Welcome to Season 2 of Studious! We are switching up the format a bit, and leaning into the power of narrative. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section.
Horseshoes and corndogs... I swear it isn't a metaphor.
Is it?
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What's with the cat stuff? (Is this clickbait because of the popularity of cats on the interwebs?).
Make a mountain out of your mashed potatoes, this might mean something.
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Grzegorz is given instructions on how to proceed with the anomaly.
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Grzegorz works to unwrap the enigma around his current subject, Rex.
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Who's the looky-loo checkin' out you know who?
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Rex enlists the sage advice of his favorite author to help himself begin The Novel that may just save the fate of humanity.
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Well, after that bizarre encounter, Rex spends this whole chapter penning his big opus. Not really, he eschews the call and goes out drinking instead.
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How strong was that weed Rex was smoking? Is he about to lose his mind, like James Cole, the protagonist of 12 Monkeys? We'll discover that and so much more, on this episode of Kairos.
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You know in Fight Club when that guy keeps talking about taking human fat and rendering soap? Well, our protagonist doesn't make soap, he makes chilli. And he doesn't use human fat, just the tallow from beef kidneys. But yeah, feel free to draw parallels if you so desire...
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This week on Studious, we return to our discussion on free will and see if there’s anything we can do to combat our fixed trajectories. Spoiler alert: hopefully we can. Tune in and find out.
Side Note: Not only is the essay a metaphor for life, but it also follows the logical rules of the narrative with its three act structure. All the world is a stage. Huh, wouldja look at that? Bill Shakespeare, whodah thunk!?!
This week on Studious, we explore the concept of linguistic relativity. Can the language we learn shape our experiences and perspectives? How much of our perspective hinges conceptually, and how much of it is culturally influenced. All this and more, this week on Studious.
We also talk about linguistic relativity in relation to aliens. And somehow I completely breezed over Arrival, not to be confused with the Charlie Sheen vehicle, The Arrival. Warning: if you get triggered easily, perhaps sit this one out. I’m mild sauce level offensive.
Maybe you're into art or NFTs or both. Maybe you could give two shits about art. Well, this conversation is broader than just art or just NFTs, and delves into Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Benjamin saw the writing on the wall when it came to this new industrial age he found himself in. His views were reflexive of being a German intellectual in juxtaposition with the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. Jesus, it just always goes back to the Nazis in this podcast, doesn't it?
If you find robot Benjamin unintelligible, the transcript for the episode can be found at www.studiouspodcast.com.
Remember that time I did an episode on time travel, and you couldn't get through it fast enough? It's a lot of time to cover in not a lot of time. We're painting with broad strokes here, trying to focus on the key elements.
How do you follow that episode about PK? Well, you just keep treading water. We follow the previous narrative with our introduction into Grand or Meta Narratives. We'll examine Joseph Campbell's Hero's journey, particularly through our modern myths of Star Wars, Harry Potter, and The Lord of the Rings. What do these narratives have in common with our own journeys through life? They might all be such great successes because they speak to a universal truth within us all.
