Gods, Masters, and Clout
An anti-ideological guide to modern life created and hosted by Casey Franco. Each episode focuses on a phenomenon of modern life and attempts to explain it using philosophy, psychology, sociology, or semiotics so you never have to feel like you're at the mercy of gods, masters, or clout.
- Update frequency
- every 261 days
- Average duration
- 79 minutes
- Episodes
- 4
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2022
The METAfesto: A Plea for Digital Dialecticism
During my foray into grad school, one of my favorite professors asked me to write my own manifesto as an assignment. His only instructions were to include a call to action and to "be bombastic." This…
Occupy WallStreetBets: Digital Revolutions and Technological Constructivism
Since it's probably going to take another year for me to finish the second episode of the "Fear Inoculant" series, I'm going to repurpose some papers I wrote in grad school into a few bonus episodes …
Fear Inoculant 1 - Events, Reality, Freedom, and Revolution
Many things in modern life make us fearful. The Fear Inoculant series will explore ways to be less fearful and live a more authentic life. In this, the first of three episodes, we cover a host of ph…
The Philosophy of Persuasion and The Anti-Salesman
In this episode: Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle, how I escaped a cult, why we must care about others, and how it can all be applied to persuasion, art creation, ideology, and modern life. We delve i…