You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys where at one point

said on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 225 is something like, how do circumstances oppress and to humanize

us?

And we read two essays by Simone Vé, the Iliad or the poem of force from 1939, and analysis

of oppression written around 1934.

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This is Mark Linson-Mire, close to hot baths in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Paskin, gazing longingly over the wine dark sea in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Aulon, the plaything of necessity in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey, attending Patroclus' funeral pyre in Middleton.

And this is Cory Mueller being crushed under the inescapable dominion of the blind force,

which hangs constantly over me, threatening me at every moment to extinguish me, to

rend away my flesh, and turn me into a mere thing in Portland, Oregon.

Welcome back, Cory.

Good to be back.

Welcome.

I was just in Portland.

Yeah, for the proud boys much.

No.

Sorry.

To take my child to the zoo, that was a slightly different agenda.

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