Inspired or curious about something The Fundamentalists chatted about on the podcast? Browse these carefully curated show notes to reference and recap where you heard a particular mention, concept, or other thought. Did I miss something? Please let me know and and share your thoughts or suggestions!
Please note: These show notes were a personal passion project. As an avid listener of the show, I created these for a select number of episodes.
December 23, 2020
MENTIONS:
3.50 - Dialectics - “In brief, dialectics represent the mind's way of understanding concepts by understanding and appreciating their polar opposites. Dialectics are one of the important unifying concepts that reflect how the mind fundamentally understands and perceives most core concepts and ideas.” Source
7.33 - Rob Bell’s podcast with Alexander Shaia, 12/15/2019, Even More Radiance
10.10 - “Surviving Christmas” with Sean McDonald
13.55 - Mad Men
19.40 - Malcolm Gladwell Is Wrong (Fundamentalist Podcast)
20.34 - Joe Rogan Show
21.05 - Pete Holmes and Peter Rollins
21.53 - Evolutionary psychology - Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological structure from a modern evolutionary perspective. (Wikipedia)
31.26 - Subliminal messages - A subliminal message is a technique used in marKEting and other media to influencE People without theiR bEing Aware of what the messenger is DoING. This may involve the use of split second flashes of text, hidden images, or subtle cues that affect the audience at a level below conscious awareness. (www.dictionary.com)
54.40 - Jay Bakker
1.05.05 - Toon Blast (video game)
QUIPS and QUOTES:
3.50 - Dialectics: both destroy your body and work to preserve your body, i.e. cigarette while jogging.
6.49 - Books are still vital, allow you to be more systematic. (Peter Rollins’ books)
10.43 - Jacque Lacan - super-ego, authority figure, “demand to enjoy” - see it everywhere at Christmas
11.45 - Edward Bernays - Freud’s nephew, developed theory and practice of advertising (“Father of Public Relations”)
12.58 - Life Magazine named Bernays one of the 100 Most Influential People of the Century
13.07 - Bernays took Freud’s understanding of desire and used it to sell products
13.26 - Analogy - you can use fire to cook food or to burn it, Freud tried to cook, this guy burned
14.45 - Barneys weaponized/consumerized to movements, i.e. feminized cigarettes to sell to women
16.14 - Understanding unconscious and psychoanalysis benefits you, to see and understand people
17.09 - Freud - hypnosis and suggestion - moved away from those practices because it manipulated too much, morally repugnant and unsustainable because the more distance between the authority figure, the more the change diminished - theory instead was to help the person do all the work.
18.54 - Lacan - when you really look at people and what they do, not what they say, everything is telling you the truth
19.16 - Any academic discipline is revealing something about the world in a variety of ways
19.40 - Malcolm Gladwell believes we’ve evolved to trust others, assume they are telling the truth - but he doesn’t acknowledge the unconscious stuff
22.30 - One of the worst things is when a medical doctor goes and works for the government to work on how to torture people effectively - or - someone who’s trained in psychotherapeutic/psychoanalysis goes to work for the government to psychologically torture someone
22.54 - Slavoj Zizek dislikes those given life-building gifts but use them to destroy
24.23 - People with conscious, ethics, involved in companies that potentially harm, some ambiguity, complicated
24.45 - Edward manipulated masses of people to consume products using theories of Freud - modern advertising is galvanizing enjoyment
26.45 - Coca Cola, Nike, McDonald’s - command to enjoy (“Coke is IT”, “Just Do IT”, “I’m Lovin’ IT”)
27.05 - What is “IT”? - the “IT” is nothing and everything
Coke - “Coke is IT” - Coke is the lost object, the thing that will satisfy
Nike - “Just do IT” - Do the thing that will bring satisfaction. A command. Direct. “The Big Other”
28.20 - Movie, It. What is IT? It’s horrific. This clown, happiness, that’s actually destructive.
29.10 - The advert puts “flesh” on “It” - burger, shoes, etc., incarnates IT
32.28 - Coincidence of opposites in philosophy - the highest and lowest meeting in an event
32.38 - “Spirit is a bone” (Literally, Hegel said “Spirit is a bone.”. ... Spirit is reflexive drive, where it folds back on itself and can therefore 'see' itself as well as its target. Source) - your subjectivity is in your symptom, i.e. McD’s rubbish burger to your childhood memory
34.45 - Injunction to “enjoy” it, the more you hear the command, the more dissatisfied you are
35.00 - Edward was able to harness our dissatisfaction by feeding it
41.00 - Weirdly, whenever we take away the taboo in something, like sex, we take the enjoyment out of it
43.20 - We talk of “tyranny” as what stops you from enjoying, but actually today, we’re under the tyranny of enjoyment
45.10 - How do we find freedom from the super injunction to enjoy?
47.24 - Enjoyment is this fiction that occurs through the belief that the other person has enjoyment
47.35 - Christmas with kids becomes magical again because adults enjoy the idea that their kids are enjoying it; the kids enjoy how the parents are enjoying it
57.12 - The notion of revolving around “IT” - you don’t want IT, you want to revolve around it
57.25 - Pyrotheology - (Peter’s work) How I understand my work - as I try to explain it, I always fail, but every failure generates… becomes more meaningful and it becomes something. I enjoy the constant failure to get it. I continue to revolve around it and get better at trying to describe it, and yet it is never “got”. In the failure it becomes something.
58.10 - Elliott talks about a rock being a finite object and you will never have nothing… you will only ever have something (It can never be got)
58.45 - Zeno’s Paradox - Achilles chasing a tortoise, he will never catch the tortoise because to catch it, he has to go half way… half way between that, etc.
1.00.14 - How to live before you die, you may never get there, an exploration on how to live
1.00.53 - What is our fundamental fantasy? What is the thing we want to revolve around for the rest of our live, that we’ll never get, but the constant failure to get it will actually generate a true enjoyment by the failure to get it. A vocation is the impossible tortoise that you’re chasing and every time you get closer to it, you still can’t quite get it, but you actually enjoy that you’re getting healthier and fitter for running after it.
1.02.47 - Paul Tillich - “Ultimate Concern” - Everyone has ultimate concern, you just might not know what yours is. Not, “What can I give my life to,” but, “What am I already giving my life to without knowing?” To be more intentional
1.03.41 - Mitchell and Webb - audio comedy sketch - Guy dies and goes to heaven, meaning of your life…
Something that animates your life