David Boles
Human Meme
The Human Meme podcast examines what separates human consciousness from mere biological existence. Each episode investigates the inherited behaviors, cultural transmissions, and cognitive patterns that replicate across generations, shaping how we think, grieve, speak, and remember. David Boles, a New York City writer, publisher, and teacher, hosts these conversations as mindfulness with teeth: no production music, no easy comfort, only the direct inquiry into what makes us recognizably human. Since 2016, the podcast has asked why we weep emotional tears, how language emerged from gesture, and...
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Episodes
Alternate Realities Are Real 04.07.2019 9:12
Close your eyes. Jump a timeline. Live a new life inside the life you are already living. We appear in multiple realities of our own choosing. Which experience do you wish to make your main reason for being?
Shaming You With the Disabled Exception 27.06.2019 13:00
Why are the disabled used to shame the average-bodied into better behavior? Does the armless archer serve as a better cudgel of reckoning than exercising to preserve your health? Why are the accomplishments of the Disabled held up as an outlier inspiration to an empty nation?
Fitting Into the World 20.06.2019 10:48
Your life always belongs to you. There will always be others who try to bend your life into theirs -- but in the end -- you must defend your right to live your life with consequences you create, and not be burdened by the sins of the other.
Subscription Burnout 13.06.2019 14:13
We pay too much to play! The software subscription is out of whack. If you want to get any sort of interesting work done, you're going to need a never ending Adobe, Office, Google and Apple subscription! Where will the madness end? Will we ever again be allowed to own what we pay to create?
99% of Writing is Looking Out the Window 06.06.2019 9:40
We write to see what we do not know. 99% of writing is thinking, staring, meandering, and daydreaming. Only 1% of writing is actually inking words to pixels and paper, and only other real writers know that; the rest of the world is wondering why we aren't "writing" as they write a grocery list or a traffic ticket in real time.
Democracy Without Values 30.05.2019 10:52
Democracies fall apart without a shared moral core. If the idea of a Democracy has no set of impenetrable values set alongside it, the whole matter will fail into the ash of a great idea without execution.
How We Train Taste 23.05.2019 18:28
Taste is trained, not inborn. Through those we admire, we learn how to influence the world with grace, aesthetic, and taste. Listen to the lessons of jeweler Fred T. Witt, movie star June Perry Levine, director Marshall Jamison, professor Howard Stein, and editrix Hilda Raz, for inspiration into the next.
Blood of the Deceiver 16.05.2019 11:13
How do we handle the treacherous in genius? Can we still celebrate Michael Jackson's music, while full well knowing of his violation of groomed children? Do we cast out Elizabeth Holmes from society for being a lying, but lost, visionary?
Nebraska: For Everyone! 09.05.2019 12:00
How can an entire state be "self-deprecating?" It isn't possible, and so here is the "2018 Private History of an Advertising Campaign That Failed" -- as one Nebraska Tourism slogan gets sloughed off for a second slug line that spills better, bites funnier, and fills the heart with more than a fart.
The Triangulated Con 02.05.2019 14:31
People live to take our money. The Long Con. The Short Con. The Street Con. They all have one objective, to suck you in and rip you off. Learn how to spot these cons, and how to defend the sacredness of your pocket.
Why the Liberal Media Loves Trump 25.04.2019 9:52
The big lie is there is no Liberal Media. There is only Conservative Media. All big media companies are conglomerations that kneel to power, and only serve their mercurial political masters; and that means the rest of us need to figure out how to divine the truth as it stands, not as it is presented to us for forced consumption.
The Dramatist and Prior Causes 18.04.2019 12:42
Who guides the hands of the Dramatist? We know every Dramatist is a Determinist when it comes to creating characters, but who, or what, is controlling the mind of the thinker who creates worlds, and destroys universes? Predestiny is for dying characters! Free Will is for the initiated -- and the triggered!
Progressive Recession 11.04.2019 10:53
We look forward, only to fall back. For all our future progression, we keep failing backward into the pit of what was, and the dusk of what never shall be. We are kept down by our incapacity to hold on to what was once won; stuck between the bee and the sealing wax.
Pete Buttigieg for President! 01.04.2019 9:19
Pete Buttigieg is the one candidate made to defeat Donald Trump. Pete is kind, righteous, tough -- and he knows how to answer a direct question!
When the Lion Roared 28.03.2019 11:00
There is springtime in aging, and winter in not knowing. Discover how to build upon the notion author Philip Roth shared on his deathbed: "Aging is an annihilation." We who know are too old to share with kids who have no interest in seeing.
Never Answer, "YES!" 21.03.2019 11:14
There are phone scammers stalking you! Let us help you take on those who would haunt you on your phone -- the phantom Voice Mails that are left without ringing -- the robot voice prompting you to say the word "Yes" so your identity may be stolen! It's all here in living lifelessness!
When a Life Flashes Before Your Eyes 14.03.2019 9:29
Do we know each other without asking? Is it possible to know everything about a stranger without a single touch, or phrase of communication? Let's explore the idea of reading people when they are not aware, and discovering people when they do not care.
Ubiquity is the Enemy of the Unique 07.03.2019 11:57
We yearn to be noticed for our sameness. Learn how to fight back against the idea of fitting in, and of being overwhelmed with duplication. Find a way out of the lack of original thought thwarting our nation.
Paths to Wellness 28.02.2019 10:10
Unleash the greatness of your health! Today, we share some favorite iPhone Apps for creating a tough mind and a hard body. Have you met Da'Rulk from the Chris Hemsworth Centr App? Sworkit will sweat you. Inscape will challenge you. Peloton will tax you! And more!
Time is Running Out! 21.02.2019 10:03
The clock ticks for thee! Together, we lament the lack of righteousness in free will and the lack of hope in predestiny. Are we our thoughts, or only our programming?
Loss of the Private Conversation 14.02.2019 13:10
We have lost the sharing of the intimate moment. Examine the loss of the sacred warmth shared between two people in exchange for public hostility. We now live open lives of rubrics, and discourse, and mockery -- everything is now fodder for a Facebook Live broadcast, or an Instagram Snapchat iMessage confabulation.
Sustaining the Gaze 07.02.2019 12:55
Are we what we know, or are we our imagination? Here is the cruft of us, the ashes that become us, the stardust pittles that make us. If we can resurrect Mari Sandoz with a gaze, then we can lift ourselves back into the universe.
Shattered Blood, Broken Watch 31.01.2019 12:48
Too many men only believe their minds, and not empirical proof! Have you ever wondered why so many men refuse to take the reality of their ill-health seriously! AFIB? No way! High blood pressure? Sez who? Oh, the saddest of tapestries we so willinging weave into an early grave!
Multi-Level Marketing Marks 24.01.2019 13:38
No dollar is an easy earn! We urge you to not fall for these "get rich quick" schemes posing as Multi-Level Marketing opportunities! You will not be a millionaire by the time you are 25-years-old!
The Anchor of Cultural Appropriation 17.01.2019 9:51
We may borrow, but never steal, and still be guilty! Have you divined the merits of Cultural Appropriation, and the price we pay for its dismay, and discovery? Will playing "Cowboys and Indians" ever remain the same again?
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