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) Why Men Fear Women
Given that man is the physically stronger sex, it may seem preposterous to claim that many men fear women more than women fear men. Yet across cultures and throughout history, women have often been po...Show More
4) Carl Jung as Therapist – Your Problems Don’t Lie in the Past
“We should not forget that every neurosis entails a corresponding amount of demoralization. If a man is neurotic, he has lost confidence in himself. A neurosis is a humiliating defeat and is felt as s...Show More
5) Why The Western Worldview Limits Human Potential
When considering how to improve modern day society many people gravitate toward political solutions. Others suggest that we need a sort of revolution of consciousness in which people move to a more en...Show More
6) What If the “Crazy” Ones Are Right? – Conspiracy Theories
Some people allege that the politicians, bureaucrats and corporate elite that make up the ruling class are conspiring to enrich themselves, gain more power, and transform society into a totalitarian d...Show More
7) Carl Jung – Are Demons Real?
“[Modern man] is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by powers beyond his control. The gods and demons have not disappeared at all, they have merely got ne...Show More
8) Why We Sabotage Ourselves – The Psychology of Self-Handicapping
“The self-handicapper reaches out for impediments, exaggerates handicaps, and embraces any factor reducing personal responsibility for mediocrity…” Steven Berglas and Edward Jones, Drug Choice as a S...Show More
9) 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
10) 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