Podcast appearances and mentions of Milan Kundera

Dopo una rilettura deludente di Milan Kundera, una riflessione sul senso autentico della lettura: non consumo culturale, ma nutrimento dell'anima. Un invito a riscoprire libri sicuri, grandi autori e percorsi di formazione solida con Fede & Cultura. Guarda la lezione del prof. Zenone nella sezione "Letture" su https://universitas.fedecultura.com

El periodista y escritor Bruno Galindo ha presentado , en la Biblioteca Antonio Martínez Asensio de Hoy por Hoy, 'Nadie nos llamará antepasados' (Libros del K.O) . En la novela corren paralelamente dos historias: la de Guillermo Larregui, un pamplonés que migró a Argentina en el primer cuarto del siglo XX ,  que tras una apuesta recorrió de sur a norte Argentina empujando una carretilla; y la de la familia del propio autor que está ligada a los momentos históricos más importantes del siglo XX. Bruno Galindo nos donó además para nuestra biblioteca radiofónica 'Una novela rusa' de Emmanuel Carrère (Anagrama). Antes,  nuestro bibliotecario Antonio Martínez Asensio nos contó en tres minutos 'Un viejo que leía novelas de amor' de Luis Sepúlveda  (Tusquets) y nos anunció para su programa "Un libro, una hora"  el clásico 'La vida está en otra parte' de Milan Kundera (Seix Barral). Las novedades de la semana las trajo Pepe Rubio y fueron 'Despedidas' de Julian Barnes (Anagrama) y 'Caridad del río. Verdades, medias verdades y mentiras" de Pepe Brocal (Garbuix Books). Eli libro abandonado en la redacción de la SER y recuperado por el empleado Pascual Donate fue 'Bienvenido al mundo de Miguel Brieva'  (Astiberri). Y finalmente los oyentes donaron: 'Los años del miedo' Juan Eslava Galán (Planeta), 'Pan de limón con semillas de amapola' de Cristina Campos (Planeta) y 'El secreto de las flores' de Valérie Perrin (Ediciones B)

The novel for the week was Brave New World. Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn were preparing to lead us through it. It was more disturbing and more timely than 1984, another novel in the outsider book club that many of us had become part of over the last few years with two of the greatest teachers alive. How lucky we were, I always thought, every time they dug into a new book. Culture has dramatically changed. It has become exclusive rather than inclusive, despite how they would describe themselves. Matt and Walter, on America This Week, filled a deep, dark, and dry well for thirsty people in need of the kind of observations of human behavior, fearlessness, and wit we used to get from great writers of the past. You can partake of the culture now, but you have to be a true believer if you want in. You have to love Big Brother, or at least have learned how to keep silent enough that no one ever notices. Matt and Walter, two dissidents from the decaying dystopia our culture has become, were never going to play that game. They gave us so much just by taking us back to a time when writing was brilliant, and thinking was essential. I start with the books because that is what really made America This Week something unique and valuable, not just to people like me who found it so pleasurable just to listen to them talk about books, but to the broader culture, so in need of not just education but enlightenment. Two great writers, two great readers, two great thinkers - how did we ever have it so good? Both Walter and Matt had already been “canceled” by lesser beings who had no idea what kind of genius they'd given up. Or maybe they did know. Maybe they burned with jealousy that these two hadn't sold themselves out for conformity or acceptance. Maybe they burned with jealousy because they were now trapped and silenced. Or maybe they just envied their talent.Either way, their loss was our gain, we outsiders who help build a “little gulag” on the other side of Eden, to quote Milan Kundera. Our little gulag was disrupted on Monday when Matt Taibbi appeared alone and, it must be said in the spirit of the truth, a little shaken. He made his way through the video to explain both why Racket Staff was now changing and why Walter suddenly vanished. We still don't know all of the reasons. Maybe we never will. If there is one thing I know about Walter and Matt, despite their own protestations to the contrary, they are gentlemen. Neither would ever throw the other under the bus.Here is how Walter explained it:And of course, fans of the show were heartbroken:And angry:Still here we are, bereft in the middle of Brave New World. I waited before writing anything. I thought maybe this would fix itself. The Beatles will get back together, or the parents who are headed for divorce will reconcile. I thought maybe it's like that scene in Spinal Tap after the dramatic breakup with Nigel Tufnel, where they perform their freeform jazz exploration, “We hope you like our new direction!” but that Nigel would be back before the movie was over.But I also know that it's not easy being cast as a leader of a large audience that starts to feel like a movement. Maybe Matt felt confined or frustrated, and he stuck it out longer than he wanted to for his readers' sake, until he finally had to do what he thought was right: become a news site again. They call it “audience capture,” and in a way, that's right. Candace Owens is probably one of the best examples of how not being honest with your readers can take you down a dark road. If you want to keep the clicks and views coming, you must give your audience what they want. If you decide you can't anymore, you risk what I did. Losing everything.If I suddenly decided that I loved the Democrats again and I hated Trump and MAGA, that would mean breaking an agreement with many of my readers and subscribers here, and that's especially tricky if they're paying subscribers. But if I felt that way, I would still take the leap and jump rather than lie to them. Some of us just can't do the other thing, and I suspect both Walter and Matt are like that, too.But I also know life is change. People change. We evolve. I could feel Matt's growing pains for a while now because his audience was built not just on his own reputation but on ours, the abandoned outsiders, many of them MAGA, looking for deeper understanding or validation from the unrelenting, biased legacy media. No, we're not crazy because look, Matt Taibbi is writing something that makes it make sense, and suddenly, we can feel our feet on the ground.I felt so validated when Matt took up my story and wrote about how Hollywood discarded me for a joke on X and then decided I should be kicked out of utopia. It mattered that it was Matt Taibbi. They couldn't ignore it. Because even though they'd canceled him in a way, they still paid attention to what he wrote about, and for whatever reason, it made a huge difference for me. They never leave him alone, in fact. They all feel so personally betrayed by him. He routinely beats back critics and trolls on the Left and Right on X, feeling betrayed for one reason or another, trying make him take a definitive side. Some in the comments of his last video for America This Week said they were “glad he was back” and “things were getting weird” with Walter. Those people make me sick. No offense, but you have to be dumb as a rock not to get the greatness of Walter Kirn. That alone explains why our culture collapsed. Too many stupid people are writing books and making movies. America This Week was the cure. It was reality. It was original thought. Walter has a deep empathy for the forgotten men and women in this country, whom the establishment discarded and then demonized. Not just on America This Week but throughout all of his work. He sees humanity in the macro-view. He also isn't afraid to wonder, ask questions, and let his mind take him where it wants to go. I can't imagine choosing to do without that. And for what, MS-Now? The New Yorker? No thanks.Without America This Week, our world just got a little smaller and a little darker. I used to say to myself, just hold a little longer. It's almost Thursday, and that's when they record their podcast, and it drops on Friday. And then it's only the weekend, and they're back on Monday.They weren't the only great podcast out there. There are plenty of others. What made theirs different is that they're novelists. They're absurdist thinkers who see the times we're living through as material, and thus, they are always just outside of it, not getting emotionally invested in any of it but trying to see how everything fits together and what it means. That is what we don't get anywhere else. We also don't get acceptance from the podcasts that call themselves heterodox but detest people who voted for Trump and thus, keep themselves within arm's reach of paradise.I will continue to follow Matt and Walter wherever they land. Matt will still be writing at Racket, and he says he'll be doing even more of it. Walter will be on X and on Walter Kirn, and he is still writing books and screenplays. I'm sure both will be doing interviews, and who knows, maybe podcasts. But America This Week, at least as of right now, is done. I will miss them. I hate saying goodbye. We all have things we hold onto, our touchstones, and America This Week was mine. All I can say to both of them is a line they will know: “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”You can find their wonderful podcasts over at Racket on the archive, but also on YouTube. Their live shows are on the “live” tab. // This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sashastone.com/subscribe

