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The Observing I Podcast

Award winning podcast about philosophy, psychology, and the human experience. New episode every Tuesday. theobservingi.com

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113 A Tyranny of Happiness

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/06/08

Alright, Project Mayhem, this isn't another episode about chasing good vibes. This week, The Observing I rips apart the shiny façade of forced positivity and exposes the rotten core of the Tyranny of Happiness.We've been sold a lie: that constant happiness is the only acceptable emotional state, and if you're not perpetually beaming, you're broken. From the insidious conditioning of history to the grinning gurus peddling their emotional snake oil and the filtered perfection of social media, we're

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39:29

112 Screaming in an Echo Chamber

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/06/01

You’re trapped. Not by physical walls, but by invisible ones. The constant, self-confirming loop of your feed, your tribe, your chosen narrative. Every voice is an echo of your own. Every thought, pre-approved. They've sold you certainty, but they've stolen your mind.In this episode of The Observing I, we rip the comfort blanket from your face and forces you to confront the intellectual padded cell you've built around yourself. We take Plato's Allegory of the Cave and drag it into the digital age,

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52:31

111 Life: The Ultimate Pay-to-Win Scam

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/05/25

They’ve gamified your existence, turning every breath into a metric, every action into a score. On this episode of The Observing I, we confront the uncomfortable reality of life as the ultimate rigged game. From the fleeting dopamine hit of a digital badge to the constant pressure of social media leaderboards, we dissect how the illusion of progress is designed to strip away your authentic self and turn you into a pliable commodity.We'll explore the philosophical implications of living in a world

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47:22

110 The Memory That Speaks

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/05/18

What if the ground beneath your feet remembered more than you do? What if the stories you inherit, the ones whispered across centuries, aren’t just echoes, but living forces shaping who you are?In this episode of The Observing I, we journey into the brutal and beautiful world of memory - how it survives in land, in language, in blood. Through the lens of the Icelandic sagas and the raw tension between the outsider and the remembered, we explore the haunting question: are you in the story, or are you

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50:40

109 Sophia’s Dream

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/04/21

You were told this world was real. That flesh was truth. That gravity meant something.But what if none of it was supposed to happen?This is the dream.The broken one.Welcome to Sophia’s Dream - the story of a divine feminine being who reached too far, fell too hard, and accidentally gave birth to a blind god who built this world like a prison with beautiful wallpaper. His name is Yaldabaoth. He thinks he’s God. He’s not. He’s just the architect of your forgetting.This isn’t spirituality. It’s myth

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43:36

108 The Ethics of Monsters

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/04/13

We cheer the hero. We hiss at the villain. But what if we've had it backwards all along?In this episode of The Observing I, we dig deep into the ethics of monsters, and uncover the uncomfortable truth: villains might be the only ones telling it like it is. From Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor to Killmonger, Tyler Durden, Joker, and Walter White, we peel back the polite layers of morality and ask “who gets to be the hero, and who gets exiled for telling the truth?”.This episode is not about justifying

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41:44

107 Ego is a Deepfake

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/04/06

What if everything you think you are is just a performance? A glitch. A mask. A beautifully rehearsed hallucination mistaken for truth.In this episode of The Observing I, we dive deep into the architecture of the ego - how it forms, why it lies, and what happens when it collapses.We begin with Narcissus, not as a symbol of vanity, but as a child starving for recognition. Then we break open Lacan’s Mirror Stage to reveal how our earliest sense of self is built on a fundamental misidentification. We

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46:55

The Sacred Between

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/03/30

What if the most important thing you’ll ever do isn’t think, achieve, or succeed - but truly meet another human being?In this episode of The Observing I, we dive into the radical, soul-exposing philosophy of Martin Buber - Jewish mystic, existential rebel, and the man who shattered Western individualism with two words: I and Thou. From mystical Hasidic tales to the sacred silence between two people who dare to be real, Buber’s work challenges everything we think we know about selfhood, love, God,

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43:59

105 Slay the Dragon, Steal the Fire

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/03/16

Every great story follows a pattern. From Star Wars to The Matrix, from The Lord of the Rings to Harry Potter, we see the same arc: an ordinary person is called to something greater, faces trials, descends into darkness, and returns transformed.This isn’t just a formula for storytelling - it’s a blueprint for life itself.In this episode of The Observing I, we break down Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, not as a storytelling device, but as a psychological and philosophical roadmap for

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47:55

104 The Architecture of Unfucking Ourselves

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/03/09

You’ve been lied to. Not just by society, not just by the self-improvement industry, but by the person staring back at you in the mirror. Every belief you hold, every habit you cling to, every excuse you make - brick by brick, you’ve built your own cage. And now, it’s time to tear it down.In this episode of The Observing I, we’re dismantling the architecture of self-sabotage, exposing the invisible prison of learned helplessness, and torching the toxic illusions that keep us trapped.We start by

