The Problem with Reading

Hijinks abound as Stephen and Brevin bull-rush After Virtue chapter 7. In other news, duck livers have revealed that African democracy is not doing great, internet culture has no problems whatsoever, and bureaucrats are lizards, but still probably our friends. Have a listen. Articles: ~foreignaffairs.com/articles/africa/2019-01-17/retreat-african-democracy ~nytimes.com/2019/01/14/opinion/call-out-social-justice.html Music: Ratata by Jeremiah Dangers

Sam joins the gang again to discern that the trolley problem meme really does explain all of philosophy, human rights are moral fictions, and that **Managers** are truly the architype of pure evil. We also vacillate between endless crippling loneliness (because of modernity) and totally justified boundless optimism (because of modernity). Stephen talks about David Foster Wallace again, and no one is surprised. Have a listen. Articles: ~nytimes.com/2018/11/23/opinion/loneliness-political-polarization.html ~quillette.com/2019/01/14/enlightenment-wars-some-reflections-on-enlightenment-now-one-year-later/ ~scribd.com/doc/164736651/Joseph-Frank-s-Dostoevsky-David-Foster-Wallace Music: Ratatata by Jeremiah Dangers

Stephen and Brevin are alone together this week as they tackle After Virtue Ch5 and discover that without Telos, there is no end to anything. They also speak for maladjusted millennials everywhere, decide that pre-blessed Matrimony is great, and that one should never forget strawberries. Articles: ~buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work ~christandpopculture.com/taste-strawberries-tolkiens-imagination-good/ Music: Ratata by Jeremiah Dangers

Thomas is away, but we welcome Sam to discuss our picks of the week. As it turns out, a recent book has finally killed God, now that religion is dead we've all joined cults, the Right and Left have their drugs of choice, and Christmas should be abolished. Have a listen. Articles: ~nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/a-universe-from-nothing-by-lawrence-m-krauss.html ~nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/andrew-sullivan-americas-new-religions.html ~chronicle.com/article/Dear-Humanities-Profs-We-Are/243100/ Music: Ratata by Jeremiah Dangers

Why AirBnB Might be Okay, MacIntyre's Characters and Why He Kant Even, the Matrix and Reproduction, and the Horseshoe Theory Comes to Natalism. Have a listen. Music: Ratata by Jeremiah Dangers

two lay catholics and an orthodox-adjacent nerd are unlikely roommates in a dystopian future where humans only exist as soundwaves. enjoy their attempts to discuss academic philosophy/words at all.