Esta semana, na estante, temos “Estamos Todos na Mira”, de Matt Potter; “Rever Comanche”, de Romain Renard; ”A Salvo de Deus”, de Paulo José Miranda e “A Cortina - Ensaio em sete partes”, de Milan Kundera.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ich habe mich mit dem Thema »Fortschritt« — also was konstituiert Fortschritt in unserer Gesellschaft, wie können wir ihn beschreiben, wie wird Fortschritt kritisiert, wie unterscheidet sich Fortschritt von Innovation usw. — schon des Öfteren in diesem Podcast auseinandergesetzt. Dies ist im Kern eines der wichtigsten Themen, vielleicht sogar ein roter Faden, der durch die sechs Jahre des Podcasts läuft. Mein neues Buch: Hexenmeister oder Zauberlehrling? Die Wissensgesellschaft in der Krise ist verfügbar! Schon gelesen? In dieser Episode freue ich mich besonders, Ihnen meinen heutigen Gast vorstellen zu dürfen: Dr. Daniel Stelter. Er ist Ökonom und daher betrachten wir das Thema Fortschritt aus der Brille der Ökonomie. Dr. Stelter ist nicht nur einer der führenden deutschen Ökonomen, er ist außerdem häufiger Gast in politischen Talkshows, schreibt regelmäßig für verschiedene Medien wie etwa die Wirtschaftswoche, Cicero, Handelsblatt und andere. Er ist Autor mehrerer Bücher und hat außerdem eigene Podcasts wie Beyond the Obvious und Make Economy Great Again, letzterer gemeinsam mit dem Herausgeber der Welt, Ulf Poschardt. Links dazu wie immer in den Shownotes. Da er sich über seine Artikel sowie die eigenen Podcasts sehr ausführlich mit dem aktuellen Geschehen beschäftigt, werden wir in dieser Episode einen anderen Blickwinkel wählen. Aber steigen wir gleich direkt in das Thema ein, sozusagen: keine Details — was ist Fortschritt? »Das Leben wird vorwärts gelebt und rückwärts verstanden.«, Soren Kierkegaard Wie aber gestalten wir unser Leben vorwärts? Dazu ergänzt Milan Kundera einen wichtigen Aspekt: »Der Mensch schreitet im Nebel voran. Aber wenn er zurückblickt, um die Menschen der Vergangenheit zu beurteilen, sieht er keinen Nebel auf ihrem Weg. Von seiner Gegenwart aus, die ihre ferne Zukunft war, sieht ihr Weg für ihn völlig klar aus, gute Sicht auf dem ganzen Weg. Wenn er zurückblickt, sieht er den Weg, er sieht die Menschen, die voranschreiten, er sieht ihre Fehler, aber nicht den Nebel.« In der Rückschau wirken die Dinge oftmals klar und einfach oder werden so dargestellt. Der richtige Pfad und die Irrtümer sind doch so offensichtlich! Was bedeutet das für die Ökonomie? Dr. Stelter erläutert dies am Beispiel von Geldmenge, Inflation und Zinsen. Wie würden Ökonomen Fortschritt beschreiben, oder an welchen Indikatoren würden Sie Fortschritt festmachen? »Es gibt eine ganz eindeutige Korrelation zwischen wachsendem Einkommen und zunehmendem Glück.« Und wie ist es uns hier (global) in den vergangenen Jahren ergangen? »Eigentlich, wenn man mal guckt: die letzten 20, 30 Jahre haben wir einen unglaublichen Zuwachs an Wohlstand gesehen — weltweit — wir haben einen Rekord-Rückgang der Armut. Das ist ein ganz großer Erfolg. Wir haben einen Rückgang der Kindersterblichkeit usw.« Auch wenn es immer wieder Rückschritte gibt: »Die Menschheitsgeschichte ist eine Geschichte des Fortschritts.« Wie ist Fortschritt zu beschreiben, vor allem auch gegen den Begriff der Innovation? Wer trifft die gesellschaftlich wichtige Bewertung? Außerdem: Was wird eigentlich von den Menschen als »Neu« wahrgenommen? »Es gibt keinen Fall in der Weltgeschichte, wo geringerer Wohlstand zu mehr Glücksgefühl geführt hat.« Was aber ist schlicht »Hintergrund«, Normalität? »Wir sind zum Fortschritt verdammt.« Kann das aber gelingen? Stetiger Fortschritt, wenn auch mit kleinen Tälern, die zu durchschreiten sind? »Der Kreativität und der Intelligenz der Menschen ist keine Grenze gesetzt.« Warum haben aber unter diesen Voraussetzungen Vertreter von Kriegswirtschaft, De-Growth und anderen autoritären und destruktiven Ideen heute in der Gesellschaft dennoch eine Deutungshoheit? Oder jedenfalls scheint es so zu sein, dass diese Deutungshoheit gegeben ist? Kann der Konflikt Freiheit vs. Kollektivismus überhaupt aufgelöst werden? »Show me the incentives and I show you the outcome«, Charlie Munger Wir diskutieren dann weiter grundsätzlichere Fragen der Ökonomie, vor allem auch die Rolle, die Energie in ökonomischen Betrachtungen spielt. »Die klassische Definition der Ökonomie ist, dass sie die Lehre von der Allokation knapper Ressourcen ist, die alternative Verwendungen haben.«, Thomas Sowell und »the economic system is essentially a system for extracting, processing and transforming energy as resources into energy embodied in products and services. Simply put, energy is the only truly universal currency«, Robert Ayres, zitiert in Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works Warum sind Preissignale ein wesentlicher Mechanismus freier Märkte und warum ist es so problematisch, wenn diese verzerrt werden? Welche Rolle spielt die Energie also für Fortschritt und Wohlstand? Die vormaligen Entwicklungsländer holen auf — was hat dies für Folgen? Bleiben wir stehen? Gehen wir voran oder fallen wir gar zurück? Im Augenblick trifft eindeutig Letzteres zu, aber wie kommen wir aus dieser Krise heraus? »Die Zukunft der Welt wird immer energiehaltiger sein.« Dr. Stelter erwähnt die UN-Entwicklungsziele: Es gibt 17 UN-Nachhaltigkeitsziele, aber nur eines davon betrifft den Klimawandel. Auch in weltweiten Umfragen rangiert der Klimawandel meist eher auf den hinteren Plätzen in der Beurteilung der Menschen. So ergibt etwa die globale IPSOS Umfrage vom Dezember 2025, das nur rund 13% der Menschen den Klimawandel als größtes Problem sehen. Er kommt damit auf den 10. Platz, der niedrigste Wert seit 2021. Manche für die Menschen lebensbedrohliche Probleme bleiben im Westen sogar völlig unbekannt, obwohl sie ähnlich viele Opfer wie die Covid-Pandemie verursacht haben und weiter verursachen — Luftverschmutzung in Innenräumen durch mangelnde Verfügbarkeit sauberer Energie wie Gas etwa. Wie sollen wir also mit dem Klimawandel umgehen, vor allem unter der Betrachtung, dass es sich dabei nur um eine von vielen Herausforderungen handelt? Fortschritt ist auch die Abwesenheit von Krieg — wie spielt diese Einschätzung mit den anderen genannten Faktoren und der Demographie zusammen? »Sie sehen mich — was Leute, die mich sonst hören, überraschen wird — prinzipiell optimistisch.« Was aber für die Welt gilt, muss auf absehbare Zeit nicht für Deutschland oder Europa gelten. Warum ist das so? »... weil wir freiwillig gesagt haben, dass wir uns von diesem Fortschritt verabschieden.« Das lässt ein gemischtes Bild für uns zurück: »Ich persönlich bin extrem optimistisch, was die Menschheit betrifft, ich bin leider nicht so optimistisch, was Deutschland und Europa betrifft.« Warum brauchen wir viel mehr dezentrale Entscheidungen und viel weniger Top-Down-»Management« und vermeintliche politische Lösungen von oben herab? »Dezentrale Entscheidungen sind einfach immer zentralen überlegen.« Innovation und Fortschritt sind nur mit Risiko zu haben — wir sind aber eine geradezu panische und von vermeintlicher (!) Sicherheit faszinierte Gesellschaft geworden. Dies ist eine Situation, die aber tatsächlich wesentliche Risiken nicht reduziert, sondern vielmehr dramatisch erhöht. Wie können wir das in Europa verändern? Kann ein Blick in die Geschichte dabei helfen? »Darwin was a landmark, not only in the history of biology, but in the history of intellectual development in general. He showed how-with sufficient time-nonpurposeful activity could lead to nonrandom results: he divorced order from "design." Yet the animistic fallacy would say that the absence of "planning" must lead to chaos-and the economic and political consequences of that belief are still powerful today.«, Tom Sowell Es gibt wohl die großen drei Wellen der Evolution, von denen wir aber bisher nur die erste verinnerlicht haben? Biologie (19. Jahrhundert) Ökonomie (theoretisch im 20. Jahrhundert mehrfach ausgedrückt, bis heute dennoch nicht verinnerlicht) Wissenschaft (bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts teilweise verstanden, dann wieder vergessen) »Ich bin immer fasziniert, wenn in der öffentlichen Diskussion von Neoliberalismus, der bei uns herrschen würde, gesprochen wird — und ich frage mich: bei Staatsanteilen von über 50 % wo ist da dieser Neoliberalismus.« Deckt sich die Meinung in der Bevölkerung eigentlich mit der veröffentlichten Meinung der Legacy-Medien? »Es wird immer gerne vom Marktversagen gesprochen, bei Dingen, wo man aber sagen muss, eigentlich ist es kein Marktversagen, sondern die Folgen von vorherigen Eingriffen der Politik.« Wie können wir von hier in die Zukunft blicken? Wie gehen wir mit Anreizsystemen in der Politik um? Das nicht ganz ernst gemeinte Parkinson's Law sagt: Arbeit füllt immer die verfügbare Zeit aus. Meine provokante Frage: Gilt dasselbe für Budget und Schulden? Was folgt daraus? Wie lange überlebt eine Nation, ein System, das immer weniger produktive und innovative Menschen und immer mehr Menschen hervorbringt, die im Kern von diesen produktiven Menschen leben? Das knüpft an ein früheres Buch von Dr. Stelter an und an ein neues Projekt: Acht Jahre nach dem »Märchen vom reichen Land« — wo stehen wir eigentlich? »Es ist einfach traurig. Wir sind einfach in jeder Hinsicht so viel schlechter geworden.« Warum ist die Hoffnung, dass eine Reform wie vor rund zwanzig Jahren unter Schröder wieder stattfinden und auch erfolgreich sein könnte, trügerisch? Auch die Hoffnung, die man durch einen Blick Richtung Argentinien haben könnte, ist für uns nur bedingt vergleichbar. »Argentinien ist energiereich, hat Rohstoffe und großes Potenzial in der Landwirtschaft. Die haben etwas, auf das sie aufsetzen können. Wir hingegen haben eigentlich nur das Bildungsniveau, das wir haben, und den Fleiß der Bevölkerung... […] Es kann sein, dass es irgendwann den Milei gibt, nur dieser Milei wird es dann ungleich schwerer haben, Deutschland und Europa voranzubringen, weil er eben nicht über ein paar gute Assets verfügt wie Argentinien.« Was sollen wir jungen Menschen raten, die jetzt vor der Wahl stehen, wie sie ihr Leben ausrichten? »Wir alle haben zwei Möglichkeiten, wir haben die Möglichkeit zu kämpfen oder zu gehen.« Referenzen Andere Episoden Episode 141: Passagier oder Steuermann? Ein Gespräch mit Markus Raunig Episode 139: Komfortable Disruption Episode 138: Im Windschatten der Narrative, ein Gespräch mit Ralf M. Ruthardt Episode 135: Friedrich Hayek und die Beschränktheit der menschlichen Vernunft. Ein Gespräch mit Nickolas Emrich Episode 131: Wot Se Fack, Deutschland? Ein Gespräch mit Vince Ebert Episode 130: Populismus und (Ordo)liberalismus, ein Gespräch mit Nils Hesse Episode 128: Aufbruch in die Moderne — Der Mann, der die Welt erfindet! Episode 125: Ist Fortschritt möglich? Ideen als Widergänger über Generationen Episode 120: All In: Energie, Wohlstand und die Zukunft der Welt: Ein Gespräch mit Prof. Franz Josef Radermacher Episode 117: Der humpelnde Staat, ein Gespräch mit Prof. Christoph Kletzer Episode 107: How to Organise Complex Societies? A Conversation with Johan Norberg Episode 44: Was ist Fortschritt? Ein Gespräch mit Philipp Blom Dr. Daniel Stelter (eine Auswahl): Leading Minds Handelsblatt Artikel Cicero Artikel Think Beyond the Obvious Podcast Make Economy Great Again Podcast (mit Ulf Poschardt) Ausgewählte Bücher: Das Märchen vom reichen Land: Wie die Politik uns ruiniert, Finanzbuch Verlag (2018) Ein Traum von einem Land: Deutschland 2040, Campus Verlag (2021) Fachliche Referenzen Milan Kundera, Testament Betrayed, Harper (2023) Charlie Munger on Incentives: Video 1, Video 2 Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decision, Basic Books (1996) Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works, Penguin (2022) UN-Nachhaltigkeits-Ziele (SDGs) https://www.ipsos.com/en/what-worries-world

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durée : 00:59:22 - Le Book Club - par : Marie Richeux - À l'affiche du film "La petite cuisine de Mehdi", l'acteur et producteur de musique Younès Boucif a accepté de partager sa bibliothèque. Une traversée à travers le temps et les continents avec Victor Hugo, Milan Kundera, Charles Bukowski, Louisa Yousfi ou encore Yasuhisa Hara et Marie-Aude Murail. - réalisation : Vivien Demeyère - invités : Younès Boucif Acteur et rappeur

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Milan Kundera. „Nežinomybė“. Vertė Danutė Chauveau, išleido leidykla „Tyto alba“.Romane – sunki grįžimo iš emigracijos, psichologinio prisitaikymo susvetimėjusioje buvusioje aplinkoje tema. Tą gal tik teoriškai įmanomą grįžimą patiria du romano veikėjai: Irena ir Žozefas, svetimose šalyse turėję savus gyvenimus ir buitį. Tapatybės praradimas supriešina žmones su aplinka, kurioje jie kažkada gyveno iki Prahos pavasario 1968 metais ir į kurią su viltimi, kad niekas nepasikeitė, grįžta. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Remigijus Sabulis.

Milan Kundera. „Nežinomybė“. Vertė Danutė Chauveau, išleido leidykla „Tyto alba“.Romane – sunki grįžimo iš emigracijos, psichologinio prisitaikymo susvetimėjusioje buvusioje aplinkoje tema. Tą gal tik teoriškai įmanomą grįžimą patiria du romano veikėjai: Irena ir Žozefas, svetimose šalyse turėję savus gyvenimus ir buitį. Tapatybės praradimas supriešina žmones su aplinka, kurioje jie kažkada gyveno iki Prahos pavasario 1968 metais ir į kurią su viltimi, kad niekas nepasikeitė, grįžta. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Remigijus Sabulis.

Milan Kundera. „Nežinomybė“. Vertė Danutė Chauveau, išleido leidykla „Tyto alba“.Romane – sunki grįžimo iš emigracijos, psichologinio prisitaikymo susvetimėjusioje buvusioje aplinkoje tema. Tą gal tik teoriškai įmanomą grįžimą patiria du romano veikėjai: Irena ir Žozefas, svetimose šalyse turėję savus gyvenimus ir buitį. Tapatybės praradimas supriešina žmones su aplinka, kurioje jie kažkada gyveno iki Prahos pavasario 1968 metais ir į kurią su viltimi, kad niekas nepasikeitė, grįžta. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Remigijus Sabulis.

Milan Kundera. „Nežinomybė“. Vertė Danutė Chauveau, išleido leidykla „Tyto alba“.Romane – sunki grįžimo iš emigracijos, psichologinio prisitaikymo susvetimėjusioje buvusioje aplinkoje tema. Tą gal tik teoriškai įmanomą grįžimą patiria du romano veikėjai: Irena ir Žozefas, svetimose šalyse turėję savus gyvenimus ir buitį. Tapatybės praradimas supriešina žmones su aplinka, kurioje jie kažkada gyveno iki Prahos pavasario 1968 metais ir į kurią su viltimi, kad niekas nepasikeitė, grįžta. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Remigijus Sabulis.

Milan Kundera. „Nežinomybė“. Vertė Danutė Chauveau, išleido leidykla „Tyto alba“.Romane – sunki grįžimo iš emigracijos, psichologinio prisitaikymo susvetimėjusioje buvusioje aplinkoje tema. Tą gal tik teoriškai įmanomą grįžimą patiria du romano veikėjai: Irena ir Žozefas, svetimose šalyse turėję savus gyvenimus ir buitį. Tapatybės praradimas supriešina žmones su aplinka, kurioje jie kažkada gyveno iki Prahos pavasario 1968 metais ir į kurią su viltimi, kad niekas nepasikeitė, grįžta. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Remigijus Sabulis.

Milan Kundera. „Nežinomybė“. Vertė Danutė Chauveau, išleido leidykla „Tyto alba“.Romane – sunki grįžimo iš emigracijos, psichologinio prisitaikymo susvetimėjusioje buvusioje aplinkoje tema. Tą gal tik teoriškai įmanomą grįžimą patiria du romano veikėjai: Irena ir Žozefas, svetimose šalyse turėję savus gyvenimus ir buitį. Tapatybės praradimas supriešina žmones su aplinka, kurioje jie kažkada gyveno iki Prahos pavasario 1968 metais ir į kurią su viltimi, kad niekas nepasikeitė, grįžta. Knygos ištraukas skaito aktorius Remigijus Sabulis.

