Pagan Centered Podcast – Episode 136 – Under the Influence of P.C.

2010
01.25

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01:26 Terms in Pop Culture that relate to Metaphysics
01:51 Study done on children under 10, concluding that Batman etc. is not real.
02:25 If children realize Batman is not real, why do we have adults that have difficulty with this concept?
02:54 Taking art and entertainment too far.
03:35 People are looking to escape
03:54 Why are people getting so obsessed with games?
04:39 Do children lack an imagination nowadays?
05:32 Blaming television for a lack of imagination isn’t the correct framework to be thinking within.
06:04 Kids don’t read books for fun.
08:18 Children that have a hard time imagining things tend to have uninterested parents.
09:36 The new white-collar drug is video games.
09:58 What’s so wrong with modern life that we need this escapism?
10:15 It’s not the fault of the creator, it’s the issue of how people cope with something (a-la violent video games)
10:41 Archetypal information
11:15 Disconnection from reality for the sake of pleasure
13:38 Our options for escapism have been reduced, resulting in less face-to-face communication and thus a separation from mundane reality.
14:35 Isn’t this all a lack of self control?
14:46 Is the lack of self control the result of poor parenting?
15:22 Latching onto coping mechanisms.
15:35 There comes a point where you need to grow up and move on from being a child.
17:14 Teaching children coping skills.
18:08 There are people that are walking meatsacks
18:49 Children being jaded
19:11 Empathy for other people’s pain.
19:22 Children deserve credit for realizing fact from fiction.
20:50 At what point does a child learn to differentiate fact from fiction
21:39 The prevalence of violent video games reducing the physical violence in a child’s educational environment.
23:55 Children are no longer allowed to have fist fights and stand up for one another.
24:05 Article saying violence is needed for children.
24:31 Children are taught that hate isn’t normal.
24:49 Cope or Explode
25:32 Some psychological damage cannot just go away.
25:51 Being told to keep to ourselves, mind our own business.
26:31 Children being taught it’s bad to snitch.
26:46 Rant about ABC show
28:55 Children prefer to avoid talk to potentially coorupt police.
30:57 We’re perpetuating the jading of today’s youth.
32:16 An inability to disconnect from fiction due to being jaded about reality and attaching to that metaphysics and bleeding it into reality.
32:38 fiction reflecting reality.
32:55 People that watch fictional shows and think they know about a field of science etc. rather than researching the issues.
33:33 People basing their identities off their LARPing identity
34:11 Looking at movies, shows etc. for inspiration about metaphysics, while being disconnected from the concept of that art being fiction
35:25 Corporate: please allow people to rob our stores.
36:45 Superman statue inspires person to stop ongoing criminal activity.
37:38 Stories of great deeds in old myths to inspire people to do good deeds.
38:48 The psychological importance of fairy tales.
39:31 Information overload
42:14 Professionals being pushed into online communities since that’s where people go for answers.
45:11 Parenting is not the blame-all with regards to this issue.
45:57 People are not taught to think for themselves
46:39 Where are the original ideas?
47:08 Learning to play inside and outside the box
47:42 Metaphysical workings for entertainment
47:53 Learned helplessness
48:15 People not bound by rules can change their future?
48:43 Children think about what specific characters would do as a method of understanding how to tackle situations.
49:01 When you become an adult, you should stop looking to fiction for answers and just fix things for yourself.
50:34 Those who give answers are not necessarily giving answers that don’t have side-effects
51:34 Are people just looking for an ego stroking?
52:22 What drives people?
52:54 Hopefully generations ahead of us can get out of the box.
54:19 Once we realize it’s our parent’s fault for a problem, it’s our own problem to fix.
56:26 Scurvy’s Angry F–king Thoughts about Otakukin
56:59 Otaku research their beliefs and think for themselves
58:01 Otakukin makes no sense
59:17 Take a gameshark and shove it up an Otaku’s ass to cheat them
59:47 Otherkin are believable, Otakukin, not so mcuh
1:00:07 Scurvy’s rant about Otakukin
1:02:02 What’s real and what’s not gets very blurry in Japan
1:02:53 End of rant
1:03:11 Otakukin being paranoid about being discovered as such
1:03:46 Otaku logic
1:04:27 Fiction helps you question what is reality
1:04:57 Joe’s intellectual exercise about Otherkin and Otakukin
1:06:30 But Otherkin do corroberate each others’ stories in a creepy fashion
1:06:54 Litmus test for detecting craziness
1:07:28 Applying the litmus test to Otakukin – and making it a reality show!
1:08:02 If you’re in a room full of insane people, are you sane?