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The Academy of Ideas podcast explores the ideas of the greatest philosophers and psychologists of history. Become a Supporting Member and access extra content: www.academyofideas.com/members
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“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men Throughout Western history, the idea of civilizational collapse has been bound up with visions of apocalyptic catastrophe caused by invasions, plagues, war, or natural disasters. But today, the greater danger may be a dark age of […]
The post Is This How the West Ends? first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“We have technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity, but where is the beauty? Where is the beauty that we know we cannot really live without?” John-Mark Miravalle, Beauty: What it is and Why it Matters In 2009 the late English philosopher Roger Scruton warned that “Beauty is vanishing from our world”, and that […]
The post Why the Lack of Beauty is Destroying Society first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
1Marie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss psychologist who closely collaborated with Carl Jung from 1933 until his death in 1961. One of von Franz’s primary topics of interest was fairy tales. For like myths, fairy tales contains timeless wisdom that teaches us about the human condition. Jung believed that so much wisdom was contained in […]
The post Carl Jung and The Most Important Rule of Life first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“Will men be able to give up toying with the idea of another war? It is now a question of existence or nonexistence. . .For the danger that threatens us now is of such dimensions as to make this last European catastrophe [i.e., World War II] seem like a curtain-raiser.” Carl Jung, Epilogue to “Essays […]
The post The Psychology of War – Are We Doomed to Destroy Ourselves? first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“And the word “courage” should be reserved to characterize the man or woman who leaves the infantile sanctuary of the mass mind.” Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly In the privacy of our minds many of us disagree with the ideologies, political agendas, and government mandates of our day, yet in public we comply. We […]
The post Why are People so Obedient? – Compliance and Conformity first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging.” Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News Most people think that consuming the news makes one an informed citizen who is equipped to form intelligent opinions on social and political issues. In this video, drawing from the Swiss author […]
The post Why the News Promotes Ignorance and Mental Illness first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“The spiritual decline of the earth is so far advanced that people are in danger of losing their last spiritual strength, the strength that makes it possible even to see the disintegration and to recognize it as such.” Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics Carl Jung held a pessimistic view of the future of Western […]
The post Carl Jung’s Apocalyptic Vision first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.” W.B. Yeats, Essays and Introductions Intuition is one of the most powerful faculties for gaining knowledge about the world. Along with reason, science, and imagination, it is one of the primary means by which we discover […]
The post How to Cultivate Your Sixth Sense – The Power of Intuition first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” Hanlon’s Razor What is responsible for the sickness of modern society? Is it the evil machinations of the power hungry? Is it due to a conspiracy of the ruling class? In this video, relying on the Italian historian Carlo Cipolla’s essay The Basic […]
The post Why Stupid People are Destroying Society – The Laws of Human Stupidity first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“Man is caught like a fly in a bottle. His attempts at culture, freedom, and creative endeavor have become mere entries in technique’s filing cabinet.” Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society In the mid-1950s the French philosopher Jacques Ellul wrote a book titled The Technological Society. In sit he proposed that technology, or more broadly what […]
The post Why Technology is Enslaving and Dehumanizing Us first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“Big Pharma is one of the largest and most profitable businesses in America, and in order to sell their chemical goods to allegedly treat the mind/psyche, pharmaceutical companies must convince society that people’s mental and behavioral problems are caused by their bodily chemicals.” Daniel R. Berger, The Chemical Imbalance Delusion An epidemic of mental […]
The post Big Pharma and the Big Lie – The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.” Leonardo Da Vinci Today many subscribe to hustle culture and believe that to be successful in business, a career, or a creative endeavor, it is necessary to work long hours, burn the midnight oil, and sacrifice leisure, rest, and sleep. But many who follow this […]
The post Work Less, Achieve More – Why Working Too Much Cripples Productivity first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“It’s easy to be a naive idealist. It’s easy to be a cynical realist. It’s quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame.” Marie-Louise von Franz To be a philosophical pessimist is to be acutely aware of the tragic side of life and to believe that suffering overshadows joy, […]
The post Pessimism of Strength – Nietzsche’s Formula for Greatness first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
In an interview in 1964, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke stated: “The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world won’t be men or monkeys. They’ll be machines—the remote descendants of today’s computers. Now, the present-day electronic brains are complete morons. But this will not be true in another generation. They will start to […]
The post The Darkside of AI – Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“The Great Rewiring of Childhood, in which the phone-based childhood replaced the play-based childhood, is the major cause of the international epidemic of adolescent mental illness.” Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation The release of the iPhone in 2007 profoundly transformed how we interact and experience the world and so marked the dawn of a […]
The post The Great Rewiring of Childhood: A Smartphone-Social Media Dystopia first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one’s efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims At the age of 21, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was browsing a bookstore […]
The post The Wisdom of a Pessimist – Arthur Schopenhauer first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
Fyodor Dostoevsky is considered one of history’s greatest novelists, but he is also one of history’s greatest psychologists. His stories contain depictions of characters who span the spectrum of human personality, from those of abject evil, to those saintly in nature. Friedrich Nietzsche was so impressed with the works of Dostoevsky that in a letter […]
The post Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Wisdom of a Genius first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
“For it was a witty and a truthful rejoinder which was given by a captured pirate to Alexander the Great. The king asked the fellow, “What is your idea, in infesting the sea?” And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, “The same as yours, in infesting the earth! But because I do it with a […]
The post Should We Obey The Government? first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
One of the surest ways to ruin our life is to be in a close relationship with a narcissist. Whether it be a narcissist as a parent, husband, wife, colleague, or friend, if we are forced to deal with a narcissist on a daily basis we suffer. But even worse than having a narcissist in […]
The post The Psychology of Narcissism – A Modern Epidemic first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
Many believe that the most important social divide in the West today is between the political left and right. Much of the discourse in the corporate and independent media revolves around this battle, and many believe that its outcome will have existential ramifications for the future of the West. But is this political conflict acting […]
The post Why is Modern Man so Weak and Powerless? – Carl Jung first appeared on Academy of Ideas.
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First discovered these little videos on Youtube. Love the quotes from different philosophers to accompany whatever theory they may be conceptualizing. On youtube they have neat little images as well. Glad I found this channel on here, now I can listen at work.