Plausible Deniability AMX
Not your mother's book group. A podcast that likely discusses books or topics in a non-traditional, irreverent way.
Episodes
PDAMX40.1 - Quantum Machiavelli
We discuss Machiavelli to quantum mechanics to of course consciousness.
PDAMX#39.1 - Antiquities of the Egyptians
Today we discuss a lot of the things we were reading over past 6 months, like Josephus' antiquities of the Jews, Heroditus, Julius Caesar's writings, and more...
PDAMX#38.1 - The best podcast episode ever recorded by man
What more is there even to say. Recorded on 2/2/2026
PDAMX37.1 - Do good be good
Today we primarily discuss Book II of Aristotle's Nicomachian ethics and how JC embodied its central message 300 years later.
PDAMX#36.1 - Heretical Hermits
Today Antooshka and Mr. X recap some things they've read over the past few months. These include: -Monas Hieroglyphica by John Dee-The occult anatomy of man by Manly P. Hall-Bacon: Biography of Francis Bacon by Richard William Church-Roger Bacon and his search for a universal science by Stewart C. Easton-The Body Electric by Robert O. Becker-The Gospel of Judas-Eric Dollard's books and lec
PDAMX35.3 - Trickle down doctornomics (w/ Brother X)
Today we continue Paul Starr's book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine", with chapters 3 and 4. These cover the changes that occurred in medical education during the later half of the 19th century, as well as the importance that hospitals and scientific achievements had on solidifying the prestigious role doctors came to have in US society.
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PDAMX#35.2 - Institutionalizing medicine for dummies
Today we continue Paul Starr's book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine", with chapters 2 and 3. This explains how the market for American medicine expanded in the 19th century empowering physicians, and how through organizations like the AMA Allopathic physicians consolidated their hold on medicine.
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PDAMX#35.1 - Scientific Priests (w/ Brother X)
Today we discuss Paul Starr's book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine", published in 1982. Specifically we focus on the introduction and chapter I, which begins to detail how American medicine went from a largely unorganized, unlicensed, lower class trade in the late 18th/early 19th century to the priestly profession it is today.
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PDAMX#34.1 - The root of it all
Today we discuss book I of Rousseau's "Social Contract", which is his famous writing that discusses civil law vs. natural law, right of first occupant vs. right of the strong, and how he believes society's goal is to create equity between humans.
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PDAMX#33.1 - Here's Waldo
Today we discuss Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self-reliance", which he is a big fan of.
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PDAMX#19.4 - Messianic Marx
Today we continue our discussion of Karl Marx's Das Capital with chapter 2 and 3. This covers the circulation of money and how inflation is more due to commodity supply than money supply.
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PDAMX#32.1 - Dionysus was a drunk! (w/ The Reckless Muse)
Today we have a special episode with The Reckless Muse (aka Ben D'Alessio and Joe Garza), because we read Ben D'Alessio's book Neon God. His novel essentially answers the question of what would happen if the Greek god Dionysus decided to go on a bender in New Orlean. As you can imagine, debauchery ensues!
You can buy Ben's book here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1543969526?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asi
PDAMX#19.3 - The mystical fetish and its secret
Today we begin our discussion of Das Capital by, you already know, ol' Karl Marx himself. Boy what a slog! We start with chapter 1, which focuses on the commodity, its value, the formation of money, and how it is fetishized!
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PDAMX#31.4 - The info apocalypse
Today we finish Julian Assange's book "Freedom and the Future of the Internet". In this Assange et al. discuss the ingredients of a state, the information stranglehold government maintains over its constituents, and how increased cryptographic education and grassroots efforts are ways to maintain privacy.
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PDAMX#31.3 - The cryptographic arms race
Today we discuss Julian Assange's book "Freedom and the Future of the Internet", which details Assange's case for how nature favors encryption, we are living under Marshall law wrt our communication, and how the outlook is grim but not hopeless.
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PDAMX#31.2 - The cypherpunks live on
Today we discuss the Cypherpunks, The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, B-money, and the Monero whitepaper (or rather the CryptoNote white paper). All of this is in the spirit of privacy and decentralized methods of exchange for not just money, but everything.
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto by Tim May:
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/may-crypto-manifesto.html
PDAMX#31.1 - The $63,000 beer
Today we discuss the Bitcoin white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto, which explains the reasoning for Bitcoin's creation and how it works.
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PDAMX#30.2 – Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?
