Three Paradoxes | The Vervaeke Series | Episode 9 (WiM066)

John Vervaeke joins me for a deep conversation exploring his work as a cognitive scientist and his YouTube lecture series "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis." Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUEST John’s twitter: https://twitter.com/vervaeke_john John’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnvervaeke John’s Lecture Series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY 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 Domicide: The Loss of Home 00:03:19 The Meaning Crisis as Cosmic Domicide 00:06:17 Niche Construction, Baldwin Effect, and Co-Creation of Identities 00:08:48 Worldview Attunement: Mutual Shaping of Agent and Arena 00:10:00 Conspiracy Theory: An Attempt to Use Mythos to Home Reality 00:12:29 Domicide and the Violation of Property Rights 00:16:45 Democracy’s Contribution to Domicide 00:18:02 The Original Meaning of Violence is “To Violate” 00:18:49 Property Consists of the Things Which Constitute Identity 00:19:44 Niche Construction: Mediation Between Territory and Property 00:21:03 Christianity Turned the Ancient Roman Empire into a Home 00:22:25 “Call No Man a Philosopher Who Has Not Alleviated the Suffering of Others” 00:23:29 The Ancient Roman Monopoly on Violence 00:26:50 “It’s Not the State that Makes Us Persons, It’s Agape” 00:28:21 “The Narcissist is Hungry to Be At Home, But Conquers Territory Instead” 00:30:09 Inviolable Property is the Immortality of Civilization 00:35:37 The Tension Between Time Preference and Presence 00:38:11 A Point of Processing Between Ontological Modes 00:41:24 The Domicidal Case of the Grassy Narrows 00:45:03 The Hellenistic Domicide, Stoicism, and Valorization of The Logos 00:48:07 “It’s Not What You Set Your Heart On, It’s How You Set Your Heart” 00:50:10 NYDIG 00:51:18 “He Who Has a Why Can Bear Any How” 00:52:22 Domicide as the Scarcity of Meaning 00:58:22 Post-1971 Centralization, Corruption, and Zombie Mythology 01:02:23 Zombie Mythology as an Inversion of Christianity 01:03:41 Property as a Socioeconomic “Optimal Grip” 01:06:06 The Connection Between Self-Ownership and Optimal Grip of Virtue 01:08:38 The Paradox of Courage: Water and Wine 01:10:19 The Mythos of Moby Dick 01:13:17 Zombie: The Symbol of The Meaning Crisis 01:15:39 “Of Course They’re Called Zombie Companies!” 01:18:22 Secular Religiosity: The Deep Faith In Ideological Stances 01:19:54 Philosophy: The Resolution to The Age of Anxiety 01:21:27 Christianity as Mediator of “Individuation” and “Participation” 01:23:41 Attraction Between The Christian Mythos and Neo-Platonic Logos 01:24:46 Wisdom: Transcendence of The Meaning Crisis 01:28:30 The Cognitive Conceptual Grammar vs. The Scientific Worldview 01:31:06 The Paradox of Religiosity in America: Non-Theist Theism 01:33:38 Fundamentalism and Perceived Perfection 01:34:49 Nihilism is Fundamentalism in The Scientific Worldview 01:36:30 The Paradox of Science: “Science Has No Part of The Scientific Worldview” 01:38:49 Transjectivity: Transcending Subject-Object Duality 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 Put your Bitcoin to work. Earn up to 12% interest back on Bitcoin with Tantra: https://bit.ly/3CFcOmg IBAC assists central banks and sovereign wealth funds succeed in their digital asset investments: https://www.ibac.io/ Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/