John Vervaeke, Ep. 7 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Aristotle's World View and Erich Fromm

Having mode and Being mode, existential confusion, via Aristotle and others. This episode moves us towards mindfulness and how "Having mode and Being mode" have in some ways been weaponised (I don't think that's too strong a metaphor) to make us seek meaning in things. This episode is getting into the granularity of "us" and how we have lost sight of how great thinkers and philosophers in bygone times laid the foundations for the process of civilising ourselves and looking beyond brute survival to satisfy our Having Needs and our Being Needs without out confusing the two (see line one above).

 

John Vervaeke, Ep. 6 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Aristotle, Kant, and Evolution

OK, this one is technical. Self-actualisation and living up to your potential, via virtual engines, enabling and limiting conditions, progressive cause and effect, feedback looks, character and how you can actively develop it ... or not. This is one of those episodes, that is a bit a like a telling-off from someone wise and clever. However, and this is the interesting bit, there isn't an actual telling off, you just realise that you aren't living up to your potential and you know exactly why, and it is an uncomfortable moment. 

John Vervaeke Ep. 5 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Plato and the Cave

 Part five.

This episode is an eye-opener. Salience is discussed in detail, and we find that Plato worked out something psychophysiological about humans two and half thousand years ago, that is explained in scientific detail by Ian McGilchrist in the episode of Jordan Petersons podcast lower down the page.

If you are anxious and a worrier, the episode above may be very useful in understanding the condition of anxiety. If you then watch the Ian McGilchrist interview with Jordan Peterson you can understand the psychophysiological machinery first conceptualized abstractly by Plato. 

Fuel ... the fossil variety.

It does make you wonder how something so abundant in America is so expensive? It can't be the availability of the commodity, therefore there must be an agenda. 

The hilarious thing is that it's the very companies the greens want out of business that are getting richer by the second and by big margins. 

So, perhaps that's the point by some nefarious means ... give the fossil fuel producers a giant golden swansong as they become yesterday's men ... however, that suggests that there is rational thought and a long-term plan, and that doesn't sound like government thinking or strategy. So, alternatively, I'm going to suggest it's a bit of cunfest and the governments have fucked up (I applied Occams Razor).

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John Vervaeke, Ep. 4 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Socrates and the Quest for Wisdom

Part four, a week off for a wedding and a deep dive into the mysteries of the Younger Dryas "event" and its speculative enacting courtesy of Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas, Joe Rogan and a couple of other sources (see links down the page). This is in part caused by watching these videos on the meaning crisis (which I reckon is worse now than when these videos were first released). 

We as a species and maybe many species, and especially in the Northern Hemisphere were probably subject to an event around 12,900 to 11,700 years ago. It fits with the timeline of the awakening of modern man's final few steps up to true civilisation (in terms of time relative to evolution), the Axial revolution, and at the extreme outside the spread from somewhere of the refugees from an advanced terrestrial civilisation that got hammered by the Younger Dryas event. That ... or human brain's exapted to a new situation brought about by a cataclysm because human brains had developed enough to allow this physiological re-purposing (bad shit went down we had to adapt or die ... yes I could have lead with that).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaptation.

Anyway, these are very useful lectures and this one deals with bullshit and how we all bullshit ourselves, and it's very useful to understand the mechanics of self-deception.

Below are three hours and thirty-five minutes of Younger Dryas event hypothesis, debate and argument along with some very compelling slides and science.