Anyone follow Academy of Ideas? Perhaps considered more mini-lectures than podcasts. But it's people talking about stuff either way.
Anyway, the videos are excellent and really help your brain not turn into mush.
They just done one on the psychology of the anti-hero, drawing examples of the Joker and the Underground Man in Dostoevsky's book to discuss how our innate sense to be more, or be heroic is now channeled or embedded into the strive for vanity and status to feel more than, or heroic... or simply to fall in line and have the societal nod of approval as we move further from, and voluntarily lose grip of the roots of our past, namely myth and religion. And when the heroes journey of consumerism, status and conformity fail us, we're often plunged into the murky depths, recognising the absurdity of the life we've led but not knowing where to look, and should there be nothing of meaning or value to turn to, like in Notes from Underground or even Joker, the anti-hero emerges, victimised, beaten, battered, bruised and embittered.
The idea the video presents is that there's a little bit of that anti-hero in us all.
https://academyofideas.com/category/videos/
