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https://www.letusthinkaboutit.com/step-69-memetic-desire/

0:00 Intro

1:22 What is mimetic rivalry? memtic desire.

2:48 Mimicry as an internal set of neurosis.

5:05 What we want is the attention and cont…

0:00 Introduction to this episode.

1:53 In 1879 there was a horrible train wreck: the promise and cost of technology

4:27 A cautionary tale about the influence of the machine on communism.

6:53 What is…

0:00 Intro _ the Gods of Technology (Deus ex Machina)  

3:56 Part 1: some context  _ the capitalist trap, double binds, and looking for an escape, reality vs. abstraction

11:27 Part 2: the futurists_ f…

Full episode in writing as well as video at:

https://www.letusthinkaboutit.com/step-66-cybernetics--capitalism/

0:00 Intro 

1:56 Part 1: cybernetics _ machines, feedback, and cascades 

6:22 Part 2: one-d…

PART 1: the path for the 2 to become 1

the 2 is 1, linked through exclusion

in the last season of “peaky blinders” Tommy Shelby is a socialist forced into plotting with the fascists… In one scene he sa…

https://www.letusthinkaboutit.com/step-64-artificial-negativity--repressive-tolerance

Part 1: Hegel, antithesis and sublation, the spiral, and the ground. 

Part 2: Paul Piccone & Telos

Piccone was the e…

 https://www.letusthinkaboutit.com/step-63-the-one-dimensional-man 

Part 1: Captialism absorbs everything: even your rebellion against it becomes a published book, which feeds capitalism, and generate…

https://www.letusthinkaboutit.com/step-62-the-double-bind/

PART 1

Ryder discusses Alan Watt's interpretation of the "tough-minded" and "tender-hearted" as "prickles and goos" that need each other, yet …

Why would anyone want to escape from Freedom?

Psychologically freedom is a tremendous burden, especially in a competitive society commoditizing your individuality. Erich Fromm in “Escape from Freedom”…

Why would anyone want to escape from Freedom? Well, in a complex system, any move will produce countermanding forces, and humans are slow-evolving creatures, and by merely shouting “you are free” we …

Gambling has grown, as has gambling addiction. With technology improvements driven by behavioral science, gambling is more addictive than ever. While it may be your choice to gamble, the cards are st…

Our identity is multifaceted, but people love the simplicity and tend to reduce people to a singular trait, which objectifies them. This reduction leads to violence, in part because it allows an "us …

Step 57: Design facilitates Agency

Part 1: The Mouskedoer

Crawford tells this story about watching the Mickey Mouse channel, and on the show they have these segments where, say, 4 objects are in a grid…

Intro

Today we continue considering “the world inside of our head” as quite narrow versus “the world of your body”, pulling heavily from Matthew Crawford, but also Iris Murdoch and Iain McGilchrist.

We…

Part 1: Jggy wit it

I personally do a lot of woodworking, making cabinets or entertainment centers, I'm currently trying to build a window. I have tools that help me, such as a table saw is great, but…

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https://www.letusthinkaboutit.com/step-54-the-world-beyond-your-head-pt-2/

0:00 intro

2:11 part 1: environmental suppression

5:31 part 2: the illusion of the self

8:35 part 3: situated self…

1: Attention as a cultural problem

“Capitalism has gotten hip to the fact that for all our talk of an information economy, but we really have is an attentional economy, if the term economy applies wha…

Ryder consumed over 50 books and about 200 podcasts in 2021. Walking through concepts of the origins of bureaucracy and how the protestant work ethic shaped corporations and consumer behavior, he mov…

The most obvious problem with optimization is "who (or what) are you optimizing into?" First you must know yourself, then have a mission with little goals along the way allowing you to hack productiv…

The Hero Story 

Perhaps there has always been an effort towards optimization, and it generally looks like technology. When speaking of self optimization, or overcoming , we are speaking of the hero’s …