Today we continue our discussion of C.S. Lewis’ “Mere
Christianity” with book II where he addresses some of the counter arguments atheists have against Christianity. Ultimately, he ends with his discussion of
the invasion of God, aka the rapture.
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PDAMX#30.1 - The Lion, the Witch and the Christian
Today we begin our discussion of C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity" with Book 1. In it he makes the case for a universal morality that guides all of us.
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PDAMX#29.1 - Mr. Brown goes to Washington (w/ Ted Brown)
Today we talk with Ted Brown who is running for the U.S. Senate seat for Texas this November. We discuss how he became a Libertarian, his philosophy, key policy points, and the oligarchy!
Ted Brown's Links:
https://tedbrown.org/
https://x.com/tedbrownliberty
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PDAMX#28.1 - Schopen-how life is suffering (w/ Brother X)
Today we are joined again by Brother X to read 2 of Schopenhauer's uplifting essays "On the Suffering of the World" and "The Indestructibility of Being" where he discusses the positivity of suffering and how will is the only immortal thing about us.
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PDAMX#6.8 - Moral World Order
Today we finish our discussion of Friederich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist". In this he describes basically everything that's wrong with Christianity and the resentment morality that has taken over the west.
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PDAMX#6.7 - the Democrat among Gods
Today we begin our discussion of the Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche, with sections 1-22. Basically he's not a fan of Christianity, but hey that's like his opinion man. We also discuss his opinion of Buddhism (positive) and priests (negative).
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PDAMX#27.1 - Realest Art (w/ The Reckless Muse)
Today we discuss Albert Camus' "Create Dangerously" speech/essay with special guest, The Reckless Muse. In this essay Camus discusses what art is, the problem with artists in his day (early/mid 20th century), the goal of art, and many other things.
You can find The Reckless Muse podcast and writing from the duo at the links below:
Medium: https://medium.com/the-reckless-muse
IG: h
PDAMX#26.3 - Consensual Categorization (w/ Mr. Tee)
Today we finish our discussion of Judith Butler's book "Gender Trouble" with chapter 3, and with special guest Mr. Tee. In this Butler caps off her book by re emphasizing the cultural basis for sex, gender, and identity, how they're ultimately performative, and how it's impossible to know what a pre-discursive concept would look because you're always describing it within
PDAMX#26.2 - Taboo Talk
Today we continue our discussion of Judith Butler's book "Gender Trouble" with chapter 2. In this Butler offers a critique of the psychoanalytical and structural conceptions of how gender and sex develop.
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PDAMX#26.1 - Problematic Phallogocentrism
Today we begin our discussion of Judith Butler's book "Gender Trouble" with chapter 1. This details Butler's thesis of gender (socially constructed, not binary, etc.) and how it differs from other feminist and sociological writers of the time (1990).
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PDAMX#25.1 - Consciously discussing consciousness
Today we discuss David Chalmers' article "Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness" with special guest Brother X. This article breaks down his famous "Hard problem of consciousness", which is essentially how to explain the phenomenon of experience. We also of course go on many tangents about why it's even important to discuss consciousness.
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PDAMX#24.1 - Are we computation, or are we dancer
Today we discuss sections of Roger Penrose's book "Shadows of the Mind" with special guest Brother X. We focus on chapters 2.1-6 and 3.23, which detail Godel's Incompleteness Theorem and why Penrose thinks this points to a non-computational theory of consciousness.
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PDAMX#23.3 - Rhetorical Extremism
Today we finish our discussion of Ben Burgis' book "Give Them An Argument, Logic For The Left" with chapters 5 and 6. Here he offers some criticism of the left and what he thinks they should be more focused on, laying into pollsters like Nate Silver who may be committing hasty generalizations. Antooshka and Mr. X also get into a lengthy discussion at the end about Reddit and the pros
PDAMX#23.2 - Trotsky's Sophist
Today we continue our discussion of Ben Burgis' book "Give Them An Argument, Logic For The Left" with chapters 3 and 4. Here he lays into the Libertarians and his critique of the non aggression principle, among many other things.
Disclaimer: All opinions are our own, respectively, and don't represent any institution we may or may not be a part of, respectively.
PDAMX#23.1 - Libertarian Boyz
Today we begin our discussion of Ben Burgis' book "Give Them An Argument, Logic For The Left" with chapters 1 and 2. These detail some common logical fallacies people on the left, and right, run into when debating political science online, as well as his critiques of Ben Shapiro's argumentative style.