En esta edición de Chequia en 30': La muerte de Dominik Duka, exarzobispo de Praga | Novedades en economía | Descubrimos la tumba flotante de Milan Kundera.

En esta edición de Chequia en 30': La muerte de Dominik Duka, exarzobispo de Praga | Novedades en economía | Descubrimos la tumba flotante de Milan Kundera.

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Österreichischer Architekt gestaltet Grabstein für Kundera in Brünn, Tschechisch gesagt: Bewege dein Skelett!, Werk des Bildhauers Aleš Veselý in der Prager Nationalgalerie

Österreichischer Architekt gestaltet Grabstein für Kundera in Brünn, Tschechisch gesagt: Bewege dein Skelett!, Werk des Bildhauers Aleš Veselý in der Prager Nationalgalerie

Es war ein durchaus spannender Tag: intensive Diskussionen mit angehenden Managern über die Auswirkungen von KI in Unternehmen. Dabei war viel die Rede von smarten Zielen, von Effektivität und Effizienz und vom strategischen Dreieck zwischen Zielen, Ressourcen und Prozessen. Von der KI als Disruptor und als neues Werkzeug, als Beschleuniger, Effizienzmaschine und intelligenten Assistenten. Und dann hatte ich genug. Mir schien ganz plötzlich, dass all die Managementwörter, das Reden über Chancen und Potenziale, über Innovationen und Märkte, am Wesentlichen vorbeigehen: Warum das alles? Seid Ihr so sicher, dass sich die Welt in einer Excel-Tabelle abbilden lässt? Kommt es nicht vielmehr auf den Willen von uns Menschen an, auf Inspiration und Kreativität, darauf, dass wir nach Glück und Zufriedenheit streben? Die KI macht alles, was man ihr sagt. Die KI ist eine Macherin. Sie gibt uns die Illusion von Machbarkeit. Zu Hause, an meinem Büchergestell, ist mir «Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins» in die Hände gefallen, der wunderbare Roman von Milan Kundera über die schwierige Liebe zwischen Tomas und Teresa. Milan Kundera zeigt in seiner Geschichte, dass unverbindliche Leichtigkeit und Liebe sich nicht vereinbaren lassen: Die Leichtigkeit wird im Angesicht der Liebe unerträglich. Mir scheint, uns droht eine ähnliche Unerträglichkeit. Ein Leben ohne Grenzen ist sinnlos. Lassen Sie uns deshalb über die unerträgliche Machbarkeit des Seins nachdenken.Matthias Zehnder ist Autor und Medienwissenschaftler in Basel. Er ist bekannt für inspirierende Texte, Vorträge und Seminare über Medien, die Digitalisierung und KI.Website: https://www.matthiaszehnder.ch/Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.matthiaszehnder.ch/abo/Unterstützen: https://www.matthiaszehnder.ch/unterstuetzen/Biografie und Publikationen: https://www.matthiaszehnder.ch/about/

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The lost letters (chapter 8 &9) from the book The book of laughter and forgetting by Milan Kundera.These chapters are for the lost letters part 3.

Við héldum áfram yfirferð okkar yfir það sem verður á leiksviðum leikhúsanna í vetur. Í dag var komið að Landnámssetrinu í Borgarnesi. Kjartan Ragnarsson og Sigríður Margrét Guðmundsdóttir ráða ríkjum þar og Kjartan kom til okkar og sagði okkur sögu Landnámssetursins, sem verður 20 ára næsta vor og svo fór hann með okkur yfir það sem verður á döfinni hjá þeim þennan leikveturinn. Nú er að ljúka Íþróttaviku Evrópu eða „#BeActive“, sem er alþjóðlegt hvatningarátak um hreyfingu og bætta heilsu. Við ræddum við Lýðheilsufulltrúa Reykjavíkurborgar, Hörpu Þorsteinsdóttur, um félagslega virkni eldra fólks í Reykjavík og bætt lífsgæði þeirra. Svo var það lesandi vikunnar sem í þetta sinn var Sigrún Alba Sigurðardóttir rithöfundur og doktorsnemi við Hugvísindasvið Háskóla Íslands. Við fræddumst aðeins um nýju bókina hennar, Þegar mamma mín dó og svo fengum við auðvitað að vita hvaða bækur hún hefur verið að lesa undanfarið og hvaða bækur og höfundar hafa haft mest áhrif á hana í gegnum tíðina. Sigrún talaði um eftirfarandi bækur og höfunda: Rúmmálsreikningur (Om udregning af rumfang) VI e.Solvej Balle På Sct. Jørgen e. Amalie Skram Vi er fem e. Mathias Faldbakken Har døden taget noget fra dig så giv det tilbage - Carls bog e. Naja Marie Aidt Svo talaði hún um höfundana Astrid Lindgren, Guðrúnu Helgadóttir, Anne-Cath Vestly, Milan Kundera, Dostojevski og Isabel Allende Tónlist í þættinum í dag: Ljúfa vina / Ragnar Bjarnason og Sigrún Jónsdóttir (Ólafur Gaukur, Jón Sigurðsson og Jón Sigurðsson, texti Ólafur Gaukur og Indriði G. Þorsteinsson) Ó ljúfa líf / Flosi Ólafsson (erlend lag, texti Flosi Ólafsson) Heim / Magni Ásgeirsson (Magni Ásgeirsson og texti Magni Ásgeirsson og Ásgrímur Ingi Arngrímsson) UMSJÓN: GUNNAR HANSSON OG GUÐRÚN GUNNARSDÓTTIr

They came out, all of them, like Lady Macbeth, crying, “Out, damn spot,” anything to distance themselves from the words of Tyler Robinson to his lover to justify the killing of Charlie Kirk. What was Charlie's big crime? He believed in the biological reality of men and women and refused to go along with what he thought was a lie. To Tyler Robinson, that meant he was “spreading too much hate,” and it could not be “negotiated down.” He was not having a mental collapse. He was not suicidal. He was a cold-blooded assassin doing the bidding of fanatics whose fury had brought them to this deadly moment. And so Charlie had to die because that's what happens to “fascists.” All of us who have been booted out of utopia for one reason or another know what it feels like to have our characters assassinated by people who think their moral superiority means they have the right to be Judge, Jury, and now, Executioner of those who refuse to comply and conform.One wrong word and you're a “racist,” even trying to stand up for someone being called a racist, like Megyn Kelly or Chris Harrison did, means they'll assassinate your character anyway, with no due process and no presumption of innocence. It was in 2020 that I could not take it anymore, this ugly, unending, bottomless dehumanizing of Trump and his supporters. Maybe it was my over-abundance of empathy, maybe it was that I'd been attacked, my character assassinated. Or maybe it was lockdowns, my dear friend and ex-boyfriend overdosing on heroin from loneliness, and my daughter moving across the country. Whatever it was, I felt the cold hand of evil every time I logged on, and I watched them unleash hell on one man, his family, his staff, and his supporters.Why are they doing this? I demanded of them. They must know what I know that dehumanizing whole groups of people is never the right side of history, no matter what. But once they cast Trump supporters as “racist white people,” “fascists,” and “Nazis,” there were no limits on what they could say or do. But someone had to be lying. Why would millions of people have voted for Trump, including my brother, if he were as bad as the media said he was? And it turns out it wasn't just the media doing the lying. It was the Democrats, too, and all of those good soldiers on social media going along with their lies.I used to be one of them. I went along with the lies, too, because I thought we were fighting to defeat an existential threat. But by the end of it, all I could see was that we'd built an empire of lies, just like Bernie Madoff did, and that our empire would collapse just like his once people started to uncover the truth. It was always going to end up here, because that's how dehumanization campaigns always end. Lynchings in the Deep South, concentration camps in Nazi Germany, and the hangings in Salem. Or the Manson murders in 1969, the bombing of the Capitol in the 1970s. And now, attacks on ICE officers.Here is Mark Halperin covering for Megyn Kelly.The violence has continued because it's barely been reported accurately. They only publicize killings if they fit the already prescribed narrative, like if a “far right” white man opened fire. When it's on their side, they never address ideology. They say nothing when the hive mind indulges in a Trump death fantasy for an entire weekend, or TikTok users begging for someone to “just do it” and become a hero. Or planning their celebrations for the day Trump dies — where else did they think this was going? It wasn't just the assassination of Charlie Kirk; it was the response to the assassination. It was revealing because it showed just how delicious it all was for them. Why else would they have been celebrating and cheering? That's the itch they want to scratch, and they're just glad someone out there got the job done so they didn't have to get their hands dirty.Oh, how good that feels when all you have are fantasies and words and cancel culture and shunning and screaming at, which then became spitting on and kicking and finally, shooting. Violence, that's what all of this was invented for, right? How else do you think you could get people to fight and kill in war? They came out on social media like flesh-eating zombies from a 1950s horror movie. We won't mourn a “racist” or a “fascist,” they insisted. It seemed to track alongside the decency of those whose humanity was still intact, and who knew that we don't shoot people because they disagree with us. The more we all felt for Charlie and his family, the uglier their social media posts became. They could not absorb what just happened to America. So it had to be Charlie's fault, Out Damn Spot:Amanda Seyfried then backed away and gaslighted like they always do, deflecting blame, bringing up other acts of violence to lessen what just happened to America. This was it, the moment people like her and the Democrats, along with their influencers, could have stood up, led by example, and said ENOUGH. Hollywood, the Left, and the Democrats have looked uglier. Try as they might to reclaim their moral superiority, their reaction to Charlie's death said it all. Even if many of them did not go along with it, the fact that they haven't stood up against it makes them culpable for that and everything that's coming next. Charlie did not incite violence. He did not spread “hate.” He stated his opinions while listening to the opinions of others. It is his opinions they don't like because they are strictly verboten inside utopia. You must believe what they believe, speak like they do, or else. They have never figured out the ugly truth, that they are the fascists, as this TikTok user explains so perfectly:Charlie's death was a test, one they failed. They spent all of their decency cred turning Jimmy Kimmel into a martyr for free speech as the news was breaking that the Biden administration forced YouTube to censor and demonitize those who would not use preferred pronouns or dared to doubt the results of the 2020 election. Kimmel cried, so what? Kimmel got high ratings, so what? Nothing could clean them of the stench. Out, damn spot. Another TikTok user:After they destroyed and ripped up their version of Charlie, the high wore off. Hungry for more, they went after his wife, Erika. These tweets receive hundreds of thousands of likes, which is why they often appear at the top of everyone's feed. Each time, you are given a choice: flesh-eating zombie or decency. Now, she was a woman who was acting, who didn't shed a single tear. They dug into her past and found a bikini pic from her days as Ms. Arizona and somehow connected her to Trump. Nothing could clean them of the stench of Charlie's blood, no matter how hard they tried to rewrite the narrative that they were the good guys fighting actual Nazis. They have to reckon with the truth about who Charlie really was and then ask themselves whether these tweets, this decade-long dehumanization, mean they had nothing to do with it, and even now, must continue to pummel Charlie's reputation when he's not even here to defend himself. The legacy media knew ten years ago that violence was rising on the Left in response to Trump, as a direct result of the messages they were sending. They were not telling us the truth. Not then, not now.Some of them want pats on the back for finally noticing and writing stories about what people on the Right have been talking about for years.Matt Walsh imagines what would have happened if all of this had gone the other way. The Democrats need a revival of decencyWhat if Obama or Hillary or any of them had the courage and, yes, the decency, to say enough? ENOUGH. It's time to put our weapons down because a man was just shot in the neck for no other reason except that he didn't agree with the Left. What if they could say that? What if they could have their own revival, a revival of decency?What if that was the message Jimmy Kimmel gave? What if the Democrats made speeches in Congress, and that was the message? What if they apologized to all of us for lying about half the country for ten years? What if they said it was wrong to call other people “Nazis” and “Fascists”? The best they can muster, because even they know how bad this looks, deep down they know, is to “both sides” it, as Hillary does here:Rather than focus on themselves and what they've done, they have had Trump to use as their dumping ground. They are addicted to the daily ritual. That's the only purpose Jimmy Kimmel serves now, and John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, and the legacy media and Hollywood. But you have to ask, when is it enough?Ten years of nothing but blaming Trump, of hating and bullying people who might not agree with their increasingly cult-like doctrine, with no one in the Democratic Party to call them out or tell them to stand down. No one in the media either. If no one ever tells them that it's wrong, why would they stop?They have lost everything. Their numbers are in the toilet because Americans can't stand them anymore. The death of Charlie Kirk and their reaction to it have only made it worse. It has been a clarifying moment for many of us who might have been holding out hope that something this horrific might finally pierce the mass delusion that has taken us to this very dark place. The problem with what we built, our utopia oh so long ago at the dawn of social media, the iPhone, and our god and king, Barack Obama, was explained best by Milan Kundera in his book Laughter and Forgetting:Having an insulated, isolated utopia where the rest of America is locked out allows everyone to play the part they want. E. Jean Carroll gets to pretend she was defamed and walk away with almost a hundred million. Jimmy Kimmel gets to pretend he's a good guy, never meant to smear MAGA, and receives glowing headlines in the wake of it. Kamala Harris gets to pretend she ran a successful campaign, but America was too racist and sexist to vote for her. I used to think this was our biggest problem, this two-tiered society, their castle in the sky. But after Charlie, now, it is so much worse than that. Why can't they see what they've become? Why can't they see where it has taken us? Perhaps it was the immense outpouring of love for Charlie, the overwhelming grief of so many people, and the admiration for the impressive movement he built, which helped change the country and elect a president, that made them feel a little bit jealous. They don't have anyone like that on the Left because they can't do what Charlie did. They can't have conversations with people they see as “Nazis.”Sooner or later, the mass delusion will come to an end. It always does. Those who believe themselves to be better than half the country will have to face the truth about who they are. The only question is how bad it will get before they do. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sashastone.com/subscribe

