Philosophy of Vopiscus

Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product : Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ Intro theme: " Shattered ", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar Transcript: The state conceived of as a monopoly on violenc...

[Political Theory Series] Right now the government takes one quarter of the fruit of my labor.  I don’t get to decide where that money goes or what it gets used for.  We are one-quarter socialist, from where I’m sitting.  Just heard that in New York City, which is not my problem, but a useful example, they’re trying  to raise taxes by another 9%, and trying to pass a law that prevents you from sel...

Why do we maintain our positions? I recently caught myself getting defensive about ideas I didn’t even come up with, and so now I present to you the concept of the Plagiarizing Ego. Intro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product : Moving Dayd...

Ideas, as neural patterns, live in the brain, can regulate and originate behavior, and can spread from one brain to another. In this episode, we’ll think about the concepts of semantic contagion and rational malware. The Last Word on Anger https://www.patreon.com/posts/last-word-on-136290288 Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Ide...

How to use conspiracy theories to improve your personality. TL/DW: The ways governments trick their populations potentially mirror the ways we trick ourselves. The Last Word on Anger: https://www.patreon.com/posts/last-word-on-136290288 Intro/outro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Wi...

“...anyone who considers the basic drives of man.... will find that all of them have done philosophy at some time – and that every one of them would like only too well to represent just itself as the ultimate purpose of existence and the legitimate master of all the other drives. For every drive wants to be master – and it attempts to philosophize in that spirit.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Augmenting...

You don’t need to “get in touch” with your feelings. Whim is the polar opposite of conscious self-direction. You need top-down alignment, not bottom-up, or you’ll be reversing the neural circuitry that gives us humans what little autonomy we’ve managed to evolve. The Podcram Ep32 - Emotions, DrLaith al-Shawath:https://open.spotify.com/episode/1UNtQ3QvZn6Vla75cxkc5O Psychic Lube Ep13 – EmotionalSni...

Multiple points in your argument can sometimes mean multiple points of total failure. Here's the case for narrower reasoning. Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ Intro theme...

A message of hope for those who choose to hear it, and a warning for those who do not.... Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https...

Is overregulation analogous to autoimmune disease? Social Tumors and Telomeres… Cancer and Corporations… Immunity and Monopoly… Shmoke and a Pancake? Here's a related episode of "The Podcram": https://youtu.be/acsXHqnbfQ0 Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Yo...

Can you shut your body down, simply by thinking the wrong thought? In the great open field of ideas, are there landmines? Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (highli...

How do we categorize reality?  What’s the adaptive value of intolerance?  Get ready for the greatest idea since sliced water! Intro theme: "Shattered", by Vopiscus: https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://...

Every major mistake I've made in my life involved a lack of sleep.  When I finally realized that, I built a fortress of rituals and rules around sleep, and for the last few years, so long as I stick to the path, sleep comes easy.  Field-tested, tried and true—these secrets of rest, I’ll now share with you. Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0C...

Here comes Gnosis Primer #2: Harmonic Resonance. You don’t need to hear the first rant to follow along, but If you haven’t listened to the “Gnosis Metaprimer” episode, I recommend you start there, then come back to this. If you’re returning, then get ready for a wild ride that takes us from vibrating guitar strings to social coordination, religion, and jellyfish. Augmenting Willpower (audiobook):...

If you haven’t listened to the “Gnosis Metaprimer” episode, I recommend you start there, then come back to this.  If you just got back, then strap yourself in for Gnosis Primer #1, a rant in which we’ll explore the commonalities between techniques of comedy, music, magic, and fiction. Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is No...

What is Gnosis? My discussion of this topic has nothing to do with anything religious, occult, supernatural, spiritual, mystical, or anything like that, even though it’s frequently dealt with in those contexts.  Instead, I’m approaching this very real psychological phenomenon from a purely intellectual standpoint, which might seem sacrilegious to some people, but I’m a caveman who doesn’t believe...

The placebo effect, self-reliance, and Shakespearean conspiracy. “An institution is the lengthened shadow of a man” - Emerson Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (hi...

The value that can be built from what you do control far outweighs the all value you’ll ever collect from fortune.  Belief and faith are two different things.  Deliberation costs can outweigh opportunity costs.  Lessons from an arsonist. Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to...

Most of life is uncertain, but some things are very certain.  You will die; therefore time to act is limited.  Every piece of mail you bother to open steals 30 seconds of your limited time, tugging you an inch closer to the grave… Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wa...

The whole concept and practice of trying to get in touch with your inner feelings results in nothing but psychological destabilization.  Looking for soft spots makes you squishy.  Feelings are not emotions. Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https:...

How many of us talk crap to ourselves when we screw up? Does it really matter? Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spo...

How accountability and initiative still fit the deterministic picture. This is my re-write of the episode "Partially Free Will". Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram...

One would make a little boy stare if one asked him: "Would you like to become virtuous?"– but he will open his eyes wide if asked: "Would you like to become stronger than your friends?" - Nietzsche, The Will to Power, note 918. Documentary mentioned: "Lesson Plan: The Story of the Third Wave" Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-...

An investigation into the social function of agreed-upon falsehoods. Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/s...

What are the principles upon which to form or break off connections? Attempt at a first draft, in need of listener input. Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (highli...