The Living Philosophy

________________ 📚 Further Reading: - Camus, Albert, *The Myth of Sisyphus* - Camus, Albert, *The Outsider* - Camus, Albert, *The Rebel* - Camus, Albert, *Caligula* ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ 💬 More from The Living Philosophy ▶ 📨 Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/ ________________ 🎼 Media Used: 1. Cessura - Ever So Blue 2. Refreshing - Megan Wofford 3. Nova Scotia - Synthetic Tides 4. Save You from the Death - Ruiqi Zhao 5. By Night - Hushed 6. Common Language - Vendla All music courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 4:07 1. Suicide 5:41 2.Philosophical Suicide 7:36 3. Absurdism 12:57 4. The living philosophy of Absurdism

Could Neuralink accidentally turn all its users into a hive mind? That’s what we’re going to be exploring in this episode where we take a look inside the brain and at the possibility for Neuralink’s high bandwidth and low latency to transform the nature of consciousness. _________________ 📚 Further Reading: Peter Watts' talk "Conscious Ants and Human Hives": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4uwaw_5Q3I Further reading on split brain 1: https://www.nature.com/articles/483260a](https://www.nature.com/articles/483260a) Further reading on split brain 2: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/split-brain-research-sperry-gazzaniga/399290/ _________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ 💬 More from The Living Philosophy ▶ Discord https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9 ▶ 📨 Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/ _________________ 🎼 Media Used: A Garden Romance - Martin Landstrom (courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com) The Way of the Warrior - Yi Nantiro (courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com) Go that Extra Mile - Jay Varton (courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com) From the Past - DEX 1200 (courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com) Moon Child - Bonnie Grace (courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com) AAALRIGHT - Cospe (courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com) Sometimes I’m So Happy - So Vea (courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com) _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:06 Split Brain Science 5:55 Watts Argument: Merging of Consciousness 9:14 The Age of BCIs 10:47 What Will a Super-Consciousness Look Like?

If an alien arrived on this planet having read only the writings of Marx, Proudhon and other great leftist socialist thinkers, they would be very surprised by the reaction to Rich Men North of Richmond. Oliver Anthony's song was loved by some and hated by others with the usual weird subtextual energies of the Culture Wars infusing both. This episode looks at why, from a historical theoretical it could have been otherwise. And why it wasn't. ____________________ 📚 For Your Further Perusal: - Oliver Anthony's Rich Men North of Richmond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro&pp- Nicholas Kristof's article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/opinion/oliver-anthony-liberals.html- Time article: https://time.com/6308121/oliver-anthony-country-music-divide-essay/- Guardian "Punching Down" article: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/16/rich-men-north-of-richmond-oliver-anthony- The Independent's article: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/rich-man-north-of-richmond-lyrics-oliver-anthony-b2394954.html- Keith Woods's video "The Great Awokening": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOh_Ng0v1WE ________________ 🎼 Media Used: 1. Anguish — Kevin MacLeod2. Evening Fall Harp — Kevin MacLeod3. Mind Scrape — Kevin MacLeod4. Alone With My Thoughts — Esther Abrami Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction2:42 Why the Left Should Love Rich Men North of Richmond5:08 Why the Left Hated Rich Men North of Richmond7:42 The Chthonic Populists and Pure Woke11:31 What to do about the Oliver Anthonys?

In this video we are going to tackle a challenging question: what is self-actualisation isn't what we should be doing; what if instead it is a big cope — a way of burying our head in the sand (rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic; playing our fiddle while Rome burns — choose your preferred analogy) while the world burns. ------------------- 📚 Further Reading: Penny, L. (2016). I'm With The Banned: https://medium.com/welcome-to-the-scream-room/im-with-the-banned-8d1b6e0b2932 Penny, L. (2016). Life Hacks of the Poor and Aimless: https://thebaffler.com/latest/laurie-penny-self-care Penny, L. (2018). No I Will Not Debate You: https://longreads.com/2018/09/18/no-i-will-not-debate-you/ ------------------- ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy ------------------- 💬 More from The Living Philosophy ▶ Discord https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9▶ 📨 Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/ ------------------- 🎼 Media Used: Juniper  — Kevin MacLeod Anguish — Kevin MacLeod Dreams Become Reality — Kevin MacLeod Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic ------------------- ⌛ Timestamps:0:00 Introduction2:58 Non-Leftists: Desperate Narcissism6:33 Leftists: Crushing Misery

