The IRREGULAR MAN Podcast

Does my skin color dictate how far I can go in society? Is this all just a head game that we are losing because people tell us that we are “disadvantaged”?

Living is a series of serious experiments that put us in moments of pain, pleasure and introspection. It can be brutal, but one can learn to lean into the adversity and become all the better for it.

We forecast the weather, sales and elections. We as human beings have a fascination with WHAT WILL HAPPEN.  I don't think we would know what to do if we could really tell what would happen two days from now.  It would be a destructive power, disrupting everything, echoing in ripples, breaking all it touches.

Why orchestrate an elaborate lie to intentionally stoke the flames of hatred in this already racially-sensitive time? Jussie Smollett was afraid to look at himself honestly, and found out quite quickly that the man in the mirror is just as hateful as his contrived attackers.

We seek pleasure instead of pain, the ever elusive happiness, and play as if that is the meaning of life. Yet, it is illusory, for such a goal only cheapens our experience of living in earth.

It’s not about Harry Potter or Oz. It’s more real and closer to home. It is about the words people use to control what you think. We have all been compromised.

As #metoo continues to crest, masculinity seems to be under attack. Men and women are at odds about what useful men appear to be and what it means to be male. Gillette has taken up the fight and dug in their heels with a new commercial that asks the question: “Is this the best a man can get”?

Learned helplessness is behavior that occurs when the subject endures repeatedly painful or otherwise aversive stimuli which it is unable to escape from or avoid. After such experiences, the organism often fails to learn or accept "escape" or "avoidance" in new situations where such behavior is likely to be effective. In other words, the organism learned that it is helpless. In situations where there is a presence of aversive stimuli, it has accepted that it has lost control and thus gives up trying, even as changing circumstances offer a method of relief from said stimuli. Such an organism is said to have acquired learned helplessness. Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses may result from such real or perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation. (Wikipedia)

In the Age of Information, Flat Earth Theory has resurfaced. I discuss some of the ideas and expose my fascination. Will they make a believer out of you?

A cool, post-apocalyptic mash-up of A Link to the Past and Diablo, “Hyper Light Drifter” makes you wish for the days that the SNES ruled the console world. Listen to my personal, existential take on the game.