The Uncommoners

As promised last episode, we at least glance off the topic of population reduction, but from a very philosophical angle and with the help of an interesting, alternate, metaphorical interpretation of the Garden of Eden story. What makes humans human, what are the real existential problems with AI, and what is the best way to define the choices of this crossroads humanity finds itself at? We examine...

Following right up on our prior conversation, which has become an unintentional three part series (this being the third and final part), we go beyond the practical politics discussion to get to the philosophical root cause of the sandbox of stupidity - which happens to be the slave morality we've been lamenting since episode one. We also finally manage to better explain what we've meant al...

"L'enfer, c'est les autres" ("Hell is—other people") - Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit We realize this quote is taken out of context and we're using it differently than it was used in Jean-Paul's No Exit - but we mean it exactly as we're using it in its standalone context. In this episode we expand on the prior episode's idea of unserious people, broadening the concept from a failure to institute change...

As promised in last episode's show notes, we move forward directly off our prior discussion to finally, two years into the podcast, stop just calling common people idiots and actually go in depth on both why they're idiots and through what specific mechanisms this idiocy results in commoners being the basis of society's problems (including the problems they themselves love to lament)....

Currently trending distractions continue to offer us perfect opportunities to explore tying together many previously discussed concepts and examining how they play out via these circus acts - in today's case, the "Epstein files". Sick of hearing about Epstein? We are too, but the situation (more importantly, people's reactions to it) is too perfectly illustrative of our worldview...

“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”- Anton Chigurh, No Country For Old Men In this rather lengthy episode we start with a bit of "told you so", hitting on our predictions regarding the reveal of Julie Andrews and the unwinding of the existing social control structure. We examine these things in the light of current events and reactions to current eve...

With the world continuing forward in a perfectly predictable fashion - so predictable that it's becoming tiresome and repetitive to keep addressing it - we launch what we'll consider "Season 3" with a return to our philosophical roots. In this episode we bring back one of our best lines of discussion: how to live life and create a meaningful existence for yourself without the need to bury your hea...

“I keep having the same experience and keep resisting it every time. I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lacks an intellectual conscience. Indeed, it has often seemed to me as if anyone calling for an intellectual conscience were as lonely in the most densely populated cities as if he were in a desert. Everybody looks at you with strange eyes and goes...

As promised, we follow up our prior episode on the forced retreat into the mental cave by explaining how the new social control scheme of no narrative at all is rapidly taking the place of the narrative/counter-narrative dichotomy that has been in place for nearly a century. Incapacitatingly stupid solutions are being supplanted by incapacitatingly stupid "noticing". All the wild opinion...

This episode is an old (6/12/25), unpublished recording brought back from the dead, due to its high applicability to the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination. This was originally intended to be episode 33, but is now released as episode 35. In this episode we talk about information overload and mental focus limiting, using the video game based concept of "view distance". We cover both how t...

Far be it from us to bring back a topic everyone else has predictably forgot about after saying they never would... but here we are, because here is where we must be. In this episode that's been far too long in the making, we use good old Jeff Epstein as an example to talk about people who understand morality as an illusory construct and those whose don't - and why it results in those who...

We finally conclude our "accepting the world as it is" multi episode discussion by addressing a question from a listener wondering what the purpose and benefit of this outlook actually is. From toasting Teslas to war in Gaza, we examine how people avoid working on themselves by latching onto large scale causes and boogeymen - permanently delaying fixing their own lives until the rest of the world...

We're back after a long travel hiatus to keep talking on the recent theme of accepting the world as it is - this time focused on Ted Kaczynski's ideas around self-propagating systems and the inevitable race to doomsday created by unrestrained technological advancement. We begin with a rather lengthy discussion of the nothing burger of the first Epstein release and what the purpose might ac...

Foreign aid, Israel, California wildfires, the homeless industrial complex - in this fourth episode in a series of what is essentially a continuing conversation, we take the abstractly presented idea of "the world as it actually is" from last episode and examine some real world situations through this lens. Failure to understand how and why the world operates the way it does results in uselessly s...

Finally getting back to our philosophy roots - the third episode in this recent series of crash-landed conversations picks right up where we left off, using Snowpiercer as framing to discuss the philosophical implications of the current events we talked about in the prior two episodes. Learning to accept the world as it is means two things can be true at once: our current group of elites are garba...

Failing to get back to recording fast enough to continue with part two of the prior episode, we once again feel the need to address a host of current events including the "terror" attacks, MAGA's H1B in-fighting, and Lugi again. Conveniently, these events are all relevant to the continuing conversation; so we use our analysis of them to bring us full circle back to the conclusions of prior episode...

We're finally back to talk Luigi Mangione and the reactions to the UHC CEO murder as a major signal of a captured shift in the national zeitgeist. This episode is intended to tee up foundational ideas for next episode, namely: the importance of maintaining a minimum functional trust level in society, systematized bad behavior as protection from idiosyncratic bad behavior, and the intended (or clai...

After too much enjoyment of the circus of cabinet appointments in the last episode, we address a listener comment (quoted below) from the same episode that we felt was a good opportunity to clarify our position on Trump. As mentioned in this episode, anyone interested in coming on the show and discussing some of these topics without the 500 character comment limit - feel free to DM me on Reddit u/...

Trump has been lambasted as "literally Hitler" for the past eight years, almost entirely for imaginary reasons. Now that MAGA is adopting almost word-for-word Third Reich policies - no one seems to be capable of making the connection. In this mostly political and more casual than normal episode, talk centers around Trump's cabinet appointments, which continue to further confirm our predictions for...

More than just patting ourselves on the back for the accurate election prediction, we address how we were able to make this prediction over a year and a half ago, what the actual purpose of voting is, the importance of understanding counter-narrative control, Biden as an intentional fall guy, Harris as an intentional loser, and why the Trump win needed to be now and not in 2020.

Peanut the squirrel, election day predictions and analysis, Harambe (again), the importance of memes, comments on the Trump and Vance appearances on Rogan, our new logo Fritz Durden, and most importantly we introduce our theory of the ideologically split elites - we've got it all in this uncharacteristically off-the-cuff casual chat about what most people seem to think is the first day of the end...

We didn't want to make Joel a liar, so we finally hit on feminism as he promised half a season ago - using it as a construct to explore a larger and far more important conversation about the lack of willingness to explore origins of modern social, political, and philosophical issues. As a bonus we work in some Harambe (may he RIP) and CERN hell portal talk. If you go back in time, could you actual...

Following directly from our somewhat abruptly ended "vibes only" conversation in the prior episode, we explore how this construct manifests out in the world and leads to logic defying behaviors across widely varied groups of people. Why do threepers open carry at a suburban Starbucks, but don't care about their astronomical BMI? Why do college hipster girls feel safe jogging half naked through mig...

"The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental." - John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur The truth does not set you free, and it sets you free even less if your idea of "free" is the "kid on Saturday morning" feeling we've talk...

Picking up right where we left off in the prior episode, we're ready to talk Sean "baby oil" Combs and how blackmail operators function as high level gate keepers to power and influence. As always, we tie these events back to prior discussions and use them to continue to build out our world-view. We also ask the questions that go beyond the contrived, normie positions on these topics: Why is all t...