Unpacking Ideas

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (John Ciardi Translation)

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Host: Zach Stehura  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠UnpackingIdeas.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Guest: Phil Kobasov

Music: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Polyenso⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Time Stamps

0:00:00 Introduction

Common Sense by Thomas Paine

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Host: Zach Stehura  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠UnpackingIdeas.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Guest: Jared Shoup

Music: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Polyenso⁠⁠⁠⁠

Time Stamps

0:00:00 Introduction

0:05:01 Historical Context of Common Sense

0:13:37 Thomas Paine’s Background 

0:20:48 The Differences Between Society and Government 

00:25:00 Government as a Necessary Evil

00:27:28 Anti-Monarchy Sentiments in The Old Testament 

0:30:11 Parallels Between The 12 Tribes of Israel and The 13 American Colonies 

0:32:01 The Origins of Kings

0:35:35 Paine’s Critiques of Hereditary Succession

00:37:35 Paine’s Critiques of Constitutional Monarchy  

0:42:13 The Disease of Monarchy 

0:44:19 Paine’s Ad Hominem Attacks

0:45:14 The Present State of American Affairs

0:46:26 Why Separation from England is Necessary

0:47:40 England as “The Mother Country”    

0:50:00 Why America Doesn’t Need England for Protection

0:51:16 Why America Doesn’t Need England for Trade

0:52:20 Logistical Nightmare of Communication with England

0:53:52 Why Now is the Time for Separation

0:54:58 The Paradoxical Correlation between a Nation’s Population and Military Size

0:58:00 “Relapse More Wretched Than the First”

0:59:56 Paine’s Ideas in What an American Government Should Look Like

1:04:06 America’s Naval Potential 

1:07:44 Paine’s Call to Unite America

1:10:35 The Impact of “Common Sense”

1:13:05 Wrapping Up/Outro

Dreams (excepts from collected works) by Carl Jung

Memories, Dreams, and Reflections by Carl Jung

Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

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Host: Zach Stehura  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠UnpackingIdeas.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Guest: Aiden Moore ⁠*For one-on-one dream interpretation sessions with Aiden visit AidenMoore.com

Music: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Polyenso⁠⁠⁠

Time Stamps

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:19 Differences Between Freudian & Jungian Dream Interpretation

00:05:09 Beginner's Mind

00:08:14 Assimilation vs. Accommodation

00:12:30 Taking up the Context of the Dream

00:19:45 The Dream as Repressed Wish-Fulfillment

00:24:11 The Language of the Unconscious

00:29:47 Causal vs. Final Explanations of Dreams

00:35:05 Compensatory Dreams

00:37:31 Prospective Dreams

00:41:39 Little Dreams vs. Big Dreams

00:44:07 Archetypes/The Collective Unconscious 

00:49:07 The Objective vs. Subjective Interpretation of Dreams

00:55:30 Practical Application to Dream Interpretation

00:56:56 The "Punny" Character of Dream Images

01:00:12 Resisting the "Correct" Interpretation of a Dream

01:03:43 Slowing Integrating Unconscious Material

01:06:03 Repressed Material Will Follow You Until You Face It

01:08:46 The Empathy & Tact needed to Interpret Dreams

01:10:26 Resisting the "Correct" Interpretation of a Dream

01:13:38 The Consequences of Ignoring Recurring Dreams

01:18:10 Wrapping Up/Outro

The Bhagavad Gita (Translation: Gita Press)

The Bhagavad Gita (Translation: Eknath Easwaran)

Bhagavad Gita Lecture Series by Gandhar Mandlik *youtube*

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Host: Zach Stehura  ⁠⁠⁠⁠UnpackingIdeas.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

Guest: Gandhar Mandlik YogaPoint.com Online/In-Person Yoga Courses and Teacher Training

Music: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Polyenso⁠⁠

Time Stamps

00:00 Introduction

03:00 Gandhar’s Personal Relationship to the Gita

04:36 Background of the Gita Story

08:56 All Problems are Interconnected 

12:16 False Identification with the Physical Body

15:56 Cosmic Consciousness 

18:22 The Trap of Sensual Desires

25:43 Right Understanding & Right Action

27:36 The Two Paths to Self Realization (Monk & Householder)