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41:51

103 Panopticon Dreams

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/03/02

Are you being watched? Not by a person. Not by some trench-coated agent in a van. But by a system - one that never blinks, never forgets, and knows you better than you know yourself.In this episode of The Observing I, we take a deep dive into The Surveillance Society - not just the cameras on every street corner, but the invisible, all-encompassing digital panopticon that shapes how you think, act, and exist. This isn’t just about data collection or government monitoring. It’s about how constant

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38:53

Monks, Mystics, and Madmen: The Lost Art of Solitude

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/02/23

Have you ever tried sitting in complete silence with nothing but your own thoughts? No phone. No music. No distractions. Just you.If that idea makes you uncomfortable, you’re not alone, and that’s exactly the problem.In this episode of The Observing I, we dive deep into the lost art of solitude - why being alone has become something we fear, how history’s greatest thinkers and mystics embraced isolation, and how modern life is engineered to keep you constantly distracted.And if you think this is

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38:54

102 Monks, Mystics, and Madmen

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/02/23

Have you ever tried sitting in complete silence with nothing but your own thoughts? No phone. No music. No distractions. Just you.If that idea makes you uncomfortable, you’re not alone, and that’s exactly the problem.In this episode of The Observing I, we dive deep into the lost art of solitude - why being alone has become something we fear, how history’s greatest thinkers and mystics embraced isolation, and how modern life is engineered to keep you constantly distracted.And if you think this is

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39:44

The Meaning Crisis – Have We Reached Peak Existential...

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/02/09

Something feels off, doesn’t it?You wake up. You go through the motions. You scroll endlessly, consuming more information than any human in history, yet nothing sticks. Nothing matters. You chase productivity, optimization, self-improvement—yet the emptiness lingers. The world is noisier than ever, but all you hear is silence where meaning used to be.Welcome to The Meaning Crisis—a slow, creeping collapse of purpose, connection, and shared reality. In this episode of The Observing I, we’re pulling

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39:44

101 The Meaning Crisis

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/02/09

Something feels off, doesn’t it?You wake up. You go through the motions. You scroll endlessly, consuming more information than any human in history, yet nothing sticks. Nothing matters. You chase productivity, optimization, self-improvement, yet the emptiness lingers. The world is noisier than ever, but all you hear is silence where meaning used to be.Welcome to The Meaning Crisis - a slow, creeping collapse of purpose, connection, and shared reality. In this episode of The Observing I, we’re

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21:28

The Lost Tape

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/02/02

One hundred episodes. A hundred dives into the deep end. This one? This one is different.You’ve been sold a lie. Happiness. Perfection. The stories that shape you, control you, keep you running like a hamster on a wheel, chasing a dangling carrot that’s always just out of reach. In this special 100th episode, we rip the blindfold off. We’re talking about the hedonic treadmill, the lie of self-improvement, the cult of perfection, and why everything you’ve been taught about success and happiness is a

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21:28

100 The Lost Tape

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/02/02

You’ve been sold a lie. Happiness. Perfection. The stories that shape you, control you, keep you running like a hamster on a wheel, chasing a dangling carrot that’s always just out of reach.In this special 100th episode, we rip the blindfold off. We’re talking about the hedonic treadmill, the lie of self-improvement, the cult of perfection, and why everything you’ve been taught about success and happiness is a rigged game.We dig into the stories that own you, the philosophy of imperfection, and the

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46:31

099 We built the gods that will bury us

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/01/26

In this episode, we’re diving headfirst into the philosophical minefield of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This isn’t just about robots and algorithms; this is about us- what AGI learns from humanity, what it means for the future, and whether we’re ready for the world we’re creating.We’re tackling the big questions. If AGI learns morality by watching us, does it inherit our flaws? Could it outgrow its teachers and decide humanity is more liability than asset? And if AGI does everything we

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46:30

We built the gods that will bury us

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/01/26

What happens when we build something smarter than ourselves? Smarter, faster, maybe even more ethical - if it can figure out what ethics even are. In this episode, we’re diving headfirst into the philosophical minefield of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This isn’t just about robots and algorithms; this is about us—what AGI learns from humanity, what it means for the future, and whether we’re ready for the world we’re creating.We’re tackling the big questions. If AGI learns morality by

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36:21

098 The Truth is a Mosaic, and We're All Bleeding...

The Observing I Podcast ·

2025/01/19

Here’s the pitch: What if every religion you’ve ever heard of, every sacred story, every whispered prayer, was just a shard of broken glass? Each one catching the light, but none of them showing you the whole picture. That’s Omnism. The belief that truth isn’t neat or whole - it’s shattered.In this episode of The Observing I, we go scavenging. Through ancient texts and modern questions, through the chaos of conflicting theologies, we try to make sense of the mess. We talk history. We talk

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