what is right for us?: on commitment and wholeheartedness

talking about early blockchain, a post-NFT world, digital ownership, AI, the value of art, content creation and social media, fashion slop, spiritual nihilism, overcoming cringe, Leo energy, the purpose of art, human craftsmanship, tech backlash, Hilma Af Klint, mysticism and spiritual experiences via technology, private equity in the arts, hope frequencies, astrology and more. ----------------------- You can find Blake everywhere on instagram/tiktok/youtube at @blakefinucane ----------------------- join the patreon for extended episodes and exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5 listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4g89gmN3E4JFZ82gxAwTZ6?si=df1422ac696c4e38 listen on apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diaries-with-debby-friday/id1864630675

talking about dreams, signs, symbols, propaganda, how to know what you want, Edward Bernays, Carl Jung, suffering, Simone Weil, AI, labour, thinking, effort, desire, Nathan Fielder, You Can See Everything, manipulation and moral philosophy. -------------- Propaganda by Edward Bernays https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/493212.Propaganda   Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123632.Man_and_His_Symbols -------------- join the patreon for extended episodes and exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5 listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4g89gmN3E4JFZ82gxAwTZ6?si=df1422ac696c4e38 listen on apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diaries-with-debby-friday/id1864630675

full episode available on https://patreon.com/debbyfriday --------------- talking about Clarice Lispector's "An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures", wetness, dryness, erotic energy, Iris Murdoch, Audre Lorde, projection in relationships, becoming free and how to open up to life. ----------------- An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53492652-an-apprenticeship-or-the-book-of-pleasures   Against Dryness by Iris Murdoch https://www.unz.com/PDF/PERIODICAL/Encounter-1961jan/18-23/   The Uses of The Erotic by Audre Lorde https://mundoshabitables.com/media/pages/biblioteca/los-usos-de-lo-erotico/a52dc8c4d7-1754436835/the-uses-of-the-erotic-audre-lorde.pdf --------------- join the patreon for extended episodes and exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5 listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4g89gmN3E4JFZ82gxAwTZ6?si=df1422ac696c4e38 listen on apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diaries-with-debby-friday/id1864630675

talking about personal philosophies, art, phenomenology, how your environment impacts you, what to do about toxic friend groups, forgiveness, Love, what to do with anger, hope frequencies, depressed philosophers, being a sensitive person, A Revisioning of Love by Ana Mozol, opening up to life and more. A Re-Visioning of Love by Ana Mozol https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44055388-a-re-visioning-of-love join the patreon for extended episodes and exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about how to develop good taste, art, aesthetic discernment, Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor Adorno, attention, capitalism, virtue, Iris Murdoch, Simone Weil, goodness, the ego, unselfing/decreation, imagination and more. —---------------------- Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6981501    Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201388   "Iris Murdoch on Moral Philosophy and How It Should Be Done" by David Bakhurst https://usercontent.one/wp/irismurdochsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/imr16.pdf   —----------------------- join the patreon for extended episodes and exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5 listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4g89gmN3E4JFZ82gxAwTZ6?si=df1422ac696c4e38 listen on apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diaries-with-debby-friday/id1864630675