29:20 Karma Yoga / Dharma

32:20 Nonattached Action

35:00 Contributing to the Ecology

40:37 Bhakti & Jnana Yoga

48:07 Nondualism /The Cosmic Form

57:05 Characteristics of the Self-Realized Person

59:49 Service to Others as a key for Fighting Depression

1:00:47 Wrapping Up/Outro

⁠On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche⁠

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Host: Zach Stehura  ⁠⁠⁠UnpackingIdeas.com⁠⁠⁠

Guest: Samuel Le Coutour

Theme Music: ⁠⁠⁠Polyenso⁠

Time Stamps

00:00 Intro

03:16 Questions Nietzsche is Trying to Answer

04:12 Origin of Punishment vs. Utility of Punishment

08:25 Punishment Hardens the Individual

10:24 The Etymology of the word “Guilt”

11:01 The Creditor/Debtor Relationship

12:32 Suffering as Compensation

13:48 Suffering as Entertainment Throughout History 

14:39 The Link between Sadism and Social Status

17:14 Grace as a Form of Domination

19:31 The Social Contract

22:52 Lack of Free Will in Early Punishment

24:20 Nietzsche’s Hypothesis on the Origin of Bad Conscience

24:30 The State of Nature Theory

27:10 Turing The Will to Power Against Oneself

32:30 Masochism 

33:34 Punishment as Entertainment for the Gods

34:47 Aristocrats Create Bad Conscience in Slaves

37:46 Ancestor Worship

40:22 Original Sin / The Psychology of Guilt

44:43 Debt Becoming Spiritual and Internal

46:19 Internalizing the Creditor/Debtor Dynamic within One’s own Conscience

48:59 Nietzsche’s Views on Bad Conscience / The Sovereign Individual

52:40 Wrapping up/ Outro

On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

The Vocation Lectures by Max Weber

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

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Host: Zach Stehura  ⁠⁠UnpackingIdeas.com⁠⁠

Guest: Samuel Le Coutour

Theme Music: ⁠⁠Polyenso

Time Stamps

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:35 Challenges in Discussing this piece

00:04:49 Nuances in Nietzsche’s terminology 

00:07:15 Questions Nietzsche is Trying Answers

00:09:36 “We are Unknown, we Knowers of Ourselves to ourselves”

00:11:11 Moral Prejudices of his time

00:13:54 Etymology of the words ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’

00:17:15 Language as an Expression of Power

00:21:20 The Function of The Priest in Society 

00:23:54 Using Morality to Justify Domination 

00:27:29 The Invention of Free Will

00:32:30 The Slave Revolt in Morality 

00:36:14 Ressentiment

00:41:07 Nietzsche’s fear of Slave Morality 

00:45:30 Nietzsche’s Criticism of Master Morality

00:47:43 Nietzsche’s Solution 

00:49:18 The Battle Between Master & Slave Morality on the psychological level

00:55:49 The Battle Between Master & Slave Morality on the societal level

1:00:15 Secular manifestations of Slave Morality 

1:02:09 Wrapping up/Outro

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault

The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Host: Zach Stehura  ⁠UnpackingIdeas.com⁠

Guest: Barbara Spadaro

Theme Music: ⁠Polyens⁠o

Time Stamps

00:00 Introduction

O2:09 Context of book

0:3:36 Egoism & Altruism amongst Prisoners

09:11 Phase 1: Denial

09:58 The Delusion of Reprieve

12:10 Phase 2: Apathy

13:31 Psychology of Guards

16:15 Two Types of Trauma

18:51 Phase 3: Anger

20:05 The desire for Revenge

22:40 Truth and Reconciliation after WW2

Forgive but not Forget

26:15 Finding Meaning Through Suffering

31:00 Finding Meaning Through Love & Work

33:20 Logotherapy in a Nutshell

33:44 The Will to Meaning

36:28 Paradoxical Intention

37:20 The Paradox of Striving for Happiness

40:02 The Meaning of Life

40:57 How The Meaning of Life Changes During the Course of One’s Life

44:00 The Is One Correct Answer to Every Situation in Life

46:24 “Live as if you were living already for the second time…”

