Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Ivan Ilyich is a man. All men are mortal. So Ivan Ilyich is mortal. Sure absolutely, that’s true for Ivan Ilyich and for all men. But we’re not Ivan Ilyich and we’re not ‘all men’- so what does this have to do with us? Right? David and Tamler confront their mortality as they discuss Leo Tolstoy’s brilliant and chilling short story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich.”
Plus the ‘Why I am leaving academia’ essay has become its own genre. But is this profession really that much worse relative to others?
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Links:
- Has the ‘great resignation’ hit academia?
- Why You Need To Leave Academia - Cheeky Scientist
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Wikipedia — . I cannot now help seeing day and night going round and bringing me to death. That is all I see, for that alone is true. All else is false.
- Val Plumwood - Wikipedia
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, |
| 0:03.8 | and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.2 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words |
| 0:12.0 | that I'm not allowed to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.0 | People always say, |
| 0:18.1 | shit, like, I'm gonna pray for you. |
| 0:20.2 | You're gonna pray for me, |
| 0:21.2 | so you're gonna sit in your apartment and do nothing? |
| 0:24.2 | Because that's what your prayers are. |
| 0:26.6 | You sitting around and not taking action |
| 0:28.8 | as I struggle with the situation. |
| 0:31.4 | Don't pray for me. |
| 0:32.8 | Make me a sound or something. |
| 0:34.6 | The feeling of his father. |
| 0:41.6 | A new attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:51.6 | Who are you? |
| 0:53.6 | Who are you? |
| 0:55.6 | I'm very bad men. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:58.6 | Good man. |
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