Category: Culture

In Pursuit of Utopia #2: “Illumination”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-2-illumination/: Daniel McCarthy and I continue on monthly discussion on the history of Utopian visions and their consequences. In this episode: In the 17th century a small group of religious luminaries built a colonial...

In Pursuit of Utopia #1: “From the Top Down”

From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-the-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-one-from-the-top-down/: This is the pilot episode in a new monthly historical series with Daniel McCarthy. Danny is a 24-year-old SSP listener, blogger and researcher, and the author of an upcoming book on the...

Mystery Babylon: The World According to Bill Cooper

***While I am not in the business of disclaimers, as I respect my humble reading audience enough to presume that they understand that great rarity of our age, nuance (the devil is in the...

The Importance of Myth: A Preface to Plato

All cultures that I am aware of are laden with myths. In his best-known work, the old philosopher Plato argued that the rulers of the ideal society would contrive myths to encourage perfect public...

On “Liberty” – Doug Stanhope

  Doug Stanhope carefully analyzes nationalism, patriotism, democracy, marriage, the Pledge of Allegiance, and exactly how to fuck the police (and the tax-man too), while drunk. LINK TO FULL STAND-UP SHOW HERE