The 2 Best Academy of Ideas Podcast Episodes
1) The Uncensored Truth about Inflation – How Inflation Enriches Politicians and the 1%
Central banks have spent decades flooding the global economy with newly created money. We are told this policy, or what is called a monetary inflation, is needed to stimulate economic growth and to ke...Show More
2) Disconnected from Reality: How Smartphones and Social Media Create a Schizophrenic-Like State
“I am body entirely, and nothing beside.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Many people spend more time staring at screens, than interacting with the real world. Hour-upon-hour, day-after-da...Show More
3) The Psychology of Online Haters – Nietzsche’s “Poisonous Flies”
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind The internet has connected the world, but it has also unleashed a torrent of hostility. The primary source...Show More
4) Why we Fear our Highest Potential – The Jonah Complex
“The difficulties of our psychotherapeutic work teach us to take truth, goodness, and beauty where we find them. They are not always found where we look for them: often they are hidden in the dirt or ...Show More
5) Why Weak People Create Hard Times – The Biological Decline of the West
The modern West is in decline. Economic stagnation, rising tax burdens, moral disorientation, political corruption, bloated bureaucracies, and soaring levels of poverty, drug addiction and homelessnes...Show More
6) Escape Mediocrity – How to Stop Wasting your Life
“Many are born; few live. Men without personality are innumerable and vegetate molded by their environment, like melted wax.” José Ingenieros, The Mediocre Man In the early-20th century, the Argentini...Show More
7) What Fairy Tales Teach About Life
“…the fairy tale is the great mother of the novel, and has even more universal validity than the most-avidly read novel of your time. And you know that what has been on everyone’s lips for millennia, ...Show More
8) Carl Jung – How Life Changes After 40
“And then comes the knowing that in me there is space for a second, large, and timeless life.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God According to Carl Jung the second half of li...Show More
9) Is Modern Man Possessed by the Terrible Mother Archetype?
“This is an exceedingly dangerous time and we are confronted with a problem which has never been known in the conscious history of man… This is not a light but a darkness; the powers of darkness are c...Show More
10) How to Make the West Great Again
“We can see nothing today that wants to grow greater, we suspect that things will continue to go down, down, to become…more comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent.” Friedrich Nietzsche, On the G...Show More