The Transvaluation of All Values: Play not Work - Ep. 4
In a world of almost unimaginable opportunity to express ourselves, we still maintain a sense of ‘work’ as our defining characteristic. Embracing a sense of Play in our lives seems like we are abandon...
18 Jun 202558min
Plato's Symposium: Socrates & Apollodorus - Ep. 3
We reach the text itself. Hopefully I clarify why there is this strange framing element to the Symposium and the degree to which many of the seemingly odd asides and quotes are actually core to Plato’...
16 Jun 202544min
Plato's Symposium: Introduction - Ep. 2
Well, forgot to mention that both the Reformation and the Enlightenment were heavily influenced by Platonic thought(!). As a test, if you’ve ever thought that SCIENCE is THE path to the TRUTH; congrat...
13 Jun 202513min
The Transvaluation of All Values: You are not a Slave- Ep. 3
YOU ARE NOT A SLAVE:Despite being by almost any measure some of the freest people in history, we consistently use language and express patterns suggesting we are in fact still peasant, serfs or slaves...
11 Jun 20251h 1min
Plato's Symposium: Introduction - Ep. 1
Two main points in this introduction:First, Plato is in deadly earnest in these dialogues trying to work out how his society and his class were crushed in a war and subject to tyranny and what, if any...
9 Jun 202538min
Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? - Real Estate Special - Ep. 13
Just a follow up to discuss the forces that shape the global real estate market and how our standard response - supply and demand - reveals the degree to which our minds are captured by a wild oversim...
7 Jun 202535min
The Transvaluation of All Values: The Individual and The Community - Ep. 2
THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY:Another aspect of confusion comes from a loss of our immediate community that throws us onto an ever increasing sense of individualism and, hence, isolation. We strugg...
4 Jun 202559min
Capitalism: How did we get here? And where are we going? Ep. 12
CONCLUSION:The conclusion to the capitalism series wherein I ramble a bit about the major concepts we have explored and why I think it is so important at this juncture in history to think about the in...
2 Jun 202533min
