![]() ![]() Thanks for the memories!Įpisode 243: Finding My Religion August 16th, 2022Ĭonspiracy theories, faith, meaning, religion, tolstoyĭavid and Tamler continue their discussion of Leo Tolstoy’s 'Confession.' When we left him last time, the famous author had bottomed out just years after writing two of the greatest novels ever written. We do a bit of reminiscing (“though we have no right to speak that sacred verb.”) in the first segment about how the podcast has changed since 2012, and the impact it has made on our lives. Plus, we’re sorry, but after 10 years (!) we thought we had the right to get a little self-indulgent and naval-gazey. #Popular did wrong app pocket casts full#What would it be like to have perfect memory, to have full access to every perceived detail no matter how trivial? Would life be infinitely richer, with present experience and memory merging into a perfect Heraclitan flow? Or is William James correct to say that one condition of remembering is to forget, and that “if we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.”? (Sorry, Jon!)Įpisode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious) September 6th, 2022ġ0 years!, borges, funes the memorious, memoryĭavid and Tamler return to Borges land to get lost in the infinite, this time with his legendary and tragic character Funes the memorious. Plus, we talk about the recent new SPSP guidelines and Jon Haidt’s recent essay on why he’s resigning from the organization. Has it transcended its function as a surrogate companion for lonely people, or has it just found new ways to keep us isolated and passive? #Popular did wrong app pocket casts tv#Flatter me, let me think we’re all in the joke together, give me “an ironic permission-slip to do what I do best whenever I feel confused and guilty: assume, inside, a sort of fetal position, a pose of passive reception to comfort, escape, reassurance.” But in the years since this essay, the TV landscape has completely transformed. ![]() Fiction.” How do TV and new forms of media keep their hold on us when we know at some level that they’re reinforcing our loneliness and passivity? That’s easy, Wallace says, post-modern cool. We dive into David Foster Wallace’s sprawling 1993 essay “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram") October 4th, 2022Ĭulture wars, david foster wallace, dei, e unibus pluram, irony, spsp, television ![]()
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