Episode 19: Half-White Half-Filipino Entertainers, Nietzsche’s ‘Beyond Good and Evil’, and That Time Betsy Franco Read My Short Story from Our Hella Confusing Twenties

Our Hella Confusing Twenties

Jeremy Griffith

Episode 19: Half-White Half-Filipino Entertainers, Nietzsche’s ‘Beyond Good and Evil’, and That Time Betsy Franco Read My Short Story

57 minutes Posted Jun 29, 2021 at 4:19 am.

We just MADE UP numbers!

My playlist tonight is just thoughts.

On “Blasian Representation”

How I felt seeing half White half Filipinos in the media

How I DON’T think

Race problem solved

Jordan Peterson on the dangers of the arrogance of the intellect.

Glenn Loury on identifying as a Westerner

The media and ideas I was raised on.

Tobias Wolff and Raymond Carver

My creative writing class at Chabot

That time I met Tobias Wolff

The nobility of writing

My published story and having Betsy Franco read it

I’ll always come back to fiction, I’ll always make screenplays

The feedback Betsy Franco gave my story

At least I got “Bullet in the Brain” signed, hahaha

I hate insensitive comments about mental illness, especially from loved ones

You’ll always have all kinds of people

How good is ‘The Darjeeling Limited’?

The “Hotel Chevalier” Short Film

On Nietzsche’s ‘Beyond Good and Evil’

People will live and die and never grapple with ideas as lofty as these

Why my former classmate’s mother loved Jon Stewart

The value of art

A Connoisseur of nuance

The more sides you see, the more you understand truth

Do we need lies to survive?

The fragility of the average mind

God is essential, if you can’t find Him, you must create Him

Most belief systems are prejudices, notions, or inspirations defended after the fact

Master morality v. Slave morality

Being hyper-critical of great figures out of insecurity

Detaching yourself from your culture

Where do our thoughts come from?

I’m such a genius

You’re my tribe!

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In this, the 19th of (hopefully) many episodes he offers up some thoughts on media representation, being a Westerner through and through, the nobility of being a writer, how much he hates insensitivity around mental illness (but is not surprised by it), and how much he loves Wes Anderson's 'The Darjeeling Limited.

Hopefully something in this podcast inspires you to act with a little more empathy today, or a bit more courage. Or, at the very least, makes you feel a little bit less alone in your confusion.

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