Adrian Verbrugge speaks with Balázs Hidvéghi, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office about the shifting world order, the incorporation of Central Europe after 1989, the European Union, and the migration crisis.--Support DNW and become a patron at http://www.petjeaf.com/denieuwewereld.Prefer to transfer directly? Then transfer your donation to NL61 RABO 0357 5828 61 in the name of Stichting De Nieuwe Wereld.You can donate cryptos via https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/31d3b502-6996-41f6-97aa-ef2958025fb8-- ResourcesMillan Kundera's A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe (1983). Ook in het Nederlands: Een gekidnapt Westen (2024) uitgegeven door De Nieuwe Wereld / Ten Have, verkrijgbaar via https://www.uitgeverijtenhave.nl/boek/een-gekidnapt-westen/.--00:00 Highlights02:00 Introduction09:00 The End of Communism, the European Community and Yugoslavia16:45 The danger of Central Europe losing its traditionalist identity (Milan Kundera)21:30 The wide-ranging diversity of norms and values in Europe24:40 Migration as the turning point in EU relations28:58 The Migration Crisis (2015) as a test of power and sovereignty30:16 Hungary and the War in Ukraine36:21 The historical significance of the War in Ukraine40:00 The end of a liberal Europe?44:38 The future of the European Union--De Nieuwe Wereld TV is a platform that brings people from different disciplines together to think about major changes that are coming through a combination of rapid technological developments and globalisation. It is an initiative of philosopher Adrian Verbrugge in collaboration with anchors Jelle van Baardewijk and Marlies Dekkers.De Nieuwe Wereld TV is made in collaboration with the Philosophical School Netherlands.Our website: https://denieuwewereld.tv/DNW also has a Substack. Sign up here: https://denieuwewereld.substack.com/

De “La insoportable levedad del ser” de Milan Kundera a "la insoportable levedad del mal” que Hannah Arend acuñó a propósito del mediático juicio a Eichmann (1961) nazi que participó en la “solución final", para llegar a “Touch of Evil” ("Sed de Mal”) -1958- de Orson Welles. Todo empieza por un mítico plano secuencia de 3´ 20” y acaba con Marlene Dietrich echando las cartas al villano que interpreta Welles: "tu futuro no existe". Un policía atípico, un irreal villano, un santo bebedor en una pieza. Un mundo en el que el bien y el mal se confunden y su banalidad, ayer como hoy, todo lo iguala. Puedes hacerte socio del Club Babel y apoyar este podcast: mundobabel.com/club Si te gusta Mundo Babel puedes colaborar a que llegue a más oyentes compartiendo en tus redes sociales y dejar una valoración de 5 estrellas en Apple Podcast o un comentario en Ivoox. Para anunciarte en este podcast, ponte en contacto con: mundobabelpodcast@gmail.com.

De “La insoportable levedad del ser” de Milan Kundera a "la insoportable levedad del mal” que Hannah Arend acuñó a propósito del mediático juicio a Eichmann (1961) nazi que participó en la “solución final", para llegar a “Touch of Evil” ("Sed de Mal”) -1958- de Orson Welles. Todo empieza por un mítico plano secuencia de 3´ 20” y acaba con Marlene Dietrich echando las cartas al villano que interpreta Welles: "tu futuro no existe". Un policía atípico, un irreal villano, un santo bebedor en una pieza. Un mundo en el que el bien y el mal se confunden y su banalidad, ayer como hoy, todo lo iguala. Puedes hacerte socio del Club Babel y apoyar este podcast: mundobabel.com/club Si te gusta Mundo Babel puedes colaborar a que llegue a más oyentes compartiendo en tus redes sociales y dejar una valoración de 5 estrellas en Apple Podcast o un comentario en Ivoox. Para anunciarte en este podcast, ponte en contacto con: mundobabelpodcast@gmail.com.

Philosophize This!: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- Today we try to produce a philosophical guide for the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. We talk about Parmenides, Nietzsche's eternal recurrence, kitsch as something more than just an aesthetic category, existential codes and his animal test of morality. Hope you love it! :) Sponsors: ZocDoc: https://www.ZocDoc.com/PHILO Nord VPN: https://nordvpn.com/philothis Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help.  Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis  Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today we try to produce a philosophical guide for the book The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. We talk about Parmenides, Nietzsche's eternal recurrence, kitsch as something more than just an aesthetic category, existential codes and his animal test of morality. Hope you love it! :) Sponsors: ZocDoc: https://www.ZocDoc.com/PHILO Nord VPN: https://nordvpn.com/philothis Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help.  Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis  Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On today's Czechia in 30 Minutes show: Czechia defies trend: No recognition of Palestine, yet; Brno unveils Milan Kundera's final resting place; and, in our feature, we look back at Ruth Franková's interview with Adam Plachetka, one of Czechia's foremost opera singers, who this year celebrates ten years since his debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Enjoy!

Dear Ms. Maher,You don't know me, and there is no reason why you should. I am mostly a nobody. If people know me at all, they know me as a former Oscar blogger whose public support for Trump destroyed my so-called “career.”But really, I am not all that different from you. Or at least, I didn't use to be. I come from your world, more or less. Not that I was ever a tech-savvy, globtrotting millennial in charge of National Public Radio, but it would not have been unusual for me to take a picture of myself in a mask in November of 2020, wearing a Joe Biden hat.In November of 2020, however, I was already afraid of the Democrats retaking power. Things had gotten weird on the Left, Ms. Maher. Really, really weird and no one would talk about it, least of all NPR or PBS. Then again, they couldn't talk about it because they would be destroyed if they did. Everyone knew that, and everyone just went along with it, especially you.I am a creature of the Internet and a former lifelong Liberal who left the party and the movement in 2020 after things had derailed so badly that I could no longer stand to be associated with them. It was the dehumanization of half the country. It was the corruption within the Democratic Party. It was the dangerous future in store for the nation's young people.It took me a while to finally get kicked out of Woketopia for good, banished to the virtual gulag. I made a joke about “White Dudes for Harris,” suggesting finally “white power” was back in style. But one thing about the Woketopians, they have no sense of humor. None. It's been stripped away and replaced with yet more of the suffocating, repellent monoculture that's been shoved down our throats for these long ten years.They all thought I was serious, that I really meant it, that “white power” was back. Thousands saw the tweet. A close friend of mine would text me to see if I really meant it. I wanted to joke that no self-respecting “white supremacist” would be caught dead praising “White Dudes for Harris,” but I was already in too deep.That caught the attention of a reporter named Rebecca Keegan, who was a devoted NPR listener and a true believer in the causes of the Left. She called me a “MAGA darling” in the Hollywood Reporter. A major studio pulled their ads that day, and everything I built over the last 25 years as a “woman-owned” business went up in flames almost overnight.It's quite a story, Ms. Maher, but it's one people like you wouldn't even want to talk about. To you, it isn't “cancel culture,” it's “consequence culture.” Well, you might call the defunding of NPR and PBS the same thing, it's “consequence culture” as a populist movement decides to finally fight back.How it started…You were just ten years old when I got online, Ms. Maher. The year was 1994. Bill Clinton was still the president. Much like it did last year, my life had fallen apart, and I needed a reset. I found the perfect escape on the Wild, Wild Web, where I would live out the rest of the next 30 years of my life. I had a baby in 1998 and, as a single mother, built a website devoted to the Oscars in 1999.I also helped birth an entire industry, and before long, even The New York Times would have an Oscar blogger. I appeared on NPR a few times as an Oscars expert. I would attend film festivals all over the world and hobnob with the rich and famous at fancy parties.I would be invited to cover the Oscars, attending as a guest for almost ten years. I would make money from movie studios that thought my voice was influential enough to advertise on my site. I could buy a new car. I could support my daughter. I could pay my rent.I would use my website to advocate for a more diverse and inclusive Oscars by promoting women and people of color for the awards. I did this even before Barack Obama won in 2008, which coincided with the rise of Twitter, Facebook, and the iPhone. I wouldn't realize it until much later, but all of that coming together at once would allow us to build a necessary “inside” where we could eventually banish the undesirables to the “outside.”We all caught the wave at the same time. We had come out of the 90s era of therapy and psych meds, and now, we were ready to build our Shining Woketopia on the Hill. As society migrated online, it was all under our control. We would ultimately build an empire that represented nearly all of the power in America - cultural, political, educational, and institutional. But only a select few would be invited in.My daughter attended all of the progressive public schools in Los Angeles. We listened to NPR on the way to and from school. I was a PTA mom, a progressive, active Liberal who cared about the climate and racial inequality. I barely noticed around 2014 when my daughter began feeling depressed from what she was learning in school.As a white student, whose best friend was Black and whose president was Black, she was now being told to stand outside the circle and de-center herself from the students of color. She was taught that she was part of the oppressor class and was among the “colonizers.” This disease was inside of her; it was her “whiteness.”I didn't realize then just how deeply indoctrinated our public schools and universities had become. When she graduated from high school, only one of her friends wanted to transition to become a boy. Her mother, a Conservative, refused to give her puberty blockers and amputate her breasts, though she would finish the job when she turned 18 and is now living as a boy.By the time my daughter graduated from college, two of her roommates were on cross-sex hormones, changing their sex as a couple. A boy she had a crush on had now fully transitioned and is living life as a transgender woman. And no one in the media, not at NPR or PBS, ever warned them. They were indoctrinated now, too. COVID paranoia and lockdowns only served to heighten the growing anxiety and fear about saying or doing the wrong thing. Wokeness arrived first as a low-frequency hum, a reaction to the election of the first Black president. As Republicans began to obstruct his agenda, we called them “racists.” The Tea Party was racist; it had to be. The Freedom Caucus was racist; it had to be. Our president was perfect, and the only reason anyone would object to anything had to be racism.The “social justice warriors” who came of age online on sites like Tumblr ballooned into a massive army of zealots. None of us saw this coming, and by the time we did, it was too late. The protests at Evergreen College were the first indication that something had gone very wrong. Holding a professor hostage because he went against the doctrine? It should not surprise you, Ms. Maher, that NPR and PBS did not cover that either, although it would have made a compelling episode of Frontline. Had they come even remotely close to telling the truth throughout this era, maybe things would be different now.That left it up to independent voices to cover the growing scandal at Evergreen, the transgender contagion, and the obsession with race. That is how evolution left NPR and PBS in the dust. Those looking for truth and common sense had to escape the bubble. I'm guessing you never did, Ms. Maher.The army that took to the streets in 2020 was not peacefully protesting; they were demanding diners raise their fists in support of Black Lives Matter. They were demanding everyone put a Black square on Instagram, or else. My niece threatened to cut off all ties if I didn't. I told her she was in a cult.When I saw the video of Sue's 100-year-old mattress store in Kenosha burning as the city was consumed by a false narrative perpetuated by the media, that Jacob Blake was unarmed and there to break up a fight, I tried to post about it on Facebook. I was shouted down and told I cared more about property than I did about people. You agree with that, don't you, Ms. Maher? When Tom Cotton published an op-ed in the New York Times reflecting what the majority of Americans believed, that if the protests could not be controlled, we must “send in the troops.” Then I watched everyone online lose their minds over the truth - once again, the truth, always the TRUTH.By the end of it, James Bennett and Bari Weiss would be out at the New York Times. They would not be the only ones at the Times or other news outlets. Writers and editors would lose their jobs for posting headlines like “Building Matter Too.” Or because some overly fragile staffer felt unsafe and called them out for something, like racism. Hundreds and hundreds of “cancel culture” purges taught everyone the same lesson: say nothing, or you're next. A glance at your tweets around that time, Ms. Maher, suggests that you were fully on board with all of it, too - a true believer in the cause, probably like everyone else who runs a public radio station across America. So when you say they're “collateral damage,” know this: in a monoculture, everything is the same. If it isn't, you lose your job. That you did not listen to Uri Berliner's brave testimony in the Free Press, but rather demonized him for speaking out, should have been enough to force your resignation by the Board of Directors, but I'm guessing they're all on the same page as you. Your resignation letter might look something like this, posted by Representative Brandon Gill:You remember him, right? He grilled you pretty hard, and you maintained a poker face throughout, gaslighting all of us. It's not “fascism” that canceled Stephen Colbert and defunded public broadcasting. It's democracy. Your side was voted out by the guy you spent ten years trying to destroy. That alone should send the message that whatever you were doing backfired. Maybe you'll learn the lesson. Probably not. I can promise you those community radio stations in Trump states don't have any Trump supporters listening to them. And though I do notice some subtle changes in the coverage at NPR after a few casual searches, I'm afraid it's too little, too late. Those local stations are likely to be as woke and indoctrinated as NPR and PBS have become. They have to be because everything has to be in a monoculture like ours. There is no other option but for all of us to leave it behind. We don't want this indoctrination anymore - not in our schools, not in Hollywood, not in science, not in culture, and not in our news. Our American story has always been that we shook off the class system that decided our station in life at birth, that anyone could rise regardless of their status, where they were born, their skin color, or their gender. Obviously, we haven't always lived up to that ideal, but it is still our story.The Woketopians tell a different story. And it's one you believe in, Ms. Maher. Or at least you pretend to because as long as you pay obeisance to the cult, the activists will leave you alone. As I strolled through the Farmer's Market in my very white, very liberal town this morning, I was awash in hedonistic pleasure. The smell of fresh strawberries, bountiful basil, organic olive oil, a whiff of lavender carried by the wind, freshly ground coffee, and someone playing music in the distance. You would fit right in here, Ms. Maher, in a sunhat with a smile on your face, because this is where you belong, inside utopia. But I also know none of these smiling faces I pass know me. For all of their hybrid cars, the lawn signs, the pleas for “kindness,” the careful, gentle language so as not to offend all come with an implicit threat: obey our rules or we will destroy you. Milan Kundera explains what happened to the Left, as we built our Woketopian empire, in the Book of Laughter and Forgetting:To quote one of the greatest films ever made, one Hollywood will never come close to making again, No Country for Old Men. You can't stop what's coming. You can't stop what's coming. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity. Nothing will ever be the same when this is all over. The good news is that the empire's collapse will usher in a renaissance —a big bang of brand-new culture that is alive, fearless, and rooted in truth, not dogma. The best thing you can do is what I did: escape the bubble now and realize those who don't agree with you aren't your enemy. They are your fellow Americans. // This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.sashastone.com/subscribe

