Story Control https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec09_Post.mp3 There are a lot of modern ideas about the “narrative.” This is a very broad word. It’s always been a kind of battleground for news stations. The “news” is not just an information dispensary. They just don’t spit out streams of facts. They take the facts and […]
Orwellian Reality Control
Which Came First? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun26_Post.mp3 There are two, very broad, competing theories of history. One is that history is made up by powerful dudes making pivotal decisions. The other is that history more or less unfolds on it’s own, and when possible, people try and take credit for the good stuff. I tend […]
The Greatest Storyteller On Earth
Who Are We? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun01_Post.mp3 There’s a lot of “narrative fighting” going on today. We can imagine way back in the day, before farming. A bunch of caveman hanging around the campfire. Telling stories. What kind of stories? Stories about who they were, where they came from. Their heroes, or […]
Medieval Historian Disaster
Gut Bacteria Scientists have recently discovered an interesting link between gut bacteria diversity and health. People that are more sedentary, eat a lot of processed food and are overweight have much less diversity in their gut bacteria. People that are more active, live a healthy lifestyle and eat much less processed food have […]
Origins Of The Gods
Learning Center I went to an interesting lecture a couple of nights ago at a local learning center. The topic was the history of written language. It was only an hour, but the guy who taught went through a really quick bullet point overview, which was fascinating. Reading and writing are things we […]
Editorial Magic
Invention of Writing Without question, one of the most profound inventions of human history was written language. Humans have been able to speak and think for at least 50,000 years, but written language has only been around for a few thousand. This means that for most of human history, our thoughts and words were […]
Archaeologist’s Insight
House Party The other night I went to a party in my neighborhood. A guy just moved in and he bought this very big house. A very nice house up on the expensive section of the neighborhood and so he invited everybody. It turns out that he just got this job as a professor […]
The Viking Yin Yang Connection
World Mythology I watched an interesting video series recently on world mythology. It was a 60 video series and each video was 30 minutes. It took a couple of months to watch. The first 10 or so were on Greek mythology, Greek and Roman mythology so it was somewhat familiar. The next 10 or […]
Everything Is Hallucination
Our Memory Sucks It’s a very demonstrable fact that human memory is very very weak. We’ve all had experiences where somebody told us their name and we later forgot it even thought we wanted to remember it. We all have experiences being told what to study for a particular test in school. We studied but […]