Free Will vs. Determinism

From millennial crypto bros to the politically and powerful we discuss the house of cards built up by monkey business schemes of crypto, political power, and fiat debt masquerading as wealth. The wealthy and powerful continue to build empires of narcissism on the back of the good will and nature of the masses. When AI takes over these power positions will the floodgates of despair unleash in the name of profit and capitalization. And what’s up with the bizarre hairdos?

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The pope as an apologist for actions of the church, our modern world considers limiting, racist, and criminal. These apologies for acts of a generation or two ago, brought us to technology as an aid to both chronicle and create history. While at the same time technology serves as a deep multiplier, of productivity, scale, and speed. While at the same time we are bowing and scraping to the trio of Religion, Drugs, and Consumerism. We explore tiers of wealth and justice.  We ask…. Who chronicles and preserves our history? Who controls these means of production?

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Screen time is exploding in society and changing our culture, values, and perhaps even what it means to be human. Is humanity becoming a species with consumption as its primary goal function? Is social media collectively shaping a new world order and a common culture structured around consumption? From addiction to misinformation to thought and behavior control, in this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we take a hard look at social media and its inherent positive and negative effects on us all.

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Episode 39 – Cultural Superiority via Hyper Violence

From video games to the cinema to made-for-TV dramas to the evening news to world history to the bible, we are saturated in stories of violence, simulated violence, or actual violence. Is there value in such large-scale exposure to violence, or is violence a useful or necessary tool to preserve and stabilize society, or is it one of the scourges of humanity to mitigate? Are more violent cultures superior and necessary?

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Episode 38 – Complexity & Scale of Technology on Humanity

We live in an age one might call the Great Technological Expansion. As technology advances so rapidly, tradition, culture, generational knowledge, morality, and many other aspects of society are being pressured to change, and rapidly. This is a gale of creative destruction that operates at a pace and scale with which most people haven’t developed the skills to cope effectively. Where does this leave the majority, where is this headed, and how might we thrive in this type of environment?

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Episode 37 - Versions of Hyper Violence & Feminine Revolt

Exploring versions of violence through its various forms, including the perpetual inappropriate allocation of monetary resources. Is misinformation the new virtual land of milk and honey, is the future to be determined by those with the best version of Augmented Reality? Let’s explore the 4th wall of information, a 21st-century schism, of half-truths and flat-out lies.

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Episode 36 – Misandry Male Privilege & Fronting Sexuality

Portraying men as fat stupid and lazy has become socially normal. Has Misandry (hatred or disdain toward men) taken hold in America, and if so, what effects may this have on society? We also examine the social trend and effects of putting one’s sexual identity as a leading personal identifying characteristic, even with children.

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Episode 34 – Shadow Economy & Second Class Citizens

There is a disconnect between what most people believe society is all about versus the reality of how society truly is. Every major developed country in the world has a shadow economy and a minority group of second-class citizens which are known to exist, but everybody pretends they do not.

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In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the world covered in plants being terraformed by people under bizarre constrains and what seems like a complete lack of useful planning. Human existence might seem like slime mold to a sophisticated alien species, growing and consuming without reason or guided purpose. Beyond human ego and blind ambition, perhaps we can build useful intellectualism, and terraform our world into an environment that invokes greatness, and more purpose driven lives, less we may just make great pets.

Episode 32 - Clearing the Great Filter & Dethroning Kleptocrats

Guest contributor Sam Stanton is with us as we discuss how humanity may willfully avoid omnicide and prevent our own extinction as a species. Continued weaponization of technology as technology rapidly expands may be the highway to hell and the Great Filter that perhaps all advanced civilizations face.

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