Today we primarily discuss Book II of Aristotle's Nicomachian ethics and how JC embodied its central message 300 years later.
Today Antooshka and Mr. X recap some things they've read over the past few months. These include:
-Monas Hieroglyphica by John Dee
-The occult anatomy of man by Manly P. Hall
-Bacon: Biography of Francis Bacon by Richard William Church
-Roger Bacon and his search for a universal science by Stewart C. Easton
-The Body Electric by Robert O. Becker
-The Gospel of Judas
-Eric Dollard's books and lectures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TttHkDRuyZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNstg-HHneY
https://ericpdollard.com/
Today we continue Paul Starr's book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine", with chapters 3 and 4. These cover the changes that occurred in medical education during the later half of the 19th century, as well as the importance that hospitals and scientific achievements had on solidifying the prestigious role doctors came to have in US society.
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Today we continue Paul Starr's book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine", with chapters 2 and 3. This explains how the market for American medicine expanded in the 19th century empowering physicians, and how through organizations like the AMA Allopathic physicians consolidated their hold on medicine.
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Today we discuss Paul Starr's book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine", published in 1982. Specifically we focus on the introduction and chapter I, which begins to detail how American medicine went from a largely unorganized, unlicensed, lower class trade in the late 18th/early 19th century to the priestly profession it is today.
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Today we discuss book I of Rousseau's "Social Contract", which is his famous writing that discusses civil law vs. natural law, right of first occupant vs. right of the strong, and how he believes society's goal is to create equity between humans.
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Today we discuss Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-reliance", which he is a big fan of.
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Today we continue our discussion of Karl Marx's Das Capital with chapter 2 and 3. This covers the circulation of money and how inflation is more due to commodity supply than money supply.
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Today we have a special episode with The Reckless Muse (aka Ben D'Alessio and Joe Garza), because we read Ben D'Alessio's book Neon God. His novel essentially answers the question of what would happen if the Greek god Dionysus decided to go on a bender in New Orlean. As you can imagine, debauchery ensues!
You can buy Ben's book here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1543969526?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
You can find The Reckless Muse podcast and writing from the duo at the links below:
Medium: https://medium.com/the-reckless-muse
IG: https://www.instagram.com/the_reckless_muse/
X: https://x.com/museisreckless
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQsRz4pi9_D7wawo1dl03Sg
Ben's book website: https://www.bendalessio.com/
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Today we begin our discussion of Das Capital by, you already know, ol' Karl Marx himself. Boy what a slog! We start with chapter 1, which focuses on the commodity, its value, the formation of money, and how it is fetishized!
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Today we finish Julian Assange's book "Freedom and the Future of the Internet". In this Assange et al. discuss the ingredients of a state, the information stranglehold government maintains over its constituents, and how increased cryptographic education and grassroots efforts are ways to maintain privacy.
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Today we discuss Julian Assange's book "Freedom and the Future of the Internet", which details Assange's case for how nature favors encryption, we are living under Marshall law wrt our communication, and how the outlook is grim but not hopeless.
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Today we discuss the Cypherpunks, The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, B-money, and the Monero whitepaper (or rather the CryptoNote white paper). All of this is in the spirit of privacy and decentralized methods of exchange for not just money, but everything.
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto by Tim May:
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-crypto-manifesto.html
CryptoNote white paper by Nicolas Van Saberhagen:
https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/blob/master/whitepaper/whitepaper.pdf
B-money by Wei Dai:
http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt
Cypherpunk email archive:
https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/
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Today we discuss the Bitcoin white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto, which explains the reasoning for Bitcoin's creation and how it works.
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Today we continue our discussion of C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” with book II where he addresses some of the counter arguments atheists have against Christianity. Ultimately, he ends with his discussion of the invasion of God, aka the rapture.
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Today we begin our discussion of C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" with Book 1. In it he makes the case for a universal morality that guides all of us.
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Today we talk with Ted Brown who is running for the U.S. Senate seat for Texas this November. We discuss how he became a Libertarian, his philosophy, key policy points, and the oligarchy!
Ted Brown's Links:
https://tedbrown.org/
https://x.com/tedbrownliberty
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Today we are joined again by Brother X to read 2 of Schopenhauer's uplifting essays "On the Suffering of the World" and "The Indestructibility of Being" where he discusses the positivity of suffering and how will is the only immortal thing about us.
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Today we finish our discussion of Friederich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist". In this he describes basically everything that's wrong with Christianity and the resentment morality that has taken over the west.
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Today we begin our discussion of the Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, with sections 1-22. Basically he's not a fan of Christianity, but hey that's like his opinion man. We also discuss his opinion of Buddhism (positive) and priests (negative).
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