
Radically Human
- - Critical perspectives on our techno-capitalist age. - -
Frieda lives and works in Brooklyn, New York City. She is a tour guide in the ultra-orthodox Jewish neighborhoods of her roots. But her focus here is on the greater modern city, which is now morphing into a technological mega-machine.
This podcast is an effort to understand these dystopian trends from radically human perspectives.
Latest episodes

Jul 1, 2025 • 1h 20min
Conversation with Addison Reeves on the Vaccine Mandates and Apartheid coming to NYC
I have another conversation with Addison Reeves from Modern Heretic about the introduction of medical apartheid in NYC. We talk about how shocked we are by the city's embrace of these measures, which disproportionately discriminate against minority communities.
Blog post with links and transcript: https://friedavizel.com/2021/08/11/30-of-podcast/

Jun 1, 2025 • 42min
Movies, Indoctrination and 'My Dinner with Andre'
Returning for a new season with thoughts on the root question: how is this technological society shaping our ever-more-dystopian world? This is the central question in the movie 'My Dinner with Andre', which makes for a really good shmooze.
Blogpost with transcript and links:
https://friedavizel.com/2021/07/14/26ofpodcast/

May 1, 2025 • 34min
Conservatives vs Leftists
Where I tell you everything I know on the subject, and that tells you everything I don't know as well.
Post with links:
https://friedavizel.com/2021/03/17/boxes2/

May 1, 2025 • 1h 1min
Political Boxes / Part 1
Biting off more than I can chew in an attempt to articulate what various political/philosophical terminologies mean to me. Part 1 covers liberalism, neoliberalism and libertarianism. // Link to blogpost with notes: https://friedavizel.com/2021/03/10/boxes/

May 1, 2025 • 1h 12min
Simon Elmer on Bio-security, Crisis and Revolution
In this episode I talk to Simon Elmer, who is critical of the biosecurity state from what I'll call a left perspective. We talked about why he uses the term revolution to describe what we are experiencing, why he prefers not to use the term fascism, and much more.
Transcript of episode here.

May 1, 2025 • 1h 17min
Addison on Technology, Illich, Class and the Loneliness of the City
I talk to fellow NYC radical Addison from Modern Heretic about technology, class, dating, leaving the city, and much more.
Blog post with transcript and links:
https://friedavizel.com/2021/07/28/28-of-podcast/

May 1, 2025 • 53min
Part 2 / Conversation with Addison Reeves on the Vaccine Mandates and Apartheid coming to NYC
This is Part 2 of my conversation with Addison Reeves from Modern Heretic.
In Part 1 we talked specifically about the vaccine mandates in NYC. In part 2 that conversation is continued, but we also talk about modern life in general, what we define as success, what we consider a meaningful life, and what drives us.
Blogpost with transcript: https://friedavizel.com/2021/08/18/31-of-podcast/

May 1, 2025 • 49min
With Simon Elmer - "The Ghost of Christmas Past!"
In the summer of 2021, I had a second conversation with Simon Elmer from Architects for Social Housing. Our first conversation was on biosecurity, crisis, and revolution. Here we talked about the need to fight for a world that is free, that is meaningful and the dangers of living in the digital spectacle.
Many thanks to all of you for being there, writing, sharing, listening, during another year of the institutionalizing of a terrible new normal.
Send a voice message @ https://anchor.fm/frieda-vizel/message

Feb 1, 2025 • 42min
Propaganda of the WW2
I’ve been reading on the rise of Nazism, in an effort to understand the mindset that gave rise to such great evil.
Blog post with links:
https://friedavizel.com/2021/05/12/22ofpodcast/

Jan 1, 2025 • 54min
Addison Reeves on the Need for a New Political Typology
Another conversation with the wonderful Addison Reeves, on the need for a new political typology, which she wrote about for her blog modernheretic.com. Check out Addison's other powerful writings like her essay “It’s just...” – Why I Won’t Submit — modernheretic, Imperialism: The Antecedent of Contemporary Illiberalism — modernheretic and Progressive Hypocrisy, White Supremacy: How the Pandemic Revealed Progressive Pharisaism.
Blog post with links and transcript: https://friedavizel.com/2021/09/1/33-of-podcast/