The Bridge of Dream chapter (Tyrion Five from A Dance with Dragons) delves deeply into a number of the key themes in the series. These include the subjective nature of reality, the non-thought of received ideas, and the unreliability of language/communication. These issues are central to the human experience, and their treatment in this chapter makes the case for a moral reading of the text. This is a response to the Bridge of Dream episode from Boiled Leather Audio Hour. Those guys are legendary ASOIAF podders, so please do give a listen to their work. The "non-thought of received ideas" I first encountered in Milan Kundera's Art of the Novel. He was responding to Flaubert's earlier, posthumously published Dictionary of Received Ideas. Both get at the cost and consequence to the individual and society as a whole when critical engagement with ideas fails. Please do check them out. Thank you for listening!

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comStop what you are doing and subscribe to Smoke ‘Em's new YouTube! Right now yes thank you. On to our regular program!Nancy and Sarah are joined by culture critic/novelist Kat Rosenfield to talk about who we can blame for our current morass: Social media? Heterodox thinkers? Everyone? The trio end up discussing the difference between activism and storytelling, what it means to be “disingenuous,” Kat's Twitter beef with Cathy Young, writer's envy (or maybe just Sarah's envy), and Kat's long-promised kimono, a gift for her most-frequent-guest status, which has not been bought yet (ed note: Sarah glares at Nancy). Trump's 100 Days: How did we get here? And if we all got into this together, can we get out together, too?Also discussed:* Three votes for the moon* Surprise cat appearance!* Trump “corrupts his allies and deranges his opponents in a way that makes the culture worse.”* Why categorizing anyone as “anti-anti Trump” is axiomatically corrupt* Ambiguity frightens people. * Losing friends for speaking up* Dick Cavett, the Joe Rogan of his day* Politics as a litmus test for moral character* England, don't stick your dick in a box of badgers* Dad-Bod-GatePlus, Sarah offers a poignant quote from Milan Kundera (or maybe Instagram; whatever), Nancy unintentionally inaugurates a “Hate Thing of the Week” feature, the problem with men wearing teensy-tiny pants, and much more!REMINDER: Paid subscribers can join us this Sunday, May 4, for our First Sunday Zoom, 5pm PT / 8pm ET, link sent out day-of!It's already May! Looks like the perfect month for you to become a paid subscriber.Reliable, beautiful and bright candidate that wasn't on the ballot (though Kat wrote it in)

