200: Thoughtfully Thoughtless Q&A [Tao Te Ching Ch.41]

For a 2600-year-old book, the Tao Te Ching sure has a lot to say about billionaires and corporations. Bartleby and Artemus decipher it all through the lens of the fed-up populace movement and discover there are a surprising number of laws respected along the road to anarchy. Hold onto your high horse, because it's another egalitarian episode of Meta-Cosmos! …Hosted by Bartleby and Artemus Neehi.…Produced by Isaac Bluefoot.…Theme Music by Royal Jelly.

In a retrospective episode reassessing how canceling DEI initiatives has served us, it turns out the ironic use of the term is its own form of cancellation. With some reverse rhetoric, Bartleby offers a new term to describe the problem. Along the way, it's never too late for a little shadow work on another humbling episode of Meta-Cosmos!…Hosted by Bartleby and Artemus Neehi.…Produced by Isaac Bluefoot.…Theme Music by Royal Jelly.

Besides the usual talk about the Tao, this week the socks examine the lines we draw that hold society together. After humanity has crossed the line into AI use, when can we say we have crossed back over to our humanity? It won't be easy, but saving our own ability to connect with other humans will be worth it in another best episode yet of Meta-Cosmos!…Hosted by Bartleby and Artemus Neehi.…Produced by Isaac Bluefoot.…Theme Music by Royal Jelly.

Ask, and you shall receive the opinions of socks. In this Q&A session, Bartleby and Artemus examine knowledge as an emotion, explore what a verb would do if it had a body, and explain why everything effing sucks. Making up one-fifth of a grand occasion, it's the two hundredth of Meta-Cosmos!…Hosted by Bartleby and Artemus Neehi.…Produced by Isaac Bluefoot.…Theme Music by Royal Jelly.

Starting a whole new era for Meta-Cosmos, Bartleby presents Meta-Cosmos 3. We begin with a how-to guide to reducing negative thinking. Reset your mind, and you will reset your world in this best episode yet of the best era yet of Meta-Cosmos!…Hosted by Bartleby and Artemus Neehi.…Produced by Isaac Bluefoot.…Theme Music by Royal Jelly.

A good economy is like the Tao, if everyone isn't happy, it's not a good economy. For those taking advantage of a broken economy, suffering is a feature, not a bug. It turns out that Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is just as subject to interpretation as any of important text in another thought churning episode of Meta-Cosmos!…Hosted by Bartleby and Artemus Neehi.…Produced by Isaac Bluefoot.…Theme Music by Royal Jelly.

Beginning the second part of the Tao Te Ching, our favorite pair of socks examine the virtue of hierarchy, or at the least they look at the illusions of virtue. Slowly but gradually, Bartleby is questioning one translation of the Tao Te Ching altogether. Calling out all ego everywhere, it's another exposing episode of Meta-Cosmos!…Hosted by Bartleby and Artemus Neehi.…Produced by Isaac Bluefoot.…Theme Music by Royal Jelly.

Life is a proverbial scavenger hunt! It is happening whether we choose to participate or not, but through the Tao, we accomplish all of our tasks without doing anything at all! While checking off their to-do list, Bartleby and Artemus discover the joy of multitasking with silliness in a very productive episode of Meta-Cosmos!…Hosted by Bartleby and Artemus Neehi.…Produced by Isaac Bluefoot.…Theme Music by Royal Jelly.

It turns out, life seeks to shrink as much as it seeks to grow, but it would never admit to it. Bartleby and Artemus dip their little sock toes into the subject, but only just get started in a very short episode of Meta-Cosmos!…Hosted by Bartleby and Artemus Neehi.…Produced by Isaac Bluefoot.…Theme Music by Royal Jelly.

Giving in to the Tao and moving with it is nothing to brag about. In practice, it might appear boring, like the kind of boring that leads Bartleby to finally keep an episode short for once. It's a refreshing draught of wisdom in another best episode yet of Meta-Cosmos!…Hosted by Bartleby and Artemus Neehi.…Produced by Isaac Bluefoot.…Theme Music by Royal Jelly.