Spritz Personality S02e02 - Lacking conviction vs. Passionate intensity, with WB Yeats

Series 2

Episode 2

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Do you believe in Magick?! W.B Yeats did but do Bob & Gio??!!

Bob takes us back in time with a quotation from an early favourite poem of his, and gives us a taste of his own early poetic musings. Is it gibberish or the early signs of a gifted individual?

Bob talks about what going to school during the Troubles in Northern Ireland was like. How can poetry help us understand people being attracted to extreme ideas and ideologies? Are people stealing lolly pops actual football hooligans?

Does Gio make a coherent argument for actually believing in God?? He definitely makes a coherent argument for Twitter being a nightmare of reactionary nonsense, lacking all nuance.

Are we finally living in Yeats’ predicted age of ‘Beastliness’? Are Irish people uniquely spiritual and cynical at the same time?

How preposterous are adults who believe they can actually perform magick which influences events around them?

Is Stephen King a gateway to the poetry of Yeats? Are Yeats and Jung both as mad as each other??

More information on Yeats is here - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-butler-yeats

Wikipedia will tell you all about the Golden Dawn here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn

The interview with the hilarious Reggie Watts is here - https://thegreatdiscontent.com/interview/reggie-watts

The Futurism article is here - https://futurism.com/the-byte/humanity-doomed-scientists

Bill Burr (NOT Bloomberg) continues to be fucking hilarious and all over Netflix.

Giovanni's book 'Psychology as Ethics - Reading Jung with Kant, Nietzsche and Aristotle' is published by Routledge.