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The Wes Cecil Podcast

My lectures are dedicated to making Philosophy in particular and the world of ideas in general available to everyone. My exploration of topics and thinkers is designed to provide a foundation for listeners to engage in further reading and thought and develop their own conceptions of the topics I introduce. I have PhD in Literature and Philosophy and was a college professor for over 20 years. I am working to remove the barriers that prevent many from experiencing and understanding the lives and

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51:52

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 9 -...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2026/01/12

Along with the productivity myth, the GDP myth misleads our decision makers and obscures key aspects of our economic reality - there has actually been rather slow GDP growth for decades and much of what has taken place has made the economy worse for citizens rather than better.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See

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20:16

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 7

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2026/01/09

Nietzsche emphasizes the difficulties we will encounter as we attempt to abandon morals and see the world as it is -free from natural laws and order and subject only to the interplay of power. If nothing else, you can’t say we haven’t been warned.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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13:18

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide - Addendum -...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2026/01/07

An example of what it means to think with VALUES as opposed to FINANCE. Not saying the workers are correct, though I agree with them, but that their arguments are coming from an entirely different value set.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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47:43

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 8 -...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2026/01/05

Democratic governments are globally unpopular and part of the reason is the bind the Late Capitalist logic places them in. Growth and investment GOOD we should do MORE so everything keeps getting BETTER while at the same time having to continuously cut budgets, services, promises and often raise taxes - all unpopular. As of yet, they have not recognized the faultiness of the premises, neither right nor left, and hence they cannot begin to address the issues we actually face. Sign-up forWes’s

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26:18

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 6

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2026/01/02

So now Nietzsche wants to point out how systematically our cultures and grammar influence our capacity to think philosophically - further undermining the notion of Philosophy as an arbiter of transcendent truth. Then, in chapter 21, he decides to attack cause and effect, number, law, relativity and many other concepts we like to think help us think but which Nietzsche considers just so much mythologizing.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course

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10:38

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide - Addendum on...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/12/31

I ran into such a perfect example of financialization - stepping in between landlords and tenants for rent payments - I just had to share. I try to be cynical, but I can’t keep up.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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44:55

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 7 - Ethics

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/12/29

The elimination of all measures of worth besides price leaves us lost in a world where, with the removal of price, we have no ability to make judgements whatsoever. This is perhaps the single most debilitating impact of Late Capitalism.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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14:36

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide - Addendum on Gaming

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/12/23

A response to some comments about Steam and a note on an interesting quote from Andre Gide.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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51:15

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 6 - Spotify...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/12/22

Spotify represents a case study in how the logic of Late Capitalism ramifies throughout our lives in ways that destroys fundamental aspects of our culture. Our love of music is leveraged to destroy the ecosystem of music creation and enjoyment. The pattern represented by Spotify is repeated throughout every cultural sphere. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries

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30:44

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 5

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/12/19

So much for Free Will. Herein Nietzsche attacks the whole question of Free Will - not taking a side but simply pointing out the meaninglessness of most of the conversations surrounding free will.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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47:34

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide, Ep. 5 - We Know...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/12/15

In an almost Zen Koan kind of way, Late Capitalism increasingly immerses us in a society where we are simultaneously told money is THE most important value but wherein we are no longer able to even determine the price of things. This fundamental rewriting of our assumed economic structure - wherein we can make informed decisions - is eroding the dubious yet pervasive idea that somehow if we get our finances correct everything will work out. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by

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31:40

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 4

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/12/12

Nietzsche rejects Sensualism, Materialism, Metaphysics and any simple understanding of Science with his core concern - an Ethics built on Joy and Vigour derived from a Will to Power that he sees in all life. It is not error he is against, but error that leads to sleepiness. Nietzsche wants a philosophy that wakes us up. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from

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52:58

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide - Ep. 4 The End of...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/12/08

One of the social impacts of Late Capitalism is the undermining of our sense of history. Expanding on a pre-existing pattern in American culture, which partly explains why the US is at the forefront of financialization, the loss of a historical sense disorients us in an endless, meaningless present. The logic of Late Capitalism consistently works to gather our attention, emphasize the individual, and disorient us in a world without value except for cash.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions

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26:15

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 3

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/12/05

Having attacked most western philosophy, Nietzsche presents one of his core arguments - that all these claims to universal truth and discovery are simply a self-serving pose on the part of philosophers. Understanding his argument fundamentally alters the way we think not just about philosophy, but the construction of our understanding of the world itself. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus

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Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide - Ep. 3 The "Logic"...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/12/01

The creeping presence of Financialization would not be so upsetting if it weren’t that it represents such an odd/counterintuitive world view. The logic of Late Capitalism is not, for the average person, either intuitive or even really comprehensible. So we are surrounded by systems that operate on alien logic designed, as often as not, to exploit us. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures,

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38:44

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 2

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/28

Wow, Nietzsche rolls out all the rhetorical cannons to open Beyond Good and Evil. He attempts to undercut both the history and focus of Western philosophy and introduce a new basis of thinking based on a different approach to understanding the human. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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45:00

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q17: The...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/26

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q17: The Planet?“I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them. The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms – greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge – has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper but

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51:26

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide - Ep. 2...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/24

FinancializationThe creeping intervention of global financial actors into every aspect of our lives is an often overlooked, but profound, aspect of late capitalism. These actors follow a very different logic from that of normal commerce. To appreciate the depths of the penetration of these actors I recommend an experiment where one tries to live for a week spending only cash and avoiding all major chains. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course

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15:09

Reading Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" - Ep. 1

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/21

This read along series presents one of Nietzsche’s most important and confusing works. Written after Thus Spake Zarathustra, it continues to develop some of his central themes and attempts to reground Ethics in a completely new fashion. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course materials, reading lists, peer discussions, bonus lectures, and Wes’s weekly diaries from France. Only $2 / month. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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45:00

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q16:...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/19

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q16: Nihilism?Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radicalskepticismthat condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy.Structuralism: The term ‘structuralism’ can be applied to any analysis that emphasizes structures and relations, but it usually

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