Episode IX.06 – The Tyranny of Mediocrity
In which the speaker meanders from topic to topic, skirts dangerously close to misogyny, espouses various unorthodox viewpoints and talks a lot about sex. Mostly, though, he rages against the walls of the prison that he built around himself.
Episode IX.05 – Sympathy for the Bully: Part One – Sit and Listen
Who is rewarded by the school system? Who benefits from the regimentation? Who benefits from the system of alienation? The child who sits still. The child who is quiet. The child who keeps his hands to himself. The child who doesn’t ask to go outside. We are trained to be docile from day one.
Episode IX.04 – The Dead Internet
On the periphery of this online cemetery, we grubby humans rifle through the garbage, looking for a movie on Netflix or flicking past several hundred TikTok’s, all the while, beyond the gates of the graveyard, the bots replicate and babble to one another – the animated, digital ruins of a society that once built pyramids […]
Episode IX.03 – The Technological Singularity II: Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil, immortality, resurrection and the technological singularity in the year 2045.
Episode IX.02 – The Technological Singularity I
From the card catalog at the University of Arizona library to the apocalypse of the human race. The introduction to the Technological Singularity.
Episode IX.01 – Introduction to the Western Traditions Project
The meta-series of the western traditions podcast. Here we take a look at issues both from the past and those that await us in the human future. Topics include things like: the technological singularity, gender issues, UFOs and aliens, Universal Basic Income and many more.