Episode 215: Brave New World: PEL Live 10th Anniversary Show
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2019
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
On Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian novel, recorded at Manhattan's Caveat on 4/6/19, with audience participation.
If we harness the power of society to employ available technologies to really focus on making people happy, what would the result be? This is Huxley's thought experiment, but is it in all respects a dystopia, and is it a fair test of the ideal of social improvement or merely of a flawed view of human nature? You can watch this episode instead.
End song: "Brave New World" by Mark Lint. Read about it.
Get the commemorative T-shirt, and save $10 with the coupon code revealed at the beginning of the Citizen Edition of this episode. Please support PEL! Contact us to share your PEL stories.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to our 10th anniversary show. What you're about to hear was recorded live on April 6th in New York City. |
| 0:05.1 | We had a wonderful time meeting the fans there and definitely plan to do more of these live shows. |
| 0:09.4 | It was videotape so you can check out our YouTube channel for the video version of this. |
| 0:13.8 | And I want to invite you all in celebration to send us an email at pel at partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
| 0:19.7 | Sharing your partially examined life related stories, |
| 0:22.5 | insofar as listening to the show has had some interesting positive effect on your life. |
| 0:26.6 | I wanted to point out to you that there was a t-shirt designed specifically for this show. |
| 0:30.8 | It is available on our store page and if you become a partially examined live citizen, |
| 0:35.2 | and listen to the beginning of the citizen version of this episode, |
| 0:38.2 | then there will be a $10 off coupon for that t-shirt. |
| 0:41.1 | So I hope you like the show and the song that I recorded yesterday, specifically for this show |
| 0:46.6 | in celebration of 10 years podcasting with these dudes and being available for your consumption and pleasure. |
| 0:56.6 | Thank you so much for coming out. |
| 0:58.9 | Wow. |
| 1:00.1 | Are questions for episode 2? |
| 1:04.0 | Yes, that's all. |
| 1:07.6 | Good morning. |
| 1:09.4 | It's actually nice. |
| 1:13.4 | You are witnessing the partially examined life podcast live. |
| 1:18.3 | Thank you so much for coming out. |
| 1:22.6 | Wow. |
| 1:24.4 | Yes, that's all. |
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