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Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?The Dispossessed part 2: Why would capitalism make me do this?This week we wrap up our discussion of Ursula LeGuin's 1974 classic The Dispossessed. Simultaneity physics: just a mcguffin, or deeper thematic significance? How is it different to a block universe? Does this count as hard sci-fi? on the [redacted] scene: why would LeGuin include this? how are we supposed to feel about our hero Shevek? why would capitalism make me do this?? Final thoughts on the book: was Shevek's arc satisfying? who would we recommend it to? are we gonna read more LeGuin? Ted Chiang story coming soon. plus special guest...2025-05-1337 minDo You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed: Real anarchy has never been triedA brilliant physicist grows disenchanted with the stifling anarchist society of his home planet, defecting to a capitalist world in the hopes of finding true freedom...but what he finds only horrifies him. Cam says Ursula K. Le Guin's 1974 award-winning piece of sociological fiction is a leftist pamphlet. Benny and Rich call bs. who's right? let us examine the textual evidence. On incentives: Are social sanctions powerful enough to get everyone to work voluntarily? Can an economy function without price signals and division of labour? How does crime and justice work with no...2025-04-291h 23Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?DeLillo's White Noise: psy-opping ourselves on death and po-mo“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots.” After a break, the boys jump into the 1980s po-mo White Noise by Don DeLillo. We talk about the denial of death, toxic airborne events, and Baudrillardian copies of copies of copies (of copies...) Simulacra: The boys shake off their reddit I Love Science teenage years and start to embrace all things post-modernism. Namely, Baudrilliard's idea of the Simulacra where some "signs" no longer point to any underlying reality. Denial of Death: A fairly straight-forward retelling of Ernest Becker's Denial of Death...2025-04-161h 40Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?DeLillo's White Noise: Psy-opping ourselves on death and po-mo“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. ” After a break, the boys jump into the the 1980s po-mo White Noise by Don DeLillo. We talk about the denial of death, toxic airborne events, and Baudrillardian copies of copies of copies... Simulacra: The boys shake off their reddit I Love Science teenage years and start to embrace some post-modernism. Namely, Baudrilliard's idea of the Simulacra where some "signs" no longer point to any underlying reality.  Denial of Death: A fairly straight-forward retelling of Ernest Becker's Denial of Death: We're all te...2025-04-141h 41The Original Firefighter PodcastThe Original Firefighter PodcastEpisode 29 - "Space, Controversy and Traditions"In this episode, Will and Phil—our resident Elvis—tackle the latest current events in the fire service, breaking down key moments from body cam footage of a dramatic car fire rescue. They also take a deep dive into the rich history of firehouse traditions that are still alive and well today. From the origins of these customs to their modern-day significance, this episode is packed with insights, brotherhood, and a little rock ‘n’ roll flair. 🔥 Don’t miss this action-packed discussion with real-world takeaways for firefighters of all levels! Listen now!Sponsors:...2025-04-091h 47Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?The Odyssey, part 2: Failsons and deadbeat dadsThis week we finally shut up about translations and get into some juicy themes and character analysis. Telemachus: why is he such a dweeb compared to his dad? Rich argues that he's doing the best he can growing up with an absent father. The others are less sympathetic. Odysseus: is his paranoid murderous rampage justified? what are his singular heroic attributes? Is he portrayed more as admirable or a hubristic figure? Why won't his men obey him? On homecoming: Why was Odysseus away for so long? Was he kinda dragging his heels on...2025-03-171h 37Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Emily Wilson's The Odyssey, part 1: Bronze age perversionWOKE classics professor DESTROYED by three random guys who've never read homer before!!! just kidding we love it. Wilson translation discourse: is she really importing her feminist beliefs into the text? has she stripped the grandeur out to take 'complicated' Odysseus down a peg? what are the connotations of sluts and slaves? is the fancy language of other translators really just stylistic anachronism? who would win in a fight between the yass queens and the greek statue avatars? Odysseus the hero: what's with all the false modesty? where is the line between seeking...2025-02-261h 10Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Nikolai Gogol: Cutting your nose to spite the faceless bureaucracy"For how could the nose, which had been on his face but yesterday, and able then neither to drive nor to walk independently, now be going about in uniform?" We take a break from reading novels and