Mind Meld 212 | A Satirical Uroboros Folding Back In On Itself | Dr. Alan Levinovitz
THIRD EYE DROPS
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🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Dr. Alan Levinovitz enters the mind meld!
Alan is an Associate Professor of Religion at James Madison University. He works at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and science, focusing especially on how narratives and metaphors shape belief.
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| 0:00.0 | Third eye drops are intended for open-minded adults. |
| 0:03.7 | Now administering the third eye drops. Welcome, Welcome, Wonder Dippers. Sensational to be back with you. Again, I was just thinking, I know that I have a bag of tricks. I know that I have several rambles in quotes that I use probably too often, but the quote, the map is not the territory by Alfred Korsibsky might be the one with the most Michael |
| 0:48.7 | cycles ever on the show. |
| 0:51.8 | I don't know, I don't have a count. But here I am shooting |
| 0:57.5 | saliva over that one yet again. I'm sorry I can't let it go because it is a throbbingly relevant one |
| 1:07.0 | really always but especially right now because there seems to be a pernicious pandemic of another sort going on |
| 1:19.3 | intensifying right now and it is a psychological one. |
| 1:25.0 | The main symptom of which is a tendency to reduce things down to a category we can understand. |
| 1:35.0 | Something that we've already decoded, already have reference points for, |
| 1:40.0 | know how we are to feel about. You know, God, I do or don't believe in that. |
| 1:47.0 | Liberal, I am or I'm not that. |
| 1:52.0 | Black Lives Matter, I'm not for that. Black Lives Matter. I'm for or I'm not for that. |
| 1:57.0 | But if we actually spent time focusing on what we miss when we do this mindless routine that is the |
| 2:08.4 | experience the subjective feelings of the people that evoke these distinctions and less time on boxing |
| 2:16.8 | them up or defending, if we spent more time trying to find harmony and empathy with what other people are saying, |
| 2:26.0 | rather than try to figure out if they belong in a compatible philosophical tribe, |
| 2:30.0 | I mean, can you imagine what we'd learn can you imagine if we were willing to |
| 2:37.4 | lay down our idealistic armor before our fellow human beings or at least not put it on preemptively in every |
| 2:46.2 | interaction. I mean even if we only used it as necessary it would would be a market improvement. The other thing is there's just |
| 2:57.4 | a lot of pointless shit out there masquerading as constructive or informative. |
| 3:03.6 | I mean, how many, see how many of these you can spot. |
| 3:08.4 | See how many reactionary ideological posts you can identify that are inevitably going to bounce right off of |
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