When We Blame Technology, We Fail to Fix Our Own Problems
Recently I was watching John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight episode on Facebook, and for the first time in my life found myself terribly at odds with his opinion. The segment was largely dedicated toward...
View ArticleSiQ4 – Erik Davis: Psychedelics, Coronavirus, & Post-Religion Spirituality
On this episode I’m joined by the ever-articulate scholar, Erik Davis, who wrote one of my favorite non-fiction books of all time: Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information...
View ArticleSiQ5: Aella – Awkward Social Dynamics, Enlightenment, and More
On this episode, we’re joined by Aella, previously one of the world’s top-paid cam girls who is now a prominent figure in the online intellectual community. We enjoy an incredibly playful conversation...
View ArticleSiQ6 – Justin Murphy – The Intellectual Who Left Academia for the Internet
In this episode we sit down with social scientist and political theorist, Justin Murphy, who spent five years as a lecturer at the University of Southampton before realizing that academia was...
View ArticleThe Neuroscience of Why Aggressive Activists Undermine Their Goals
“Everyone is the hero of their own story,” but “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” In this time of radical social and political polarization, it seems to be the case that every Twitter...
View ArticleCyborg Anthropology with TED Speaker Amber Case
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View ArticleStorytelling and Pain: Navigating a Society in Chaos
Like nerves represented evolution’s need to share information for the sake of survival and growth, humanity similarly evolved because language as an information sharing medium proved an immense boon...
View ArticleA New Social Movement for EVERYONE
‘ Tired of being called a racist, sexist, and Nazi because you lean right? Tired of being called the PC Police, a communist, a Social Justice Warrior and Special Snowflake because you lean left? Tired...
View ArticleSaving Society: A Hero’s Guide For Liberals AND Conservatives
In 1949, American Mythologist Joseph Campbell published his magnum opus: The Hero With A Thousand Faces. In it, he laid out his theory of the monomyth (one myth) and the archetypal hero, commonly...
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Fake News and Psychopaths: Statistics Suggest A Loud Online Minority Are...
There are roughly 240 million adults in the United States of America, and an estimated 3–4% of them are either sociopaths or psychopaths. Don’t write off that low percentage, though, because 4% of the...
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