master...
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"Live in the Now" is Bad Advice from 2022-01-31T14:22:41
Why do the spiritual masters unanimously seem to insist on that lame piece of advice: “Live in the present moment"?
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Are You Engaged in the Act of Existence? Then You’re a Man of the Tao from 2022-01-24T13:01:04
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Dostoyevsky and Flannery O’Connor Reveal Something Ironic about Our Modern World from 2021-05-02T13:46:27
Essences become meaningless in both a perfect and marred world.
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I Was There When Vegas Came Back from 2021-04-19T01:04:54
I went to Las Vegas last week, spending four nights at the iconic Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas. I spent Tuesday evening walking from the Nugget to Listen
American Gardening Literature from 2021-04-04T20:27:49
Riddle: What literary genre has historical roots that predate Socrates; features hundreds of American writers including Thoreau, Washington Irving, and Edith Wharton; and is a genre that you’ve ...
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Devil's Feast: An Ontological Meditation on the Passion from 2021-03-28T13:39:57
Before creation, nothing existed. There was no matter, no energy, no desires, no images. God then created everything. As a result, everything that is, is from Him, and things have existence only...
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20 Books to Make You a Smarter Catholic (or Person in General) from 2021-03-14T15:38:27
Joseph Epstein is the best essayist alive. He’s urbane, funny, self-deprecating. He’s a fine stylist, and he’s remarkably well-read.
I remember William F. Buckley marveling at Epstein’s e...
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The New Left and the Old Occult from 2021-02-28T23:01:45
The supernatural and paranormal. Postmodernism and critical theory. What could be the connection?
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How to Take a Stance without Taking a Stance from 2021-02-21T15:26:30
“Let me tell you about COVID, the COVID vaccine, and Bitcoin.”
If any person starts telling me about those things, I write them off.
All three of those things are new and huge. As ...
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Beyond Stoicism. Hesychasm: The largely-forgotten literary tradition that takes Stoicism to the next level from 2021-02-14T15:30:36
Stoicism is, at bottom, all about silencing the mind. Dispassion in the face of things that otherwise arouse passion. Resignation in the face...
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Three Lesser-Known Masters in the Zen Tradition from 2021-02-07T21:28:27
Chuang-Tzu was not a Zen practitioner. He lived about 750 years before Bodhidharma and was the second greatest philosopher of the Tao (after Lao-Tzu).
He was playful in his approach to th...
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Did We Just See a Red Swan? from 2021-01-31T17:19:40
Reddit, GameStop, Stimulus, and Two Things to Do If You Want to Survive and Thrive in the Age of the Black Swan
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What is That Twitter Imp Up to? from 2021-01-27T01:44:31
Is Jack Dorsey looking for a social media Bitcoin model?
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The Diocletian Test from 2021-01-27T01:42:18
Do you have a totalitarian impulse? Take the Diocletian Test.
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Five Dispositions that Can Make Your Life More Productive and Happy from 2021-01-27T01:40:27
The philosophy of focusing on a slow and loving existence in the quiet now
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Civil War, Restoration, Glorious Revolution from 2020-05-31T12:24:31
First Segment: Modern conservative thought.
Second Segment: English history, 1649 to 1688.
Third Segment: Ranters and Other Freak Religious Groups in the 17th Century.&...
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History of the Catholic Church in 30 Minutes from 2020-05-24T13:00
2,000 years of history into 30 (35?) minutes.
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Arthur, Alfred, and Other English Kings. Medium dot Com from 2020-05-17T15:26:29
First Segment: Overview of English history until 1649.
Second Segment: Lightning Segments, with emphasis on Medium dot com.
Third Segment: Bars. The good and the bad.&n...
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Charles MacKay, Popular Delusions, Radical Spiritualists from 2020-05-10T11:58:31
First Segment: Brief riff off Charles MacKay's 1841 book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and deplatforming in American history.
Second Segment Li...