48:47 Outro

Laughter by Henri Bergson

Truth in Comedy by Charna Halpern & Del Close

Brain Droppings by George Carlin

How to be Funny by Steve Allen

Night at the Roxbury (SNL skit)

Anchor Man (movie)

Liar Liar (movie)

The Invention of Lying (movie)

Austin Powers International Man of Mystery (Movie)

Crocodile Dundee (Movie)

Tropic Thunder (movie)

Big Mouth (show)

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Patrick McInnis  ImprovSanDiego.com

Theme Music: Polyenso

Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Principles by Ray Dalio

Silence of the Lambs (movie)

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Steve Chung

Theme Music: Polyenso

Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro

00:03:11 Modern Interpretations of Stoicism

00:04:21 Translation

00:05:13 Why Aurelius Wrote the Book 

00:08:30 Doing Good for the Wrong Reasons

00:09:37 Seeking Truth No Matter Who is Speaking it

00:13:10 The Logos

00:15:19 The Importance of Rationality 

00:16:39 Doing What is in Our Nature

00:17:40 Focusing on Yourself 

00:20:14 Expect People to Do What is in Their Nature

00:22:03 The Interconnected of All People

00:24:30 What is Natural is Good

00:25:58 Death = Change

00:26:49 Death as the Great Equalizer

00:27:43 Momento Mori 

00:28:35 The Difference Between Stoicism and Nihilism 

00:31:28 Your Legacy Won’t Live On After You Die

00:33:22 Seeking Approval From Others

00:36:08 Focusing on What is in Our Control

00:37:29 The Transgressor Harms Themselves When They Transgress

00:38:56 External Things Can’t Harm You  

00:40:58 All Sin is Due to Ignorance 

00:48:30 Equanimity 

00:50:04 The Appeal of Stoicism During Times of Great Upheaval

00:53:11 Parallels to Buddhism

00:53:24 Seeing Things Objectively

00:57:35 There is Nothing New Under the Sun

01:00:00 The Present is the Only Time That Exists

01:02:55 Wrapping Up/Outro

On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The Trauma of Birth by Otto Rank

Uses of the Erotic by Audrey Lorde 

Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag 

Empathy vs. Sympathy by Brene Brown (video)

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Andrea Dispenziere Psychology Today

Theme Music: Polyenso

Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction 

00:02:58 Autumn’s Association with Death

00:06:15 Reminding Ourselves of our Mortality 

00:13:19 Fear of Death in the Modern Age

00:14:40 Decline in Infant Mortality 

00:17:25 Impersonal Treatment of Terminal Patients 

00:24:29 The Illusion of Control

00:25:39 Summary of Kubler-Ross’s Interview Project 

00:28:10 Verbal Ventilation 

00:28:59 Importance of Meaning/Purpose

00:33:38 Mourning the Loss of Certain Abilities before Death

00:36:42 The Five Stages of Grief

00:38:23 Stage 1: Denial

00:39:18 Euphemism 

00:40:51 Emotional Detachment 

00:46:00 The Stigma of Denial

00:48:50 The Last Stage of the 5 stages of grief is the First Step of the 12 steps Program 

00:50:05 The Link between Denial and Hope

00:52:16 Shock and Numbness 

00:53:22 The Connection between Isolation and Denial

00:55:24 Stage 2: Anger

00:55:29 Anger at God

00:57:06 Anger at Oneself

00:59:05 Victim Blaming

01:01:00 Anger at the Living

01:02:16 Stage 3: Bargaining 

01:02:54 Ambivalence 

01:04:50 Bargaining with God

01:05:43 Reneging on the “Agreement”

01:10:45 Stage 4: Depression 

01:10:49 Reactive vs. Preparatory Depression

01:12:47 Telling the Depressed Person to “Cheer Up”

01:14:15 Grieving your Anticipated Future 

01:18:49 Sitting with the Person in Whatever Stage They’re In

01:21:28 Stage 5: Acceptance 

01:21:36 Detaching from Life

01:22:30 Conflating Acceptance as “Quitting”

01:23:30 Difficulty Accepting Death in a Masculine Culture

01:25:57 Need for Solitude at End of Life

01:29:12 Kubler-Ross’s View of Death and Dying

01:30:30 Wrapping up/Outro

Spiritual Writings by John Muir

Man and Nature by Alan Watts

Chief Seattle full Speech 1854

Cinderella Man (film)

