Episode 185: The Devil's Playground

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler begin by talking about the question on everyone's mind right now – are we obligated to be pansexual? Then, since many of us have more free time on our hands these days, we thought it might be a good idea to revisit Bertrand Russell's essay (published in Harper's Magazine) "In Praise of Idleness." How did workaholism become the norm? Why do we see working insanely long hours as a virtue, a moral duty rather than a necessity? Would more leisure make us more fulfilled and creative or just bored? We also discuss Daniel Markovits' book "The Meritocracy Trap" - when life is a non-stop hyper-competitive grind from preschool to retirement even among the elites, is anyone happy?

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:18.3	Oh yes.
0:21.2	That's how it starts.
0:22.3	But the road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think.
0:31.7	Something is wrong here Mr. Wolf.
0:34.0	I don't like what we have become.
0:39.8	The bleeding on his pocket.
0:44.2	We do our attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:52.8	Who are you?
0:54.8	Who are you?
0:56.4	I'm very bad man.
0:57.7	I'm a very good man.
0:59.7	Good man.
1:04.0	They think he's lost and with no more brains than you have.
1:08.0	We do our attention to that man.
1:14.0	Anybody can have a brain.
1:18.0	You're a very bad man.
1:20.4	And they're very good man.
1:22.2	Just a very bad wizard.
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