The Caffeine Stream – Details, episodes & analysis

We're back! Today I'm joined by Adam Magers, Iraqi War Veteran and Psychotherapist to discuss his book "Odysseus and the Oar."

You can follow Adam Magers on Instagram at instagram.com/odysseusandtheoar/

or on his website thebattlewithin.org.

Get his book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Odysseus-Oar-Healing-Military-Service/dp/1963803051/

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All my books can be found on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/C.B.-Robertson/author/B01N4W1M7Z

• In Defense of Hatred
• Letter to Anwei
• Holy Nihilism
• The Hero and the Man

My most recent writings have been published in the Journal of Solar Culture, which can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/PH2T3R-Journal-Culture-Jack-Donovan/dp/B0CWVYSN36/

• The Cattle of the Sun
• The Spiritual Origins of Science
• The Aim of Agency and
• Descending Odin's Throne

Today I decided on a whim to bring up some classical source text I think more people should be aware of and mindful of on the subject of weapons, gun-control (and knife-control, for you dangerous Brits), and disarmament more generally.

It is often assumed that our position today is fundamentally different, due to differences in technology and arguments that were foreign even 100 years ago, before the horrifically deadly ASSAULT RIFLE. Yet when we look back to Machiavelli, to Plato, and to Homer, we find a striking similarity in the nature of the arguments and in the motivations for making them.

As always, I encourage everyone to read the source texts directly, for their own edification as well as for understanding the true nature of often misused quotations. The Odyssey, the Republic, and the Prince are all works in the public domain, and can be read (or listened to) online.

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Today I'm joined by Awen (aka Lilith) to discuss the world of Druidry, from its historical origins through to its modern practice today. We go over the social and political role of the Druids within ancient Celtic society, their views of the afterlife, human sacrifice, the path to druidry, and much more... as well as mentioning the organizations that have maintained the living tradition of druidry to the present.

Her work can be found at https://www.primaldruidry.com/

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Today I'm joined by Sierra to counterbalance our discussion of feminism from before and talk about Men's Rights Activists (MRAs). We try to give a (very) brief history of the movement, as well as going over some of the things we like and dislike about their positions, especially in relationship to marriage.

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Today I'm joined by Josh Tyler for a wide-ranging conversation on physicality and the dangers of quantitative thinking. We take turns bashing power-lifters and philosophers and other unbalanced modes of thinking, in an attempt at something more balanced and higher quality in our experience of life.

You can follow Josh Tyler's work on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/joshtylermma/

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Today I'm joined by Joe Peters to discuss the business side of the health industry and how that often-neglected logistics side influences science and healthcare. Ranging over sales experiences in hospitals and personal experiences with doctors and nurses and struggling with our own challenges, we try to get down to the question of how to be healthy people in an age where the financial and insurance requirements of the industry don't always permit them to prioritize  the patient in the way that we might hope... and whether science is the problem or the solution to the challenges of bureacracy.

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Picking up on themes from Episode 42, I'm joined again by Ben Brower to delve deeper into the value of working with one's hands. We meander through our own experiences in the trades (while occasionally borrowing from the works of Robert Pirsig and Matthew Crawford) in an attempt to describe how making and fixing things changes how manual competence changes how we think, how we speak, even how we see... and also how other people see us.

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Today we go back a few years to talk about Bo Burnham's production "Inside," a performance of himself, by himself, trapped inside during COVID lockdowns. We go over the psychology of the internet, of oversocialized leftism, of pandemic disgust associations, as well as the artistic merit of the production itself.

Original essay:

https://caffeineandphilosophy.com/2021/07/10/inside-bo-burnham/

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Today we look back over a few of the more recent podcasts, slightly rehashing the drag discussion and the relation between the word "drag" and the behavior being described, along with digging back up Plato and the podcast about work to explore some of the themes a little bit further... with the aid of White Claw and a woman's weigh-in.

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Today I'm joined by Sean Bradley to explore some of the arguments against Nick Bostrom's famous Simulation Argument, as well as a wide-ranging and meandering dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence and its implications for our society, our economy, and perhaps our existence.

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