take a quick nose dive into Gogol's famous 1830s short story, talking absurdity, bureaucracy, and Russian wives. Status and bureaucracies: The most straight forward reading is a satire 19th century Russian bureaucracies and status seeking. Benny outlines outlines the table of ranks and the boys consider the pros and cons. Inconsistencies and the absurd: Rich is...2025-02-1238 minDo You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Blood Meridian, part 2: It's time for some game theory"He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die." Wrapping up the second half of our discussion on Cormac McCarthy's 1985 classic, in which various chickens come home to roost. The Glanton gang's downfall: on the run from the Sonoran cavalry, mercy killings, greed and symbolism of coins, the takeover of the ferry, the Yuma strike back, the judge's apocalypse-chic fashion, the Idiot plays his part (??). On violence and human nature: Rich makes the base case that humans don't have a 'true' nature but respond to local...2025-01-171h 54Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, part 1: A legion of horriblesHell aint half full. Hear me. Ye carry war of a madman's making onto a foreign land. Yell wake more than the dogs. Rich is a big McCarthy head. For Benny and Cam, it's their first taste, and we're going straight to the top shelf: the 1985 epic historical novel Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West. In this discussion we cover the first half of the book (chapters 1-12) as a meditation on violence, manifest destiny, self-mythology, and McCarthy's own cunning plot to positioning himself within the literary canon. At the...2025-01-031h 42Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?DYEL Christmas party: The most beloved and hated books of 2024A bit of festive fun looking back on the year that was. Which books have stayed with us? Which were forgettable? What was the best reading/watching we did outside of book club? What did we learn about podcasting? Are we gonna keep posting this stuff in public? and MORE CHAPTERS (00:00:00) festive chit chat (00:07:35) Revealing our favourite books of the year 00:34:13) Biggest STINKER of the year (00:48:25) Our #1 (non-book club) book/essay/blog (00:59:39) Favourite film or TV (01:10:05) Navel-gazing on the book club meta and podcasting lessons learned WRITE US: We...2024-12-191h 22Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?The Moviegoer: In which we escape a deep existential malaiseA paradox: how can an author—say, Walker Percy—get the reader to care about a protagonist—say, Binx Bolling—who is stuck in a malaise and doesn't himself particularly care about anything? A corollary: how can a book club have an engaging discussion when they don't particularly care about said book and said protagonist? Honestly you might as well skip the first 10 minutes or so in which we half-assedly try to talk about the actual plot elements. Luckily Cam saves the day with an impromptu lecture on Kierkegaard and we get to yapping...2024-12-101h 04Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Banned books: Vladimir Nabokov's infamous Lolita“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul... You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.” Nabokov had a lot of trouble getting anyone to publish a story about a grown man falling in love with a 12 year old. After multiple bans and scandals, Lolita caught fire in America, and is now considered perhaps his greatest work (altho you still cop some dodgy glances reading it on the train). The great central tension is between Humbert Humbert the monster and HH the sensitive and sympathetic aesthete. How...2024-11-211h 24Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: Autofiction and autofellationThese days every bestselling author writes novels about how their dad was too strict and they got bullied for bringing stinky indian food to school etc. But Karl Ove Knausgaard walked so millennial narcissists could run. This week we get absorbed in part 1 of his epic six-part autobiographical novel My Struggle, published in 2009. The big central question: what makes a book which spends five pages describing the author making a cup of coffee so good? The prose is nice but prosaic, there are few major insights, and no plot beats or narrative tension...2024-10-3043 minDo You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Ted Chiang's Understand: Intelligence explosions and AI doomYeah, it's big brain time. This week we're reading 'Understand' from Ted Chiang's 2002 collection Stories of Your Life and Others. what is the ceiling on human intelligence? can we jooce it up? did Chiang inspire the whole AI doomer movement? would superintelligence beings have to annihilate each other instead of cooperating? Do we buy the orthogonality thesis? Also: introducing David Deutsch's 'universal explainer' theory of intelligence, which gives radically different answers to all of the above. Is the dumbest guy you know really capable of making novel advances in quantum physics? The answer may surprise...2024-10-141h 22Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Chekhov urself before u wreck-ov