Shores Of Ignorance

Our cultural zeitgeist lasts for only about a week these days. What’s the current theme, and when will we ever know what’s truly going on? x.com/mattmccloskey
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Politics is no longer Left vs Right - it's Truth vs The Big Lie. The Big Lie happens to be currently wearing blue garb, but it will discard it as soon as its usefulness has run out. The Government is Lying to You - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6NmjK2pgiQ x.com/mattmccloskey
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Discipline is freedom, and revelation is only possible in the ultimate case. We discuss the truth tellers and dissidents who are willing to pay the price of saying what they believe to be true, and make the case for hope against the case for hedonism. Show Notes: At the end Matt references Rescue The Republic - https://jointheresistance.org Akira The Don - https://open.spotify.com/artist/14ep6TM2J...

What does it mean to check out, to arrive, to relax, to finally “get there?” We contend that to decline the creative life is to accept an early death. https://x.com/mattmccloskey https://x.com/michaelvaclav Sovereign Goods - https://www.etsy.com/shop/SovereignThreadGoods Cafe Medici - https://mediciroasting.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorWqoBTJtkkDUpUirL9vebSCBHLRHBatyDqs9eDe2OliQmjTc2A All Matt’s Links - ht...

We discuss the nature of speech, censorship, fear, growth, and freedom. Erwan’s Tweet: https://x.com/ErwanLeCorre/status/1829605956814324094 Eric Weinstein Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/833-eric-weinstein-are-we-on-the-brink-of-a-revolution/id1347973549?i=1000668014150 Bret Weinstein Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/id360084272?i=10006683...

In Michelle Obama’s speech at the DNC, she said that “My girl Kamala Harris… is one of the most qualified people ever to seek the office of the presidency.” We discuss the Cartesian crisis as coined by Bret Weinstein, and what we’re to do when it seems like everyone is watching a different movie about reality. Bret defines the Cartesian crisis - https://x.com/thedarkhorsepod/status/177627711385290...

We discuss the allegory of Plato’s Cave, and how the information age has personalized each of our shadows on the wall. Conversation inspired by this Darkhorse episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nt1OerbCQSMws8NW8Zr4H?si=01c94c3b6a0f4fec All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

Matt sat in his car as tears formed in his eyes. It was probably grief, but where did it come from? Was it a thought, a memory, or something harder to explain? References: The Master and His Emissary - https://a.co/d/bqzulUQ People of the Lie - https://a.co/d/2faPxsZ Metaphors We Live By - https://a.co/d/i7rZKd0 C.S. Lewis - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/3058-to-love-at-all-is-to-be-vulnerable-...

One of Michael’s axioms is “There is an objective reality, and I have a subjective experience of it.” Matt objects to this statement, and they unpack issues of objectivity by way of art, creativity, lies, stories, fiction, god, and humility. All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. - Carl Jung Politics, culture, relationships - what is the suffering that has been substituted with crazy? All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

What do you do when lies are all around you? Take the risk of telling the truth. All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

We discuss the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the hope that can be seen through the cracks in a weakening narrative, and what 200 episodes of Shores has meant to us. “You cannot gaslight an entire nation of free people into hating each other this completely for this long… …pretending that *everyone* who sees a buck naked emperor is a charlatan is no longer working very well.” - Eric Weinst...

“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!” ― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav Sovereign Goods - https://...

We may be victims of our circumstances, but we may also be prodigies of our circumstances. Dostoevsky Quote - https://x.com/coffeewclassics/status/1803477508580356351?s=46 Abolition of Man - https://a.co/d/0i2VWvLZ All In with Trump - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0qrvFuvlvecGC1tict7kgc?si=a4645412fb6b4fcb Sovereign Goods - https://sovereignthreadgoods.etsy.com?coupon=SHORES Medici Coffee - htt...

Biden, Trump, RFK Jr - What problems does the future hold, and can we see and agree on them? In part this is a problem of perception, and in part the result of everyone standing with daggers out. All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

We discuss bitcoin, climate change, recycling, vaccines, covid, relationships, lord of the rings, and how the Truth is relational, explorational, and adventurous. I am trying to rip open the inconsolable secret in each one of you… the secret we cannot hide and cannot tell, though we desire to do both. - C.S. Lewis All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo....

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Nietzsche References: C.S. Lewis Quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10198766-patriotism-has-then-many-faces-those-who-would-reject-it Chris Cuomo Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3cdErzfQnI All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.t...

Hemingway’s meditation on the futility of masculinity, the role of men and women in society, solar flares, and the risk of creativity. All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

(Note: 3 minutes in Matt’s mic stops recording, so his voice is a little quiet. We realize this and turn it back on at minute 8) Life cannot be understood, it can only be lived, and related to. “[I]n our own time and place, [avoiding God] is extremely easy. Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (abov...

“Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” — Hunter S. Thompson Sovereign Goods - https://sovereignthreadgoods.etsy.com?coupon=SHORES All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

From Covid to Gaza to your parents divorce, what is the difference between truth and fiction, or a lie and pretend? In a world of conflicting stories, how do you know which story is true? Sovereign Goods - http://sovereignthreads.shop/ All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

Truth, fact, science, religion. We're all bothered. What is ending, and what have we missed in our arrogance? SOI on relationship - https://on.soundcloud.com/uNyo7eavFUow3LwU8 SOI on objectivity - https://on.soundcloud.com/ksCqptaSiUW9sVxG7
 Veritasium The man who killed millions and saved billions- https://youtu.be/QQkmJI63ykI?si=4ZWPbiPekeah9oPr Sovereign Goods - http://sovereignthreads.shop/ Al...

Inflation sucks, bitcoin is the answer. Links referenced in the show: Sovereign Threads - http://sovereignthreads.shop Broken Money - Lyn Alden - https://a.co/d/dgZ7yPh The Hidden Cost of Money - https://a.co/d/66xAsrE The Bitcoin Standard - https://a.co/d/36kniqY Bitcoin is Time - https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/ All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links...

Life can be at once wonderful and frustrating, full of joy and full of war. What are we to make of all of that, and how are we to live? We suggest that the answer has something to do with faith. All Matt’s Links - https://solo.to/mattmccloskey All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

We celebrate the birth of Matt's daughter, Eletta Claire. You came like a sure fire, with unpredictable timing, unstoppable intent, and precise aim. You joined us with a calm precision entering space and time, relaxed, as if arriving pre-curtain. Eletta - Truth - Veritas If that is your banner, what is there to fear? You are the boundary between anticipation and completion. I look forward to appla...