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Mark McCann   Wordsnvisions.com 

Theme Music: Polyenso

Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction 

00:03:55 Hiking as a Metaphor for Life

00:05:13 Summary of John Muir’s Life

00:08:35 Water over Stones 

00:09:14 Finding God in a Thunderstorm 

00:12:44 The Fear of the Unknown 

00:16:57 The Call of Nature

00:20:52 The Confessional of the Woods/Solitude

00:24:13 Man’s Relationship to Nature 

00:34:10 Seeking God in Scripture and Nature

00:35:06 The Cathedral Effect 

00:40:27 Gratitude for The Big and Little Things

00:43:22 The Revitalizing Effects of Wilderness on the Body and Spirit

00:51:00 Muir’s Mission in Life

00:53:34 Wrapping up/Outro

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

General Resonance Theory (paper)

Entropic Brain Hypothesis (paper)

Pivotal Mental States (paper)

Nested Observer Windows (paper)

The Bhagavad Gita translation by Eknath Easwaran

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Nikki Johnson   linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-johnson-free-thinker/

Theme Music: Polyenso

Timestamps

00:00:00 introduction 

00:03:05 background about Huxley’s trip

00:05:58 the challenge of trying to communicate direct experience 

00:11:30 Nikki's multi-sphere model of consciousness 

00:14:28 the various terms for “God”

00:16:36 the reducing-valve theory of consciousness 

00:27:52 types of people who filter out less primary consciousness 

00:28:09 The Artist 

00:31:26 The Schizophrenic 

00:35:40 The Genius 

00:36:33 the terror of witnessing God directly

00:43:06 the morality of the contemplative life

00:46:32 Huxley’s conception of enlightenment 

00:48:46 the desire for self-transcendence 

00:50:45 the war on psychedelics 

00:54:27 integrating lessons from past lives

00:56:15 how a psychedelic experience changes a person’s character 

00:57:23 wrapping up/outro

Games People Play by Eric Berne

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Sonya   @selfhelpsonya on TikTok & Instagram

Theme Music: Polyenso

Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro

00:04:04 The 6 Types of Interactions

00:05:59 Withdrawal

00:08:09 Procedures

00:10:13 Rituals

00:11:39 Emotional Stroking 

00:14:28 Calculating how many strokes to give

00:19:21 Pastimes/Small-talk 

00:20:06 Types of Small-talk

00:21:08 How a host determines the pastimes people play at a party

00:24:08 The rules for small-talk

00:27:16 Why we engage in small-talk

00:28:38 The 3 Ego States

00:29:25 The Parent Ego State

00:29:45 The Child Ego State

00:30:18 The Adult Ego State

00:31:32 Complementary Transactions

00:33:31 Crossed Transactions

00:36:00 Child-Child Transaction

00:38:04 Adult-Adult Transaction

00:38:39 The 2 Levels of of an interaction (social level & psychological level)

00:39:05 Superficial Transactions

00:39:32 Ulterior Transactions

00:39:46 Flirtatious Games

00:42:32 A Thesaurus of Games

00:42:36 "Look Ma, No Hands!"

00:47:32 "Now I've got You, You Son-of-a-Bitch!"

00:52:55 "Why Don't You, Yes But..."

00:55:25 Intimacy

00:56:00 The Uncorrupted Child 

00:57:39 Operations ie. stating a need directly

01:00:36 Why most people settle for games

01:01:53 Closing Thoughts

01:03:34 Outro 

The Psychology of the Child by Jean Piaget

A Piaget Primer by Dorothy G. Singer & Tracey A. Revenson

Conversations with Piaget by Jean-Claude Bringuier

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud 

Babies (Netflix docuseries)

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Jeff Micheal-Johnson 

Theme Music: Polyenso

Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro 

00:05:26 What Piaget was trying to study 

00:09:15 How a Child Learns (Adaptation/Assimilation/Accommodation) 