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PDAMX#22.3 - The great apes don't have nuclear families
Today we finish our discussion of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's book "Democracy, the God that failed" with chapter 10. This discusses what Libertarianism and Conservatism mean to Hoppe, and why they are consistent philosophies that prioritize private property ownership.
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PDAMX#22.2 - Civilizational Su*cide
Today we continue our discussion of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's book "Democracy, the God that failed" with chapters 7 and 8. The focus of these chapters is on trade and immigration, and ultimately what Hoppe argues for is free trade and restricted immigration.
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PDAMX#22.1.2 - Papa Hoppe
Bonus episode b/c we got a bit bogged down about rationalism vs empiricism in the last episode, we decided to do a part 2 to get into more detail on chapter 1 of Hoppe's book "Democracy, the God that failed".
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PDAMX#22.1.1 - Monarchy bad, democracy worse?
Today we begin our discussion of Hans-Hermann Hoppe's provocative book "Democracy, the God that failed" with his introduction and chapter 1. We discuss, among many other things, how ultimately he doesn't like monarchy or democracy and is in favor of something more like "ordered anarchy" or "natural order".
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PDAMX#21.3 - Tolerance is a partisan goal
Today we discuss Herbert Marcuse's article called "Repressive Tolerance", which basically calls for discriminating tolerance, or rather intolerance against the rules of behavior, man.
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PDAMX#21.2 - Consciousness trying to understand consciousness
Today we finish our discussion of Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man", with focus on the last section of the book where he summarizes his argument for technical rationality and pacification of existence, among other things. We also talk a lot about consciousness believe it or not.
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PDAMX#21.1 - Communists are Individualists?
Hello, today we begin discussing Herbert Marcuse's "One-Dimensional Man", which you could say offers a critical critique of society in the mid 20th century. He's an avowed neo-marxist and historical materialist, and Antooshka can't quite figure out how to feel about him.
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PDAMX#20.1 - Fascists also love their neighbor
Today we discuss Benito Mussolini's "The Doctrine of Fascism". Lol, yes, yes we know. We analyze it and discuss how certain fascist elements are seen in some governments that people may not typically think of as "fascist". The title comes from a quote in the book.
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PDAMX#19.2 - Workers of the World, etc.
Today we finish "The Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engels, focusing on sections 3 and 4. Specifically we discuss Marx's breakdown/critique of socialism and his plan for a communist, well you know.
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PDAMX#19.1 - We other Bourgeoisie
Today we begin our discussion of "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, focusing on parts 1 and 2. These describe the class struggle thesis and the 10 measures to bring about a communist revolution, among other things.
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PDAMX#5.6 - Puritanical Amorality
Today we finish our discussion of Foucault's "The History of Sexuality" with volume III today, which focuses on the classical/Roman period and how the care of oneself was beginning to take a more mature form.
Referenced articles:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2117556/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15004563/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031
PDAMX#5.5 - Aphrodesia, enkrateia, and sophrosyne, oh my.
Today we continue our discussion of Foucault's "The History of Sexuality" with volume II today, which discusses the Ancient Greek's perspectives on things having to do with sex. For them it was framed in terms of pleasure (aphrodesia) to be moderated (sophrosyne) through self control (enkrateia), rather than as a multiplicity of sexualities, like in modern times.
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PDAMX#18.2 - Pharma Karma
Today we discuss Richard Posner's article "The Law & Economics of Intellectual Property" published in Daedalus in 2002. This discusses some of the rational for why we have IP laws and the incentives one needs to be mindful of when constructing them.
Full issue: https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/daedalus/downloads/Daedalus_Sp2002_On-Intellectual-Property.pdf
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PDAMX18.1 - He's an importer/exporter
Today we discuss Carla Hess's article "Intellectual property, 700 B.C. - 2000 A.D." published in Daedalus in 2002. This details the history of intellectual property up to the modern era.
Article: https://www.amacad.org/publication/intellectual-property-700-bc-ad-2000
Full issue: https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/daedalus/downloads/Daedalus_Sp2002_On-Intellectual-Property.pd
PDAMX#5.4 - The West Loves Discourse
Today we pick up on our discussion of Foucault from ~6months ago by diving into another one of his books, "The History of Sexuality"...how provocative. We start with Volume I today, which discusses the repressive hypothesis, the West's development of Sciencia Sexualis, and how this all relates to power.
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PDAMX#17.3 - Over academicalization
Today we continue our discussion of Murray Rothbard's "The Case Against the Fed" by talking about the final 3rd of the book (~pages 100-150). This section focuses on the formation of the federal reserve, its real world consequences, and what Rothbard thinks should be done about it.
