Visionaries -“Archetypes and Movies, Part 3.”

“Archetypes and Movies, Part 3.” More of our usual digressions, and then we pick up on movies, looking at “Puzzle” and “The Wife,” and then at female revenge movies. More on those, plus “Lucy” next time.   Download Here

Visionaries – Archetypes and Movies

“Archetypes and Movies, Part 1.” Movies are perhaps our most archetypal medium–maybe it has something to do with the big screen. Our most prominent example is Star Wars, straight from Jospeh Campbell’s “Hero With a Thousand Faces.” Here we look at several, including “Phantom of the Opera.”   Download Here

Visionaries – 10.30.18

“Essentialism and Archetypes.” The pioneering Modern American Architect, Louis Sullivan, wrote, “The germ is the real thing; the seat of identity. Within its delicate mechanism lies the will to power: the function which is to seek and eventually find its full expression in form.” Frank Lloyd Wright wrote, “What is honor? Not the rules of a code—but the nature of …

Visionaries – 09.25.18

“The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.” Our guest is Greg Lukianoff who is coauthor of “Coddling” along with Jonathan Haidt. Greg is president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. Jonathan is Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business. His is …

Visionaries – Our Culture Today

“Our Culture Today: Ressentiment and the Attack on the Enlightenment.” Our culture today, as reflected in the media, politics, and particularly in our university is dominated by “Post Modern Marxists” who have mounted a broad and sustained attack on the Enlightenment and on anyone who defends it. Given the benefits brought by the Enlightenment one wonders why the attack, and …

Visionaries – 07.24.18

“David Deutsch and Quantum Constructor Theory.” Wikipedia says: “David Deutsch, born 1953 is an Israeli-born British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation in the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a …

Visionaries – 07.09.18

“Nikola Danaylov, aka Socrates and the Singularity.” Nik’s Singularity Weblog started as a personal journal of thoughts on trends, news, issues, films and people related to the technological singularity. However it has evolved into a growing community of people interested in exploring and shaping our future. Nik has interviewed numerous leading thinkers. Catch his podcasts at SingularityWeblog.com and Singularity.FM.   …

Visionaries – 06.28.18

John David Ebert and Hypermodernity.” Ebert is the author of over 20 books which you can find on Amazon. You can find his essays on Cultural-Discourse.com and CinemaDiscourse.com, and his lectures on YouTube and Google+. Ebert puts together Spengler’s approach to culture, McLuhan’s approach to media, and Campbell’s approach to mythology to give us insight to our world today. Here …