David Boles: Human Meme
This Human Meme podcast is the inflection point for what it means to live a life of knowing. We are in the critical moment of human induction. David Boles is a writer, publisher, teacher, lyricist and author living and working in New York City. He has dedicated his life to founding the irrevocable aesthetic. Be a Human Meme!
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 800
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Hollow Men Explained: T.S. Eliot's Sources, Meaning, and Modern Relevance
The concept of spiritual and moral hollowness that T.S. Eliot crystallized in "The Hollow Men" (1925) emerged from a crisis of meaning that had been building in Western consciousness since the mid-ni…
00:17:27 |
Wed 03 Sep 2025
AI, AGI, and the Future of Humanity: A 2025 Analysis
A persistent gap between public imagination and technical reality defines the common understanding of artificial intelligence. The popular discourse, shaped by a century of fiction, centers on the fe…
00:11:42 |
Wed 27 Aug 2025
From Photograph to Flesh: The AI That Reincarnated the Past
The old archivist, Dr. Aris Thorne, felt a jolt of audacious heresy as he slid the glossy print into the maw of the machine. It was a photograph that had become a part of the national bloodstream, an…
00:13:11 |
Mon 18 Aug 2025
The Digital Specter: Navigating the Murky Waters of Online Trolls and Harassing Reviews
In the sprawling, often-anonymous landscape of the internet, a persistent shadow lurks, eager to sow discord and inflict reputational harm: the online troll. These digital phantoms, armed with keyboa…
00:14:54 |
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Less Than vs. Fewer Than: The Difference Explained (With Examples)
It's a wonderfully curious thing, isn't it, how two little words like "less" and "fewer" can stir up so much conversation and, at times, even a little bit of friendly debate? It’s a perfect example o…
00:16:00 |
Wed 06 Aug 2025
Alien Ingredients Are Everywhere, So Where Is The Life?
So, after all this time, have we ever actually found evidence of alien life on Earth? It's a question that gets to the heart of our place in the universe. For more than fifty years, we’ve been lookin…
00:13:25 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Black Holes Explained: Formation, Evidence, and the Universe Inside Theory
The cosmos harbors many mysteries, but few capture our imagination as completely as black holes, regions of spacetime where gravity so dominates that nothing, not even light, can escape once it cross…
00:20:44 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Tyranny and Triumph of the Clock
Nowhere was the tension between local and standard time more vivid than in Indiana. Before 2006, the state was a confusing patchwork of time observance. Some counties followed Daylight Saving, while …
00:18:09 |
Wed 16 Jul 2025
If the Center Holds: Exploring an Enduring Metaphor
The phrase “if the center holds” has its conceptual roots in the broader cultural and literary assertion that social, political, or ideological cohesion can be sustained only so long as the core rema…
00:18:02 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Deus Ex Machina: Complete 3000-Year History from Ancient Greece to Future Philosophy
The legal systems of this era struggled to adapt to these new realities. The Restored Justice Protocols of 2900 allowed victims of crimes to be restored from backup, effectively undoing the crime its…
00:41:19 |
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Why Everything We Know About Time, Memory & Aging Is Wrong: 6 Paradigm-Shifting Insights
The first forgotten truth emerges from the medieval understanding of time as a living, breathing entity rather than a mere mechanical measurement. Before the proliferation of mechanical clocks in the…
00:25:02 |
Wed 18 Jun 2025
From Ancient Golems to the Synthetic Sacred: How AI Evolved from Mystical Automata to Tomorrow's Consciousness Infrastructure
The human yearning to create intelligence beyond our own biological constraints stretches back to antiquity, manifesting not as "artificial intelligence" but through divine automata, mystical golems,…
00:23:25 |
Wed 11 Jun 2025
We Are Each Other's Possibilities
Yes, we are each other: The Us of Us. To deny this truth is to court disaster. When we forget that we are each other’s possibilities, we begin to retreat. Into silos. Into tribes. Into fear. We stop …
00:17:57 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
Escaping the Misogyny Silo
We begin with a silence, the kind that rings heavy in the ears of the alone. This is the quiet place many young men now occupy—a self-imposed solitude, carved out not of preference, but of defeat. Th…
00:26:48 |
Wed 28 May 2025
Lost Dimensions of Roman Civilization After the Fall
The fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century was not merely the collapse of a political order or the ruin of marble monuments. It was the slow eclipse of an entire world – a complex tapest…
00:39:40 |
Thu 15 May 2025
The Consequences of Devaluing Education: How Ignorance Undermines Society, Democracy, and National Health
When a society starts to devalue education, the consequences quickly ripple through every aspect of civic, cultural, and economic life. Education is much more than a process of transferring facts; it…
00:12:24 |
Tue 06 May 2025
Beyond Precious: How Value, Emotion, and Culture Define What Matters Most
First, let’s be honest: calling something “precious” can sometimes act as a velvet rope, a cordon sanitaire that says, “This is off-limits. This is untouchable and apart.” Think of the grandmother’s …
00:13:59 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
White Coat Isn't Always Innocent: Unmasking the Truth About Doctor's Office Blood Pressure Spikes
Let's talk about something that might have happened to you, or someone you know: going to the doctor and getting a blood pressure reading that seems way too high. But what if that number isn't the re…
00:15:30 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
The Roman Dodecahedron: Mystery, Meaning, and Multi-Purpose Magic
Yes, that infamous -- Roman dodecahedron. So? What was it? A tool? A weapon? A religious artifact? A toy? A candleholder? A multi-purpose cosmic Swiss Army knife for the ancient world? Nobody knows. …
00:17:21 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
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