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
Crumbling in a Pyramid of Lies
How do we deal with serial liars? These professional fibbers build up each lie, carefully, preternaturally, like spit on a broom! We share a story of shameless misery dealing with a Millennial dog ow…
00:12:03 |
Thu 04 Aug 2016
Final Measure of Mercy
The last full measure of devotion divines us. How does the commoner find the way to the unadorned grave? We use the inspiration of Abraham Lincoln, Sen. Robert Kennedy, and Teddy Kennedy to bring us …
00:09:14 |
Thu 04 Aug 2016
Renewing the Covenant
How do we keep alive our connection with each other? We stay together by renewing covenants, closing circles, and remembering who and what we wish to become. We use the examples of a Washington, D.C.…
00:12:52 |
Wed 03 Aug 2016
Allegiance and Justice and the Work of Craft
We fight for justice and pledge allegiance to each other and ourselves. How then, do we handle creators who give us public joy and communal introspection -- while their personal lives are broken to t…
00:09:23 |
Mon 01 Aug 2016
Reflections in a Blind Soul
How do we teach our children to tend their souls? Do we set an example for imitation? Or are children born with a soul that blindly leads them right? We consider the nurturing memes that form us earl…
00:11:34 |
Mon 01 Aug 2016
Good Luck and the Blessings of Merit
Are we born lucky? Or does luck become us? We analyze the Meme, and the merits, of blessings, luck, and spectral intervention. Beware of tricksters wishing to make your luck -- their own divinity!
00:10:53 |
Mon 01 Aug 2016
Veneration in Death
How do we quantify and qualify our grief for the dead? Is personal mourning less valuable than the public grief expressed in social media and along the public square? Is a dead athlete more valuable …
00:13:03 |
Fri 29 Jul 2016
An Irrevocable Aesthetic
How do we create ideas that survive within others? That is the idea of an -- "Irrevocable Aesthetic" -- that propagates from person-to-person long after you are gone. There are ways of knowing that a…
00:10:59 |
Thu 28 Jul 2016
Temptation and the Divine Stave
How we want what we cannot have is a temptation that deserves a knuckling down from a divine hand. What happens when divinity is lost, social policy becomes less aware and the laws of us fail to reor…
00:11:56 |
Wed 27 Jul 2016
Podcasting the Podcast
We discuss the technocrat bits of upgrading your podcast. But first, we share a brief history of the Yale School of Drama Mafia. Then, we're on to microphones, headphones, audio decoders, recording a…
00:15:05 |
Tue 26 Jul 2016
Education and the Uneven Mind
Education in America is unequal. There are barriers to learning that must be breached. How do we equally teach every mind that is ripe to learn? Can we economically survive as a nation when elite edu…
00:22:43 |
Fri 22 Jul 2016
Answering the Angry Inbox
We answer angry email from his Inbox! You'll learn about God and Guns and Terrorism -- all in the first two minutes!
00:16:42 |
Fri 22 Jul 2016
Pain and Compunction
We live tortured lives filled with pain propagated by others against us. How do we survive as body is set against mind? Who peed the bed? We look to drama and yogis and morality to save us from the o…
00:18:50 |
Thu 21 Jul 2016
Perseverance in Longevity
How may we become successful when those around us don't share the same vision? We stay. We will not be moved. We may be mocked or cut off or abandoned, but we always continue on our mark, remain our …
00:12:36 |
Thu 21 Jul 2016
Publishing and the Parochial Mind
Publishing is for everyone, not just mega-media conglomerates, and in this examination of the transferrable memetic, we evaluate the memes and methods of various terms of teams from the Book to the f…
00:14:07 |
Wed 20 Jul 2016
Understanding Aristotle's Poetics
This is a discussion of the staves of dramatic theory: Plot, Character, Thought, Diction, Music, and Spectacle! The Poetics!
00:16:09 |
Wed 20 Jul 2016
Why Do We Create?
Why do we create Art and People and Books and Sandwiches? What drives the human compunction to be remembered? How do we divine the truth? Why are we able to withstand the challenges of time? Technolo…
00:12:59 |
Tue 19 Jul 2016
The Idea of Beauty
The idea of beauty is discussed. How have our tastes in physical beauty, Art and Architecture changes over time? What do we value if not beauty over the ugly? Does anyone aspire to ugliness?
00:14:12 |
Mon 18 Jul 2016
Mechanization of the Self and the Loss of Wonder
We discuss how life has changed from mechanization, and the loss of wonder. Transportation, Communication and Social Living are examined.
00:16:02 |
Mon 18 Jul 2016
What is a Human Meme?
This is the first episode! The definition of a human life is at stake, and the loss of elastic thinking is also examined. "What does it mean to live a human life?"
00:11:10 |
Mon 18 Jul 2016
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