It's a small world. The great David Rieff came to my San Francisco studio today for in person interview about his new anti-woke polemic Desire and Fate. And half way through our conversation, he brought up Daniel Bessner's This Is America piece which Bessner discussed on yesterday's show. I'm not sure what that tells us about wokeness, a subject which Rieff and I aren't in agreement. For him, it's the thing-in-itself which make sense of our current cultural malaise. Thus Desire and Fate, his attempt (with a great intro from John Banville) to wake us up from Wokeness. For me, it's a distraction. I've included the full transcript below. Lots of good stuff to chew on. Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 5 KEY TAKEAWAYS * Rieff views "woke" ideology as primarily American and post-Protestant in nature, rather than stemming solely from French philosophy, emphasizing its connections to self-invention and subjective identity.* He argues that woke culture threatens high culture but not capitalism, noting that corporations have readily embraced a "baudlerized" version of identity politics that avoids class discussions.* Rieff sees woke culture as connected to the wellness movement, with both sharing a preoccupation with "psychic safety" and the metaphorical transformation of experience in which "words” become a form of “violence."* He suggests young people's material insecurity contributes to their focus on identity, as those facing bleak economic prospects turn inward when they "can't make their way in the world."* Rieff characterizes woke ideology as "apocalyptic but not pessimistic," contrasting it with his own genuine pessimism which he considers more realistic about human nature and more cheerful in its acceptance of life's limitations. FULL TRANSCRIPTAndrew Keen: Hello everybody, as we digest Trump 2.0, we don't talk that much these days about woke and woke ideology. There was a civil war amongst progressives, I think, on the woke front in 2023 and 2024, but with Donald Trump 2.0 and his various escapades, let's just talk these days about woke. We have a new book, however, on the threat of woke by my guest, David Rieff. It's called Desire and Fate. He wrote it in 2023, came out in late 2024. David's visiting the Bay Area. He's an itinerant man traveling from the East Coast to Latin America and Europe. David, welcome to Keen on America. Do you regret writing this book given what's happened in the last few months in the United States?David Rieff: No, not at all, because I think that the road to moral and intellectual hell is trying to censor yourself according to what you think is useful. There's a famous story of Jean Paul Sartre that he said to the stupefaction of a journalist late in his life that he'd always known about the gulag, and the journalist pretty surprised said, well, why didn't you say anything? And Sartre said so as not to demoralize the French working class. And my own view is, you know, you say what you have to say about this and if I give some aid and comfort to people I don't like, well, so be it. Having said that, I also think a lot of these woke ideas have their, for all of Trump's and Trump's people's fierce opposition to woke, some of the identity politics, particularly around Jewish identity seems to me not that very different from woke. Strangely they seem to have taken, for example, there's a lot of the talk about anti-semitism on college campuses involves student safety which is a great woke trope that you feel unsafe and what people mean by that is not literally they're going to get shot or beaten up, they mean that they feel psychically unsafe. It's part of the kind of metaphorization of experience that unfortunately the United States is now completely in the grips of. But the same thing on the other side, people like Barry Weiss, for example, at the Free Press there, they talk in the same language of psychic safety. So I'm not sure there's, I think there are more similarities than either side is comfortable with.Andrew Keen: You describe Woke, David, as a cultural revolution and you associated in the beginning of the book with something called Lumpen-Rousseauism. As we joked before we went live, I'm not sure if there's anything in Rousseau which isn't Lumpen. But what exactly is this cultural revolution? And can we blame it on bad French philosophy or Swiss French?David Rieff: Well, Swiss-French philosophy, you know exactly. There is a funny anecdote, as I'm sure you know, that Rousseau made a visit to Edinburgh to see Hume and there's something in Hume's diaries where he talks about Rousseau pacing up and down in front of the fire and suddenly exclaiming, but David Hume is not a bad man. And Hume notes in his acerbic way, Rousseau was like walking around without his skin on. And I think some of the woke sensitivity stuff is very much people walking around without their skin on. They can't stand the idea of being offended. I don't see it as much - of course, the influence of that version of cultural relativism that the French like Deleuze and Guattari and other people put forward is part of the story, but I actually see it as much more of a post-Protestant thing. This idea, in that sense, some kind of strange combination of maybe some French philosophy, but also of the wellness movement, of this notion that health, including psychic health, was the ultimate good in a secular society. And then the other part, which again, it seems to be more American than French, which is this idea, and this is particularly true in the trans movement, that you can be anything you want to be. And so that if you feel yourself to be a different gender, well, that's who you are. And what matters is your own subjective sense of these things, and it's up to you. The outside world has no say in it, it's what you feel. And that in a sense, what I mean by post-Protestant is that, I mean, what's the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism? The fundamental difference is, it seems to me, that in Roman Catholic tradition, you need the priest to intercede with God, whereas in Protestant tradition, it is, except for the Anglicans, but for most of Protestantism, it's you and God. And in that sense it seems to me there are more of what I see in woke than this notion that some of the right-wing people like Chris Rufo and others have that this is cultural French cultural Marxism making its insidious way through the institutions.Andrew Keen: It's interesting you talk about the Protestant ethic and you mentioned Hume's remark about Rousseau not having his skin on. Do you think that Protestantism enabled people to grow thick skins?David Rieff: I mean, the Calvinist idea certainly did. In fact, there were all these ideas in Protestant culture, at least that's the classical interpretation of deferred gratification. Capitalism was supposed to be the work ethic, all of that stuff that Weber talks about. But I think it got in the modern version. It became something else. It stopped being about those forms of disciplines and started to be about self-invention. And in a sense, there's something very American about that because after all you know it's the Great Gatsby. It's what's the famous sentence of F. Scott Fitzgerald's: there are no second acts in American lives.Andrew Keen: This is the most incorrect thing anyone's ever said about America. I'm not sure if he meant it to be incorrect, did he? I don't know.David Rieff: I think what's true is that you get the American idea, you get to reinvent yourself. And this notion of the dream, the dream become reality. And many years ago when I was spending a lot of time in LA in the late 80s, early 90s, at LAX, there was a sign from the then mayor, Tom Bradley, about how, you know, if you can dream it, it can be true. And I think there's a lot in identitarian woke idea which is that we can - we're not constricted by history or reality. In fact, it's all the present and the future. And so to me again, woke seems to me much more recognizable as something American and by extension post-Protestant in the sense that you see the places where woke is most powerful are in the other, what the encampment kids would call settler colonies, Australia and Canada. And now in the UK of course, where it seems to me by DI or EDI as they call it over there is in many ways stronger in Britain even than it was in the US before Trump.Andrew Keen: Does it really matter though, David? I mean, that's my question. Does it matter? I mean it might matter if you have the good or the bad fortune to teach at a small, expensive liberal arts college. It might matter with some of your dinner parties in Tribeca or here in San Francisco, but for most people, who cares?David Rieff: It doesn't matter. I think it matters to culture and so what you think culture is worth, because a lot of the point of this book was to say there's nothing about woke that threatens capitalism, that threatens the neo-liberal order. I mean it's turning out that Donald Trump is a great deal bigger threat to the neoliberal order. Woke was to the contrary - woke is about talking about everything but class. And so a kind of baudlerized, de-radicalized version of woke became perfectly fine with corporate America. That's why this wonderful old line hard lefty Adolph Reed Jr. says somewhere that woke is about diversifying the ruling class. But I do think it's a threat to high culture because it's about equity. It's about representation. And so elite culture, which I have no shame in proclaiming my loyalty to, can't survive the woke onslaught. And it hasn't, in my view. If you look at just the kinds of books that are being written, the kinds of plays that are been put on, even the opera, the new operas that are being commissioned, they're all about representing the marginalized. They're about speaking for your group, whatever that group is, and doing away with various forms of cultural hierarchy. And I'm with Schoenberg: if it's for everybody, if it's art, Schoenberg said it's not for everybody, and if it's for everybody it's not art. And I think woke destroys that. Woke can live with schlock. I'm sorry, high culture can live with schlock, it always has, it always will. What it can't live with is kitsch. And by which I mean kitsch in Milan Kundera's definition, which is to have opinions that you feel better about yourself for holding. And that I think is inimical to culture. And I think woke is very destructive of those traditions. I mean, in the most obvious sense, it's destructive of the Western tradition, but you know, the high arts in places like Japan or Bengal, I don't think it's any more sympathetic to those things than it is to Shakespeare or John Donne or whatever. So yeah, I think it's a danger in that sense. Is it a danger to the peace of the world? No, of course not.Andrew Keen: Even in cultural terms, as you explain, it is an orthodoxy. If you want to work with the dominant cultural institutions, the newspapers, the universities, the publishing houses, you have to play by those rules, but the great artists, poets, filmmakers, musicians have never done that, so all it provides, I mean you brought up Kundera, all it provides is something that independent artists, creative people will sneer at, will make fun of, as you have in this new book.David Rieff: Well, I hope they'll make fun of it. But on the other hand, I'm an old guy who has the means to sneer. I don't have to please an editor. Someone will publish my books one way or another, whatever ones I have left to write. But if you're 25 years old, maybe you're going to sneer with your pals in the pub, but you're gonna have to toe the line if you want to be published in whatever the obvious mainstream place is and you're going to be attacked on social media. I think a lot of people who are very, young people who are skeptical of this are just so afraid of being attacked by their peers on various social media that they keep quiet. I don't know that it's true that, I'd sort of push back on that. I think non-conformists will out. I hope it's true. But I wonder, I mean, these traditions, once they die, they're very hard to rebuild. And, without going full T.S. Eliot on you, once you don't think you're part of the past, once the idea is that basically, pretty much anything that came before our modern contemporary sense of morality and fairness and right opinion is to be rejected and that, for example, the moral character of the artist should determine whether or not the art should be paid attention to - I don't know how you come back from that or if you come back from that. I'm not convinced you do. No, other arts will be around. And I mean, if I were writing a critical review of my own book, I'd say, look, this culture, this high culture that you, David Rieff, are writing an elegy for, eulogizing or memorializing was going to die anyway, and we're at the beginning of another Gutenbergian epoch, just as Gutenberg, we're sort of 20 years into Marshall McLuhan's Gutenberg galaxy, and these other art forms will come, and they won't be like anything else. And that may be true.Andrew Keen: True, it may be true. In a sense then, to extend that critique, are you going full T.S. Eliot in this book?David Rieff: Yeah, I think Eliot was right. But it's not just Eliot, there are people who would be for the wokesters more acceptable like Mandelstam, for example, who said you're part of a conversation that's been going on long before you were born, that's going to be going on after you are, and I think that's what art is. I think the idea that we make some completely new thing is a childish fantasy. I think you belong to a tradition. There are periods - look, this is, I don't find much writing in English in prose fiction very interesting. I have to say I read the books that people talk about because I'm trying to understand what's going on but it doesn't interest me very much, but again, there have been periods of great mediocrity. Think of a period in the late 17th century in England when probably the best poet was this completely, rightly, justifiably forgotten figure, Colley Cibber. You had the great restoration period and then it all collapsed, so maybe it'll be that way. And also, as I say, maybe it's just as with the print revolution, that this new culture of social media will produce completely different forms. I mean, everything is mortal, not just us, but cultures and civilizations and all the rest of it. So I can imagine that, but this is the time I live in and the tradition I come from and I'm sorry it's gone, and I think what's replacing it is for the most part worse.Andrew Keen: You're critical in the book of what you, I'm quoting here, you talk about going from the grand inquisitor to the grand therapist. But you're very critical of the broader American therapeutic culture of acute sensitivity, the thin skin nature of, I guess, the Rousseau in this, whatever, it's lumpen Rousseauanism. So how do you interpret that without psychologizing, or are you psychologizing in the book? How are you making sense of our condition? In other words, can one critique criticize therapeutic culture without becoming oneself therapeutic?David Rieff: You mean the sort of Pogo line, we've met the enemy and it is us. Well, I suppose there's some truth to that. I don't know how much. I think that woke is in some important sense a subset of the wellness movement. And the wellness movement after all has tens and tens of millions of people who are in one sense or another influenced by it. And I think health, including psychic health, and we've moved from wellness as corporal health to wellness as being both soma and psyche. So, I mean, if that's psychologizing, I certainly think it's drawing the parallel or seeing woke in some ways as one of the children of the god of wellness. And that to me, I don't know how therapeutic that is. I think it's just that once you feel, I'm interested in what people feel. I'm not necessarily so interested in, I mean, I've got lots of opinions, but what I think I'm better at than having opinions is trying to understand why people think what they think. And I do think that once health becomes the ultimate good in a secular society and once death becomes the absolutely unacceptable other, and once you have the idea that there's no real distinction of any great validity between psychic and physical wellness, well then of course sensitivity to everything becomes almost an inevitable reaction.Andrew Keen: I was reading the book and I've been thinking about a lot of movements in America which are trying to bring people together, dealing with America, this divided America, as if it's a marriage in crisis. So some of the most effective or interesting, I think, thinkers on this, like Arlie Hochschild in Berkeley, use the language of therapy to bring or to try to bring America back together, even groups like the Braver Angels. Can therapy have any value or that therapeutic culture in a place like America where people are so bitterly divided, so hateful towards one another?David Rieff: Well, it's always been a country where, on the one hand, people have been, as you say, incredibly good at hatred and also a country of people who often construe themselves as misfits and heretics from the Puritans forward. And on the other hand, you have that small-town American idea, which sometimes I think is as important to woke and DI as as anything else which is that famous saying of small town America of all those years ago which was if you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all. And to some extent that is, I think, a very powerful ancestor of these movements. Whether they're making any headway - of course I hope they are, but Hochschild is a very interesting figure, but I don't, it seems to me it's going all the other way, that people are increasingly only talking to each other.Andrew Keen: What this movement seems to want to do is get beyond - I use this word carefully, I'm not sure if they use it but I'm going to use it - ideology and that we're all prisoners of ideology. Is woke ideology or is it a kind of post-ideology?David Rieff: Well, it's a redemptive idea, a restorative idea. It's an idea that in that sense, there's a notion that it's time for the victims, for the first to be last and the last to be first. I mean, on some level, it is as simple as that. On another level, as I say, I do think it has a lot to do with metaphorization of experience, that people say silence is violence and words are violence and at that point what's violence? I mean there is a kind of level to me where people have gotten trapped in the kind of web of their own metaphors and now are living by them or living shackled to them or whatever image you're hoping for. But I don't know what it means to get beyond ideology. What, all men will be brothers, as in the Beethoven-Schiller symphony? I mean, it doesn't seem like that's the way things are going.Andrew Keen: Is the problem then, and I'm thinking out loud here, is the problem politics or not enough politics?David Rieff: Oh, I think the problem is that now we don't know, we've decided that everything is part, the personal is the political, as the feminists said, 50, 60 years ago. So the personal's political, so the political is the personal. So you have to live the exemplary moral life, or at least the life that doesn't offend anybody or that conforms to whatever the dominant views of what good opinions are, right opinions are. I think what we're in right now is much more the realm of kind of a new set of moral codes, much more than ideology in the kind of discrete sense of politics.Andrew Keen: Now let's come back to this idea of being thin-skinned. Why are people so thin-skinned?David Rieff: Because, I mean, there are lots of things to say about that. One thing, of course, that might be worth saying, is that the young generations, people who are between, let's say, 15 and 30, they're in real material trouble. It's gonna be very hard for them to own a house. It's hard for them to be independent and unless the baby boomers like myself will just transfer every penny to them, which doesn't seem very likely frankly, they're going to live considerably worse than generations before. So if you can't make your way in the world then maybe you make your way yourself or you work on yourself in that sort of therapeutic sense. You worry about your own identity because the only place you have in the world in some way is yourself, is that work, that obsession. I do think some of these material questions are important. There's a guy you may know who's not at all woke, a guy who teaches at the University of Washington called Danny Bessner. And I just did a show with him this morning. He's a smart guy and we have a kind of ironic correspondence over email and DM. And I once said to him, why are you so bitter about everything? And he said, you want to know why? Because I have two children and the likelihood is I'll never get a teaching job that won't require a three hour commute in order for me to live anywhere that I can afford to live. And I thought, and he couldn't be further from woke, he's a kind of Jacobin guy, Jacobin Magazine guy, and if he's left at all, it's kind of old left, but I think a lot of people feel that, that they feel their practical future, it looks pretty grim.Andrew Keen: But David, coming back to the idea of art, they're all suited to the world of art. They don't have to buy a big house and live in the suburbs. They can become poets. They can become filmmakers. They can put their stuff up on YouTube. They can record their music online. There are so many possibilities.David Rieff: It's hard to monetize that. Maybe now you're beginning to sound like the people you don't like. Now you're getting to sound like a capitalist.Andrew Keen: So what? Well, I don't care if I sound like a capitalist. You're not going to starve to death.David Rieff: Well, you might not like, I mean, it's fine to be a barista at 24. It's not so fine at 44. And are these people going to ever get out of this thing? I don't know. I wonder. Look, when I was starting as a writer, as long as you were incredibly diligent, and worked really hard, you could cobble together at least a basic living by accepting every assignment and people paid you bits and bobs of money, but put together, you could make a living. Now, the only way to make money, unless you're lucky enough to be on staff of a few remaining media outlets that remain, is you have to become an impresario, you have become an entrepreneur of your own stuff. And again, sure, do lots of people manage that? Yeah, but not as many as could have worked in that other system, and look at the fate of most newspapers, all folding. Look at the universities. We can talk about woke and how woke destroyed, in my view anyway, a lot of the humanities. But there's also a level in which people didn't want to study these things. So we're looking at the last generation in a lot places of a lot of these humanities departments and not just the ones that are associated with, I don't know, white supremacy or the white male past or whatever, but just the humanities full stop. So I know if that sounds like, maybe it sounds like a capitalist, but maybe it also sounds like you know there was a time when the poets - you know very well, poets never made a living, poets taught in universities. That's the way American poets made their money, including pretty famous poets like Eric Wolcott or Joseph Brodsky or writers, Toni Morrison taught at Princeton all those years, Joyce Carol Oates still alive, she still does. Most of these people couldn't make a living of their work and so the university provided that living.Andrew Keen: You mentioned Barry Weiss earlier. She's making a fortune as an anti-woke journalist. And Free Press seems to be thriving. Yascha Mounk's Persuasion is doing pretty well. Andrew Sullivan, another good example, making a fortune off of Substack. It seems as if the people willing to take risks, Barry Weiss leaving the New York Times, Andrew Sullivan leaving everything he's ever joined - that's...David Rieff: Look, are there going to be people who thrive in this new environment? Sure. And Barry Weiss turns out to be this kind of genius entrepreneur. She deserves full credit for that. Although even Barry Weiss, the paradox for me of Barry Weiss is, a lot of her early activism was saying that she felt unsafe with these anti-Israeli teachers at Columbia. So in a sense, she was using some of the same language as the woke use, psychic safety, because she didn't mean Joseph Massad was gonna come out from the blackboard and shoot her in the eye. She meant that she was offended and used the language of safety to describe that. And so in that sense, again, as I was saying to you earlier, I think there are more similarities here. And Trump, I think this is a genuine counterrevolution that Trump is trying to mount. I'm not very interested in the fascism, non-fascism debate. I'm rather skeptical of it.Andrew Keen: As Danny Bessner is. Yeah, I thought Danny's piece about that was brilliant.David Rieff: We just did a show about it today, that piece about why that's all rubbish. I was tempted, I wrote to a friend that guy you may know David Bell teaches French history -Andrew Keen: He's coming on the show next week. Well, you see, it's just a little community of like-minded people.David Rieff: There you go. Well, I wrote to David.Andrew Keen: And you mentioned his father in the book, Daniel.David Rieff: Yeah, well, his father is sort of one of the tutelary idols of the book. I had his father and I read his father and I learned an enormous amount. I think that book about the cultural contradictions of capitalism is one of the great prescient books about our times. But I wrote to David, I said, I actually sent him the Bessner piece which he was quite ambivalent about. But I said well, I'm not really convinced by the fascism of Trump, maybe just because Hitler read books, unlike Donald Trump. But it's a genuine counterrevolution. And what element will change the landscape in terms of DI and woke and identitarianism is not clear. These people are incredibly ambitious. They really mean to change this country, transform it.Andrew Keen: But from the book, David, Trump's attempts to cleanse, if that's the right word, the university, I would have thought you'd have rather admired that, all these-David Rieff: I agree with some of it.Andrew Keen: All these idiots writing the same article for 30 years about something that no one has any interest in.David Rieff: I look, my problem with Trump is that I do support a lot of that. I think some of the stuff that Christopher Rufo, one of the leading ideologues of this administration has uncovered about university programs and all of this crap, I think it's great that they're not paying for it anymore. The trouble is - you asked me before, is it that important? Is culture important compared to destroying the NATO alliance, blowing up the global trade regime? No. I don't think. So yeah, I like a lot of what they're doing about the university, I don't like, and I am very fiercely opposed to this crackdown on speech. That seems to be grotesque and revolting, but are they canceling supporting transgender theater in Galway? Yeah, I think it's great that they're canceling all that stuff. And so I'm not, that's my problem with Trump, is that some of that stuff I'm quite unashamedly happy about, but it's not nearly worth all the damage he's doing to this country and the world.Andrew Keen: Being very generous with your time, David. Finally, in the book you describe woke as, and I thought this was a very sharp way of describing it, describe it as being apocalyptic but not pessimistic. What did you mean by that? And then what is the opposite of woke? Would it be not apocalyptic, but cheerful?David Rieff: Well, I think genuine pessimists are cheerful, I would put myself among those. The model is Samuel Beckett, who just thinks things are so horrible that why not be cheerful about them, and even express one's pessimism in a relatively cheerful way. You remember the famous story that Thomas McCarthy used to tell about walking in the Luxembourg Gardens with Beckett and McCarthy says to him, great day, it's such a beautiful day, Sam. Beckett says, yeah, beautiful day. McCarthy says, makes you glad to be alive. And Beckett said, oh, I wouldn't go that far. And so, the genuine pessimist is quite cheerful. But coming back to woke, it's apocalyptic in the sense that everything is always at stake. But somehow it's also got this reformist idea that cultural revolution will cleanse away the sins of the supremacist patriarchal past and we'll head for the sunny uplands. I think I'm much too much of a pessimist to think that's possible in any regime, let alone this rather primitive cultural revolution called woke.Andrew Keen: But what would the opposite be?David Rieff: The opposite would be probably some sense that the best we're going to do is make our peace with the trash nature of existence, that life is finite in contrast with the wellness people who probably have a tendency towards the apocalyptic because death is an insult to them. So everything is staving off the bad news and that's where you get this idea that you can, like a lot of revolutions, you can change the nature of people. Look, the communist, Che Guevara talked about the new man. Well, I wonder if he thought it was so new when he was in Bolivia. I think these are - people need utopias, this is one of them, MAGA is another utopia by the way, and people don't seem to be able to do without them and that's - I wish it were otherwise but it isn't.Andrew Keen: I'm guessing the woke people would be offended by the idea of death, are they?David Rieff: Well, I think the woke people, in this synchronicity, people and a lot of people, they're insulted - how can this happen to me, wonderful me? And this is those jokes in the old days when the British could still be savage before they had to have, you know, Henry the Fifth be played by a black actor - why me? Well, why not you? That's just so alien to and it's probably alien to the American idea. You're supposed to - it's supposed to work out and the truth is it doesn't work out. But La Rochefoucauld says somewhere no one can stare for too long at death or the sun and maybe I'm asking too much.Andrew Keen: Maybe only Americans can find death unacceptable to use one of your words.David Rieff: Yes, perhaps.Andrew Keen: Well, David Rieff, congratulations on the new book. Fascinating, troubling, controversial as always. Desire and Fate. I know you're writing a book about Oppenheimer, very different kind of subject. We'll get you back on the show to talk Oppenheimer, where I guess there's not going to be a lot of Lumpen-Rousseauism.David Rieff: Very little, very little love and Rousseau in the quantum mechanics world, but thanks for having me.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

