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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

499 - ROMA 48 (From Chappelle to Kissinger)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Coming to you from Antigua, Guatemala (the original "banana republic"), in this one, I get a few things off my chest, including American foreign policy, why Henry Kissinger is not welcome on my podcast, how group identity becomes desperately attractive in a time of crisis, and how that plays out in the LGBTQ anger-fest at Dave Chappelle.

The essay I read from by Molly Frances is here.

Join us Sunday (10/24) at 2:30pm (EST) for the festive live-stream of episode 500 on my YouTube channel, hosted by Anya Kaats and Mike Maher.

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Intro music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; "You Haven't Done Nothin," by Stevie Wonder.



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0:00.0

Hey Chris, it's Greg here.

0:06.8

This guy, I forgot what his first name was.

0:09.9

I could go back to the episode and see, but I'm just vibing with energy right now to

0:17.1

strengthen energy drink.

0:19.4

Maybe I shouldn't have, but anyways, he said that we live in a post-apocalyptic world,

0:26.1

that the apocalypse had already happened.

0:29.3

And I think he's right.

0:31.4

He makes a good point here that the devastation of all these tribes and the conquering of

0:40.3

the Americas by Europe, the conquering of Western thought and Western ideals, that was

0:47.8

the apocalypse, right?

0:50.6

But at the same time, we're always in a post-apocalyptic world.

0:56.5

There's always going to be an apocalypse.

1:00.2

Apocalypse is, or in other words, the collapse of civilizations happens periodically throughout

1:08.4

the course of human history.

1:10.6

It always happens.

1:11.6

There's always some sort of event that collapses a civilization.

1:16.7

Any kind of civilization at some scale, eventually it will collapse just like the human body.

1:21.7

At some point, we'll collapse, everything collapses, but in this collapse, there's always a

1:27.4

rebirth.

1:29.4

And I think we need to keep in mind that while we're in the post-apocalyptic world, we're

1:35.2

also in the pre-apocalyptic world.

1:37.7

And someone, somewhere, is in an apocalyptic world.

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