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PDAMX#17.2 - The Central Bank Strikes Back
Today we continue our discussion of Murray Rothbard's "The Case Against the Fed" by talking about the second 3rd of the book (~ pages 50-100). This covers the history of central banking in the US and how it ultimately won the day. Listener discretion is advised for this one, because at the end we cover a provacative topic. So 18+ only please....
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PDAMX#17.1 - Fractional Reserve Warehousing
Today we begin our discussion of Murray Rothbard's "The Case Against the Fed" by talking about the first 1/3rd of the book. This covers what money is, fractional reserve banking, and how the federal reserve basically counterfeits and embezzles money.
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PDAMX#6.6 - Interestingly different
Today we finish Nietzsche's essay "Shopenhaur as educator", part of his Untimely Meditations. We continue to discuss how most people today, and during Nietzsche's time in the 1870s, are trained to just regurgitate information rather than synthesize it into something new. No culture, with a buncha automatons man...
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PDAMX#6.5 - Most fear the truth
Today we continue our reading of Nietzsche's Untimely Meditations by discussing sections 1-4 of his "Shopenhaur as Educator" essay. Basically he discusses how most people are too afraid to speak honestly, because it would lead to a life of isolation and constant confrontation with others.
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PDAMX#6.4 - "Let the dead bury the - living"
Today we discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Use and Abuse of History" from his Untimely Meditations. The title is basically the motto of the monumental historians. We discuss what these are and how it relates to consciousness, etc.
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PDAMX#16.3 - Everyone has rhythm?
Today we finish our discussion of Oliver Sack's book Musicophilia by covering chapters 9, 10, and 19. These cover things like perfect/absolute pitch, cochlear hearing loss, and the neurobiology of rhythm.
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PDAMX#16.2 - Worlds without music
Today we discuss chapters 2, 3, and 8 from Oliver Sack's book Musicophilia. These chapters cover interesting neurological cases where people have seizures that cause and are caused by music, as well as people who have congenital and onset amusia, dysharmonia, and tone-deafness. Could you live in a world without music?
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PDAMX#16.1 - The final blackout
Today we discuss Oliver Sack's book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", specifically focusing on chapter 2, "The Lost Mariner". It discusses a 49 year old patient suffering from a particularly bad form of Korsakoff's syndrome, where he could not make any new memories and had forgotten the last 30 years. This resulted in him thinking he was a 19 year old fresh out
PDAMX#15 - So you're an NPC
Today we discuss A.H. Maslow's "A Theory of Human Motivation", which is the paper that proposed his 5 hierarchies of needs.
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PDAMX#14 - Consciousness is in the Thalamus?
Today we discuss Byoung-Kyong Min's article called "A thalamic reticular networking model of consciousness", which basically theorizes a the primary location of consciousness within the nervous system resides in the thalamic reticular nucleus.
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PDAMX#13 - Ronnie James Dioscorides
Today we discuss "Dioscorides On Pharmacy And Medicine" by John M. Riddle. Dioscorides was a Greek/Roman physician who wrote an influential pharmacopeia back in the 1st century AD. We discuss the treatise, what life was like as a Roman physician, some of the different schools of medicine back then, among other things!
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PDAMX#12.3 - Dear FBI, this is not a call for revolution
Today we finish our discussion of John Locke’s 2 Treatises
on Government by talking about the second half of the 2nd treatise. Summary is this is basically where the USA framers got a lot of their ideas for how to structure government, and also he calls for revolt against tyrannical governments....no comment man.
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PDAMX#12.2 - Locke was a cheeky dude
Today we continue our discussion of John Locke’s 2 Treatises
on Government. We focus on the first half of the 2nd treatise today, which covers a lot, but begins by defining the state of nature and ends with describing how peaceful governments are formed.
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PDAMX#12.1 - The Divine Right of Kings is Stupid
Today we begin our discussion of John Locke’s 2 Treatises
on Government. We focus on the 1st treatise today, which is chiefly
about refuting Robert Filmer’s argument that kings have a divine right to rule
that can be traced back to Adam. You can guess the conclusion from the title.
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PDAMX#11.3 - Nobody Knows about Knowledge
Today we finish our discussion of Plato with the dialogue Theatetus, which is basically about knowledge. Spoiler, they conclude that they don't know what knowledge is, but this is kind of in line with Socrates' whole schtick. We share our thoughts on what knowledge is though, so listeners have that to look forward to!
