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Nov. 19, 2025
New World Dogma – How Capitalism Kills Reason AND Connection
What do Joe Dispenza, Jordan Peterson, and music pedants have in common? Do they all secretly suffer from irritable bowel syndrome? Have they all been implicated in the extinction of a rare species of wombat? Sadly no, but you get to try and guess b…
Nov. 19, 2025
Emotional Austerity: how Stoicism Kills Connection
It makes sense that people are curious about Stoicism again. It’s one of the few tools that admits life is crap sometimes. Compared to Western spiritualism, it feels like a more sober, more realistic, way to come to terms with that fact. The p…
Nov. 19, 2025
Toxic Spirituality: Narcissism, Gurus, and the God Complex.
Picture yourself in the late 1800s. You’ve been outcast by German society. You’ve been laughed at by academics and spurned by potential lovers. You are now miserable, broke, and ill, but still very, very THINKY. You are, in fact, working…
Nov. 19, 2025
The Power of Imperfection: Overcoming Loneliness in a Narcissistic World
Hello again, dear reader. It is good to have you back! This post is the second in a four-part series on narcissistic values in Western capitalist culture. Why would I delve into the topic of narcissism in a podcast on loneliness? The answer is, beca…
Nov. 19, 2025
How Society Raises You Like A Narcissistic Parent Would
Hello, dear reader. Today, I want to talk about one of the most insidious reasons you might feel lonely, isolated — and like you’re not good enough You might not know this, but those feelings are actually a typical outcome of a certain k…
Nov. 19, 2025
How Archetypes and Caricatures Make Us Lonely — and Rob Us of Ourselves
I want to begin with a quote by Emmanuel Levinas — because this post is about being unseen. Or more precisely: it’s about being reduced to something you’re not. When you hear it, remember, for me, YOU are that other. For you, I am.…
Nov. 19, 2025
Manufacturing Loneliness — Why and How Connection is Meant to Fail.
Today, I want to really drill down into what MIGHT be the solution to loneliness—connection—and make clear how the values we hold as a society make that connection so damn difficult. My hope is that, in understanding that, the real solut…
Nov. 19, 2025
Out-performing Ourselves: A Friendly Little Chat About Crushing the Competition.
What Is Competition?There are several definitions of competition in both the Cambridge and Oxford dictionaries, but they all revolve around a central idea: a person or group striving to be better or more successful than another person or group. What…
Nov. 19, 2025
A Hidden Cause of Loneliness No One Talks About: Our Belief in Cognitive Primacy
What if everything you were taught about your emotions was a lie?What if pain wasn’t a problem to be fixed?What if feeling deeply wasn’t a weakness — but a form of truth the world desperately needs?For decades, we’ve been sol…
Nov. 19, 2025
Control – as both an aspiration, obligation and contributor to loneliness
Control – as both an aspiration, obligation and contributor to loneliness
In this post, we’re unpacking more core values embedded in Western capitalism, as part of the wider project of exposing what lies behind our loneliness. To remind…
Nov. 18, 2025
Individualism and the Hero Narrative/ Why Heroes Are Lonely
Let me dive right into the guts of the loneliness pandemic. We are not lonely by accident. There is a whole system of values that culminate in our isolation, at least, in western capitalist culture. These values are not just isolated ideas, either. …
Nov. 18, 2025
Calling out the Root Causes of Loneliness
Hi. My name is Jordan, and I have a severe allergy to self-help gurus. I am not here to tell you to love yourself or think positively. I know that doesn’t work—because I spent decades grappling with that excruciating, bone-deep lonelines…