It can be very difficult to separate effects from causes. Especially when it can feel so good to find certainty. We at Rank Ideas HQ up on Moon Mountain are pretty cold on ideology in particular, given it seems to be the ultimate manifestation of explanaining at the expense of exploring. This makes intersectionality is a curious proposal, given it offers both a comfortable handle to circumvent this instinct, but is also a shorthand in itself. How will it rank? Find out, with your incrementally-allotted visit to Moon Mountain™, "It's tomorrow, today!"  P.S. Here is that essay Chris doesn't shut up about: Nexus causality, moral warfare and misattribution arbitrage. | Edge.org

We at the Rank Ideas headquarters know that people love to back an underdog. It just feels so good when the little one chalks up a win over the incumbent titan! That's why - despite being a minnow in the podcasting world (outside of Laos) - we continuously behave as though we host the greatest show available in human history. Which we do. But we really don't want everyone else to act like that's the case. That would become tedious. Enjoy another episode!

Equality is an interesting idea that I will readily advocate for when shortchanged a piece of watermelon, and comfortably abandon when I am the one with the surplus melon. Unless I can trade the extra watermelon for some social credit/higher value melon. I wonder if this melon observation typed in a podcast blurb will earn me a Nobel Prize in Economics. And/or Literature. All things being equal, I guess I already have those. Closing remarks? 'Power of Equality' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers isn't as good as their other songs. How 'Ironic'. Especially given that Flea plays bass on the Alanis album, Jagged Little Pill. What an incredible world. Equality.

It's our first major anniversary! Wow! What better way than to celebrate turning 100 than by letting our live audience select the most sexy topic imaginable to be ranked. That's right - it's boredom! We also snuck in a bonus round where we invited everyone to challenge anything on the list. Some good condenders! Listen to the end to see how they all fared. Thanks for joining us and here's to 100 more :) 

Catch a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Sounds pretty good. Hard to think of a better system. Teach a man to deconstruct gendered proverbs, he will become insufferable for life. In fairness, chances he was already insufferable were probably good. Is this a good caption? I'm self-taught. Enjoy the episode!

Sometimes we voluntarily participate in systems that are designed to exploit us while being falsely presented as valuable. It's a sad, sad reality to navigate sometimes for the truly cucked. Don't forget to sign up to Chris' patreon over at patreon.com/endrey - that's patreon.com/endrey

If these trends continue, we'll never get to the end of knowledge. But maybe we will, let's be honest, how could you know. In the meantime, it's lovely that we have the capacity to explain everything else as magic. It just feels better that way.

"Without the ability to create, we are nothing.  With the ability to create, we are nothing." - Dalai Lama    The Dalai Lama never said that, as far as I know. I just made it up!

All you can eat is my favourite genre. But is it the best genre for me? Probably. Depends on the price. I'm sure there are other arenas of life where the concept of a limit may apply, and I'm confident that the only limitless thing you will experience today is the quality and rigour with which Nick D and Chris E tackle the topic.

I know that you only listen to the Rank Ideas podcast, but is that necessary? What if there were other, better podcasts out there? A fun abstract thought experiment maybe, but are there places where loyalty isn't so reliably rewarded, 100% of the time, by your favourite hosts Nick and Chris? A terrifying question to ask, but if we're loyal to one thing, it's the self-soothing narrative that we're bold.