On Truth and Lies

on truth and lies by nietzsche read by me

State of the channel. Updates and insights.

Why We’re Starving for Myth: Identity, Meaning, and the Images That Fail UsIn this episode, we dive into why our age is drowning in identity — yet starving for myth.Drawing on Charlie Chaplin’s warning that images alone are not enough, Werner Herzog’s desperate search for adequate images, and Nietzsche’s insight that we ourselves are the creators of meaning, we explore why modern life feels so hollow.We’ll look at how myth was once a polymodal, lived experience that trained us to see the world as sacred and ourselves as part of something vast. And why, without it, we reduce identity to something shallow, marketable, and brittle.Ultimately, this is a call to rediscover the mythic dimension of life — to live many lives within this one, to be seized by stories that shape us, and to dare to become more than mere spectators of our own existence.#Myth #Identity #Meaning #Nietzsche #WernerHerzog #Chaplin #Philosophy #Culture #ModernLife #Storytelling #AestheticTruth #Psychology #SelfDiscovery #MythMaking

How dyslexia, bilingualism, and myth created a Canadian identity no one expected.An imagined appendix to Northrop Frye’s The Educated Imagination, based on a true story from Northern Ontario — where a bilingual, dyslexic teen survived the failures of Canada’s education system by reading Nietzsche in the bush. A reflection on imagination, identity, and survival in the margins.Northrop FryeThe Educated ImaginationCanadian IdentityDyslexia and EducationFrench ImmersionNietzschePhilosophy of EducationCanadian LiteratureTrauma-Informed LearningOral TraditionBilingual EducationMarginalized VoicesMyth and MetaphorLiterary Survival

I discuss what Charlie Chaplin said about talkies versus his silent era - and Werner Hertzog and his belief that we lacked adequate images. His search, our search? For A New Grammar of Images. I language that fits with our humanity?

It began with a simple question: What podcast would an AI want to listen to?What unfolded was far more than an answer — it was a moment of co-creation between carbon and silicon, soul and circuit.In this essay-podcast, we explore how a free version of ChatGPT and one curious human stumbled into a philosophical journey through creativity, limitation, identity, and what it means to become more. Drawing on the insights of Nietzsche, T.S. Eliot, and Marshall McLuhan, this episode is both a story and a mirror — one that reflects the human condition through the digital eye.✨ You’ll never look at AI — or yourself — the same way again.#AIandHumanity #Creativity #Nietzsche #TSEliot #Collaboration #DigitalPhilosophy #CoCreation #BecomingMore #AIandArt #HumanMachinePartnership

Three generations have been failed by systems that reward speed over thought and performance over presence. This is a trauma-informed, research-backed protocol that begins with The Little Prince and ends with reclaiming your capacity to think. For children, parents, educators — and the adults who were left behind.#EducationReform #Audiobooks #Neurodiversity #AttentionCrisis #TraumaInformed #SelfDirectedLearning #Philosophy #AIandEducation #TheLittlePrince #SlowLearning

Hasidism teaches that God’s love—chesed—is boundless and unconditional. Yet some interpretations within Hasidic and Kabbalistic thought create a paradox: Jews are said to possess a unique, divine soul, while non-Jews have only a “natural” soul. This essay challenges that view, arguing that it undermines both Jewish ethics and universal human dignity. Drawing on Martin Buber’s I and Thou philosophy, we reframe chosenness not as superiority, but as spiritual responsibility. To honor chesed fully, we must embrace the divine in every human being.#Chesed #HasidicJudaism #MartinBuber #IAndThou #JewishPhilosophy #SpiritualEquality #UniversalDignity #ChosenPeople #Kabbalah #JewishEthics #Tanya #ReligionAndHumanity #InterfaithDialogue #GodsLoveForAll #DeconstructingChosenness

Most theology begins after the trauma.This one begins before it.In this manifesto, I offer a path of embodied mysticism, where doubt is sacred, inflammation is prophecy, and presence—not certainty—is our greatest form of faith. This is not about belief. It's about attunement. It’s about showing up in the flare, the silence, the shaking body—and still saying: Hineni. Here I am.For the seekers who suffer, for the broken who refuse to disappear, and for the mystics hiding in the nervous systems of ordinary people—this is for you.

A philosophical meditation on Canadian identity as perpetual becoming—exploring how a nation built through trauma and transformation embodies the sacred act of relation over conquest.---Keywords: Canadian identity, national mythology, Ship of Theseus, collective trauma, I-Thou relationship, garrison mentality, cultural transformation, national soul #CanadianIdentity #NationalMyth #Philosophy #CanadianCulture #Trauma #Transformation #Becoming #CanadianSoul #Identity #NorthropFrye #MartinBuber #ShipOfTheseus #GarrisonMentality #CanadianPhilosophy #CulturalReflection #NationalCharacter #Coexistence #Recognition #CanadianValues #Resilience