Half the internet decided Christopher Nolan desecrated Homer before the film even dropped. Chris B. Robertson should have been the natural pick to lead that mob.
He has spent two years leading people through the Odyssey, he reads the Greek, and he walked into the theater hunting for everything he had been told to hate. What he found was stranger than a verdict.
The conversation starts on the culture war and does not stay there. It ends up on the day he lost his faith at sixteen, why a philosopher decided to become an electrician, what five kids actually teach a man, and why he thinks truth is something you remember rather than something you learn.
- What the accuracy mob actually misunderstands
- Homer as the author of civilization
- The milk jug that ended his faith
- Why he left academia for a trade
- Building a new religion from scratch
- Five kids and less parenting anxiety
- Where Ryan Holiday cheapened Stoicism
Subscribe to come along early on the journey as I build this show one conversation at a time.
Unfolding XXIV
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Timestamps
0:50–6:26 The feminist translation behind the whole fight
6:26–13:04 Nolan didn't change the story, he put civilization on trial
13:04–19:53 He went hunting for Emily Wilson in the film and found nothing
19:53–25:23 He left Christianity and found Homer standing behind it
25:23–34:47 The Library of Babel, AI art, and why the author still matters
34:47–39:03 Philosophy is great at spotting nonsense and terrible at building
39:03–44:48 The hidden cost of becoming the guy who does one thing
44:48–48:34 The philosopher who discovered trades
48:34–55:16 The milk jug that ended his faith
55:16–1:06:41 Three gods, one pattern, and the new religion he joined
1:06:41–1:15:07 Simulation theory as a symptom of too much internet
1:15:07–1:21:52 Five kids and the advice nobody gave him
1:21:52–1:32:32 Why he thinks Ryan Holiday weakened Stoicism
1:32:32–1:43:45 Truth is what you remember, not what you learn
