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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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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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1:07:32

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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1:07:11

Late Capitalism: A Survival Guide - Ep. 1

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/17

The revolution has happened, and we are its victims. If you feel a bit hopeless and disoriented by the world today, this is not just you or some random happenstance. You are being disoriented, and your sense of hope is being systematically undermined by a global economic logic—Late Capitalism—that has come to dominate almost every aspect of our lives. This series is not meant to be anti-commerce or intentionally backward-looking, but rather an attempt to situate ourselves relative to the realities

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26:33

Reading vs. TV - Ep. 22

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/14

A reflection on the relative nature of Reading vs TV and the peculiarities of both mediums. Indeed, given how much time we spend engaged in watching various kinds of media, I think it is a bit shocking how little time we spend reflecting on the nature of the media and how it impacts us. 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

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42:35

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q15: Truth?

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/12

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q15: Truth?Principia MathematicaThe aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather — not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense

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43:14

Primates In Space: Primates Are Stressed (Conclusion)...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/10

The accumulated gap between our environment and our needs as primates have grown increasingly large over the last 100 years. As a result virtually every measure of health and well being have become shockingly negative. Yet we have little sense of why or what is happening because the systemic issues we face are difficult to identify in the sea of changes we experience in the world since the industrial revolution.Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain access to course

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20:16

Narrativium - Ep. 21

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/07

We continually tell ourselves stories about every aspect of our lives. Taking a little time to reflect on the stories we tell ourselves is often quite revelatory about how our thinking is directed and limited. Likely it is impossible for humans to live without a rich life filled with stories, but the stories are often under our control to a remarkable degree.Image attribution: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by Wes!Plus, gain

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53:00

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q14: What...

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/06

The History of Philosophy in 16 Questions - Q14: What is this science thing?Now my method, though hard to practice, is easy to explain; and it is this. I propose to establish progressive stages of certainty. The evidence of the sense, helped and guarded by a certain process of correction, I retain. But the mental operation which follows the act of sense I for the most part reject; and instead of itI open and lay out a new and certain path for the mind to proceed in, starting directly from the simple

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45:49

Primates In Space: Primates Go Wild - Ep. 11

The Wes Cecil Podcast ·

2025/11/03

While the industrial revolution is widely recognized as a turning point in human history, less well appreciated is why it has been so influential. Each of the developments were undoubtedly important, however I argue it has been the rate of change that has had a greater impact than any particular change. As primates we are simply incapable of adapting as quickly as we have been presented with change and the stress is definitely showing. Sign-up forWes’s PATREONto get your questions answered by

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