urself (The Little Trilogy)This week we're reading three of Anton Chekhov's most beloved short stories: The Man in the Case, Gooseberries, and About Love (The Little Trilogy, 1898). We get a minor assist from George Saunders and his fantastic book A Swim in the Pond in the Rain but have no shortage of stuff to discuss. Talking big 5 personality traits, the degree to which people oppress themselves, why Rich fell out of love with the early retirement movement, whether it's OK to be happy in a world full of suffering, and if having to settle in romantic relationships is...2024-10-011h 44Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: War and loveHemingway's 1929 semi-autobiographical classic tackles two big timeless themes: love and war. Two out of three of us can relate to the first one, but war feels pretty alien to us. How would the boys do if they were conscripted? What made WWI so uniquely dispiriting? What is it about this novel that so faithfully captures the experience of war? We also talk quite a bit about Hemingway's laconic characters and terse writing style. How representative is this of his broader work? What do we think of the 'iceberg method'? Why did he go with the...2024-09-171h 00Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Crime and Punishment finale: is Dostoevsky...overrated??Not too much plot to cover in parts 5 and 6; mostly we're hashing out our final thoughts on the book and Dostoevsky's legacy. First up is the controversial epilogue. The boys are not sure how believable Rodya's redemption is. It feels kinda cheap? Dostoevsky is not very good at character development but maybe it doesn't matter. Sonya is a perfectly implausible character who exists only as a sort of a prop for Rodya. How on earth does Dosto have a reputation for writing realistic characters? Again, it prob doesn't matter. Svidrigailov sneaks up on us as...2024-08-271h 31Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Crime and Punishment, part 2: Three extraordinary menwe're just normal men. We're just innocent men! In parts 3 and 4 of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 Crime and Punishment we get a lot more meat on Raskolnikov's 'extraordinary man' thesis. How does it overlap with the concept of the Übermensch in Nietzsche and Hegel? Are we too deeply steeped in Christian morality to become 'extraordinary' without destroying ourselves? We reconsider Raskolnikov, Svidrigailov, and Luzhin through this lens. Plus: cam's obligatory sibling inc*st fantasies, rich tries to give dostoyevsky writing advice, etc   CHAPTERS (00:00:00) hangry (00:02:00) the Extraordinary Man thesis (00:06:28) Ni...2024-08-131h 09Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Crime and Punishment, part 1: Mister Schizo and the First TradCracking into the first two parts of Dostoevsky's 1866 classic Crime and Punishment. The first surprising thing is that this is a conservative/reactionary book: it mocks the fancy new ideas of the youth, the spirit of revolution, naive utilitarianism, etc. Jordan Peterson laps this shit up. But did the moral panic over materialism hold up? Does modern society in any way compare with the turmoil of Dostoevsky's Russia, or are we at the end of history? How relevant are Dostoevsky's concerns today? We argue quite a bit about that but we're more aligned on the...2024-07-301h 27Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Susanna Clarke's Piranesi: Gaslight gatekeep girlbossThe beauty of this book is immeasurable, and its kindness is infinite. We all love Susanna Clarke's 2012 metaphysical thriller, which feels like a mashup of Borges/C.S. Lewis/Gone Girl.  Venture deeper into the labyrinth with us: Piranesi as amateur scientist: On indigenous knowledge, the dangers of naïve empiricism, achieving dominion over nature, and whether the Other kind of had a point. Metaphysics of the House: Are abstractions real, revisiting Plato's world of perfect forms, and whether the world is fundamentally Good. Identity and mental illness: The il...2024-07-171h 25Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?The Tragedy of Hamlet: The O.G. annoying theatre kidholy shit this was hard. Our first attempt at shakespeare and it was a doozy! Rich struggled through the original text and only had the vaguest idea what was going on. Cam watched every single movie adaptation and studied for two weeks but still got casually mogged by his girlfriend. By the time we got done with the discussion we were all actually hyped to read more shakespeare so something must have gone right. Covering such topics as: The impenetrability of Shakespearean english, whether it's better to read modern translations or...2024-07-091h 10Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Albert Camus' The Fall: Signalling, scrupulosity, and pathological self-awarenessThis one starts slow but it ends up being one of my favourite book clubs ever. Camus' last finished novel was The Fall (1956). It has a lot of personal resonance for Rich and the other boys loved it too. Loss of innocence: how much of our behaviour comes down to signalling? Is there such a thing as genuine altruism? Is it dangerous to learn about this stuff? Was David Foster Wallace's 'new sincerity' idea doomed from the outset? Escaping the double bind: Choosing which status games to play, finding solace in sports and...2024-07-021h 44Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Philip K. Dick's paranoid classic Ubik: Fluttering at the windowpane of realityPhilip K. Dick is a sci-fi legend, but the boys have only ever seen the film adaptations of his work (Blade Runner, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly). Dick's 1969 classic Ubik has us divided. Benny is mad that major premises are introduced and then abandoned, internal logic is sloppy, and the twist ending is lazy writing. Rich and Cam are charmed by the imperfections and think it heightens the sense of (un)reality.  