Classic Amateurs: Recent Episodes
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Raz and Norman talks about something completely not divisive or controversial: religion.
The books we reviewed:
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
Mircea Eliade: A History of Religious Ideas
We look at two of the most famous dystopias: 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
We try to answer important questions like:
- Dictatorship of no-sex or dictatorship of too-much sex?
- What gets you cancelled or spiked up though your butt?
- Should you be always happy or can you let yourself hate others for 2 minutes?
Time:
1:07 Brave New World
3:01 1984
4:56 Discussion Starts
We talk about business and economics in today's podcast, reviewing two books popular books about economist-enthusiasts... whatever that means.
Books reviewed;
- Why Nations Fail - Book by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail - Book by Ray Dalio
J.R.R. Tolkien created a language, and wrote a story to explain how people speak it.
G.R.R.Martin created a cookbook, and wrote a story to show how people eat it.
Comparing Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.
Norman and Raz talks about Phileas Fogg, who almost became the world's first extreme gambling victim. Then they discuss things they didn't see coming.
Raz and Norman talk about duality and compare 2 books about it: Kafka's Metamorphosis and Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde.
Norm, the Elon Musk nerd clashes with Raz, the Elon Musk sceptic. Who will win this great battle?
Support us by getting Elon Musk's Biography by Ashlee Vance
Raz tells Norm why he is a Jordan Peterson fanboy. Also, why he likes to pet cats.
Support our pod, buy the book: Jordan B Peterson - 12 Rules for Life
Or follow the Classic Amateurs channel on YouTube to see our pretty faces.
Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl has some advice for us, how to get through though times. Raz also has an advice: don't read or listen this book while moving your lawn.
Support our pod by getting the book: Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning
Norman tells Raz about Frankenstein - Mary Shelley's amazing horror / revenge / adventure / cautionary tale about French people.
Support the pod by getting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein on Amazon
You can also check out our YouTube channel if you want to see our pretty faces.
We get edgy. Is it worse to be a paedo or a Russian?
Support the pod by getting Nabukov's Lolita
Raz and Norm explores how feminine competition played a role in Snow White. We also talk about how cannibals choose which body parts to eat.
Support the pod by getting a book:
- Disney's Snow White
- Watercolored Classic Snow White
Normal tells Raz why Philip K. Dick's novels are fantastic and why we might have been dead all along.
Support our pod by buying the book: PKD's Blade Runner
Raz tells Norman about humankind's brief history and why we are both the heroes and villains.
Support the pod and buy the book: Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens
Norm told Raz why Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is so inspiring. Also: why do some people want to marry the railroad?
Get Atlas Shrugged & Support the Pod! https://amzn.to/3BrbUdH
Join us and learn about a classic, I'd probably not recommend reading. Anyway it is still fun to talk about it.
We talk about Roadside Picnic, a novel by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky. This work has inspired the movie Stalker and some other media.
This week we explore ' The righteous mind' by Jonathan Haight. We learn how people make moral judgements and why you should be suspicious of that chicken...
We talk about Peter Thiel and his book Zero to One to figure out how controversial we are.