Bad Philosophy

Kevin and Stephen riff on absurdism, Too Many Cooks, and the fuzzy lines between postmodernism and poststructuralism (if they exist at all)

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A Bit of Fry and Laurie, absurdism, Adult Swim, Christopher Nolan, context, Dada, David Letterman, Doctor Who, film, Internet, Interstellar, Iron Man 3, meaning, Memento, Net Neutrality, Network culture, PBS Idea Channel, postmodernism, poststructuralism, Samuel Beckett, Star Wars, Theatre of the Absurd, Too Many Cooks, Transformers, Under Construction, virality, Waiting for Godot

Is consumer capitalism played-out? Why is Roberto Unger so angry? And could cats save us all? Kevin and I ponder these questions and more.

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activism, Alton Brown, Android, anger, Barack Obama, breast cancer, capitalism, CCC, charity, Civil Rights Movement, consequentialism, Cory Doctorow, CSR, deontology, extrinsic value, FDR, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Google, Great Depression, healthcare, idealism, Infinite Cat Project, intrinsic value, Kevin, Marxism, minimum income, PBS Idea Channel, pessimism, Philosophy Bites, Planet Money, podcasts, power, protest, RadioLab, realism, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Rosa Parks, RSA, schizophrenia, slacktivism, socialism, Spider Robinson, Stephen, The Cold Equations, Theodore Sturgeon, Tumblr, United States, WPA, Zoom

Dr. Mark Webb and Sebastian Bentkowski join Stephen to discuss their varying paths into Buddhism, comparing theory / practice and all the MU! in between.

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Austin Zen Center, Buddha, Buddhism, bullet hell shooters, Catholicism, causation, cedar pollen, Charlie Chaplin, Christianity, Dr. Webb, ecstatic dance, Ender's Game, enlightenment, fencing, Flow, Freud, Islam, Judaism, koans, meditation, memes, PBS Idea Channel, philosophy of religion, postmodernism, poststructuralism, reductionism, reincarnation, Sebastian, Shikantaza, Slavoj Zizek, Snapchat, Springer Press, Stephen, Suzuki Roshi, The Great Dictator, utilitarianism, video games, violence, Wu Wei, Zazen, zen, Zoltan Zabo

Bitcoins are back! Or are they? Simon Ponder joins Kevin and Stephen to find out whether they’re worth Beliebing in.

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Bitcoin, Boston Marathon bombing, Carlos Arredondo, cocaine, currency, Dot Com bubble, drugs, economics, fiat currency, gambling, Kevin, Lindon Dollars, PBS Idea Channel, ponzi scheme, Prague, real estate bubble, Satoshi Nakamoto, Scotland, Second Life, Silk Road, Simon, speculation, Stephen, The Love Guru, Val Kilmer, value, Yap