Middle East: Peace Beckons | David Friedman | Jordan B Peterson Podcast S4 (2022) : E279

A fascinating hour and twenty minutes that not one word is heard about in the mainstream/legacy media. There is real hope that the Middle East which I have never heard a good word about in my fifty-odd years of watching the news, is on the verge of widespread peace.

Cometh the Horsemen: Pandemic, Famine, War | Michael Yon and Dr Jordan B Peterson

Let's hope that they are delusional and wrong, as they hope they are too. If they aren't, then the last three to six years would be nothing compared to what could materialise at the upper end of the spectrum, and even the better end of the spectrum is pretty terrible. And that the pretty terrible aspect is already baked in, because of the previous two years is very disconcerting. 

This is an uncomfortable watch, and you sit there thinking "naaa ya wrong, you're going too far, that won't happen." The problem being you have two expert observers with years of experience telling you stuff you want to be confined to the make-believe of dystopian movies. You decide what you think, and in the future we will have the observation data that will bare out what is said or allow us a look back and think "thank fuck they were wrong."

Marine cranes “Gulliver” and “Rambiz” in Bridgwater Bay.

Marine cranes “Gulliver” and “Rambiz” in Bridgwater Bay to lower the intake heads for the new nuclear power station Hinckley C. Gorse, Heather, Horse fly bites, and self-pruning of leaves by trees in localized drought conditions.

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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.