Is Ubik a metaphor for God? What are the parallels to Gnosticism, and who is the demiurge behind the false reality of half-life? D...2024-06-271h 18Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis: A Bug's Life“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect.” (who amongst us, etc) This week we're talking Kafka's 1915 novella The Metamorphosis. Rich swoons over Gregor and is deeply moved by his plight. Cam wonders whether the giant freaky bug might bear some responsibility for events. Benny starts out sorta lukewarm on the whole thing but comes around in the end. Is this story meant to be a depiction of depression? An autobiographical work about an artist becoming alienated from his phili...2024-06-191h 04Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Frankenstein, part 2: Nature vs nurtureWrapping up Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which we all loved. Nature vs nurture: the monster as proto-incel, to what extent do we feel sympathy for him, should Victor have made him a bride, self-loathing and recrimination, and whether hot people are actually more virtuous than ugly people. Also: why rousseau was a giant piece of shit, the monster as Byronic hero, importance of pariahs and moral entrepreneurs, pitbull discourse, etc CHAPTERS (00:00:00) just grave robber problems (00:05:20) peephole language learning montage (00:09:00) Nature vs nurture debate 00:17:00) Cam’s crank theory that hot people are more virtuous (00:24:11) Fr...2024-06-111h 04Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, part 1: Post-nut clarity and forbidden knowledgeDiscussing chapters 1-10 of Mary Shelley's 1818 genre mash-up Frankenstein. On Mary Shelley's stacked genetics, the 'scenius' with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, questions over authorship including a suspiciously accurate depiction of post-nut clarity. Forbidden knowledge: are infohazards real, taking accountability for new technology, guilt and the disgust instinct, strong parallels with AGI, arguments for and against creating new species. Can we defend a parochial concern for our own family/friends/species? Is the monster innately evil? Or a product of his environment? We love this book. hyped to hear the monster's...2024-06-021h 16Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The One TRUE InterpretationWandering through Samuel Beckett's 1953 absurdist play Waiting for Godot. Did Beckett actually have an interpretation in mind, or did he deliberately write a maximally vague story that everyone could map their own interests onto? How well does the humour hold up over time? Where does Beckett rank in the canon of absurdist and existentialist writers? What proportion of reported suicides are actually autoerotic asphyxiation accidents? etc  CHAPTERS (00:00:00) gooning oneself to death (00:05:28) synopsis (nothing happens, twice) (00:07:32) Initial reactions + arguing about interpretation 00:17:16) What are we waiting for? (00:22:09) Religious, Freudian, Marxist interpretations (00:26:56) tHaT’s sOOO RAN...2024-05-2642 minDo You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?The Razor's Edge, part 3: Climbing off the wheel of sufferingOur final session with W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge (chapters 5-7). Elliot Templeton as the last relic of a dying age. Was he really happy? We consider his self-worship and clout-chasing Catholicism as a counterpoint to Larry's spirituality. Rest in power queen. Sophie MacDonald attempts to climb off the wheel of suffering via more prosaic means. Did she get what she wanted? An argument over whether Isabel is a total psycho or only a minor-league bitch.  