The Tao of Lloyd

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Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?

2026-07-2913:29

What happens when we stop stirring the water long enough for the mud to settle? From 1980s Seattle and America’s buried history to the Big Bang and a certain boombox held overhead, this episode explores identity, clarity, and the strange places we come from. A meditation for anyone trying to remain still inside the Category Five shitstorm. Support the Tao of Lloyd: https://www.taooflloyd.com/donate Join the mailing list: https://www.taooflloyd.com/email Send a text. Ask a questio...

Hold On to the Center

2026-07-1609:08

Yeats said the center cannot hold. Lao Tzu said: hold on to it. In Chapter 5 of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler tries to find the still point under the noise: doomscrolling, spiritual overtalking, Gen X refusal, American collapse, and the small radical pause between inhale and exhale. A sorta-kinda guided meditation on what it means to hold the center without clutching it, weaponizing it, or turning it into one more thing to yell about online. From the edge of empire and the center of se...

Late Stage America

2026-07-0735:56

Today’s special episode gathers three previously published chapters into one continuous meditation on late-stage life in America: who’s stealing your time, why we obey in advance, and what it means to live inside Late Stage Everything. Who’s stealing your time? Why do we obey in advance? And what does it mean to live inside Late Stage Everything? Originally released separately as Chapters 19, 20, and 21 of Season Two — Late Stage Capitalism: Who’s Stealing Your Time?, Late-Stage Compliance:...

What Are You Still Pledging Allegiance To? (S2. Chapter 38)

2026-06-1611:14

What are you still pledging allegiance to? In Chapter 38 of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler takes on American ritual: the Pledge of Allegiance, the anthem, the flyover, the moment of silence, the flag pin, the school assembly, and all the ceremonies we were taught to rehearse before we were old enough to ask what they meant. Using Chapter 38 of the Tao Te Ching as the anchor, Lloyd asks what happens when the deeper thing is gone and only the performance remains. A Zen-punk meditation on...

America 250—America Throws Itself a Birthday Party (S2. Chapter 37)

2026-06-0910:22

America is turning 250, and Lloyd Dobler is not bringing a casserole. In Chapter 37 of The Tao of Lloyd, America250 becomes the starting point for a darkly funny meditation on patriotism, propaganda, charity, silence, empire, and the difference between celebration and repair. With Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Coinbase — and somehow Cracker Barrel — helping sponsor the national birthday party, Lloyd asks whether America needs fireworks, or whether America needs five min...

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