PEL Presents PvI#80: Brief, Alternative Facts with David Shields
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Internationally best-selling author David wrote a book (and made a film) called How We Got Here, which traces the gradual path in the history of ideas from the ancients through various forms of perspectivism, relativism, and post-modernism to the post-truth discourse that authoritarians and wanna-be authoritarians engage in. Some improv scenes are inserted awkwardly into the discussion.
Mark philosophizes at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Bill improvises (and teaches) at chicagoimprovstudio.com. See us live Wed. 8/21, 6pm at iO Theater, Chicago.
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| 0:00.0 | Announcement announcement announcement. Philosophy versus Improv will be recording an episode live on Wednesday, August 21st, 6 to 7 p.m. in Chicago. |
| 0:10.2 | The venue is the I.O. Theater, That's 1501 North Kingsbury Street. |
| 0:14.0 | It is an absolutely free show. |
| 0:16.0 | You don't need to buy tickets in advance. |
| 0:18.0 | Just come to the Io Theater. |
| 0:19.0 | Be there by 6 PM. |
| 0:20.0 | Again, that's Wednesday, August 21st. |
| 0:23.0 | All of you in Chicago, within driveable distance of Chicago, |
| 0:26.0 | I will see you there. |
| 0:28.0 | This is Philosophy versus improv where two stages try to teach each other a thing or two and maybe you the audience get something out of it as well. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Mark Glintenmeyer. Philosophy. I am Bill Arnett Improv. Who are you? |
| 0:46.7 | Oh, I'm David Shields, creator of self-decontructive non-fiction. |
| 0:51.5 | Boom, that says it all. Nothing else needed. You're promoting a book. |
| 0:55.1 | Name the book. I've done a new book and it has a companion film or actually began as |
| 1:01.0 | a film and has become a companion book. It's a bit of a mouthful but I'm or actually |
| 1:05.0 | began as a film and has become a companion book. |
| 1:07.0 | How we got here. |
| 1:08.0 | Melville plus Nietzsche, divided by the square root of Allen Bloom time Gijik squared equals Bannon. |
| 1:16.0 | And there's a very cool movie poster where it you know it has it as a little math equation. |
| 1:22.0 | Okay, okay. Which I think is very, some people think it's |
| 1:24.6 | rather pedantic, but I just think it's very cool. Now you realize I'm not too |
| 1:30.7 | familiar with Alan Bloom, he can't be negative or zero. He's a conservative |
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