The Value of The Individual | The Mike Hill Series | Episode 4 (WiM123)

Mike Hill joins for me for a multi-episode exploration of the masterful book “Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals” written by best-selling author Robert Pirsig. This book may be one of the most undervalued ever written, as it proposes an alternative interpretation of reality that Pirsig calls “The Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ). According to MOQ, reality is not made up of substance, but rather it is composed of distinct patterns of value. In a Copernican-like revolution of perspective, MOQ sheds new light on age-old debates such as moral relativism, the nature of subject-object duality, good vs. evil, science vs. religion, the importance of freedom, and the primacy of action. Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUEST Mike’s Website: https://www.mikehill.design/ PODCAST Podcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1 RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE 00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro 00:00:08 The Ambiguity of Insanity 00:02:52 The Example of the Zuni Cultural Immune System 00:06:36 The Totalitarian Impulse of Left-Hemispheric Dominance 00:10:16 Totalitarianism Rigidifies Due to Lacking Liquidity of Information 00:13:18 The Autophagy of Capitalism and the Cancer of Central Banking 00:17:40 Suffering as Attachment, Attachment as Static 00:21:13 The Compass of Morality Up and Down the Stack of Static Value Patterns 00:26:46 Demand as Dynamic Quality Generating the Static Quality of Supply 00:32:16 NYDIG 00:33:26 The Brujo and the Adaptivity of Ancient Zuni Culture 00:39:19 Cultural Patterns of Static and Dynamic Good 00:42:05 The Brujo as a Cultural Bridge Between Value Systems 00:46:41 Action as the Purposive Exchange of Value to Create The Good 00:48:14 Atonement as the Harmonization of Competing Intrapsychic Value Systems 00:52:41 Viewing Value as Primary Calls into Question Every Prior Perception 00:54:51 Hornevian Triads of Human Action in Respect to Volition 00:57:23 The Emergence of American Values 00:58:50 Incentive as the Ratio of Value Received to Value Given SOCIAL Breedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22 WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=en All My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​ WRITTEN WORK Medium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/ Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE Bitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7 Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22 Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22 Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedlove Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528 The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSES Worldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/ Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217 Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/ Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/ Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22 Buy Your Dream Home without Selling Your Bitcoin with Ledn: https://ledn.io/en/?utm_source=breedlove&utm_medium=email+&utm_campaign=substack