talking about human design, mysteries of the universe, yin and yang, what to do with The Answers, individuality and turning towards the Self, 2027, the Late Bronze Age Collapse, Nolan's Odyssey, omens and signs, how to not betray yourself, and the strangeness of it all.   You can find Mike Stenbaek at attunement.info or at https://x.com/formattunement   (Sorry about the audio in the middle. My mic was on the fritz.)   My favourite websites to pull up your human design chart:   https://www.puregenerators.com/chart-calculator   https://jovianarchive.com/pages/get-your-human-design-chart 0:00 — Human Design, Astrology & Mysteries of the Universe  15:35 — What Do We Do With The Answers? 20:20 — Metaphysics as Art & the Point of Being Changed 23:10 — 2027 & the End of the Cross of Planning 33:40 — The Late Bronze Age Collapse 40:14 — Nolan's Odyssey: Omens & Signs 44:50 — How Not to Betray Yourself 50:00 — The Strangeness of It All join the patreon for extended episodes and exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about wholeheartedness, commitment, hypocrisy, how to know what is right for you, fetish objects, letting go, Hesse's Siddhartha, oneness, and more. —----------------- Renunciation and Christian Happiness: on the grace of wholeheartedness - Zena Hitz  https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/the-grace-of-wholeheartedness   Siddhartha by Herman Hesse https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52036.Siddhartha   A philosopher's argument against the cult of achievement | Zena Hitz: Full Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4Fhh6GDcY   —----------------- join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about self respect, Joan Didion, integrity, ego structures, fall from grace, Theodor Adorno, Zizek, capitalist ideologies, saying yes, saying no, processes of transformation and more. ----------------- [00:00:00] - Introduction [00:01:39] - Falls from Grace [00:08:25] - Capitalism + Learned Helplessness [00:09:44] - Joan Didion on Character and Responsibility [00:10:16] - Integrity as the Foundation of Self-Respect [00:14:09] - The Power of Saying No [00:23:34] - Rejection, Self Work & Togetherness -------------- Music: Symphony No. 3 in A minor, MOVEMENT III, Op. 56 - Felix Mendelssohn   On Self Respect by Joan Didion https://sites.gatech.edu/alexburgin/on-self-respect-by-joan-didion/   The Culture Industry - Theodor Adorno https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85812.Dialectic_of_Enlightenment   Julian de Medeiros Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@julianphilosophy   the artist at the end of the world https://youtu.be/zVfTPjCpfuw?si=aQQ1ybxguIqBb6LZ   starrr shaped: outsiderness and how to heal the experience of fundamental rejection https://youtu.be/8igZKf1Iww4?si=8j5oxqhMkgCR17hH --------------- join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5 

talking about desire, suffering, tanha, chanda, what is "right" for us, how to get what you want, surrender, emptying out, Wu Wei and gift giving. ---------------- [00:00:00] Introduction [00:01:10] Desire as a part of life [00:04:09] On right living [00:06:12] Letting go of the imaginary [00:15:06] Effortless action and the Wu Wei principle [00:18:38] Closing thoughts ---------------- Music: Litvinovsky - Tales of the Magic Tree: IV. Spider Knows His Craft   I and Thou by Martin Buber https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/551866.I_and_Thou   Rudolf Steiner - Art As A Bridge Between The Sensible And The Supersensible https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA190/English/Singles/19190330p01.html   Waiting For God by Simone Weil https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88329.Waiting_for_God?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=rhhJMqKSX7&rank=1   Love in The Void by Simone Weil https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36095488-love-in-the-void?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=hXwuyZ4PDq&rank=1   The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property by Lewis Hyde https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56472.The_Gift?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=SzRVH8edsG&rank=1 ----------------- join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5

talking about fame and spectacle, Lena Dunham's new memoir "Famesick", Guy Debord, mental health and trauma, virality, narcissism and why everyone wants to be famous.  ------------- [00:00:00] Introduction [00:01:30] Lena Dunham's memoir, "Famesick" [00:04:31] Fame in History and Modernity [00:14:21] The democratization of fame and The Society of The Spectacle [00:20:53] Why Does Everyone Want to be Famous? [00:32:38] Parasocial relationships and digital reality [00:38:15] Closing thoughts -------------   Music: Dvořák's String Quartet No. 12 (American), Mov. III, Op. 96   The Society of The Spectacle by Guy Debord https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381440.The_Society_of_the_Spectacle   Famesick by Lena Dunham https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52545816-famesick?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_8 —---------------  join the patreon for exclusive content: patreon.com/debbyfriday substack: https://debbyfriday.substack.com/ instagram: @debbydiaries000 | @debbyfriday  goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/182402410-debby-friday spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kpYnGmXmvv45isRxb9HAP?si=082c0f566e1e46f5