Symbolic Victory - a podcast by Ryder Richards

from 2023-05-21T14:00

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0:00 The contradictory injunction of double binds.

• The contradictory injunction in double binds.

• The binary trap in cyberpunk.

2:15 The death drive of determinism.

• The death drive of determinism.

• How to transcend the binary.

4:44 How the capitalist system capitalizes on our stress.

• The capitalist system surprisingly capitalizes on stress.

• The anxious revolt is fuel for the bureaucratic nightmare.

6:33 Intro to the show.

• America and political symbolic winning, and camouflage.

• The wild west of America.

8:55 Virtue signaling to win elections.

• Virtue-signaling to win elections.

10:58 Trump's anointed tool.

• Trump as an anointed tool of the Christian right.

• Winning dignity is absurd.

12:54 How symbolic acts can function in reality.

• How the symbolic act can function in reality.

• Culture of honor, reputational honor.

14:30 Protecting your reputation through overreaction.

• Protection through overreaction

• The reversal of the reversal.

16:10 You become what you fight you become.

• The unseen aspect of antagonistic opposition in step 65.

• Respect for native americans over time.

17:47 How we grasp and use models.

• Mimetic desire to dissimulate thoughts into the real.

• Symbolism as a faulty translation.

• Symbols can become an affectation.

• The danger of the symbol that is mistaken

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