TEASER - Book Club: The Stranger and Man’s Search for Meaning
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This motivating discussion was supposed to run earlier, but then the third year anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine was marked by Trump viciously reminding the world he works for Russia by kicking Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House, after he, Vance, and MTG’s boyfriend tried to ambush the war hero.
In our recorded first ever Gaslit Nation book club, we discussed Albert Camus’ The Stranger (Matthew Ward translation) and Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, to see what wisdom they hold for us today, and how these two works “talk to each other.”
For March, we’re reading Gene Sharp’s revolutionary handbook From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, which informed revolts in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, Hong Kong, and beyond. Our March 31st salon at 4pm will open with a book club discussion of Dictatorship to Democracy. For April, we’re reading (if you haven’t already!) Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower, and May’s book club pick is Total Resistance: Swiss Army Guide to Guerrilla Warefare And Underground Operations. Get ready to make some good trouble!
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EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION:
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March 17 4pm ET – Dr. Lisa Corrigan joins our Gaslit Nation Salon to discuss America’s private prison crisis in an age of fascist scapegoating
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March 31 4pm ET – Gaslit Nation Book Club: From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, which informed revolts in Ukraine, the Arab Spring, Hong Kong, and beyond
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NEW! April 7 4pm ET – Security Committee Presents at the Gaslit Nation Salon. Don’t miss it!
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Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to join, available here
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Florida-based listeners are going strong meeting in person. Be sure to join their Signal group, available here
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Have you taken Gaslit Nation’s HyperNormalization Survey Yet?
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Gaslit Nation Salons take place Mondays 4pm ET over Zoom and the first ~40 minutes are recorded and shared on Patreon.com/Gaslit for our community
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Dean Wright here, former CIA operations officer and host of a daily news podcast called The Right Report, like the Wright brothers. |
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| 0:51.6 | Once again, I'm Brian Dean Wright. I sure hope to see you tomorrow morning |
| 0:54.9 | with your daily presidential brief on The Wright Report. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome, everyone, to the first Gaslit Nation book club where we're going to be discussing two extraordinary |
| 1:14.0 | books that captured a moment in time that is eerily horribly similar to today. |
| 1:21.8 | And they were Albert Camus, The Stranger, and Victor Frankl's Man's search for meaning. The stranger, of course, is a |
| 1:30.0 | novel and man's search for meaning is a Holocaust memoir written by Victor Frankl who was a |
| 1:37.1 | neurologist, a psychologist, who was a Jewish man who was arrested and sent to the concentration |
| 1:43.7 | camps. He went through a series of |
| 1:45.5 | different camps. He arrived to Auschwitch with his life's work in his pocket. And that was his |
| 1:54.2 | development of observations in what gave life meaning. |
| 2:11.8 | It's important to note that the interwar period, the 1930s, that was a time of massive interest in psychology. |
| 2:12.8 | One of the superstars of the day was Sigmund Freud, who was groundbreaking in his work |
| 2:21.7 | in furthering psychoanalysis. You had all the big celebrities, all the big journalists, |
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