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No Shortcuts to Now

No Shortcuts to Now is a philosophy and mythology podcast exploring resistance, meaning, and myth in an age of authoritarianism. Hosted by K.L. Homme, each episode blends Greek myth, Stoic philosophy, and creative nonfiction to examine how we endure — and defy — the rising tide of disinformation, strongmen, and cultural collapse. From ancient wisdom to modern politics, No Shortcuts to Now invites thoughtful listeners into a trail of reflection, resilience, and moral imagination.

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20:19

🎧 Waypoint 3.3: Faith, Fury, and the Ditto-Headless...

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2025/11/11

🎧 Waypoint 3.3 — “Faith, Fury, and the Ditto-Headless Horsemen of the Post-Truth Apocalypse”What happens when the Medal of Freedom becomes a prop in the post-truth carnival?Ecce homo.In this episode, we revisit the 2020 State of the Union—when a reality-television president draped the nation’s highest civilian honor over the shoulders of a talk-radio demagogue.From Rush Limbaugh’s “AIDS Update” and “feminazi” sermons to the birth of a media ecosystem built on grievance and spectacle, we trace how

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13:48

🎧 Field Note 3.2 — All The King's Candy

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2025/10/28

🎧 Field Note 3.2 — All the King’s CandyWhat do we swallow when we crave certainty, and who’s feeding it to us?In this episode of No Shortcuts to Now: childhood sweetness and modern certainty; gum scraped from the sidewalk; Sunday school lessons and post-truth prophets; how a sour little candy foretold an empire of outrage.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin Here☕ No kings, no sponsors — just caffeine and conviction. You can

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22:20

🎧 Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan's...

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2025/10/07

🎧 Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & the Birth of Outrage MediaWhen did truth become a matter of volume?When did anger start selling better than honesty?This is the second episode of season three of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode, we travel from the Revolutionary stage at Valley Forge to the volcanic slopes of Mount St. Helens — and into the media firestorm that reshaped American truth itself.From Reagan’s

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14:58

🎧 Field Note 3.1 — The Phantom Pronoun

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2025/09/23

🎧 Field Note 3.1 — The Phantom PronounHow does a single word — “they” — become a weapon, a fog, a spell?This is a bonus episode of Season 3 of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: I read aloud Field Note 3.1 — The Phantom Pronoun — a reflection on Macbeth’s witches, borrowed outrage, propaganda’s fog, and the dangers of the phantom enemy. It’s about how language blurs truth and shadow, how tragedy is twisted into division, and how

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16:11

🎧 Waypoint 3.1: The Iron Key — Pompeii, Volcanic...

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2025/09/09

🎧 Waypoint 3.1 — The Iron KeyHow many legacies end in ash — and what traces do we leave behind?This is the first audio installment of Season 3 of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: I read aloud Waypoint 3.1 — The Iron Key — a reflection on volcanic fire, fragile blossoms, Pompeii’s ashes, and the strange graffiti we leave behind. It’s about how ambition and catastrophe entwine, and how memory survives in traces more fragile — and

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14:05

🎧 Field Note 3.1: The Blasted Stage —Kierkegaard’s...

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2025/09/02

🎧 Field Note 3.1 — The Blasted Stage: Kierkegaard’s Clown, Newsom’s Warning, and Trump’s Burning TheatreHow many times does a clown have to yell fire in the theater before the crowd stops laughing?This Field Note steps into the uneasy overlap of philosophy, politics, and performance — from Kierkegaard’s parable of the clown, to Gavin Newsom’s warning in Sacramento, to Donald Trump’s burning theatre of ambition.It’s about the danger of laughing while the fire spreads — and the need to take warning

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15:43

🎧 Field Note 3¾ — The Rainbow Connection: Don’t...

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2025/08/19

What if the loudest voice in your head isn’t yours at all?🌈 Field Note 3¾ — The Rainbow Connection: Don’t Believe Everything You ThinkThis bonus audio installment opens Season Three of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: enchanted frogs, digital fog, trickster gods, and the quiet art of reclaiming your own mind from propaganda’s echo chambers.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below — with

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19:11

🎧 Waypoint 2.4 — The Strongman and The Second Sex:...

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2025/08/05

What if the strongman’s power is really just fear — dressed in gold?🎧 Waypoint 2.4: The Strongman and The Second SexThis is the fourth audio installment of Season Two of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: authoritarian masculinity, empty temples, divine jealousy, and the fragile myth of eternal virility. A mythic and psychological meditation on gender, power, pleasure — and the political fear of feminine agency.👉 Subscribe to No

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21:39

Waypoint 2.3 — The Birth of Pleasure: Beauty, Power &...

