Ep 11: Coming of Age

In this coming-of-age episode, Micah and Ryan explore the problems with Millennials and Gypsies, find out why hippies become bankers, solve deep theological problems with the Power Rangers, and give the world a sure-fire formula for success!

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• Strange Loops, Exponential Extrapolations, and the Simulation Argument
• Is there a scientific test to see if we’re living in a simulation?
• We’re the adult version of Sesame Street
• The three-body problem is what makes the trinity so difficult to understand
  • The trinity and pie
  • The trinity and pi
  • All the other illustrations fail miserably, so I use my go-to illustration of The Megazord from The Power Rangers
  • Captain Planet
  • A film adaptation of Captain Planet?
  • Ted Turner
• Both numerable and innumerable
• Our bumper music is just an exclamation of incredulity
• Millennialism, Catholicism, Nihilism, Eddie Izzardism, and the new iOS X
• Our role models - TMZ or bathroom graffiti?
• This is our coming of age episode
• “What have I become?” - Johnny Cash quoting Trent Reznor
• How do you pronounce NietzsChe Guevara?
• A Salinger documentary?
• The Eternal Return, a recurring theme of this podcast
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• A reading list for this show — add your contributions here!
• Why are millennials unhappy?
  • Gen Y Millennials, or GYPSYs
  • Flotsam Gypsum and Lorem Gypsum
  • You are a special butterfly
• Trying to convince ourselves we’re special
  • The Flight of the Conchords and their fanbase
  • Ylvis
  • Ryan Hogan’s Sure-Fire Formula for Success:
    • move to New Zealand or Norway and start a comedy band
• Hippies and cults
• Idealists vs Radicals
  • Idealists think things can be better
  • Radicals believe there is a core, and everything else needs to be cut away
  • Existence precedes essence
  • There are good things in the world, we’ve got to rip open the containers to get at them
  • Radicalism is unsustainable
  • Hippies become cultists, then Wall Street Bankers
  • Watch out for the New Radicals!
  • The Flaming Lips, One Direction, and One Republic
  • The defeaters of orthodoxy become the defenders of orthodoxy
  • A band named “Pope”, with a lead singer who is a puppet
• Dualistic Tensions
  • Apollo and Dionysus and art history
  • Chaos and Order
  • Will to Power bars
  • Schwa-sticka
  • Sisyphus or Silliphus or Syphilis?
  • Futile or Feudal or Futile?
• The problem with cubicle walls
  • Tearing down cubicle walls
  • The frustrating thing about cubicle walls is that they’re not real walls
  • They don’t imprison you, YOU imprison you!
  • They point to how the modern world renders your natural instincts impotent
  • The Stapler Guy
• We finally figure out how to use the Butterfly Effect to make ourselves feel special