Live wiser.
Ryder reads great thinkers and shares their insights with you.
Let’s THiNK about it podcast
hosted by Ryder Richards
Can you become authentic in a manipulative society?
Only if you realize how you are being twisted.
Each STEP of the Podcast tackles a key topic from a great thinker to reveal the obscure motivations that drive humans and the systems that shape us.
Our Journey
includes the following topics
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Society/Culture
- Self Help/Mental Health
- Labor/Leisure
- Behavioral Economics
- Popular Culture
Step 80: Transcendent Escapism
Using abstractions, like truth and catastrophe fantasies, we bypass reality with dangerous universal rules that validate our desires.
Step 79: Skipping Reality
When ideology, on one side, and the simulacra on the other don’t have the net of reality, the game is over.
Step 78: The Parallax View
What if we don’t overcome or sublate, but merely shift perspective?
Step 77: Perspective Framing
Considering a deconstructionist background we look at “perspective framing” of therapy, buddhism, and christianity to address the problem of locating the desiring self.
Step 76: Concrete Universal
The concept of concrete universalism is exemplified through “garbage,” where a specific object represents a broader category, like art.
What podcast listeners are saying:
When searching for content to fill my drive time, I am often bored or annoyed by podcast presenters and end up listening to public radio (the music station.) But after listening to Surveillance Capitalism by Ryder, time passes quickly (engaging content) and I also have a few laughs (his voice effects) and learn a few new words (big vocabulary.)
Valerie Grimes, The Flow Center
The podcast makes you think about daily acceptances of “the way things are” that deserve to be questioned. It challenges the authenticity of thought and a true search for facts to support theories. I enjoy the pointing out of daily hypocrisy not overly obvious to me prior to listening. Definitely recommend listening to this one!
Lucy Deasley
Join Ryder on a path of discovery dotted with books, philosophers, and human problems.
Ryder is desperately trying to untangle how individuality is shaped by society, which is all tangled up with money and invisible nudges.
On his journey, Ryder offers up the mental tools he finds to help you take what you learn into your daily life.