00:17:04 The Stages of Cognitive Development 

00:24:00 The Sensory-Motor Stage/Egocentrism 

00:30:42 Object Permanence 

00:33:19 Language at the Sensory-Motor Stage 

00:36:15 Play at the Sensory-Motor stage/Practice Play 

00:37:32 The Pre-moral Stage 

00:38:21 The Pre-operrational Stage/Superstitious Thinking 

00:43:44 Language at the Pre-operational stage/The Monologue 

00:46:00 The Collective Monologue 

00:47:53 Play at the Pre-operational stage/Parallel Play 

00:50:57 Symbolic Play 

00:52:48 Animism 

00:54:20 Free Play 

00:57:39 The Conventional Stage of Morality 

01:01:18 Conservation 

01:06:36 The Concrete Operations Stage 

01:07:15 Language in the Concrete Operations stage 

01:10:07 Play at the Concrete Operations stages/Games with Rules 

01:16:10 The Autonomous Stage of Morality 

01:18:42 The Formal Operations Stage/Abstract Thought 

01:22:17 Language at the Formal Operations Stage 

01:22:56 Life after the 4 stages of Development 

01:24:09 Spiritual Development 

01:25:30 Egocentrism vs Egolessness 

01:27:17 How the Child Lives on in the Adult 

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Hamlet by William Shakespeare 

A Night of Serious Drinking by Rene Daumal

Oedipus by Sophocles

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings (film)

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Arthur O'Dwyer

Theme Music: Polyenso

Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction 

00:02:52 Writing from a place of confusion and curiosity 

00:08:15 The only Serious Philosophical Problem

00:08:55 The Nietzschian Criterion 

00:11:32 Can we live with the awareness of the absurd without turning away?

00:13:00 Suicide as a social cause vs. existential cause 

00:14:56 Is living worth the suffering?

00:14:44 The uncertainty of the afterlife

00:16:47 Camus two certainties 

00:18:08 Nostalgia for Unity 

00:20:40 Camus’s Critique of Science 

00:23:11 Waking up to the Absurd  

00:27:35 Definition of Absurdity

00:30:04 Philosophical Suicide 

00:30:55 Critique of Kierkegaard 

00:36:25 Critique of the Phenomenologists

00:43:21 Truths worth Dying For

00:47:05 The Greek Myth of Sisyphus 

00:52:50 What Makes Sisyphus a Tragedy 

00:54:44 Abandoning Hope

00:57:29 Consciousness as the cause of and cure to suffering 

00:58:16 Finding Meaning in the struggle 

01:03:42 We can only control how we respond 

01:05:27 Crushing Truths Perish from Being Acknowledged  

01:09:00 wrapping up/outro

On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt

Of Liars by Michel de Montaigne

Glengarry Glen Ross (film)

Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Max Robinson

Theme Music: Polyenso

Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:59 the Bullshit Artist

00:06:18 Background of the Essay

00:07:20 The Proliferation of Bullshit

00:09:12 How Bullshitting Differs from Lying

00:13:38 Politician’s Dodge

00:17:38 Incentives to Bullshit

00:24:00 How Bullshitting Differs from Bluffing

00:25:36 The Etymology of “Bullshit”

00:26:51 Speaking Without Saying Anything 

00:29:00 Bullshitting Compared to the Act of Shitting 

00:30:53 What Function Does Bullshit Serve?

00:32:58 Has the Digital Age Increased Bullshit?

00:33:41 Is there More Bullshit Now than in Previous Generations?

00:37:16 How Democracy Increases Bullshit

00:40:42 “Talking Out of Your Ass”

00:41:53 “Trash Talking” 

00:42:56 “Smooth Talking”

00:43:52 A Bull Session

00:46:55 “Shooting the Shit”

00:48:30 Pretentious Bullshit

00:49:53 “Don’t Piss on My Leg and Tell me it’s Raining”

00:50:39 Outro

Obedience to Authority by Stanley Milgram

CRT: An Introduction by Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic

Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian (short story)

Experimenter (movie about Stanley Milgram)

A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick (film)

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Host: Zach Stehura    UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Claire Bevan ClairehBevan@gmail.com

Theme Music: Polyenso   listen here

Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:52 Historical context of the Milgram Experiment