C'est Milan Kundera qui le disait : l'Enfant, c'est une existence sans biographie. Cette phrase pourrait habiller en partie l'étrange récit d'Amado Komi. Vous le savez, souvent, pour ESM, on évoque des histoires d'identité revendiquées, secrètes ou malmenées pour cause d'assignation ou de préjugés, des identités qui se transforment au gré des exils, des impossibles retours ou simplement du temps qui passe. Vieux père, l'histoire filmée par Marine de Royer entre Ouagadougou et Paris, le théâtre et les visites médicales, mais aussi entre deux âges pose une sacrée question (un peu genrée, désolée)… à savoir : qu'est-ce qu'être un homme ?

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is DR Shores, author of the book Shallow Stock. Raised on the Yorkshire coastline in the United Kingdom, D R Shores studied engineering prior to a twenty-five year career in business. Literature has always been a passion, with a taste ranging from Sigrid Nunez and Thomas Harris to established twentieth-century classics from Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ayn Rand and Milan Kundera. Now living with his family and introverted dog in the east midlands area of England, his other interests include music, current affairs, volunteering and keeping fit.   In my book review, I stated Shallow Stock is a suspense thriller that will keep you reading well into the wee hours of the morning! I loved the story and the intricate plotlines. As an author, I was also intrigued by how all the threads came together in the end.   The story has a Hatfield and McCoy vibe. Two families are at 'war' and have been for several generations. They each own a competing corporation and work tirelessly to out do one another. Wynter McGlynn is the CEO of one. Julian Dayton is the CEO of the other. Both currently have issues holding onto their positions of power and see the other as their biggest obstacle. The competition is fierce, but is it fair? And what happens when the finger pointing starts?   From black tie balls to crooked politicians to a city-wide triathlon to human trafficking to board meetings to interesting family dynamics, this book will lead you down a road you won't want to miss. And even when you think you've gotten the very last surprise, Shores finds a way to offer you a tidbit more. It's a great read!   Subscribe to Online for Authors to learn about more great books! https://www.youtube.com/@onlineforauthors?sub_confirmation=1   Join the Novels N Latte Book Club community to discuss this and other books with like-minded readers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3576519880426290   You can follow Author DR Shores: Website: https://shallowstock.com FB: @Shallow Stock X: @d_r_shores IG: @d_r_shores LinkedIn: @Duncan Shores   Purchase Shallow Stock on Amazon: Paperback: https://amzn.to/4boTcp8 Ebook: https://amzn.to/3EYiEpe   Teri M Brown, Author and Podcast Host: https://www.terimbrown.com FB: @TeriMBrownAuthor IG: @terimbrown_author X: @terimbrown1   #drshores #shallowstock #suspense #thriller #terimbrownauthor #authorpodcast #onlineforauthors #characterdriven #researchjunkie #awardwinningauthor #podcasthost #podcast #readerpodcast #bookpodcast #writerpodcast #author #books #goodreads #bookclub #fiction #writer #bookreview   *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Los títulos de la entrega de hoy de La ContraPortada, el especial de libros de La ContraCrónica son: 0:00 Introducción 2:41 "La extraña muerte de la Inglaterra liberal" de George Dangerfield - https://amzn.to/426PHjS 22:26 "El libro de los amores ridículos" de Milan Kundera - https://amzn.to/4bXcWAf 26:51 "Tiempo pasado" de Beatriz Sarlo - https://amzn.to/41u36kL y "Trilogía de Auschwitz" de Primo Levi - https://amzn.to/4fB5JWL 39:18 "La masai blanca" de Corinne Hofmann - https://amzn.to/4hFDyHg Consulta los mejores libros de la semana en La ContraBiblioteca - https://diazvillanueva.com/la-contrabiblioteca/ · Canal de Telegram: https://t.me/lacontracronica · “Contra la Revolución Francesa”… https://amzn.to/4aF0LpZ · “Hispanos. Breve historia de los pueblos de habla hispana”… https://amzn.to/428js1G · “La ContraHistoria de España. Auge, caída y vuelta a empezar de un país en 28 episodios”… https://amzn.to/3kXcZ6i · “Lutero, Calvino y Trento, la Reforma que no fue”… https://amzn.to/3shKOlK · “La ContraHistoria del comunismo”… https://amzn.to/39QP2KE Apoya La Contra en: · Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/diazvillanueva · iVoox... https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contracronica_sq_f1267769_1.html · Paypal... https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Sígueme en: · Web... https://diazvillanueva.com · Twitter... @diazvillanueva · Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/fernandodiazvillanueva1/ · Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/diazvillanueva · Linkedin… https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-d%C3%ADaz-villanueva-7303865/ · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/147276463@N05/?/ · Pinterest... https://www.pinterest.com/fernandodiazvillanueva Encuentra mis libros en: · Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-Villanueva/e/B00J2ASBXM #FernandoDiazVillanueva #liberal #primolevi Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

En este nuevo episodio de Biblioteca Personal, nos adentramos en la vida y obra de Milan Kundera, un escritor que logró dominar el arte de la novela y ser uno de los intelectuales más emblemáticos de su tiempo. Nacido en la antigua Checoslovaquia, Kundera se convirtió en una figura literaria universal, pero siempre evadió las etiquetas y los compromisos políticos, buscando únicamente la verdad en la narrativa. Desde La insoportable levedad del ser hasta Los testamentos traicionados, El olvido y La risa, entre otros, sus novelas se enmarcan en la categoría de tragicómicas, y mezclan a su vez un contenido profundo, denso y ligero, llenas de buen humor e ironía, que han generado todo tipo de interpretaciones que siempre cuestionó Kundera. Sus personajes viven en mundos donde las decisiones más trascendentales se entrelazan con lo absurdo, donde las pasiones se mezclan con el desencanto, y donde las grandes preguntas de la vida surgen entre risas y tragedias. Este episodio es un homenaje a la maestría de Kundera para mostrar cómo dominó el arte de la novela, ilustrando complejidades humanas a través de una lente irónica, y nos invita a reflexionar sobre cómo su visión de la vida sigue vigente y esencial para entender el mundo contemporáneo. Escúchalo ahora en Biblioteca Personal

What says “Merry Christmas” more than a sexy tale of infidelity and alienation set against the backdrop of soviet invasion and oppression?  In the Criterion Collection?  Not much. Join us as we discuss Phillip Kaufman's adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel of Prague Spring and its aftermath, starring some distractingly beautiful people. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store.  T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Nobuhiko Obayashi's House (1977).

本期岛上主播：何润哲 2024年，中法建交60周年之际，跳岛FM与法国驻华大使馆共同推出 「法兰西特派！La dépêche française ! 」 特别企划，用6期节目带领中文听众领略法国文学的独特魅力。作为整个系列的收官之作，本期节目迎来了首位来岛上作客的法国作家—— 大卫·冯金诺斯。 被誉为巴黎的"伍迪·艾伦"，冯金诺斯身负电影导演与百万畅销书作家两大头衔，如今已有五本作品被译为中文。在本次对谈中，主播何润哲将与他一起，沿着他的文学创作脉络，探究虚构与纪实，小说与生活之间微妙而隽永的联结。 生活之上，为什么还需要小说？ 冯金诺斯的创作充满变化，如同一场漫无目的的文学游戏。他落笔轻盈，却始终不忘探索创作的本质。他化身成《马丁一家》中灵感枯竭的小说家，随机选择路人作主角；他建起一座《退稿图书馆》，以"书之书"的形态拷问着人与文学间的关联；他多方收集材料，为天才艺术家《夏洛特》重述一段情感史。他始终在追问：身为创作者，该如何游走与现实与想象之间？生活与文学之间，究竟有怎样的关联？ 《微妙》与《回忆》让我们看到他创作的更多面向：人物情感的隐秘辗转，他人与自我生命的互相照见……他写文学，也写生活，因为对他来说，“每个人都能成为小说”。如果有一天，你的生活停滞不前，不如去小说里看看，答案也许就在那里。 【时间轴】 03:08 冯金诺斯的阅读习惯：冬天和夏天读不一样的书！ 05:25 《马丁一家》：每个人都可以成为一本小说？ 10:35 非典型的浪漫爱情故事《微妙》——人应如何与意外相处？ 14:07 为什么说“文学是某种形式的不忠”？ 15:30 爱情故事过时了吗？如何在当下书写浪漫？ 17:14 《夏洛特》：想象如何重构艺术家的真实生命？ 23:01 《退稿图书馆》：金钱将会怎样影响我们与文学的关系？ 26:52 《回忆》：如何借助他人的记忆，理解自己的生活？ 29:52 现代影像记录的便利会影响我们的记忆吗? 31:28 冯金诺斯对人名的研究大揭秘 【节目中提到的】 - 书籍 《微妙》《夏洛特》《回忆录》《退稿图书馆》《马丁一家》[法] 大卫·冯金诺斯 - 人物 路易斯·菲利普·米肖，魁北克作家。年轻时曾因脑瘫经历了一系列重大手术。现已出版奇幻文学作品《新魔法》。 卢基诺·维斯孔蒂，意大利电影与舞台剧导演，代表作有《魂断威尼斯》《诸神的黄昏》等。 夏洛特·萨洛蒙，犹太裔德国画家，第二次世界大战期间在奥斯维辛集中营被迫害致死。代表作有图像小说《人生？如戏？》。 帕特里克·莫迪亚诺，法国小说家，2014年获得诺贝尔文学奖。代表作有《暗夜街》等。 弗朗西斯·斯科特·基·菲茨杰拉德，美国小说家。代表作有《了不起的盖茨比》等。 川端康成，日本新感觉派作家、文学批评家，1968年成为首位日本人诺贝尔文学奖得主。代表作有《雪国》《古都》等。 文森特·威廉·梵高，荷兰后印象派画家。代表作有《星夜》《向日葵》等。 米兰·昆德拉（Milan Kundera），捷克裔法国籍作家，代表作有《生命中不能承受之轻》《笑忘书》等。 弗朗茨·卡夫卡（Franz Kafka），出生于奥匈帝国的德语小说家。代表作有《城堡》《变形记》等。 费奥多尔·米哈伊洛维奇·陀思妥耶夫斯基（Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy），俄国作家，代表作有《罪与罚》《白痴》《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》等。 - 影视 《魂断威尼斯》 【出品方】中信出版集团文学事业部 【制作人】何润哲 广岛乱 【文案编辑】Viann 【运营编辑】黄鱼 不理 【后期剪辑】Viann 茄汁鱼 【配音】刘照坤 【音乐】钱子恒 【视觉顾问】孙晓曦 【视觉指导】汐和 【平面设计】心心