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Wicked Pope, Moors, Siege of Vienna from 2020-05-03T11:31:25
This is the last episode in our attempt to help you establish an historical perspective. The focus: 1492 and three events: Moors kicked out of Spain, Columbus and the new world, Alexander VI. Listen
1400s, Florence Banking, Heroes, States Rights from 2020-04-26T12:16:39
First Segment: We continue our historical review. In this second-to-last episode, we look at the 1400s.
Second Segment: Florence and the invention of the Bill of Exchange.
Third Se...
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Bonus Episode: The Merits of Snoring from 2020-04-20T13:28:35
This morning's essay. COVID, Napoleon, Snoring, and the Existential Gap.
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The 1300s: Black Death, 100 Years War, the Renaissance from 2020-04-19T14:58:46
First Segment: The 1300s. The rise of the Ottomans, The Avignon Papacy, the Great Papal Schism, the 100 Years War, the Black Death, the Renaissance.
Second Segment: How medieval wars were...
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Peak Crusades, Peak Middle Ages, Peak Mongols from 2020-04-12T18:10:55
Michigan's capricious COVID shut down order.
Literary short stories are like scripture: both are dense with significance.
The years 1190 to 1274: Crusades, Robin Hood, Mongol...
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1000 AD to 1200ish: Seljuk Turks, Crusades, St. Francis, Cluny from 2020-04-05T15:04:40
First Segment: We cover the years 1000 to 1200. Ish. Revival of the Byzantine Empire, Saints Francis and Dominic, the Sunni Seljuk Turks, launching the Crusades.
Second Segment: Lig...
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The Dark Ages. Charlemagne. Vikings. from 2020-03-29T14:00:54
Today we cover 622 to 692. The Dark Ages. The Carolingian Empire. Vikings. Magyars. A dark and fascinating era of history.
Lightning Segments.
Pete Singer on Econtalk? WTH? Listen
The Years 313-622: Edict of Milan to the Eve of Islam from 2020-03-22T14:43:16
Almost this entire episode talks about the years 313 AD to 622 AD. It covers Emperor Constantine's Edict of Milan that proclaimed religious toleration, thereby ending Christian persecution, the ...
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Marcus Aurelius, Pax Romana, the Rise of Christianity from 2020-03-15T13:56:31
Coronavirus Ramblings. Do you like the social distancing? Then maybe you're an introvert. What you can (can't) do to protect yourself.
The years 27 BC to 313 AD. Octavius becomes em...
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The Death of Socrates and the Rise of Rome from 2020-03-08T14:13:53
Part Three in our attempt to develop an historical sense: 399 BC to 27 BC. The Death of Socrates to the First Roman Emperor. Other topics touched upon: Alexander the Great and beautiful Persian ...
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Autobiographical Rumblings from 2020-03-01T15:07:48
My family moved to a new house today. The future looks bright (cue Timbuk 3), but right now, things are a bit crazy. I muse here about m...
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Gnostics v. Metaxy, GMO v. Non-GMO, Athens v. Sparta from 2020-02-23T13:13:54
Why does Gnosticism even matter? Because it provides a crucial key to understanding modern and postmodern political discourse. Gnosticism, in today's world, laces the Left, just as Christianity ...
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Gnosticism: Fake Religion, Moses, Achilles/Joshua from 2020-02-16T12:21:43
What is the primary ingredient of Gnosticism? Plato: Inability to deal with the Metaxy.
Lightning Segments.
The year 1300 BC to 586 BC: Moses to the Babylonian Captivit...
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Developing an Historical Perspective: Pre-Modern History from 2020-02-09T12:53:11
1300 BC to 1492: Moses to Columbus. These ten years are designed to give you a rough grasp of western civilization from the beginning of recorded history to the dawn of the modern world. 1300 BC...
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Psychological Disruptions and the Reformation and Alexander the Great from 2020-02-02T13:51:09
What happens when society undergoes huge psychological shifts? When Europe discovered in 1492 that the world contained another entire continent, the seeds of the Reformation were planted. When A...
