Modern Wisdom

#473 - Tom Van Der Linden - Finding Heroic Meaning In Modern Life

May 14, 2022

01:19:49

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Is Your Ego Morer or Facts?

01:53

The Inner Citadel

02:31

Is There a Difference Between Heroic Purpose and Grandiocity?

02:18

Introduction

3min

Serf Shark Dot Deals Slash Modern Wisdom

2min

What's Your Podcast About?

3min

Is There a Problem With Heroic Stories?

3min

Is There a Difference Between Heroic Purpose and Grandiocity?

2min

How Do You Know if You're Connected to the World?

4min

Is Your Ego Morer or Facts?

2min

The Rider on the Back of an Elephant

2min

The Inner Citadel

3min

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Is There Away From Your Emotions?

2min

11.

The Limits of Ampathy

2min

12.

The Deepest Mystery of the Universe

3min

13.

Is There a Real Peace in the World?

2min

14.

Is It Possible to Ever Really Know Someone Else?

3min

15.

Is There Something Going Ony in Interstellar?

6min

16.

Is Panpsychism Really Real?

4min

17.

What Do You Think of Albert Camu?

4min

18.

Isn't Nihilism a Life Philosophy?

2min

19.

Do You Think It's Bad to Bring Children Into the World?

2min

20.

Camu Sive - The Myth of Sisyphus

3min

21.

Do You Think Don't Look Up Was About Climate Change?

2min

22.

Are We Going to Have a Pandemic?

3min

23.

Freedom Isn't My Choice

2min

24.

Is There a Difference Between Seasonality and the Natural Ebb and Flow of Nature?

2min

25.

Are You a Free Individual?

3min

26.

Are You Able to Discriminate Information?

3min

27.

Awson, What Else Do You Really Have?

2min

28.

Is There a Channel Like Mineo?

2min

29.

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfas

2min

30.

The New Alien Worlds Trailer

4min

Tom Van Der Linden is a YouTuber, video essayist and Creator of Like Stories of Old.

Finding meaning in modern life is hard. What glory is there to achieve when all of your existence has already been made totally convenient by technology? Heroic narratives still exist in movies and books, but can we apply these lessons to the real world?

Expect to learn how to tell the difference between serving ourselves and serving others, why watching a heroic movie can skew our expectations of life, why it's difficult to ever truly know another person, what Albert Camus can teach us about enduring suffering, why David Foster-Wallace called adult life "the day to day trenches" and much more...

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