David Boles

Human Meme

Society EN ↓ 875 episodes

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...

Author

David Boles

Category

Society

Podcast website

humanmeme.com

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

The Failure of Advertising and Marketing… 28.12.2016

Own your own promotional core! We wonder with you about the benefits of advertising and marketing. Are you able to use your own Horse Sense to defeat those who wish to decay your original intention? Sublimate yourself!

How to Write a Novel 27.12.2016

When you write, you create the world! We share our experience writing 50 books -- and we describe our role in helping other authors write their first, big, break! Avoid the pitfalls! Hit the pinnacles!

Idyl in a Willys-Knight: Joseph Baldwin Poetry 26.12.2016

Welcome to the Joseph Baldwin poetry slam!

Asynchronicity and the Internet Archive 23.12.2016

Our lives synch across different timelines. We asynchronously search the Wayback Machine, and the Internet Archive, to find synchronous timing and self-satisfying returns about Black Measles. Together, we are unbound!

Power: Ten Sentence Stories 22.12.2016

Who wins the struggle for Power? We share three of his original Ten Sentence Stories that reveal the structures of Power condemning us while condoning us.

An Enemy of the People and The Poisoned Land 21.12.2016

The enemy of the people, is the truth teller! We unearth the truths of Henrik Ibsen's classic 1882 play -- AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE -- to discover universal truths about the human condition. We cover up lies! We willfully poison the land! We blame the accuser! How did Ibsen know, 164 years ago, that today, we would be dealing with Fracking, and purposefully poisoned water supplies in Flint, Michigan...

Problem with Predestiny 20.12.2016

The will you seek is not your own. We examine problems with the notion of being predestined in a life that no longer belongs to you.

On Being Painfully Shy 19.12.2016

Shyness recompresses the you of you. We explore the meaning, causation, and recitation, of shyness. It isn't enough to tell someone not to be shy, we have to help each other become our own expectation.

Crime Story: The Peril of Caril Ann 16.12.2016

Caril Ann Fugate was kidnapped by Charles Starkweather. We re-examine the 1958 case of Caril Ann, and her Starkweather captor. Charlie Starkweather murdered 11 people, including members of Caril Ann's family. Caril Ann Fugate was implicated in the killings -- by her kidnapper! -- and she was given a life sentence. This is her story. This is the exoneration of Caril Ann Fugate.

Outlier Anarchy 15.12.2016

We fight the middle Right through an assault from the edge! We sound the fife and bangs the drum: Now is the time to stand and fight! Now is the time to not be moved! Now is the time for Anarchy from our Outliers!

Waking Up Dead: Marshall Jamison Poetry 14.12.2016

We celebrate the life and writing of Marshall Jamison!

Kremlin West, Moscow West, and Russia West 13.12.2016

Why is Russia snuggling in our White House? We take apart the 2016 election -- and what it means for American and Russian relations with Donald Trump as president. We are in for a woeful world of hurt!

Renewal, Starting Over, Forgiveness 12.12.2016

How do we negotiate coping with each other? We share stories of viral internet memes, and stories about Marshall Jamison, Burgess Meredith and, "Anyone for Tennyson?"

Master's Thesis Interview 09.12.2016

Here are some views on Deaf Culture. We reveal answers to questions posed by a Master's Thesis student researching Deaf Culture, professional Broadway interpreting programs, and the merits of regional theatre performance interpretations.

Finality of Loss 08.12.2016

We covet what we lose. We wonder why we value loss more than inclusion. We venerate the dead, but ignore the living. Is it because we cannot stand to bear the unrecoverable?

Leda and the Swan 07.12.2016

The story of Leda is harrowing. We investigate the myth of Leda. Was she too beautiful for a mortal life? Was she abused without warning in the name of predestiny? Did the violence struck upon her, foreshadow the lives of her unborn children?

Blood: Ten Sentence Stories 06.12.2016

We live in Blood!

Friends on the Streets 05.12.2016

The streets have no name -- but they do have your number! We take to the streets to learn about friendship and Ethics and Envy and Enforcers! A Walking City always takes the first step up by creeping from the gutter!

Bludgeon of Anonymization 02.12.2016

A free society requires public atonement. We argue against anonymity in the community of the world -- where only the nefarious, and the unseemly, hide in the depths to mercilessly troll the best of us.

The Icarian Syndrome: Heat Rises, Smoke Falls 01.12.2016

Icarus leaves behind a lousy legacy. We fly around the myth of Icarus and Daedalus -- and discovers that heros die with a forgotten honor while fools have islands and seas named after them. As we step out of the primordial brine, our only hope is for escape.

Brutalism Re-Bruted 30.11.2016

Brutalism is back is a big way! We decline the rise of the re-booting of the Brutalist movement! We are surrounded by the relics of a Brutal ideal in designed living in architecture -- and beyond our common culture -- and we cannot escape its scowl on our cities.

Hundred. Responses! 29.11.2016

Listener responses to: Hundred!

First Rule of Stupid People 28.11.2016

Stupidity has nothing to do with education. We wrestle with the management, and enlightening of, Stupid People! We listen. We question. We ask. Always in that order -- so we may know.

Ideas Are Not Scary: GE Advertising for Idiots! 25.11.2016

What happened to GE television advertising? We vivisect GE Ad campaigns over the last 30 years. Why did GE move the idea of them -- and of us! -- from warm and bright to forlorn and stupid?

Social Justice 24.11.2016

Where do we go to get Social Justice? We examine the nature of Social Justice in the wake of the competing anarchical memes of Black Lives Matter and the White Supremacist Movement. Are there similar desires at stake in the streets? Are there equal ends on opposite ends of a piece of string? How do we get along with each other, if not, by social transposition?

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