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PDAMX#11.2 - Justice for the Unicells
Today we continue our discussion of Plato's dialogues with book I of the Republic. Basically Socrates hears and refutes 3 definitions of justice, proposes his own loose definition, refutes that, discusses death, and once again concludes he knows nothing.
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PDAMX#11.1 - Socrates' Revenge
Today we begin our discussion of Plato's dialogues with 'Socrates' Defense/Apology'. Basically Socrates' was on trial for corrupting the youth and not believing in God, so he refutes that, discusses his Oracle, and explains if he has any wisdom, it's because he knows he has no wisdom. I.e., we're all idiots so don't get carried away. Spoiler, he gets condemned.
Dis
PDAMX#X.1- Critical Critique of Hearing Hearing
Today we talk with Brother X about Peter Szendy’s book “Listen: A History of Our Ears. Specifically we discuss chapter 2, which makes some pretty philosophical points about whether people degrade arrangements more in modern times than they did prior to 1773. He also puts forth the idea that the arrangement works in tandem with the original work to strive towards a sort of ideal "Work". W
PDAMX#9.3 - Everybody's Relatively Satanic
Today we finish our discussion/reading of Rose Wilder Lane's book "Discovery of Freedom". Specifically we focus on the "Feudal System", "The English Liberties", and "The Third Attempt", The Feudal System chapter basically discuss how feudalism spawned from christendom and preserved the Abrahamic tradition of individualism/that all people are free; the En
PDAMX#9.2 - Abraham, Muhammad, and Jesus all agree
Today we discuss Rose Wilder Lane's book "Discovery of Freedom". Specifically we focus on "War" from Part I, and "The First Attempt" and "The Second Attempt" from Part II. Ultimately she's making the point that Abraham, Muhammad, and Jesus all preached about individualism and breaking away from authority figures. Also, war == bad.
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PDAMX#9.1 - Dandelions have the world figured out
Today we discuss Rose Wilder Lane's book "Discovery of Freedom". Specifically we focus on Part I and talk about her belief that only individuals can control their own energy (as opposed to an outside authority) and that all organization wastes human energy (but organization that is maintained without force will reach a natural limit of wastefulness, while those with force exceed the
PDAMX#8.3 - Elite Atrophy
Today we discuss 'The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom" by James Burnham. We focus on Section VI "Pareto: The Nature of Social Action", which detail's Pareto's theory of logical/non-logical actions, derivatives/residuals, and the circulation of the elites.
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PDAMX#8.2 - Oligo-Democracy
Today we discuss 'The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom" by James Burnham. We focus on Section V "Michels: The Limits of Democracy", which detail's Michel's critique of democracy and his iron law of oligarchy.
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PDAMX#8.1 - Some kind of fox-lion hybrid
Today we discuss 'The Machiavellians, Defenders of Freedom" by James Burnham. We focus on Section 2 "Machiavelli: The Science of Power", which breaks down Machiavelli's method and political theories.
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PDAMX#7.3 - Jaguars are a monopoly of Jaguars
Today we discuss 'The Anarchist Handbook', organized by Michael Malice. Specifically, we explore chapters 19 (David Friedman) and 20 (Murray Rothbard). Summary? State == bad
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PDAMX#7.2 - A Secret Band of Murderers, Robbers, and Thieves
Today we discuss 'The Anarchist Handbook', Organized by Michael Malice. We discuss chapters 8 (Lysander Spooner) and 16 (Emma Goldman).
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PDAMX#7.1 - Anarchy in the Antoosh-K
Today we discuss 'The Anarchist Handbook', Organized by Michael Malice. We discuss chapters 1 (intro), 2 (William Godwin), and 13 (Leo Tolstoy).
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PDAMX#6.3 - Nietzsche was the first hipster
Today we discuss essay 3 rom Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morals"...asceticism is opposite to art, and arose to help us cope with reality...or something like that.
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PDAMX#6.2 - Thus spoke Antooshka
Today we discuss essay 2 rom Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morals"...memory, promise, punishment, resentment. Dare I say more.
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PDAMX#6.1 - Gird yer loins
Today we discuss essay 1 from Nietzsche's "Genealogy of Morals"...oi, yes, yes, I know...we debate the thing everybody debates about this, and discuss the meaning between good v evil vs good v bad...
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PDAMX#5.3 - Madness is death?
Today we continue the discussion of Foucault's 'Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason', focusing on 'The Great Fear'.
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PDAMX#5.2 - How can we know a couch exists if we can't hear it
Today we continue the discussion of Foucault's 'Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason', focusing on Part III: the Insane'
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