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
- 801
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
From Bobby Fischer to AlphaZero
Chess can be beautiful in its expansive logic. Bobby Fischer taught us that chess could be played, and won, beyond the board; and AlphaZero shows us that chess imagined by a computer can be even more…
00:19:11 |
Thu 08 Jul 2021
Design Theory vs. Experienced Living
Architects should be required to live in their own designs. Too often the theory of implementation becomes more important than the actual pleasurable living experience in a designed space. It is not …
00:12:52 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
No Advocacy Advocates
To be an advocate, you must care about the end. Too often, the False Advocate is not in the world for the goodness of it, but merely for the temporary, self-staking glory that reeks from publicity, a…
00:07:59 |
Thu 24 Jun 2021
The Moral Society
The immoral outnumber us, yet they claim to be the majority. We cannot be corrupted by the "second chancers" and by those who do not wish us to be better human animals. We must always work together, …
00:11:38 |
Thu 17 Jun 2021
Things Fall Apart
When things come undone, we search to blame. It isn't enough for us to accept a failure. No, for closure, we need just one reason for the fall, but only one reason. Neil Young taught us that, sometim…
00:11:23 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
Performative Grief
We cannot be left alone to learn community rituals. We become one, together, by sharing information, and by teaching expectation; and if time is not spent on bringing young minds into the human ritua…
00:12:25 |
Thu 03 Jun 2021
Skinflint: Blood in the Stone
Cheap is not the path to generosity. You've met the skinflint. You know the cheapskate. You might even be one of them; but there are few things in life more disappointing than being told after the fa…
00:13:37 |
Thu 27 May 2021
When Dummies Decide
There's a difference between being dumb, and being a Dummy. A whole book publishing industry is dedicated to those who self-identify as a Dummy; but what do we make of those who are proud of just bei…
00:13:27 |
Thu 20 May 2021
The 300-lb Ballerina
A human aesthetic is created to celebrate, not humiliate. What do we choose to value in Art? Is inclusion more important than ability? Do we care more for participation than precision in performance?…
00:11:52 |
Thu 13 May 2021
Adding to the Christofascism Lie
The Holocaust is not an Easter story. There are some, the Christofascists among us, who propagate the lie -- some, perhaps, unwittingly -- that the Christ child is the center of all religions, when t…
00:13:14 |
Thu 06 May 2021
Where the Day Goes to Die
We seek renewal in the East, and find death in the West. In that arc of the day, we struggle to define the truth of each moment, while resisting the evil effort to rewrite what has already been lived…
00:17:06 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
Too Many Tomorrows
We have a shared, and fatal, fat mentality. Some try to convince us there's such a thing as being "Healthy Fat" when no such condition exists. If we are ever again to regain our place in our own live…
00:12:53 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
The Great White Bridge as Throughline
Joe Biden is a historical bridge worth crossing. Sure, Joe is owned by the big banks. Sure, Joe told student loan borrowers to pound sand. Sure, Joe lied about the $2,000 stimulus checks; but maybe t…
00:12:15 |
Thu 15 Apr 2021
Putting it on the Record
A "Deal is a Deal" is dead and gone. A handshake is cancelled. All the terms of keeping your word have now gone the way of the comfort of community where you once belonged merely by being. Now the wo…
00:11:42 |
Thu 08 Apr 2021
Hoping the World Will Return to You
As the world spins forward, we, the newly aged, get left behind. What are we to make of the changes in a culture that cancels the opposite opinion, and where booty shaking overrules the arched foot? …
00:09:44 |
Thu 01 Apr 2021
Life of a Ghost
Ghosts get the work done. Ghosts become us. Ghosts are up from the grave to provide solace against "Cancel Culture" -- because you cannot kill what does not care!
00:11:02 |
Thu 25 Mar 2021
Camp Kitaki and One Tin Soldier
Music connects us to the living, and reminds us of our demise. In the Summer of 1973, the Coven song, "One Tin Soldier" was on the top of the music charts, and that tune was sung by 8-year-olds in th…
00:15:06 |
Thu 18 Mar 2021
David Boles Bells: A Recantation
If you're pressing over 50, then you need a good Kettlebell workout! Welcome to the new BolesBells.com website and blog -- the right place for those who have lived over half a century, and for those …
00:12:24 |
Thu 11 Mar 2021
Sex and the Vegan
Naming conventions matter. Words have definitions beyond simple branding. The sexualization of Veganism for profit is a dangerous copulation with afterbirth results. Being Vegan is more than a sexual…
00:13:09 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
The Final 20 Minutes
Why do so many dramatic stories fail in the final 20 minutes? Today, we will find out together using Denzel Washington's, THE LITTLE THINGS, movie as a template for a disaster in storytelling. We'll …
00:36:47 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
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