00:05:00 Asch’s Conformity Experiment

00:06:57 Milgram’s Existential Questions for the Experiment

00:09:25 Milgram’s Personal Motivation for the Experiments

00:09:53 Summary of the Experiment

00:15:012 Milgram’s Hypothesis for the Experiment

00:17:25 Results of the Experiment

00:18:39 the Disconnect between our predictions and reality

00:19:50 The Attribution Error

00:21:07 The Agentic State/Loss of Moral Responsibility

00:25:47 The Horrific Consequences of the Division of Labor in Society

00:28:12 Doing What We’re Told as a Way of Preserving Cognitive Energy

00:32:35 Victim Blaming

00:33:10 Dehumanization feedback loop

00:38:26 Variations of the Experiment

00:39:20 Proximity of Experimenter to Subject

00:43:35 Proximity of Subject to Victim

00:47:47 Power in Numbers in Dissent

00:51:30 Not Seeing Disobedience as an Option

00:54:08 Counteranthropromorphism

00:56:36 More Variations

00:58:52 Motivations for Dissent

01:01:30 The Sequential Nature of Action

01:03:43 The Unknown of Dissent

01:04:22 The Moment of Bravery to Say No

01:05:08 Obeying out of a sense of Politeness

01:09:49 Feeling Bad After Doing the Right Thing

01:12:28 Profiles of Subjects

01:13:22 Obedience to God as an Antidote to Obedience to Corruption

01:18:14 Feeling Bad vs. Doing Good

01:20:18 The Effects of the Experiment on the Subjects

01:23:08 The Ethics of the Experiment

01:24:40 Lessons Learned for the Experiment

01:29:16 Variations we would have liked to see

01:32:22 Wrapping Up/Outro

The King James Bible

The Wisdom Books by Robert Alter

The Art of Biblical Poetry by Robert Alter

Answer to Job by Carl Jung

The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick (film)

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Host: Zach Stehura    UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Lee Posna  LeePosna@gmail.com 

Theme Music: Polyenso   listen here

Timestamps

(00:01:22) Introducing Job

(00:03:59) Author/Date/Translation

(00:09:45) Summary of Job Story

(00:17:10) Loyalty to God

(00:22:55) "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, naked shall I return tither."

(00:26:19) Job's wife's skepticism

(00:27:55) Victim Blaming (Job's friends)

(00:36:39) God's response to Job

(00:42:40) Acceptance/Surrender to fate

(00:46:20) Carl Jung's "Answer to Job"

(00:53:59) Putting personal suffering into perspective

(00:58:43) The Problem of Evil

(01:23:28) Summing up

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller

Blue Zones by David Buettner

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Host: Zach Stehura    UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Jasia Ries    Instagram @thejasia 

Theme Music: Polyenso   listen here

Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:17 Translation

00:03:55 Background to the letters

00:05:48 Advice to others is often advice to ourselves 

00:09:21 Turning inward to answer your biggest questions 

00:17:15 A great work of art springs from necessity 

00:22:19 There is nothing boring. Only boring people

00:23:26 Solitude 

00:30:36 The gestation of an idea

00:35:15 Rilke’s conception of God

00:41:48 Living the questions

00:48:15 Things that are difficult are worth doing

00:49:30 Entering a relationship from a place of already being whole

00:56:20 What the sexes can learn from each other 

01:04:04 Codependency vs. Interdependency 

01:09:50 Sadness and Change as two sides of the same coin

01:19:42 wrapping up/outro 

"An Apology to Idlers" by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Vagabonding" by Rolf Potts

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Host: Zach Stehura      UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Alex Berner         Pocket Bard (Interactive music app for gamers and tabletop RPG's like D&D)

Theme Music: Polyenso     listen here

Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction 

00:04:42 Does idleness make us grow weary?

