Dial It Back Or Die

<p>I realize that for most of us it is extremely traumatic to fully grasp just how wrong this world has become. And just how far and fast this has happened/is happening.  But this podcast gives an interesting, thorough, and dispassionate analysis of just how and why we got to here from there. Further, by using established, mainstream science, it then presents a clear, complete, non-ideological picture of human behavior and the human condition. Kind of like a really interesting college course. No, really. And, since each episode builds upon the last, kindly start with Episode 1. And continue.</p>

Episode 1: How The West Was Lost

This podcast is about how postmodern 'Western Civilization' got here from there.  And this is the introduction.

05-06
39:27

Episode 2: Defining The Problem

Some important terms that you may not know the real meaning of.

05-10
39:53

Episode 3: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Why those foundational assumptions are so darn important

05-14
34:17

Episode 4: Dmitry

Sometimes the best way to understand our own Universe is to visit a parallel one.

05-15
38:30

Episode 5: Benthamite Principles

Meet the founder of Liberal Democracy!

05-16
39:07

Episode 6: If We're So Dumb, How Come We're Rich?

Sometimes credit given is credit not due.

06-09
34:17

Episode 7: Is Everybody Happy?

If everything is so wonderful, why is everyone so miserable?

06-22
34:17

Episode 8: The March of Science

Turns out that 13th Century Franciscan monks created the modern world.

07-04
34:54

Episode 9: The Box That You Can't Think Outside Of

One more attempt to illuminate the darkness of ideological blinders.

07-11
34:17

Episode 10: So Why Am I Really Doing This?

The categorical imperative of podcasting

07-25
34:17

Episode 11: Those Enlightenment Values

A short primer on 'modern' 18th Century thought.

08-09
34:17

Episode 12: Fake History

It's been going on since before you were born.

08-22
43:59

Episode 13: Sometime Around The Year Zero, Greece

The Greeks were indeed important. Just not as precursors to democracy.

09-13
34:10

Episode 14: Sometime Around The Year Zero, Rome

Sandals, Swords, and Civic Virtue. How Rome actually pulled it all off.

09-27
34:17

Episode 15: Sometime Around The Year Zero, Christianity

The fluke of a secret sauce which flavored the whole stew.

10-11
33:55

Episode 16: That Lost Millennium

Where I go Medieval on you.  But in a good way.

10-25
46:55

Episode 17: The Way We Were

So why was Civilization so civilized?

11-08
44:30

Episode 18: The Renaissance That Wasn't

Guess what? It never happened. 

11-23
35:49

Episode 19: The Reform(ul)ation

The mechanics of breaking something that wasn't broke.

12-07
49:29

Episode 20: Therefore I Am

The essentials of rational existence.

12-21
34:17

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