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The "Hegelian E-Girl Council" and Digital Dialectics
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In this one…I get into the chaotic, absurd world of the "Hegelian E-Girl Council" drama—a bizarre saga that epitomizes the kind of online cultural labyrinth I'm all about. The brief hook: Twitter is swarming with communities that ride the fine line between genius, madness, and stupidity and this council is the latest example that has emerged and ga…
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The Conservative Boogeyman: Kevin Roberts
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"Oh no…a politics episode." Yes, yes, I hear your collective groan. Politics, ugh, right? Same due. But I've got a bone to pick with the Heritage Foundation's President Kevin Roberts and his Project 2025. I kind of used to work for the guy. We kind of used to debate each other on some stuff. I kind of pretended to be an anarchist Catholic (it was a…
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Intro of what this episode is about… So, there's this trend in the influencer and guru world of trying to make God cool again. You've got your Petersons, your Hubermans, your Rogans, all preaching their own brand of spirituality, self-improvement, and self-optimization. And I've noticed this trend where they’ve moved more towards this acceptance of…
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Breaking Down the Alt-right: How Outspoken Extremes Shape Our Culture
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Some highlights… * "The most outspoken members of society shape opinions and shift the center significantly." * "Twitter is often a cesspool of stupidity, yet it's also where the most opinionated gather to shape culture, art, politics, and philosophy." * "Our current commentary culture encourages edgy takes supported by selective evidence, yet fail…
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Free will, determinism, and consciousness (ft. Sam Harris, Deleuze, and Nietzsche)
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There’s this clip of Sam Harris discussing consciousness and free will that went a bit viral on Twitter. I wanted to comment on it… so here it is. I hope you enjoy it. Stay curious. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brendenslabyrinth.substack.com/subscribe…
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Modern magic: the internet and its endless influencers
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The quote that motivated this episode…. “Central to Hermetic thought was the tenet: ‘As above, so below.’ Everything is connected, from the movement of the stars and the planets to the internal workings of an insect. Understanding these secret connections, and harnessing them, was the key to a successful magician’s art. Central, too, was the occult…
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Deconstructing Arrival and Time: The Hidden Meaning
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This is the audio version of my previous essay and I’ve also linked the Youtube version as well. “But now I'm not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. There are days that define your story beyond your life. Like the day they arrived.” “And "purpose" requires an understanding of intent. We need to find out, do they make conscious choices or …
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Deconstructing A Clockwork Orange: The Hidden Meaning
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This has a few changes and rewording but this is an audio and podcast version for my recent essay. Stanley Kubrick's cinematic masterpiece, 'A Clockwork Orange', paints a vivid picture of orchestrated aggression. But what's the real message behind the film? From the Korova Milkbar to the depths of psychological conditioning, 'A Clockwork Orange' is…
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Some excerpts… "We pull from the external world to formulate our own narratives, yet they're never truly our own." "Narratives become our masks, and over time, we become consumed by them." "In the vast digital landscape, we're both the authors and the characters of our stories, constantly shaping and being shaped." "The uncertain interplay with the…
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(Transcript edited for readability.) Amidst dusk, I stood alone in a sprawling, chaotic marketplace. Stalls stretched endlessly, selling sleek, high-tech smartphones. The crowd was full of anticipation. I grabbed a device. Its screen lit up, flooding me with flashes and buzzing alerts. Each ping of my phone further itching my curiosity. But it was …
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plastic perfection | barbie, baudrillard, and beyond reality
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(Transcript edited for readability.) Barbie. The new film is set to come out on July 21st, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. Director, Greta Gerwig is the writer and director, who has been Oscar-nominated for her work. This fact is likely part of the reason for some of the increased hype around this film, as her name behind this indicates it…
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(Below is the transcript for the episode but edited for readability) We've reached this moment in time where technology has become sublime. We are advancing so fast that we do not understand the mechanisms and workings of the things we use every day. While it's not necessarily a negative thing, there is a lack of understanding even among those who …
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creativity, despair, uncertainty, and other things
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“Fantasies are fate defining in the sense that they determine the “content” of the repetition compulsion, giving our desire its inexorable direction, and making us single-minded lay preoccupied by, and doggedly faithful to, certain existential designs and preferences even when these undercut our well-being. To the degree that they endow us with a m…
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Lacan and the Singularity of Romance | The Death of Narratives
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“The elevation of the love object to the dignity of the Thing can result in intense aggression towards the object. As Lacan tersely observes, “I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you—the objet petit a—I mutilate you.” — Mari Ruti, The Singularity of Being This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this wi…
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Gender Theory and Identity | Responding to Andrew Murnane and the Dualistic Unity Podcast
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Here are some helpful videos for further research and perspective that I find to be well-thought out and from people of the transgender community… (Philosophy Tube) Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story ContraPoints: Pronouns The episode of Dualistic Unity that I was commenting on: here This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with othe…
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AI Art, AI, Post-Truth and Systems of Control
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Plastic Pills episode mentioned: Here A few sound bites… from my episode. “We spend life learning how to lose everything. And then we die. Where we’ve truly lost everything.” “Life is like watching a show where we never get to see the f*****g end.” “And in the end, we spend our life telling ourselves that everything is going to be fine.” “Man has b…
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Cyberpunk: Systems of Influence, an Evolving Self, and Acts of Rebellion
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The essence of the theme for this episode: If we begin seeing that the system or the political is what produces the individual or our concept of the personal...then we realize the personal or the individual has never really existed. Plastic Pills stream mentioned: here This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers o…
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"The Self is an Illusion" with Annaka Harris and Lex Fridman
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This is an episode of the podcast where I use this clipped discussion by the podcast Lex Fridman and the author of Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris (partner of Sam Harris) to open a discussion around the self, the idea of it being an illusion, and our sense of will. Anyway, I’ve always been hesitant i…
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Lacan and David Bohm | The unconscious, the self, and a fiction
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"I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment." — David Bohm “That in language our message comes to us fro…
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Exploring the gaps between certainty and uncertainty
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For more posts, dream journals, dream analyses, and weird fiction...https://aphilosophersstone.substack.com/ “Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the securi…
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