Positively Pedestrian

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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In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the long-overdue and much-needed shift in American Culture. From Gun & Bible fanatics to Pedophile Priests, to Hands-On Scout Masters, to social media as the dominant source of news, to the faithful hordes of Pseudoscientists, we need a shift to sobriety, healthy skepticism, and empathetic human-centered concerted cultivation of our citizens at every stage of life. Plus, some bad jokes.

In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss pets we had in the past, the names we gave them, and the ups and downs of having pets. Sean talks about being in a mega bass car club and killer sound systems. Then we transition to talking about congress, stocks, and cognitive decline, followed by neurological disorders, depression, and mental health. We finish off by talking about various methods of unliving oneself and encounters with bad roommates of the third kind.

In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss possible ways we may be able to validate ourselves, the goodness within us, and the quality of our characters both to ourselves and to others. Measuring our institutions and big-picture objectives of where we are headed, through both guided and misguided pursuits. We drill into a prevailing sentiment of toxic masculinity and men view as predators and the possible negative psychological effects this may have on men and what we may be able to do about it. We finish the discussion with the idea of directing the power of AI tools to the domain of personal empowerment and improvement and what might be possible.

In a special holiday edition of Positively Pedestrian, Sean Snodgrass, Kris Tyte, and guest Lindsay Page Nelson discuss the Shifting Landscape of American culture spurred by the recent supreme court reversal of Roe v Wade. Social media, political parties, and entrenched industrial complexes leave the rich far richer and the rest of us polarized and divided fighting over whatever economic and philosophical scraps trickle down; all in an environment where productivity, production, technology, and wealth are at the highest levels throughout all recorded history. What is going on and what type of cultural transformation may be possible for us to come together and bring forward positive progressive change for all of humanity?

In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we get into some discussion on politics which quickly devolves back into a discussion about hypocrisy and the rule of the all-mighty dollar. Next, we talk about pets and the bizarre and seldomly talked about side of pet ownership. Then we get into what could be and should be done with people's bodies when they die and fantasize about what we would want to be done with our corpses. We finish up with the absurdity of producing mountains of garbage and the technology divide across generations.

In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss AI Sentience, AGI, and a variety of causes and effects of misinformation from the potential effects on the individual mind all the way to state-sponsored information warfare. We discuss the US Government as a Kleptocracy masquerading as a democracy, and patriotism gone wild. The overall conclusion is there is little human value overall in misinformation, but many opportunities for abuse and domination of the mind.

In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss everything from simulated stupidity to stretching the imagination, and placebos. We are honing in on the toxicity of believing without evidence. And working to explore the interplay between faith, charisma, and science.

In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the macro and micro implications of the classic philosophical debate of Free Will vs. Determinism. We look at how one's overall social, cognitive, and physical environment plays a crucial role in shaping one's beliefs and behaviors. Furthermore, we look at Free Will and Determinism from a management perspective, even going into personal responsibility and moral duty toward shaping our environments. Lastly, we have a look at so-called Stand-Your-Ground laws and brazen/brutal attitudes toward personal accountability applied to the poor or those otherwise environmentally disadvantaged.

 | In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the intricacies of racism and misappropriated modern versions of perpetuating racist thinking through hypocritical so-called “diversity and inclusion” training and various other inappropriate artifacts of corporate culture regardless of intent. Race is a social construct, not a scientific or empirical quality of humanity, so we discuss possible ways to move past the social construct. Lastly, we discuss what it means to be marginalized and ways we can move away from the status quo and do far better. 

 | In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss the prospect aliens are real and are here on Earth already, and have a significant impact on our past, present, and future. We further our discussion with the concept of Earth as a Living Organism and extend this outward into the idea of a Living Universe. Perhaps the inevitable nature of the universe is for the full conversion of energy into matter and matter and energy into life. Finally, we get into some more farfetched but interesting ideas about a galactic coalition of billions of alien member species that work to decide the fate of civilizations like ours that have entered a period of massive technological expansion.