(EF40) Uncertainty
The doors to our collective past are closing for good, and the doors to the future are opening into darkness.
(EF40) Time to Renegotiate
Few people have the guts to tear up the social contract they were handed at birth.
(EF40) Who Decides?
Have you ever had the guts to ask, why do we have all this stuff instead of some other stuff?
(EF40) Reality Check
Don’t you sometimes think there’s something wrong with this reality we’ve created?
(EF40) Which Stories Dictate Your Reality?
Society and culture are fictions that will dictate your life if you let them.
(EF40) Accept or Decline?
If you reject the terms and conditions of this globally accepted hallucination called society, be prepared to burn at the stake.
(EF40) Humanity’s Last Stronghold
Isn’t it time to embrace what means to be human before it gets redefined by technology?
(EF40) Only One Person to Blame
You don’t have to accept the mess being thrown at you; the future is yours to create.
Greta Thunberg
Episode EF40 is dedicated to Greta Thunberg, a Swedish climate change activist who, at the age of only 16, rattled the collective cage of the previous generations more powerfully than any adult could. She was only 15 at the time of her initial protests in front of the Swedish parliament in 2018. Thunberg also did a TEDx talk in late 2018 where she shared her concern and disappointment of how little humanity is doing about one of civilization’s biggest existential threats. Then, in 2019 she inspired two global climate change rallies joined by millions around the world.
EF40 Show Notes
Sam, a 16-year-old from the South, organizes a school walkout to protest the technological trends leading society towards an AI-run government owned by corporate tech royalty. Will this lead to a near future of radical inequality between the transhuman haves and have-nots? Facing backlash from the previous generation which refuses to look inself the mirror to see the truth, Sam learns that social conformity hasn’t changed since at least the 14th-century witch hunts. Instead of getting burned on a stake, will Sam get devoured by cultural pressures where everyone is expected to wear their given mask and mimic one another in the social mirror? To understand if humanity needs society and culture, we must first understand your ties to society as an individual. Using Edmund Burke’s theory of Social Contract, and what sociologist Émile Durkheim sees as the difference between laws and norms, we will hope to dissect the core of what it means to live in society. More importantly, what are your possibilities, if any, for rewriting the terms of the contract you’re given at birth?
EF40 (S2-E1): Dehumanized: The Search for Self in the Devil’s Looking Glass
The big question driving Episode EF40 is … Do we need society and culture? Sam, a 16-year-old from the South, organizes a school walkout to protest the technological trends leading society towards an AI-run government owned by corporate tech royalty. Will this lead to a near future of radical inequality between the transhuman haves and have-nots? Facing backlash from the previous generation which refuses to look inself the mirror to see the truth, Sam learns that social conformity hasn’t changed since at least the 14th-century witch hunts. Instead of getting burned on a stake, will Sam get devoured by cultural pressures where everyone is expected to wear their given mask and mimic one another in the social mirror? To understand if humanity needs society and culture, we must first understand your ties to society as an individual. Using Edmund Burke’s theory of Social Contract, and what sociologist Émile Durkheim sees as the difference between laws and norms, we will hope to dissect the core of what it means to live in society. More importantly, what are your possibilities, if any, for rewriting the terms of the contract you’re given at birth?
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(EF40) SEASON TWO, EPISODE ONE TEASER:
Finding your place in society can feel like being forced to replicate the movements of others in a mirror. Does our technology buy us freedom from conforming, or dehumanize us? And do individuals really need society and culture anyway?