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Taoism: Ep. 13 - Taoism and Pleasure
Season 18 Episode 13
What rises in the Taoist tradition when one is tranquil is pleasure. This simple idea is almost universally ignored or obscured in the Taoist traditi…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Q & A - No History for You! - Ep. 4
Season 1 Episode 4
Q & A - NO HISTORY FOR YOU!
Wes and Jeremy take questions from listeners on Lecture II: No History for You!
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3 weeks, 5 days ago
The Joy of Resistance: Ep. 4 - Sign Value and Recuperation
Season 19 Episode 4
One of the significant challenges of our current environment is that our own imaginations have been turned against us. Much of our needs come from ou…
4 weeks ago
Taoism: Ep. 12 - Taoism and Tranquility
Season 18 Episode 12
While Taoism emphasizes knowing and being nothing, it does have a positive value - tranquility. Virtually ignored as a value in the Western tradition…
1 month ago
No History For You! - Ep. 3
Season 1 Episode 3
NO HISTORY FOR YOU!
In my second lecture I explore the bizarre and necessary historical amnesia that besets American culture. For the first 200 years …
1 month ago
The Joy of Resistance: Ep. 3 - Revolution is a Trap
Season 19 Episode 3
The overriding narrative of revolution features a defined enemy inhabiting a defined space that we can, with courage, suffering and sacrifice, overth…
1 month ago
Taoism: Ep. 11 - Taoism and Nihilism
Season 18 Episode 11
Taoism posits that the meaninglessness of life is not a basis for Nihilism but for Joy and Liberty. The palpable despair imparted by the advance of s…
1 month, 1 week ago
Q & A - What is an American? - Ep. 2
Season 1 Episode 2
Q & A - WHAT IS AN AMERICAN?
Wes and Jeremy take questions from listeners on Lecture I: "What is an American?" Apologies for the audio quality on this…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Joy of Resistance: Ep. 2 - You are Not A Resource
Season 19 Episode 2
2,000 years ago Cicero warned us against the idea that other people are functionally prey from whom we extract the profit. Unfortunately, his argumen…
1 month, 1 week ago
Taoism: Ep. 10 - Socrates was NOT a Taoist
Season 18 Episode 10
While Taoism emphasizes ‘not knowing’ it does so in a very different way than Socrates’s claim of knowing what he does not know. In Chapter 17 of Chu…
1 month, 2 weeks ago