The memoir is a fascinating form to explore. I'm always intrigued as to how an author can adapt their life and fit it into the confines of a page. How does one capture all its complexities, contradictions, and fleeting moments, in a narrative that feels both honest and coherent? My guest today is Susanna Crossman, a British-French writer, essayist, and clinical arts therapist, who has just published Home is Where We Start with Penguin Random House. The book is her own account of growing up in ‘the fallout of the Utopian Dream' – in a politically revolutionary Community in the late 1970s. In the fascinating work, she blends memoir and social commentary, weaving philosophical ideas into the wider narrative of her own experiences with community and disillusionment. It was great talking with Susanna today, and I'm so pleased to be able to share her insightful, nuanced thoughts about literature in general. Susanna has recently started a Substack, which you can check out here. Susanna Crossman's four books were: On The Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder (1937) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (1984) Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar (1951) What is Ancient Philosophy?, Pierre Hadot (1995) Lit with Charles loves reviews. If you enjoyed this episode, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a review of your own, and follow me on Instagram at @litwithcharles. Let's get more people listening – and reading!

It was like watching SEAL Team Six spelunk into a dangerous war zone and release the hostages from inside the bunker. Millions of us wandered out. We felt as though a great weight had been lifted. The sun shined once again after one long, dark winter. We were half-celebrating, half in a state of shock. “You mean … we're finally free?” Yes, said the soldiers. You are free.And as the author jotted out those words above, she thought to herself, can I actually write that? Will people say I am exploiting the suffering of the Jews during the Holocaust or still being held in Gaza? Will they say I don't know real suffering, and how dare I write such a thing? Yes, they will say that. But no, it won't matter anymore.The truth is that I was always free to write it. I just had to do it outside of the doomsday cult the Left has become. It wasn't some orb out in the middle of the Mojave. It was every major institution in America. And they most certainly aren't giving up without a fight. Heed the words of Peter Boghossian:Trump drove so many mad, from the Never Trumpers to the Woke Left, because they destroyed themselves trying to destroy him. Their biggest problem was that they were never fighting the real Trump. They were fighting one they invented, a supervillain whose mere presence could end democracy itself.It's hard to imagine such smart people losing their critical thinking ability. Power will do that to you, though. No one gives it up willingly. But still, you'd think some of them might have had an inkling America was ready for change by now.It's like that Milan Kundera quote about Totalitarianism:That's what's happened to America in the past four years. Our SEAL Team Six came just in time to liberate us from the tyranny of the minority.Did Rick Wilson really go into election night thinking Trump would lose that badly? How could he have been so confident to make this video the day before Election Day?How could the disconnect from reality be that profound? And when he was thoroughly and completely humiliated, along with all the other Never Trumpers, he blamed the voters. He blamed America.Meanwhile, a wellness check is needed on Jojo from Jerz, another who was so certain her daily rages on X, which earned her so many likes, represented, in any way, the majority in America:The country can't be run by people like Jojo from Jerz. She's just too crazy. No reality has ever once entered the chat. And there are too many just like her that control the entire Democratic Party.Even if Trump only serves one term and JD Vance is somehow beaten by a Democrat (I wouldn't hold my breath), they can always be credited as the liberators who freed all of us, our culture, our economy, our institutions from a cult.For those living in agony for the last four years, you can come out, come out wherever you are.A Mental Health CrisisJust before the election, Mark Halperin predicted a mental health crisis in this country if Donald Trump should win the election.At first, I thought he was exaggerating, but as I watched the reaction on the Left in the wake of another shocking win, I realized he wasn't. Isn't it just possible there is something wrong with the messenger if these folks are shocked yet again by a Donald Trump victory? I was shocked along with them in 2016, but by 2020, I got it.The more educated people are, the more they rely on NPR, the New York Times, NBC News, CNN, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the Hollywood trades—the less likely they are to see things as they really are rather than how they want them to be. And while it's true reality distortion exists on the Right, it's nowhere near the same level.The media is turning the so-called “4B movement” into a bigger story than it actually is because that, too, is a way to sell fear. These young women are the equivalent of an adolescent who is mad at her parents and refuses to eat her vegetables. NO, I WON'T DO IT!They somehow think this will cause any man in America one second of grief. The last thing they want is to have sex with any of them. Moreover, it's funny that they would think Conservatives would be mad that they aren't having sex and getting pregnant because all that means is less abortions.All of them are using whatever weapon they have to exact revenge on anyone who voted for Trump. They are people who already see themselves as victims. They see Trump and his voters as victimizers. They're living out some kind of fantasy where they can cosplay oppression. In a weird way, Trump gave them exactly what they needed.Inside Woketopia, the more marginalized you are, the more elevated you are. Black and trans people are treated like holy icons. Much is made of how to talk to them, how to make sure they feel safe around you because your white skin is so triggering. Each of them uses their marginalized status as a way to impose their will upon the rest of us. It's blasphemy to criticize or confront them.And herein lies the problem for the Democrats. They can't confront the crazy, let alone eradicate it. They are too afraid of the activists and the bullies on social media. They're afraid their careers will be over, like everyone else inside the doomsday cult.A Trump win makes them all believe that they have, in one election, lost all of their power. That's why you see so many Instagram posts about suicide hotlines but only for LGBTQIA or Queer women, or BIPOC. No white woman or man will get any sympathy for daring to use the moment to suggest they are in worse pain.But the psychosis is real. Watch this mother use her children to draw sympathy from them — yes, from them. Their hysteria and pain feed her need to feel like a victim. This bad thing just happened to HER, so everyone should have to pay, even her own kids.These kids will one day realize that they have been raised by a virulent narcissist, which is what drives this movement more than anything, and perhaps they will be among those who lead the next liberation should America once again be overtaken by a cult.The End of DaysThe women on the Left have centered their entire movement on the act of aborting a child they helped produce, as though the fetus itself, that got there through no fault of its own, is their oppressor. They worry for their daughter's inability to get an abortion, as though that's something every girl should want.// This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

Hlustaðu á þáttinn í fullri lengd inni á www.patreon.com/skodanabraedur Friðrik Rafnsson er þýðandi tveggja minna uppáhalds rithöfunda Milan Kundera og Michel Houellebecq. Í þessum þætti förum við yfir ítarlega yfir þessa tvo menn og Friðrik segir okkur frá hugmyndum þeirra, bókum og persónuleikum. Hann hitti Kundera oft og hefur þýtt hverja einustu bók hans. Houellebecq hitti hann líka þegar hann kom til Íslands árið 2012. Fyrri hluti þáttarins fjallar um Kundera og síðan skiptum við yfir í Houellebecq um miðbik. Þetta var dásamlegt að taka upp. Takk fyrir mig og Guð blessi ykkur kæra bræðralag.

In this 244th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we talk about the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.In this week's episode, we discuss excess deaths from 2021 on, and what the insurance industry is recommending that we do (more of the same treatments that got us into this mess!). Related: Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health during Covid, asks why “facing a common enemy” didn't bring us together, while celebrating the Covid “vaccines,” drugs, and tests. Scientific American endorses Harris, saying she's the right choice for your health. Kundera makes no distinction between legal and illegal vandalism. Bret puts forward further arguments for why it is the time to Rescue the Republic, and why fear is not the way forward. Heather reads about serpent badassery at the equinox.*****Our sponsors:Brain.fm: intense music that boosts productivity. Unlock your brain's full potential free for 30 days by going to brain.fm/DARKHORSECaraway: Non-toxic, beautiful, light ceramic cookware. Go to Carawayhome.com/DarkHorse for 10% off your order.Seed: Start a new healthy habit today with Seed probiotics. Use code 25DarkHorse at https://seed.com/darkhorse to get 25% off your first month of Seed's DS-01® Daily Synbiotic.*****Join us on Locals! Get access to our Discord server, exclusive live streams, live chats for all streams, and early access to many podcasts: https://darkhorse.locals.com/Heather's newsletter, Natural Selections (subscribe to get free weekly essays in your inbox): https://naturalselections.substack.comOur book, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century, is available everywhere books are sold, including from Amazon: https://a.co/d/dunx3atCheck out our store! Epic tabby, digital book burning, saddle up the dire wolves, and more: https://darkhorsestore.org*****Mentioned in this episode:Excess deaths: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/news/life-insurance/excess-mortality-may-stay-high-for-a-decade-swiss-re-warns-505653.aspxThe Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/covid-political-polarization-public-trust-vaccine/679806/Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vote-for-kamala-harris-to-support-science-health-and-the-environment/Milan Kundera on vandals (1967 essay): https://www.amazon.com/Kidnapped-West-Tragedy-Central-Europe/dp/0063272954/ref=sr_1_1Faces of protest: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/facesofprotestThe equinox: https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/the-equinoxCounty Highway: https://www.countyhighway.comRescue the Republic: https://jointheresistance.orgSupport the show

durée : 01:11:11 - Fictions / Théâtre et Cie - En hommage à Don Quichotte et Sancho Panza, nous avons choisi de faire entendre leurs héritiers, Jacques et son maître, saluant une œuvre fondée sur "la raison, le pluralisme de la pensée et la tolérance" comme l'écrit Milan Kundera. - invités : François Morel Chroniqueur radio, chanteur et comédien; Anne Alvaro comédienne

Last month, we ran an episode here by one of our amazing reporters, Eli Lake, that took us back to the tumultuous year of 1968 when President Lyndon Johnson dropped out of his own reelection race, and the resulting turmoil at the Democratic convention that followed that summer in Chicago. At the time of that episode, of course, Biden was still in the race, and Eli was guiding us through that history lesson in order to help us make sense of the present moment, and to indicate what might happen next.  Today, Eli is back on Honestly to do what he does best: look back in time and help us make sense of our baffling present. VP Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. She has the wind at her back, though she hasn't given a single interview, and every day someone else announces they've been coconut-pilled. But in her anointment to the top of the ticket, there's been a strange and silent rewriting of history by the press and party loyalists with the support of a lot of tech companies, who together are changing our collective understanding of the present and of the very recent past. Eli argues this has happened before. And not in America. . . but in the Soviet Union, and also in the works of brilliant writers like Milan Kundera and George Orwell, who imagined something, he argues, like what we're seeing right now. While that might sound like hyperbole, listen and decide for yourself. Because whether you agree or disagree with Eli's conclusions, I'm confident you will learn so much from listening to this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is about the liminal space we find ourselves in when we're in the process of becoming.I talk about the temptation to maintain the status quo, the importance of trusting in our desires, and the power of leaning wholly into our ever-changing selves.I hope this episode gives you comfort, reassurance, or reminds you that you can trust that the key to clicking back into place is to just keep becoming who we are.Mentioned:The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9717.The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_BeingWitchy Business is my monthly group coaching experience to help entrepreneurs cultivate the courage and openness necessary for integrity in this personal growth crucible called entrepreneurship. Send me an email if you're interested in joining myself and many amazing entrepreneurs: nataliekmiller@gmail.comMake Magic:Take comfort in knowing you're not alone. Trust in your desires and intuitions, and allow yourself to embrace the lightness of becoming. Reach out for support if you need it, and remember, the only way out is through. Keep becoming who you are meant to be.

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