What's good world, we back from the crypt with some more of that hood philosophy shit.

In this episode, I'm talking the relationship between existential, phenomenology, and collectivism as expressed through Chalchiuhtlicue in ancestral Nahuatl philosophy and how it can lay the foundation for a better non-Marxist future.

I'm also talking about how The Mist by Steven King is a perfect metaphor for not only everything we're currently dealing with from a geopolitical standpoint, but for all the mysterious fogs that are popping up around the US. All this can be best understood through a little horror of philosophy by Eugene Thacker, so you know I had to sprinkle a little bit of that in, too.

And you know I had to continue along with the Repressive Tolerance article by Marcuse!

Ohh yeah, I also talk about how my now ex-girlfriend and I broke up recently after 15 years together, and how this lays the foundation for the overall theme of the episode which is learning to swim through the waters of life.

Stay woke fam...

What's good world, we back from the crypt with some more of that hood philosophy shit, and on this episode we diving deep into the haps of the last month since the previous episode, including a deeper dive into the article 'Repressive Tolerance' by Herbert Marcuse.

Before all that though I talk ancestral Nahuatl philosophy, Type O Negative and the indelible effect Peter Steele in particular has had on my life, one last Christmas holiday zombie movie (Black Friday with Bruce Campbell of Evil Dead fame), the relationship between zombies, Marx, and capitalism, the events that occurred in New Orleans and Las Vegas (nah straight up, we were hoping for Project Blue Beam and all we got was TEMU September 22th, what a let down), how this in and of itself is an extension of the class war we are ensnared in, and finishing alladat up with the dangers of technocracy, censorship, and the limiting of reality through the policing of language that Marcuse discussed nearly sixty years ago!

It's honestly a banger of an episode homie, and without a doubt the longest to day date, a trend that will be the new norm for this podcast - I hope it helps kill the time in between episodes, and if you can get through the end in one sitting, you a real one fa sho.

Stay woke fam...

What's good world, we back from the crypt with some more of that hood philosophy shit, and on this episode, I'm delving in to the article 'Repressive Tolerance' by Herbert Marcuse.

In my humble opinion, this is a seminal text in critical theory, one that often gets over looked, and given its relevance to today's political climate, I felt it appropriate to delves into.

Well, the first four pages cuz this is a dense read and I ended this episode near the two hour mark! Suffice to say, I'm very much looking forward to breaking it down in future episodes.

For now, I discuss the rise of Nazi and Hitler apologists, how Marx predicted this wave of anti-Semitism as being inextricably tied to capitalism and dire material conditions, and how Marcuse can help us understand that the only way to really combat it is to 'meet the people where they are at', to put it kindly.

This is a controversial take from a controversial text, so it should go without saying that this is perhaps one of the more (admittedly) controversial episodes I've made. But as I mention, life is not easy pretending otherwise by stating we can't have such difficult conversations is exactly what Marcuse means by repressive tolerance.

Stay woke fam...