Larry's spiritual journey as a synthesis of the best parts of the Eastern tradition. Was this w...2024-05-181h 03Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?The Razor's Edge, part 2: Lay your hands on me LarryDiscussing chapters 4 and 5 of W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge. Larry becomes aloof and reserved. Is he really bringing anything to the table besides his sexy forearms? Has he gone full woo-woo granola cruncher? Why can Kosti only talk about spirituality when he's drunk? Why aren't muses a thing these days? CHAPTERS (00:00:00) Synopsis (00:02:23) What do we think of Larry now? (00:13:54) Curing Gray’s headache (00:16:50) Christian mysticism as thinly veiled Buddhism (00:20:05) What does Kosti’s character represent? (00:28:30) Why we can take Larry more seriously than typical hippie (00:33:10) This book would hit way harder at age 18 or 2...2024-05-1247 minDo You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, part 1: Nobody loafs like LarryCracking into the first three chapters of Maugham's 1944 spiritual odyssey. Why do we love Larry so much? Rich talks about his own years of loafing around. Is Larry's decision to take a step off the beaten path less admirable given his 'trifling' $54,000 inflation-adjusted stipend? Talking about the spergy drive to collect All the Knowledge, and how to think about which problems to work on. Is the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake a noble activity, or should we actually be building stuff in the world?  CHAPTERS (00:00:00) Synopsis (00:02:18) Everyone loves Larry (00:06:26) The p...2024-05-0839 minDo You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 3: Was David Foster Wallace a hideous man?Starts with light and breezy over-sharing of our masturbatory habits, ends with a downer discussion about how we should re-contextualise Wallace's work thru the lens of the abuse allegations against him. The main stories we talk about: Brief Interview #59: Logically coherent masturbation fantasies (00:01:34) is this a universal experience, why are adolescent boys so creepy, the rare 'gooner to godhood' pathway. Brief Interview #28 (00:10:20) Does feminism create a double bind for modern women, was the sexual revolution a mistake, what's with the neo-trad movement, why everyone should have the freedom to make mistakes and explore...2024-05-051h 37Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 2: If you can fake sincerity you've got it madeThis week's discussion is loosely based around the story Octet, but really we just drill down on what David Foster Wallace is trying to achieve in this collection. How much metafiction is too much metafiction, does DFW stray into self-indulgence, the leap of faith he asks from his readers, is it possible to tactically and deliberately try to be sincere (or is this another double bind), and whether Brief Interviews is really about toxic masculinity. CHAPTERS (00:00:00) The paradox of trying to come across as sincere (00:09:16) Overdosing on DFW’s schtick (00:18:05) is Wallace stylistically rangebound as...2024-04-2941 minDo You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, part 1: Weaponised therapy-speakWallace's 1999 collection of short stories takes us to some uncomfortable places (and as always, is eerily prescient). In this week's discussion we talk about his 'juvenilia' coming-of-age story Forever Overhead, his famous piece The Depressed Person, and a smattering of the titular brief interviews. We kinda fucked up the format on this by trying to talk about everything. But salvaged some bits about nostalgia, the blurred lines between narcissism and depression, therapy culture, and why metafiction is played out. CHAPTERS (00:00:00) quick blather and disclaimer (00:01:55) Forever Overhead: mainlining nostalgia of late childhood (00:09:04) starting...2024-04-2546 minDo You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, part 3: We finally get to the fucking lighthouseAn anticlimactic final discussion to an anticlimactic book. We are confused and afraid. Cam is on the brink of quitting reading altogether. This discussion covers Parts 2 and 3 of To The Lighthouse. Actual book-related content starts at 11 minutes. CHAPTERS (00:00:00) Normative ethics and incest cold open (00:11:00) Infectiousness of social energy (00:15:16) The Chad Carmichael vs the Virgin Tansley (00:22:16) Entropy and the passage of time (00:26:21) Lily Briscoe as Virginia Woolf (00:33:00) sidebar on which book to read next (00:34:32) On finally getting to the lighthouse (00:42:22) What's the significance of Lily's painting? (00:43:48) Final thoughts on why this book gave us trouble 2024-04-2247 minDo You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 2: Portrait of the autist as an old manRich waxes lyrical about the dinner party scene. Do men have impaired theory of mind, or are they just assholes? On the invisible mastery of social reality, and capturing subjective experience in literature. It goes well enough that the boys decide to actually read the rest of the book. CHAPTERS (00:00:00) pre-roll jibber jabber (00:12:55) a man monologues on the male tendency to monologue (00:17:35) bogged down by poetic prose (00:22:33) Women as facilitators of social interactions (00:32:02) Do women have better theory of mind, or are men just assholes? (00:42:12) Mastery over social reality is invisible (00:48:34) Subject-object distinction (00:51:50) Where to from...2024-04-161h 05Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, part 1: Skill issueA fragmented jumble of multiple shifting perspectives, punctuated by abrupt jumps between topics and timelines, infused with the frustration of trying to express intensely-felt experiences within the bounds of mere words. (oh and we also talked about a Virginia Woolf book)   CHAPTERS (00:00:00) - we are NOT going to the lighthouse (00:11:16) - Rich makes the case for