00:08:21 Stevenson’s definition of Idleness

00:12:58 how different generations view idleness

00:17:57 how one’s happiness effects other people

00:22:24 better to be happy and poor than miserable and industrious 

00:28:04 the resentment workers feel towards idlers

00:31:01 rethinking priorities 

00:31:31 the story of Alexander the Great and Diogenes 

00:41:57 the resentment unrecognized workers feel

00:45:58 equating one’s self worth with one’s economic value

00:48:51 spending time being idle in youth

00:50:28 Experiential learning vs. book learning

00:54:12 books are a bloodless substitute for life

00:59:11 leaving yourself space for having your own ideas 

01:06:26 all work and no play is soul crushing

01:08:52 assessing how much time we spend on certain tasks

01:12:17 your work doesn’t matter as much as you think it does

01:13:12 the “great man” theory of history

01:17:45 why sacrificing your youth for work is a bad idea

01:21:25 fame and money doesn’t make you happy

01:24:17 sensitivity to talking about work

01:26:59 wrapping up/outro

"Letter to Menoceus" by Epicurus

"Money Buys Happiness Only to a Certain Point" by Andrew T. Jebb of Purdue University 

"Death" by Thomas Nagel

"Better Never to Have Been" by David Benatar"

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Host: Zach Stehura Unpackingideas.com

Guest: Daniel Libin

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Timestamps

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:04 Section 1

00:03:00 Philosophy is for The Old and Young

00:06:28 Happiness is Not Everything, but Unhappiness is

00:09:38 Happiness vs. Ataraxia vs. Eudaemonia 

00:15:34 Section 2

00:17:32 Gods Aren’t Concerned with Human Affairs 

00:20:00 Section 3

00:21:29 Epicurean Death Argument

00:22:55 Alief vs. Belief

00:25:45 Aristotle’s 3 types of Arguments

00:26:47 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

00:29:25 Near Death Experiences

00:30:04 Fear of Death vs. Fear of Dying

00:31:17 Death Anxiety

00:32:41 Thomas Nagel’s Counter Argument to Epicurus

00:42:58 Section 4

00:45:00 Better to Have Never Been?

00:52:30 Section 5

00:53:47 Ataroxia 

00:54:44 Buddhism vs. Epicureanism

01:01:14 Section 6

01:02:32 Epicureanism vs. Hedonism

01:07:35 All Pain is Bad, but Sometimes We Should Choose the Painful Option

01:09:00 Hedonic Calculation

01:10:30 Section 7

01:12:18 Misinterpretations of Epicureanism

01:13:54 Those Who Least Need Extravagances, Enjoy Them the Most

01:16:47 “Everything Natural is Easy to Obtain, Whatever is Groundless is Hard to Obtain”

01:24:23 Section 8

01:25:14 Prudence & Justice

01:28:40 Section 9 

01:30:37 Better to Be Virtuous than Lucky 

01:33:08 Wrapping up/Outro

       "On Friendship" by Cicero

        "Of Freindship" by Michel de Montaigne

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Host: Zach Stehura UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Bernardo Lopez

Theme Music: Polyenso 

        "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

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Host: Zach Stehura UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Jason Peng The World Philosophy Group (on meetup.com)

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"The Long Childhood" from The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski

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Host: Zach Stehura UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Shrikant Rangnekar 52 Living Ideas Youtube Channel and Meetup

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"Depth Psychology and a New Ethic" by Erich Neumann

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Host: Zach Stehura unpackingideas.com

Guest: Jorge Cabrales NYC Carl Jung Meetup Group

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"Depth Psychology and a New Ethic" by Erich Neumann

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Host: Zach Stehura   UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Jorge Cabrales NYC Carl Jung Meetup Group

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"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Shaheed Majid

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"Consider the Lobster" by David Foster Wallace

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Host: Zach Stehura UnpackingIdeas.com

Guests: Danny Jimenez & Manny Caride thevegangents.com (Dozens of easy, nutritious, and delicious vegan recipes!)

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"Walking" by Henry David Thoreau

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Host: Zach Stehura UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Stephen Aldrich  Backpackmap.com (a free online resource for planning your next backpacking adventure)

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"Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore Kaczynski

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Host: Zach Stehura   UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Chris Corvo The Next Conversation (podcast)

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"Of Anger" by Seneca the Younger

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Host: Zach Stehura  UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Chase Harris  The Switch Podcast

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"Self Reliance" by Ralf Waldo Emerson

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Host: Zach Stehura    UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Jon Lindinger   xenotheory.org (Programs for self-development for young men)

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"On the Art of Conversation" by Michel de Montaigne

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Host: Zach Stehura UnpackingIdeas.com

Guest: Luke Priddy   The Fractal podcast/youtube channel

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