In this episode, we look at why you should listen to South Park's Butters over modern Buddhist gurus. We talk about the sales pitch used by spiritual gurudom to get people hungry for Enlightenment while hiding the truth about the awful reality of that path. Fun fun fun. ____________________ 📚 Further Reading: - Mingyur, R.Y. and Swanson, E., 2010. _Joyful wisdom_. Random House. ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ 💬 More from The Living Philosophy ▶ Discord https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9 ▶ 📨 Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/ ________________ 🎼 Media Used: 1. Anguish — Kevin MacLeod 2. Allegro — Emmit Fenn 3. Evening Fall Harp — Kevin MacLeod 4. Alone With My Thoughts — Esther Abrami 5. Dark Times — Kevin MacLeod Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 3:32 Everything is S ** T 6:08 The Horrors of Spiritual Attainment 8:40 Who's Falling for It? 10:31 Who It's Really For 12:37 Spiritual Bypassing

In this episode I talk about the books that rescued me in my darkest times by giving me the breath of heroic inspiration I needed to get moving out of the dark pit I'd found myself in. I talk about what these books had in common and why we need them. ____________________ 📚 Further Reading: - _I’m Not There_. (2008). [Movie]. - Dumas, A., *The Three Musketeers* - London, J., *The Call of the Wild* - Conan Doyle, A., *The Lost World* ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ 💬 More from The Living Philosophy ▶ Discord https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9 ▶ 📨 Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/ ________________ 🎼 Media Used: 1. Promising Relationship  — Kevin MacLeod 2. Alone With My Thoughts — Esther Abrami 3. Letting Go Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic

The aphoristic style of Friedrich Nietzsche is a wellspring of inspiration. In this episode, we explore the connection between this style and Nietzsche's hiking (10 hours of hiking a day, if he is to be believed). It is Nietzsche's walking that gave birth to the aphorisms in a passive form of thinking that stands in stark contrast to the thorough linear thinking of philosophers like Kant and Hegel. ____________________ 📚 Further Reading: - Nietzsche FW (2000) _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_. translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library. ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ 💬 More from The Living Philosophy ▶ Discord https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9 ▶ 📨 Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/ ________________ 🎼 Media Used: 1. Juniper  — Kevin MacLeod 2. Fresh Air — Kevin MacLeod 3. Anguish — Kevin MacLeod 4. Letting Go Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 3:48 The Walking Philosopher 6:20 The Walking Muse 10:41 How to Think Like Nietzsche

Karl Marx is the most (in)famous critic of Capitalism. Or is he? As with all stories, it's not so simple. Marx isn't a reactionary dreaming of a tribal communal paradise but more of a sci-fi visionary looking to the society that will transcend Capitalism using its foundation as a jumping off point to a much more interesting, much better world. ____________________ 📚 Further Reading: - The British rule in india: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/06/25.htm - Predictions of revolution: Robert Payne, Marx. p. 338 - Other quotes: Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1848) *The Communist Manifesto* https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ 💬 More from The Living Philosophy ▶ Discord https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9 ▶ 📨 Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/ ________________ 🎼 Media Used: 1. Allegro  — Emmit Fenn 2. Anguish — Kevin MacLeod 3. Alone With My Thoughts — Esther Abrami Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:08 The Hegelian Marx 5:42 Why Marx Loved Capitalism

