Episode 49, Corey Mohler: Behind Existential Comics (Part II)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Corey Mohler is a software engineer from Portland, Oregon, USA. With no formal education in philosophy, it might come as a surprise that Corey is the author of the incredibly popular philosophy webcomic, Existential Comics. Founded in December 2013, Existential Comics describes itself as
"a philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also jokes."
The comic receives well over one million views per month, making it one of the most popular philosophy websites on the internet.
In Part I, we're going to be discussing the ideas bubbling behind 'Existential Comics', and in Part II, we'll be engaging in some further analysis and discussion, as well as asking some listener questions.
Contents
Part I. Behind Existential Comics
Part II. Further Analysis and Discussion
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Part two, further analyses and discussion. |
| 0:16.0 | In a recent interview with our upcoming guest, Skycler, you said the following, |
| 0:21.5 | philosophy is in a bad position right now. There is a lot of anti-intellectualism that attacks |
| 0:26.5 | philosophy, science, literature, and art, but there are also a lot of educated science people |
| 0:32.2 | who attack it as practically useless and look down on it. Could you expand on this further? |
| 0:37.1 | What is anti-intellectual |
| 0:38.5 | attack on philosophy and what's causing it? And why do you think there is this attack from other |
| 0:43.4 | intellectuals? Right. Yeah. Sort of like, like you say, philosophy is under kind of a two-pronged |
| 0:50.9 | attack because we are living generally in an anti-intellectual culture right now. Like even science gets attacked sometimes. You know, like you do surveys of the American public and a lot of them just don't even believe in science. So it's like, well, geez, you know, what chance this philosophy have? People don't even believe in science, which is literally just looking at things |
| 1:10.8 | and seeing how they are. You know what I mean? Like actually, it's one of the most bizarre things to me |
| 1:15.3 | is like people will say, well, look, God wrote the Bible. So that's the truth, right? So we need to |
| 1:21.6 | learn that and know science. It's like, well, God created the world too, didn't he? And he built in a |
| 1:26.3 | very nice feature to the world. |
| 1:28.3 | Very convenient. |
| 1:29.6 | You can look at it, right? |
| 1:31.8 | You can look, see what he did. |
| 1:34.3 | Incredible. |
| 1:34.9 | Incredible. |
| 1:35.8 | How convenient. |
| 1:36.6 | Imagine if he hadn't put that in. |
| 1:38.0 | It would be very difficult. |
| 1:38.8 | We really would have to rely on the Bible for everything, walking outside, which |
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