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Thomas Sowell, Condorcet, Postmodernism, Francis de Sales from 2020-01-26T12:43:08
Segment One: Thomas Sowell's A Conflict of Visions describes two conflicting visions: constrained and unconstrained. William Godwin and the Marquis de Condorcet fall in the unconstraine...
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Macarius the Great, Silence, Russia, Hollywood from 2020-01-19T13:02:20
Another saint of the desert: St. Macarius.
Why all the saint days in January? It's cold. The desert is hot.
But January is a lot like the desert. Desolate. Forbidding . . . S...
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Battle in the Desert, Anthony the Great, Limits on Reason and Logic from 2020-01-12T13:42:41
Segment One: Feast Day of St. Anthony is coming up. Everything you need to know about the desert monastic movement of the 4th century.
Segment Two: Some quotes from St. Anthony and their ...
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Language and Control: SJWs, Deplorables, Violence from 2020-01-05T15:47:58
Show Notes for This Episode's First Segment:
I was reading David Mikics biography of Jacque Derrida. He points out that the first large urban civilizations—like Babylon and Egypt—“used wr...
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Libertarianism and Porn from 2019-12-24T00:36:26
Discussion about how a libertarian can support a porn ban. . . and the real reason why a libertarian may not support a porn ban.
Lightning Segments; The existential threat hangover, the S...
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Zeno and Zen, Aquinas, Realism from 2019-12-15T14:59:24
Philosophy 101: Logic and reason always fall short. There is an act of faith at the beginning of every logical endeavor . . . and it’s an act of faith that can’t be reasoned to. It’s why Zen is ...
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Hillsdale College, Stoner Talk, Existentialism, Rogan/Taibbi from 2019-12-08T14:49:56
I lived near Hillsdale for 50 years but never stepped foot on its campus. Now that I have, I'm kicking myself for not doing so much sooner.
I back off my philosophy advice from the ...
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The Monk Gardens from 2019-11-24T15:00:45
Advice for a college freshman who is interested in philosophy.
Lightning Segments: Chambermaids, smiling, health care.
Wasting time and existence.
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Lightning Segments from 2019-11-17T16:04:55
Nothing but Lightning Segments.
Unusual episode today. Discussion topics veer all over the place: vodka-tonics; Portland, Maine; cobblestone streets; Starblush Ale; comedy nights; Nassim ...
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Copts, Kardashians, and Kanyes from 2019-11-03T15:11:06
Kim Kardashian was recently baptized into the Armenian Oriental Church. So, she's a Copt. Actually, no. But she's in full communion with the Copts. I flush it out--Copts, Chalcedon, Kardashians,...
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G.K. Chesterton and True Religion, LSD and the Eucharist from 2019-10-06T14:49:47
G.K. Chesterton says true religion makes abstraction tangible. I flush it out here.
Lightning Segments: Flannery O'Connor, Autumn and Sports, Blank dot Org, Medallion Bailout, Thoma...
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The Hiatus, LSD, Zen, Mind Control, Lightning Segments from 2019-09-29T14:07:25
I missed last week due to my mother's unexpected death. I discuss here a bit of her life, but not for sentimental reasons. It's a snapshot of a slice of American history.
LSD and Ze...
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Dan Aykroyd, Podcasts and John Senior, LSD and Shifting Consciousness from 2019-09-15T16:04:38
Dan Aykroyd was on The Joe Rogan Show.
Vodka, aliens, spiritualism.
John Senior from the University of Kansas was ahead of his time, as seen in the podcast universe today.&nb...
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Nietzsche and the Two Great Narcotics from 2019-09-08T14:40:36
Nietzsche and Slave Morality
Nietzsche and Detachment
Nietzsche and Zen
Lightning Segments
White Privilege II
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White Privilege from 2019-09-01T19:10:11
Proponents of the concept of “white privilege” are exhausting. I explore the reasons.
Lightning Segments: Bill Kauffman, chamber maids, Skittles, other.
Marxism: Thanos wannabes . ...
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Authenticity and Young People from 2019-08-25T17:56:12
Just two segments this week:
The importance of being authentic without trying to be authentic . . . and the unfortunate fraud in young people.