Following on from the last episode on Jordan Peterson's brilliant 2005 essay on "Peacemaking" this time we look at what went wrong and at JBP's arc as that of the classical tragic hero. And having a bit of fun with this we compare him to the villain in one of my favourite fantasy series Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson. We look at Aristotle's definition of tragedy, and at mapovers between Peterson and Mistborn's Lord Ruler and also Dune's Paul Atreides. ____________________ 📚 Further Reading: - Herbert, F. (1965). *Dune*. London: Penguin - Peterson, J.B. (2005). _Peacemaking Among Higher Order Primates_ in _The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts_ ed. by Mari Fitzduff, Chris E. Stout. Michigan: Praeger Security International - Sanderson, B. (2015). *Mistborn Trilogy Boxed Set: Mistborn, The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages*. London: Gollancz ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ 💬 More from The Living Philosophy ▶ Discord https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9 ▶ 📨 Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/ ________________ 🎼 Music: 1. Juniper  — Kevin MacLeod 2. Allegro — Emmit Fenn 3. Density & Time — Ether Real 4. Fresh Air — Kevin MacLeod Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic ________________ 📸 Mistborn Images: Ruin and Preservation: reddit.com/r/Cosmere/comments/k9dg2a/ruin_and_preservation_again_but_this_time_in_a/ Kredik Shaw: https://www.deviantart.com/somnicide/art/Kredik-Shaw-315216988 Mistborn Mistbank Wiki Fandom: https://mistbank.fandom.com/wiki/Mistborn?file=Mistborn.jpg Lord Ruler: https://medium.com/@inkimpressionsss_30394/mistborn-unveiling-the-allomantic-symphony-a-journey-through-brandon-sandersons-great-trilogy-17c18f230604 The Skaa: https://readingseconds.com/the-skaa-explained-mistborn/ Rashek: https://www.tumblr.com/runmienn/709526582105112576/mistborn-spoilers-another-compilation-of?source=share The Deepness - Reading Seconds: https://readingseconds.com/the-deepness-explained-mistborn/ The Well of Ascension: https://medium.com/@jazznyul/the-mistborn-trilogy-the-well-of-ascension-part-one-my-book-review-57f7dfedefe2 Alendi and Rashek: https://adonalsium.tumblr.com/post/186149488793/sometimes-i-worry-that-im-not-the-hero-everyone Luthadel with Kredik Shaw, Mist and volcano in bg: https://mistborn.fandom.com/wiki/Mist?file=Kredikshaw_luthadel01.jpg _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:16 Summary of Peacemaker 5:54 Mistborn 11:02 The Mapover with Peterson

In 2005, long before he became a household name, Jordan Peterson wrote an article with the title "Peacemaking Among Higher Order Primates" and it is amazing — partly for its own beauty and pathos and partly for the contract it provides with The Daily Wire Peterson we have today. It is a brilliant ode to what peace looks like and how it might be achieved and a stark reminder of the potential pitfalls for even the best-intentioned. ____________________ 📚 Further Reading: - Peterson, J.B., (2005). Peacemaking Among Higher Order Primates in The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts ed. by Mari Fitzduff, Chris E. Stout. Michigan: Praeger Security International - Peterson, J.B., (2002). Maps of meaning: The architecture of belief. Routledge. ________________ ⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy _________________ 💬 More from The Living Philosophy ▶ Discord https://discord.gg/XNd4gTpfu9 ▶ 📨 Subscribe with email: https://thelivingphilosophy.substack.com/ ________________ 🎼 Media Used: 1. Anguish — Kevin MacLeod 2. Promising Relationship — Kevin MacLeod 3. Disquiet — Kevin MacLeod 4. Alone With My Thoughts — Esther Abrami 5. Dark Times — Kevin MacLeod Subscribe to Kevin MacLeod https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic _________________ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 3:50 Peacekeeping Among Higher Order Primates 7:40 What Separates Them 9:50 Different Localities as Different Paradigms 11:56 As Sowellian Visions 13:53 Patreon Aside 14:26 The Peacemaker 16:41 Reflections