persevering (00:14:16) - Cam pleads preference for plain prose (00:17:51) - Ideas that can only be conveyed through fiction (00:25:21) - Synopsis of part 1: The Window (00:27:30) - Autobiographical elements from Woolf's life (00:29:40) - What ideas would a modern Bloomsbury g...2024-04-0850 minDo You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Borges' Garden of Forking Paths: a ramble through the multiverseThese days the 'multiverse' idea is standard marvel slop. But if we read this story in 1941 it would have blown our tiny little minds. how tf did Borges sit at the cutting edge of philosophy and physics without doing the classic info-dump spergy thing? We read one of our favourite stories in search of Clues (actual plot-related analysis starts around the 1 hour mark)   CHAPTERS (00:00:00) synopsis and throat clearing (00:06:43) Borges the troll (death of the author redux) (00:16:23) How this mf had so many original i...2024-04-081h 58Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?John Williams' sleeper hit Stoner: Finding perfection in mediocrityOur critical consensus on John William's sleeper bestseller Stoner: There is almost no plot The main character doesn't get the girl, or really succeed at anything Gigantic violation of 'show don't tell', starting on literally page one WE FUCKING LOVE THIS BOOK could it be...a perfect novel? we try figure out why we relate so hard to Mr William Stoner, the great shining exemplar of principled mediocrity. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 - the perfect novel 00:06:23 - synopsis 00:10:20 - why each of us loved this book 00:17:02 - Mediocrity as the modal outcome 00:22:26 - Is Stoner...2024-04-021h 31Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 3: The world is weary of me and I am weary of itclosing out the last section of the book with death, entropy, and thwarted ambitions: Why David Deutsch wouldn't approve of Houellebecg True artists impose their vision upon the world Sacred values and euthanasia Should kanye get back on his meds Not sure why the audio cuts off abruptly at the end but it does feel appropriate CHAPTERS (00:00:00) Third act murder mystery wtf (00:08:03) Yearning for some bygone era (00:13:49) Deutschian critique of MH’s pessimism (00:20:38) Euthanasia and sacred values (00:30:52) What does Houllebecq’s death signify? (00:39:44) Final thoughts on map vs territory (00:48:23) being open to criticism vs impo...2024-03-261h 01Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 2: Post-industrial society and its discontentsThis section is light on plot but we do get a coherent theme: the perversions that emerge from consumer capitalism's relentless optimisation process. will our hero Jed maintain his artistic integrity and stop feeding the beast? does Houellebecq think of himself as a kind of ethnographer? Does the g-spot actually exist? etc   benny's audio still sucks. actual book content starts at 00:06:19   CHAPTERS (00:00:00) what if we kissed under the mistletoe (00:06:19) is art just expensive furniture (00:17:48) refining Houllebecq's actual beef with consumer capitalism (00:21:51) ho...2024-03-231h 02Do You Even Lit?Do You Even Lit?Michel Houellebecq's Map and the Territory, part 1: Memeing big fat juicy asses into realitySome good stuff coming up already in part 1 of The Map and The Territory: how our models of the world can change underlying physical reality is modern art a psyop? why plato would hate 'brand-name' tourism experience benny's audio is completely cooked on this. I lost the files so I can't fix it sorry CHAPTERS (00:00:00) playdough’s cave (00:04:01) is modern art a psyop (00:07:59) straussian readings of plato (00:12:21) map-territory distinction (00:16:21) jed is a true artist (00:25:00) raising children without the threat of physical violence (00:31:00) what blows jed’s skirt up? (00:40:40) woody allen goat (00:44:10) rotten tomatoes manufactures medi...2024-03-211h 23The Mixtape TreasuryThe Mixtape TreasuryRap Is Outta Control (DJ Eclipse & DJ Riz with guest OC from NC) 2 July 23A Dj mix show that debuts new underground Rap and Hip Hop along with some of the hottest DJ's available, @itsdjeclipse & @djriznyc Be prepared for a non-stop musical journey. Elcamino & TrickyTrippz “Made A Killin'” (prod. by TrickyTrippz) 2wo Offishall feat. Cam’Ron & Semore Buckz “Coke Dreams (Remix)” (prod. by 2wo Offishall) Chubs x Machacha feat. Mickey Diamond “Cold Pasta Flannels” (prod. by Machacha) Al Jamar “The Cook Up” (prod. by Dee Jay Sight) J.Sos “First Born” (prod. by 38 Spesh) DJ J Hart x Rim x Eddie Kaine “Brookland” (prod. & cuts by DJ J Hart) OC From NC “4 Track” (prod. by B Squared) P...2023-10-032h 01First Up RadioFirst Up RadioBonus Just Got Back Mix!!!!TRACK 01 AUDIO     TITLE "Holy Spirit (Radio Edit)"     PERFORMER "38 Spesh"     INDEX 01 00:00:00   TRACK 02 AUDIO     TITLE "Just Came Home"     PERFORMER "Yg Teck"     INDEX 01 01:17:00   TRACK 03 AUDIO     TITLE "I Ain't Gon Lie"     PERFORMER "J.I the Prince of N.Y"     INDEX 01 02:34:00   TRACK 04 AUDIO     TITLE "Mustachios"     PERFORMER "Black Soprano Family & Heem B$F feat. 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