Lightning Segments: Mackinac Is...
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Small Towns and Importance of Place, Francis Bacon from 2019-08-11T16:34:53
Do you have to live in NYC or LA to make it? Nope, not any more. And it's a good idea to be rooted.
Lightning Segments: Epstein, more GKC, Prison Unions, Business Insider says the C...
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The World of Total Work from 2019-08-04T19:55:13
G.K. Chesterton: His cause of canonization has been rejected. I understand why, but the charge of anti-semitism is ridiculous. And unnecessary to raise. Maybe the bishop was virtue signall...
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Retreat to Gethsemani from 2019-07-14T20:20:54
I took a spiritual retreat to Gethsemani, the Trappist monastery, home of Thomas Merton.
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Detachment from 2019-07-14T20:18
Detachment: The first rule of the spiritual life.
Poverty, chastity, obedience: three facets of detachment. Its connection to Zen. How play let's us live an active life in the detac...
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Memorial Day Weekend, Drinking in Mexico, Catholic Church and Divine Corruption from 2019-05-25T00:14:45
Memorial Day Weekend: A tradition has come to a close: I’m not bacheloring it this holiday weekend. Please indulge this autobiographical note, with commentary on foreign i...
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Mental Exercise, Predictive Genetics, Hook-Up Software at Ivy from 2019-05-19T17:46:05
Mental Exercising: Everyone seems to agree: It’s crucial we exercise mentally, normally in the form of meditation. Meditation, even the most secular, focuses on taking you...
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Brian Sims and Nuts on Both Sides, Fleeing California, E.F. Schumacher from 2019-05-12T11:39:53
Brian Sims: Yup, he’s a hateful nut. Yup, the Right has hateful nuts too. The thing is, the Right doesn’t have them in positions of influence or power. Moreover, the postm...
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Noise, Max Picard, George Gissing, Cardinal Sarah, Caleb Stegall from 2019-05-04T11:27:36
Noise. Our culture is too tolerant when it comes to noise. I explore it.
Noise Part II: Silence and Russell Kirk, Max Picard, and...
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LGBTs in the Work Force, Easter, and College Loan Forgiveness from 2019-04-27T11:30:15
LGBT at Work: The Supreme Court has taken three LGBT discrimination cases. It’s evidence that Derrida has won: text with no context can be twisted however you want. <...
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Tiger Woods, Seven Nation Army of Actuaries, Twitter's Narrative, Grand Narratives and Post-Modernism from 2019-04-20T11:16:33
Tiger Woods: Congratulations to Tiger and congratulations to golf.
Tiger and the Press: Tiger the Philanderer . . . covered up by...
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The Healthy-Fat Binary in Postmodernism and Time from 2019-04-14T23:48:39
Dumplin’ Take 2: I revisit that horrible Netflix movie, Dumplin’. It turns out, the movie is, indeed, an attack on healthism and a celebration of fatness. It’s an attempt ...
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California from 2019-04-07T21:02:02
LA, Santa Monica, Malibu, Ventura, San Simeon, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Soledad, Altadena, Pasadena, Beverly Hills, Venice Beach, Anaheim: The entire podcast episode is dedicated to Californi...
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Thanks a Thousand, Boris at the Grocery Store, The Freakin' Poor, Dogs from 2019-04-04T20:27:14
Thanks a Thousand: A.J. Jacob's’ new book about tracking down the people who make his cup of morning coffee.
Boris at the Grocery Store...
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Postmodernism and a Soviet Philosopher, Postmodernism and Brahman, Stylites from 2019-03-24T13:29:03
Postmodernism: That’s a pretty big umbrella of thought. Please excuse my broad—sloppy—use of the term.
Standpoint Epistemology: Y...
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Artificial Intelligence, Famine, Tyranny, Bill Burr, Cool Dudes from 2019-03-21T23:36:17
Artificial Intelligence: What it is. How it is a threat . . . or how it might be a threat.
Famine and Tyranny: Courtesy o...
