NonzeroClips | Scientology vs. Covid-19 | Nikita Petrov & Tony Ortega @MeaningoflifeTV | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Subscribe to Nikita's newsletter at psychopolitica.com
A Scientology ship commander calls the pandemic “suppressive and anti-social” 5:50
Turning to L. Ron Hubbard during the pandemic: radiation as a state of mind 16:12
The appeal of groups like Scientology in a crisis 29:04
The pandemic is the rare mainstream event that got Scientologists’ attention 32:38
Hubbard and Trump, Scientology and post-truth 46:25
Nikita’s experience with an exercise similar to “past lives auditing” 52:53
We thought the Internet was a threat to Scientology. Were we wrong? 1:09:46
Nikita Petrov (Psychopolitica.com) and Tony Ortega (tonyortega.org, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely)
Recorded April 9, 2020
Join the conversation on MeaningofLife.tv: meaningoflife.tv/videos/42877
Subscribe to the podcast: meaningoflife.tv/subscribe
Subscribe to the MeaningofLife.tv YouTube channel: goo.gl/J9BHA4
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/MeaningLifeTV
Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/MeaningofLife.tv
Subscribe to Nikita's newsletter at psychopolitica.com
A Scientology ship commander calls the pandemic “suppressive and anti-social” 5:50
Turning to L. Ron Hubbard during the pandemic: radiation as a state of mind 16:12
The appeal of groups like Scientology in a crisis 29:04
The pandemic is the rare mainstream event that got Scientologists’ attention 32:38
Hubbard and Trump, Scientology and post-truth 46:25
Nikita’s experience with an exercise similar to “past lives auditing” 52:53
We thought the Internet was a threat to Scientology. Were we wrong? 1:09:46
Nikita Petrov (Psychopolitica.com) and Tony Ortega (tonyortega.org, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely)
Recorded April 9, 2020
Join the conversation on MeaningofLife.tv: meaningoflife.tv/videos/42877
Subscribe to the podcast: meaningoflife.tv/subscribe
Subscribe to the MeaningofLife.tv YouTube channel: goo.gl/J9BHA4
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/MeaningLifeTV
Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/MeaningofLife.tv
![On Social Censorship | David Ottlinger & J.P. Messina [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BVr8aXfkHZ4/hqdefault.jpg "On Social Censorship | David Ottlinger & J.P. Messina [Sophia]
1:49 How should we define censorship?
10:21 The sort of censorship that has no inherent moral valence
26:36 Various ways non-state actors can censor
34:51 When private censorship has moral stakes
43:37 Examining moral grandstanding
72:12 A changed heart vs. a false front
86:11 Could we ever resolve all our disagreements?
100:06 Reason, passion, and the founding of the Republic
David Ottlinger (The Electric Agora) and J.P. Messina (University of New Orleans)
Recorded November 13, 2019
Join the conversation on MeaningofLife.tv: http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/42364
Subscribe to the podcast: http://meaningoflife.tv/subscribe
Subscribe to the MeaningofLife.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/J9BHA4
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeaningLifeTV
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeaningofLife.tv")
![Automating the News | Robert Wright & Nick Diakopoulos [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CIrZoDzKmkA/hqdefault.jpg "Automating the News | Robert Wright & Nick Diakopoulos [The Wright Show]
00:26 Nick’s new book, Automating the News
05:22 Why Nick is not an alarmist about the automation of journalism
11:26 The types of journalism jobs that algorithms can’t replace
24:30 Successful collaborations between human journalists and machines
36:24 The perils of algorithmic fact-checking
42:04 Nick’s current research
48:03 Bob hopes for a bot that can assign blame for international law violations
50:49 Can the power of Twitter bots be used for good?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nicholas Diakopoulos (Northwestern University School of Communication, nickdiakopoulos.com)
Recorded September 10, 2019
Join the conversation on MeaningofLife.tv: http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/42290
Subscribe to the podcast: http://meaningoflife.tv/subscribe
Subscribe to the MeaningofLife.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/J9BHA4
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeaningLifeTV
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeaningofLife.tv")
![Is Wittgenstein Overrated? | Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CaXv8et4JZk/hqdefault.jpg "Is Wittgenstein Overrated? | Daniel Kaufman & Crispin Sartwell [Sophia]
0:33 Why Crispin loves writing takedowns of cultural icons
10:47 Crispin: Ludwig Wittgenstein is overrated
37:21 Dan objects to people who try to live their lives philosophically
51:31 Hume and the limits of human reason
64:45 Wittgenstein’s critique of representationalism
76:47 Did Wittgenstein debunk philosophical skepticism?
99:42 Crispin: I want my metaphysics to be compatible with my common sense
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Crispin Sartwell (Eye of the Storm, Entanglements: A System of Philosophy)
Recorded October 2, 2019
Join the conversation on MeaningofLife.tv: http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/42300
Subscribe to the podcast: http://meaningoflife.tv/subscribe
Subscribe to the MeaningofLife.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/J9BHA4
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeaningLifeTV
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeaningofLife.tv")
![Postmodernism in Life and Literature | Daniel Kaufman & E. John Winner [Sophia]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EB1s9qOzH20/hqdefault.jpg "Postmodernism in Life and Literature | Daniel Kaufman & E. John Winner [Sophia]
1:43 A brief history of 20th-century literary criticism
21:08 John’s battles against radical feminists as a grad student at SUNY Albany
28:28 Post-structuralism and “how modernity failed itself”
40:58 English department politics
51:20 John: “Postmodernity is all around us”
67:32 Postmodernity in the world vs. in the academy
73:41 Post-postmodernism and cultural stagnancy
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and E. John Winner (no sign of it, The Electric Agora)
Recorded August 23, 2019
Join the conversation on MeaningofLife.tv: http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/42147
Subscribe to the podcast: http://meaningoflife.tv/subscribe
Subscribe to the MeaningofLife.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/J9BHA4
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeaningLifeTV
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeaningofLife.tv")
![The Philosophy of Aspiration | Robert Wright & Agnes Callard [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EFqUahbPP2Y/hqdefault.jpg "The Philosophy of Aspiration | Robert Wright & Agnes Callard [The Wright Show]
00:15 Why Agnes once lay down on the yellow line in the middle of the road
11:39 What explains “akrasia,” or weakness of will?
21:57 Agnes’s book, Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
35:41 How Agnes views free will and self-creation
48:29 How do you become the “you” that you want to be?
59:13 Aspiration and the divine
62:32 Agnes’s forthcoming book on how Socrates changed the rules
Recorded September 5, 2019
Join the conversation on MeaningofLife.tv: http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/42205
Follow Bobs Mindful Resistance Newsletter http://mindfulresistance.net/
Subscribe to the podcast: http://meaningoflife.tv/subscribe
Subscribe to the MeaningofLife.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/J9BHA4
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeaningLifeTV
Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MeaningofLife.tv")
