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What is a fallacy, and is nationalism one of them? With a lot of help from Yuval Noah Harari, MoFo addresses this issue. MoFo’s uncle Linus R. Fike addressed the topic in a book that was sitting on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s desk at the time of his passing. Progress, not perfection . . . Kudos to a student who prompted the revisitation!
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Who was right? Plato, Aristotle, neither, or both? Tough questions deserving a lifetime of study, or so thinks MoFo. What did Karl Popper think? (Hint: It wasn’t Plato!) Once Popper distinguishes historicism from social engineering as two strains within social thought, the strange case of Edward Bernays may make your skin crawl. As Bernays may have intended it! Listen in . . .
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What is “digiphrenia”? The metaphors we use to describe time, do more than distort a genuine understanding of time itself. They also shape the lives we live. Because we are living through the advent of the digital age, our awareness of these transformations in our relationship to time requires us to take a step back. MoFo reads from “Digiphrenia,” a section of Douglas Rushkoff’s book, Present Shock. Mofo also reads from his book, Unheard Tick of Time.
MoFo (Larry Fike) has a speed-through consideration of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, robotics, the uses of analyticity and why many words is not always a bad thing, the nature of Social Media today, the apparent dilemmas presented by honesty and kindness, and the complexity and importance of intermingling our conscious contents. Enjoy!