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Zen Lent, Tariffs, Adult Video News Awards from 2019-03-09T11:34:29
Drinking and Lent: Why would I give up booze for Lent? It’s practically a sacramental.
Zen Lent: Do you hope to make spiritual pr...
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Miami, a'Kempis, Miami Beach from 2019-03-02T20:25:36
The Imitation of Christ. What do I think of his classic? It’s a, you know, classic. I think it hits the psychology of devotion well . . . at least as far as 15th century s...
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History of the Old Testament in 8 Minutes, Gin and Tonics, Three Ho-Hum Derrida Conclusions from 2019-02-16T12:08:14
The Old Testament. I summarize the OT in about eight minutes. The segment is closer to 11, but I throw in a couple of decidedly un-OT anecdotes.
Sex in the Stall, Deconstructionism on Display, Gay Gnostics, Joseph Epstein from 2019-02-08T20:38:05
Sex in the Stall. A couple allegedly has sex in the bathroom stall at a NFL games. That’s unbelievably gross. Deconstructionism is partly to blame. The fact that t...
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Introverts, Deconstructionists, and Gnostics from 2019-01-26T21:59:41
Introverts. An introvert is not a shy person. It’s someone who draws energy from quiet. He has a finite supply of energy for interaction . . . it drains him. A huge revela...
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Mass Touching, Austen, Marshall McLuhan, Gnosticism from 2019-01-20T19:56:32
Touching During Mass. Enough already. Enough with shaking hands, too, at least during the cold and flu season. That custom has ran its course.
Nock, Deconstructing the Family, Mindfulness from 2019-01-12T18:01:44
The Mind and Art of Albert Jay Nock. Great book/introduction into the life and thought of the godfather of American libertarianism. The fact that Crunden wrote this as an undergrad? Blows me awa...
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Pope Francis and Brideshead Revisited, Structuralism and Libertinism, Buddhist Emptiness, Hungover, from 2019-01-05T17:30:50
Haters at Mass. Pope Francis’ suggestion that hateful Catholics stay away from Mass makes sense, but there are three potential problems with it: When is a person g...
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Autobiographical Holiday Ruminations from 2018-12-31T12:43:22
Latest episode of TWE: Alternate Feed
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Pagan Practices in Christianity, The Jesus Prayer, Autobiographical Tao from 2018-12-22T16:58:49
Next Week: I plan on producing a podcast next week, over the holidays, but it’ll probably be unusual fare.
Sol Invictus. No, Christmas predat...
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Episode 22 from 2018-12-16T18:50:09
Post-Modernism, Galileo and Mead and Kinsey and Other Frauds, Arthur Koestler
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Onanism, Off-Color Humor, Seventh Century, Taoist Anarchy from 2018-12-07T01:35:29
Latest episode of TWE: Old Feed
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Black Friday, Puritanizing Marijuana, Poustinia, Fools for Christ from 2018-11-29T17:10:28
11.25.2018 Episode
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The Year 650, Thanksgiving, and the Playful Tao from 2018-11-12T02:47:07
Latest episode of TWE: Old Feed
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Taoism, Europe in 486, Mo-Fo, Russell Kirk from 2018-11-05T00:21:37
Taoism: The laid back outlook of Lao-Tse and Chuang-Tzu. Lisieux-like. A very short introduction. Bogus Historical Atlas: A run-down of a bogus map of Europe circa 486. I wish I could find my cop...
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The Weekly Eudemon: September 30, 2018 from 2018-09-30T14:57:50
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Boston, Dostoyevsky, Orwell, NFL from 2018-09-09T13:13:01
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Labor Day Early Release Edition. Chicago School of Economics, Burners, New Marian Iconoclast, Fellow Traveler from 2018-08-29T11:15:12
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Clerical Crisis, Leaving the Church, and Other Funny Things from 2018-08-25T23:07:44
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Seinfeld, Hayek, Mao, and Other Fun Guys from 2018-08-12T18:53:36
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The Weekly Eudemon from 2018-08-05T19:49:34
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