Patron-Only AMA #2 October 2025

Nice playlist, you into the new Yellow Eyes?

Thanks so much for the playlist! It’s 🔥🔥🔥. I also wanted to recommend a nice way of reading the Bible is listening to the audiobook of Johnny Cash reading the complete New Testament. It’s currently included on Spotify premium. I swear I’m not paid by Spotify! Just sharing !

On the topic of books on history and/or politics. I recently rewatched your video on Nina Power's What Do Men Want? (I need to pick that one up), and at the end of the review you mention having Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism in the mail. If you haven't gotten around to reading that one yet, I cannot recommend it enough. Capitalist Realism along with Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death are in my opinion the two most important reads required to start making the tiniest bit of sense of these dark, dismal, and disorientating times we're living in. Postman's book, published in the 80's, is a critique of television's ruinous effects on public, political discourse among other things. Replace every mention of TV in the book with social media and the text hits even harder. From the foreword, hell, it's about half of it: "What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the marked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny 'failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.'" As someone who has no higher formal education on these topics, I found both books very accessible and at times even funny. They're great food for thought even if they don't end up getting reviewed. I think you'd find them both very interesting. Thanks for the AMA, I'm really digging this new format. Keep up the good work and take care!