129 - Murder

I wonder if there's been a single year in the history of our species where a person hasn't taken the life of another. It would have to have been a year when there weren't many of us around. I hope we can get another such year soon! 2024 is already out, so it'll have to be 2025.

In the meantime, is the idea of murder useful in our quest for good life? 

Only time will tell. Time, and this episode of your favourite podcast, Rank Ideas!

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feel free to add your own intonation :)

Every episode we release these days is about generalisation. Same must go for every podcast. That's new media for you.

Next you'll be telling me that all new media is podcasts.

Which, also, is correct.

Excited to report that our species is almost totally connected to each other and we can finally find harmony by hearing everyone's perspective. Ceaselessly.

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In writing this episode description I looked up the 7 deadly sins. It turns out there used to be more but they were cut down by combining them and then re-expanded before being picked up by Billy Graham of all people. He still holds the record for largest crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground - something like 160,000 in the 1950s. More than 7% of the entire city at the time. Insane to imagine.

Some of the sins we lost include Tristitia (despondency) and Ἀκηδία (dejection), which I think is interesting.

None of this really has much to do with this episode, but I thought I should include it just because I want to. You understand.

Time might seem like a funny thing to rank - after all it's an undeniable part of the natural world. But with a bit of digging, it seems clear that our experience of time is really impacted by our cultural framing of it. For the best?

You tell us! By meeting us in the past, ideally at a time when we were better at checking our emails.

This week the guys have invented a new game for you to try!

Unashamedly, it's called Rank Ideas.

Basically, everyone on the planet gets together in pairs and ranks all human ideas on an ever-expanding list in order from best to worst. It's super fun, we just know you'll love it.

Thanks for playing! We'll go first.

To 'give up' is a phrasal verb. I learned this a couple of decades ago when I successfully lied my way into a job as an English teacher for adults. I kept it up for six months, always learning one class ahead of my students. It was really fun and I loved it, but then my girlfriend moved abroad and we broke up so I eventually gave up on my whole life at the time. 9/10 use of six months.