Fusion Underground

Buckle in, sit back, and relax--it's going to be a bumpy ride. This episode features the one and only Jason Morrett.

Many people don't really understand what is meant by "left-wing politics." In this episode we talk about what it means to be an adherent to left-wing politics. Left-wing politics is an ideology that feels good, but results in causing far more harm than good. We break down why it's harmful and why people feel obligated to accept left-wing thinking.

We always talk about the importance of having, and following, a framework of principles. In this episode we talk about how your principles should form your views on political issues. If you allow emotions to govern your policy standpoints, then you will fall for anything and you will struggle to stand for anything.

We've been piling up all sorts of oddities in the media over the last several weeks. Things we've wanted to share and laugh about with all of you. So in this episode we decided to talk about how dumb the media often is.

The world is a crazy and often scary place. To overcome the many challenges and perils of life, you need to focus your attention at the task at hand. How do you focus and live a moral life at the same time? To do so you must live intentionally. We talk about this concept and why it's important. We also talk about why this same concept is important for raising children. If you do not prepare your children to live intentionally within the world, then you are setting them up for failure.

We did something completely different for this episode. We invited some men onto the show to talk about masculinity in today's world. Each of these men are fathers who are just trying to do what's best for their families and raise children in a society that increasingly finds fault with masculinity.

In this episode we talked about nerd stuff. More specifically, games and gaming. No, not gambling. The social act of playing games (board games, video games, etc.). Playing games is not just something kids do, adults play games as well. We make a case for gaming by looking at the value playing games does for society.

Every one of us has the ability to see people as something other than 'human.' Sometimes this can help us perform a necessary job, like work in an ER. However, this ability can also have very drastic and evil outcomes, such as murdering people for the perceived societal benefits. We talked about humans' ability to compartmentalize the humanity of others and what that can mean for society.

No, we don't believe Jesus was a racist. Some people do believe he was a racist, and those people point to a specific passage in the Bible that they use as evidence. We talked about that passage and what it really means. We also talk about how Christianity is often used in the culture wars, by people who don't believe in Christianity, to get Christians to acquiesce. We also poke fun at a lot of stupid news. Sadly, the stupid news is real.

Our culture has been overrun with cancel culture. Wokeism is censoring speech woke ideology deems offensive. How should you respond when someone makes a, seemingly, rational claim about canceling something? Should you accept it because the request seems benign? Or should you reject the claim and tell the woke to "stop it?" We recommend the latter. In this episode we talk about how to respond to the woke mob, and why it is important to stop the madness.

We change gears with this episode and discuss something near and dear to our hears--Freemasonry. We've received a lot of inquiries asking what Freemasonry is. So this episode we talk about Freemasonry, why we think Freemasonry is needed, and why we chose to become Masons.

Our society continues to embrace narcissism. Many people throw caution to the wind and live for the moment--intent on maximizing everything they want to the detriment to themselves and their loved ones. We discussed how practicing temperance can change society one person at a time. After all, a self-disciplined society has little need for laws and regulations.

We inch closer and closer to that 50th episode! This is a slightly longer episode than normal, brought on because we talked about something that is near and dear to our hearts. The focus of this episode is leadership--more specifically, leadership at the highest levels. Too many people in upper management tend to lose focus between the difference of management and leadership. This isn't always the fault of the manager, it can often be the result of the organization and the culture within that organization. Often, managers simply don't know what they should know. In this discussion we talked about the Masonic fraternity--an organization that prides itself on building community leaders. Have we, as Masons, become managers in our attempt to manage our fraternity to new growth? Have we failed to actually lead? You don't have to be a Mason to follow along and appreciate the discussion on leadership.

Villains are an important part of the equation for becoming our best authentic selves. Sadly, pop culture has been watering down the veracity of villains to our detriment. We talked about villains and why they're important. We also wrestled with the idea of the Internet and why it's bad (and good) for society. Come listen and tell us how we're wrong.

In this episode of the Fusion Underground we talk about friends. We reminisce about our own friends, why we pick certain friends, and why it's important to not have everything in common with your friends.

This episode got off to a rocky start. The first quarter of the show we ran into Internet issues. We made some adjustments, while we were recording (!) and overcame our technical issue. Once we were back on track we talked about the danger of ideologies. We also talked about the virtue of humility and how being humble is a (the?) core component of self-improvement.

Freedom takes many forms. Freedom can mean physically free from bonds. Freedom can also mean the freedom to think. In this episode we start a discussion about freedom and how small freedoms impact larger societal freedoms. We also talked about some ridiculous news items. 2021 is certainly starting off with a bang and lots of lulz.

In this episode we discussed the importance of "Man Psychology," that is, a mature masculinity. Far too many people equate "Boy Psychology" with being a man. It's true that most adult males exhibit Boy Psychology. This leads to societal complaints of masculinity being "toxic." What the world needs is more masculinity, not less, but that masculinity must be in the form of Man Psychology. We talked about this concept and what Man Psychology looks like when manifest in the world.

We kick off this episode with a look at some dumb news (yes, it's all real news). We also talked a bit bout Cyberpunk 2077, because, well, it's Cyberpunk! We then talked about Epictetus and his Enchiridion. Epictetus was a stoic philosopher and we talked about some of his writing and how stoicism can be used in today's hectic world.

On this episode of the Fusion Underground podcast we talked about leaders and the importance for lifelong learning for leaders. If you're not learning, then you remain stagnant in ideas that may be leading you down a wrong path. We also just had a lot of fun recording the episode! We hope you enjoy it.