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2025/07/29

What if transformation begins not with power — but with tenderness?🎧 Waypoint 2.3: The Birth of PleasureThis is the third audio installment of Season Two of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: soul as butterfly, beauty under threat, erotic mystery, jealous goddesses, and the myth of Psyche and Cupid — retold as a meditation on power, transformation, and the search for self.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The

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10:46

🎧 Field Note 2.2: Of ICE and Men

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2025/07/24

🎧 Field Note 2.2: Of ICE and MenThis is a bonus audio installment for Season 2 of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: California’s buried languages, Sierra snowmelt, Queen Calafia, John Steinbeck, and the brutal myths of modern borders.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or

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17:14

🎧 Waypoint 2.2: Of Wings, Words, & Sacrificial Hearts

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2025/07/22

🎧 Waypoint 2.2: Of Wings, Words, and Sacrificial HeartsThis is the second episode of Season Two of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: volcanic gods, butterfly souls, breath as spirit, Aztec fire rituals, and the resurrection of culture through language.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.🗂️ New to the project? → 📘 Begin here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss

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12:01

🎧 Field Note 1.R: The Coup Clux Clown Rides Again

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2025/07/19

🎧 Field Note 2.R: The Coup Clux Clown Rides at DawnBonus episode from Season Two of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: volcanic play, public media cuts, Putin’s blueprint, Sesame Street under ash, and the slow silencing of dissent.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? 🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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5:28

🎧 Field Note 2.1: The Wind Has No Papers

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2025/07/16

🎧 Field Note 2.1: The Wind Has No PapersThis is a bonus episode of No Shortcuts to Now — a companion to Waypoint 2.1: To Gain the Wider View.Field Notes are shorter reflections — moments of thought and observation from the trail.This one takes flight with migrating butterflies, natural law, and the question of borders.In this episode: Lassen updrafts, hard-working butterflies, sacred law, masked ravens, and the Constitution’s deeper promise.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The

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8:43

🎧 Waypoint 2.1: To Gain the Wider View

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2025/07/16

🎧 Waypoint 2.1: To Gain the Wider ViewThis is the first episode of Season 2 of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: ravens and kites, the breath of the soul, mountaintop visions, fall migration, Plato’s wings, and the long view of history.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.🗂️ New to the trail? → 📘 Begin here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other

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6:58

🎧 Waypoint 1.5: No Shortcuts to Now

No Shortcuts to Now ·

2025/07/16

🎧 Waypoint 1.5: No Shortcuts to NowThis is the fifth audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: gravel underfoot, forbidden shortcuts, ancient Septembers, patient ascent, and the mountain’s quiet face.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.New here? → 📘 Begin here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus

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6:33

🎧 Field Note 1.4: After The Map Burns

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2025/07/13

🎧 Field Note 1.4 – After The Map BurnsThis is a companion to the fourth audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this bonus episode: perspectivism, fundamentalism, Marcus Aurelius, democratic knowledge, and why truth must be earned — not declared.In this episode: perspectivism, fundamentalism, Marcus Aurelius, democratic knowledge, and why truth must be earned — not declared.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The

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5:01

🎧 Waypoint 1.4: The Map Is Not the Mountain

No Shortcuts to Now ·

2025/07/10

🎧 Waypoint 1.4: The Map Is Not The MountainThis is the fourth audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: volcanic awe, spiderwebs, Marcus Aurelius, chocolate chip cookies, and the fragile, silken line we call knowledge.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or

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7:10

🎧 Field Note 1.3 (b): The Rototaskr Files

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2025/07/06

🎧 Field Note 1.3 (b): The Ratatoskr FilesThis is a Field Note — not a full Waypoint, but a reflection. A pause to track the tremors and catch our breath.In this episode: Trump, Musk, mythology, and masks. A meditation on shame, power, and what lies beneath.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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6:02

🎧 Waypoint 1.3: The Trailhead

No Shortcuts to Now ·

2025/07/06

🎧 Waypoint 1.3: The TrailheadThis is the third audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: matchmaking and myth, squirrels and Norse symbols, and the quiet moments before the climb begins.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,

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7:16

🎧 Waypoint 1.2: Trees of Forbidden Knowledge

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2025/07/06

🎧 Waypoint 1.2: Trees of Forbidden KnowledgeThis is the second audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.In this episode: childhood awe, volcanic gospel, and the long tension between wonder and silence, play and power.👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.🗂️ New here? → Chapter 1 Index: Standing in The Ancient Shadow This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other

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