--{ "Technique of Mass-Suggestion, Truth Deflection"}--
Jacques Ellul, Aldous Huxley, Zbigniew Brzezinski - Political Technocracy - Study of Human Behaviour - Formulas - Technical Economic
Analysis - Theory-Doctrine-Procedure - Vocabulary, Terminology, Catch-Phrases; "Cost-Cutting", "Downsizing", "Upgrade". TECHNIQUE -
Motivating Vast Groups of People - Co ... Show More
Aug 24
Aug. 24, 2025 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Reality versus Magical Mystery Tour"
--{ "Reality versus Magical Mystery Tour"}-- Nick Heys of Heys Reviews - Why do we observe trends in what people 'expose' and warn against? - Hyperreality - Talkers warning about Gnosticism, the occult, et cetera - Zbigniew Brzezinski, people won't be able to distinguish fact fro ... Show More
1h 16m
Aug 17
Aug. 17, 2025 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Kings, Advisors and Cunning Cons"
--{ "Kings, Advisors and Cunning Cons"}-- CTTM book club, Substack, audio versions of Not Sure - A little more about Information Overload - Trump takes over D.C. police - Digital IDs - Government advisors, Astrologer advisor club - Patriot business - Freaking Out - the Real Born ... Show More
1h 31m
Aug 10
Aug. 10, 2025 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "Simian, Servitude to Slavery"
--{ "Simian, Servitude to Slavery"}-- Information overload - Truther/Patriot radio, gold and silver - Conspiratainment - Conspirituality - Interdependence, City States, Super-Cities - UN Biospheres, Land for Debt Swap - Blue, Black, Red, Purple Lodge of Freemasonry - Good Smoke v ... Show More
1h 38m
Feb 2024
124. Daron Acemoglu on Economics, Politics, and Power
Economist Daron Acemoglu likes to tackle big questions. He tells Steve how colonialism still affects us today, who benefits from new technology, and why democracy wasn’t always a sure thing. SOURCE:Daron Acemoglu, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog ... Show More
44m 32s
Dec 2022
Can Psychedelic Therapy Reset Our Social Media Brains?
When you look at the world, it can feel like we're in a precarious moment. If you’ve listened to past episodes, you know we call this the meta-crisis — an era of overlapping and interconnected crises like climate change, polarization, and the rise of decentralized technologies li ... Show More
42m 51s
Nov 2022
If society is making us sick, how can we heal?
Sean Illing talks with Dr. Gabor Maté, a physician, speaker, and bestselling author who has written on subjects like addiction, stress, and attention deficit disorder. In Maté's new book, The Myth of Normal, he argues that the Western paradigm of health is fundamentally flawed in ... Show More
57m 55s
Aug 2023
Neurotechnology (AI + BRAIN TECH) with Nita Farahany
Machine poets. ChatGPT fails. Neurological surveillance. Brain implants that treat depression. Is it scary? Cool? Let’s firehose some questions at Duke Law professor, neuro and bioethicist, author and TED speaker Dr. Nita Farahany. She explains the history of AI, the dawn of chat ... Show More
1h 19m
May 2023
#209 — A Good Life
Sam Harris speaks with Scott Barry Kaufman about human well-being. They discuss intelligence and creativity, wisdom and transcendence, the history of humanistic psychology, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the connection between well-being and ethics, self-esteem, psychedelics and me ... Show More
45m 20s