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A Discourse About Nothing
Episode 9: The Culture War is a Lie
Pierce and Matt try to make sense of the current state of the culture war. https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/episode-9_-the-culture-war-is-a-lie.mp3
2020-07-31
1h 59
A Discourse About Nothing
Episode 8: How Coronavirus Made Me Realize I’m a Jerk (and that I need a new moral paradigm)
https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/epsiode-8_-how-coronavirus-made-me-realize-im-a-jerk-and-need-a-new-paradigm.mp3 Pierce is back to scold you! Danny is on for the first time! I haven’t been outside in a month! Show-notes Overall Point: Our way of seeing the world and considering our place in it is selfish, naive and disconnected from reality. Details of how we see the world: (1) My assuming that I have so many options on what I can do with my life is naive and selfish, in that it presumes that I, unlike everyone else in history, can just go do...
2020-04-12
49 min
A Discourse About Nothing
Episode 7.5: A Response to Very Bad Wizards on Ecclesiastes
https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ep-7.5-response-to-very-bad-wizards.mp3 In this mini-episode, Pierce solves a murder, and responds to some other dudes on their angsty interpretation of Ecclesiastes. (Picture: Albrecht Durer’s “Knight, Death and the Devil.”) Very Bad Wizards (Podcast)
2019-03-21
22 min
A Discourse About Nothing
Episode 7: The Meaning of Life and Intrinsic Value
https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/episode-7-meaning-and-intrinsic-value.mp3 Pull up a chair, and shut your mouth while Pierce once again lectures you about morality, religion and Jordan Peterson. Listener BEWARE! (Picture: Young William James looking pretty sick.) Sources: Wolf, Susan. “Meaningfulness: A Third Dimension of the Good Life” Scruton, Roger. “Of Beauty and Consolation.” Peterson, Goldstein and Craig on the Meaning of Life Peterson on Purpose (Why do people put crap music over these clips?) Marks, Pierce. “Metaethics and Absurd Angst.” Swinburne, Richard. “Si...
2019-02-27
45 min
A Discourse About Nothing
Episode 6: Thoughts on Jordan Peterson
https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/episode-6-thoughts-on-jordan-peterson.mp3 Pierce and Matt pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get high and tight fades, and talk about the internet’s favorite frog, Jordan Peterson. Sources: Cathy Newman Interview Jordan Peterson on the “Left Wingers Going Too Far” Peterson and Scruton on the Transcendent Peterson, Goldstein and Craig on the Meaning of Life
2019-02-11
1h 08
A Discourse About Nothing
Episode 5: Serenity and Serenity
Pierce and Matt analyze the character, Malcolm Reynolds, from Firefly and Serenity. https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/episode-5-final.mp3
2018-11-28
51 min
A Discourse About Nothing
Episode 4: The Witcher Episode Feedback
https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/episode-4.mp3 Pierce goes solo this week to answer some feedback we received in our previous two-part episode.
2018-10-12
20 min
A Discourse About Nothing
Episode 3: The Witcher 3, Consolation and Religion (Part 2)
https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/episode-3.mp3 Pierce breaks down how the video game, The Witcher 3, radically influenced his philosophical study and introduces Matt to meta-ethics. Part 2 of 2.
2018-10-05
26 min
A Discourse About Nothing
Episode 2: The Witcher 3, Consolation and Religion (Part 1)
https://notdiscourse.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/episode-2-complete.mp3 Pierce breaks down how the video game, The Witcher 3, radically influenced his philosophical study and introduces Matt to meta-ethics. Part 1 of 2.
2018-09-28
34 min