Sunday, 30 March 2025

Nihilism vs Conspiracy Theories: the Assassination of JFK in 2025, How Not Why.


Not skepticism: nihilism. Even in the case of the assassination of John F Kennedy, there is nothing to be believed in.

LINK:
 https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Lybmw5Uw0X9qHLOQoxMoX

Also available via Apple podcasts and everywhere else that (free) podcasts are "sold": https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/nihilism-vs-conspiracy-theories-the-assassination-of/id1793687122?i=1000701439024


Saturday, 29 March 2025

Symbolism is a sign of weakness.


No context necessary for this one.  ;-)

According to Google, nobody else has said it before, although there remains the possibility that it has been written down a thousand times over, and spoken in whispers, in the last few places that Google cannot see.

I remember asking J.J. McCullough if he could recognize the flag on the hat: he could not.

Friday, 28 March 2025

Monday, 24 March 2025

Electoral Nihilism: Trump vs Yemen, Democracy vs Tyranny.


LINK
:
 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1O2yrn2zIn1VnQi9AGq1y4

Elections, alone, do not define democracy.  This is episode 17 of Nihilism Now, but the sixteenth (all new, all different) podcast in the sequence of Active Research and Informed Opinion. (AR+IO-016)

Jordan Peterson is not a genius: brain damage, bible bashing and scientific racism.

The old "equal opportunity" vs. "equality of outcomes" conundrum.

LINK: https://open.spotify.com/episode/67NydSkxVaGW09sD5l6Qc4


Sunday, 23 March 2025

To outdo Ovid in exile.

Seneca, Cicero and Ovid complain about exile, but I have a better claim to being on a desert island than any of them: Seneca attempted to describe Corsica as a frozen wasteland, BUT Y'KNOW, REALLY...