S03:E08 - "Aspirational Beans"
Episode 37 • Published Mar 20, 2020
- DECLARING A PODCAST EMERGENCY
- How’s your pandemic?
- Half foods
- Johns Hopkins
- Extremely pointless coronavirus emails
- Google’s building a website
- This guy sucks
- Oh no, my influencers!
- PandemicPAC
- New Arg for “what about small business owners?”
- “What about small business workers?”
- Aaron is actually a stoic now
- Seneca? Marcus Aurelius? Amateurs!
- I am in a permanent superposition between hopeful and despairing. I am perfectly balanced.
- You can no longer hurt me and nothing can surprise me.
- Memento Moris etc etc.
- Delete your parent’s cable news
- This would be one of the best forms of direct action
- OUTFOXED
- Posit: most of the things cited as the glorious result of capitalism are actually not that great and only necessitated by the crap world capitalism has built
- The Cuba Tweet
- Ex:// fast food/convenience food
- We only need it because our lives are so busy
- It’s not good or healthy or enjoyable
- We would rather have the time to eat well
- Ex:// abundance of brand-choice for the same product
- Ex:// technology
- How much of it is necessitated by the demands of increased productivity and workload? Would we need GTD if we weren’t stressed to an insane degree?
- Also: all the things we loathe about modernity are also the result of capitalism