Ideas that have shaped human history as expressed in poetry, speeches, myth and documents
This podcast program is my personal effort to address ideas that have shaped human history as expressed in poetry, speeches, myths and documents. The programs will be posted weekly or more frequently depending on their content and the work involvedMostly, but not always, the topics deal with what some people might describe as serious issues, which some might find depressing, unduly taxing on their concentration or offensive to their present world view. Such people are probably better to give this program a miss. The program necessarily addresses existential, political, historical, philosophical, sociological and scientific issues of my choosing and no d...
Program 16 Poetry abouyt humanity and the environment
This program is about the impact of humanity on the envorinment and other creatures onthe Earth
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Program 15: In Defence of the aliens 4
This the fourth part of the book on the observatons of advanced aliens on the state of humanity on the Earth.
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Program 14: In Defence of the aliens 3
This the third part of the book on the observatons of advanced aliens on the state of humanity on the Earth.
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Program 13: In Defence of the Aliens 2
This the second part of the book on the observatons of advanced aliens on the state of humanity on the Earth.
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Program 12: In Defence of the Aliens 1
This is the first of a four part audio book of In Defence of the Aliens. It is about the reports of more advanced aliens on the state of humanity on the Earth.
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Program 11: The poetry of WWI
This program follws the previous one on the glorification of war. It deals explicitly with the poetry of WWI.
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Program 10: Sword of Damolces and the Gordian Knot
This program is about two common Greek myths that are still regulatly referred to today.
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Program 9: The poetry of A.B. Patterson
A. B. Patterson was an early Austrlaian poet who wrote on Ausstralian society with a heavy emphasis on a new found sense of nationalism following the federation of states in Australia to form one country in 1901.
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Program 8: Glorifiying war
This episode contains poetry and speeches whose purpose is the adulation of the warrior class and the glorification of war.
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Program 7: Finding meaning in life among its mundanities
This episode followings on the previous prgrams about the shortness off life and the inevitability of death. It reviews the poetry and writings of people who have had to grapple with the boring and the routine that consumes so much of our short lives
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Program 6: The American Declaration of Independence, Gettysburg address and Mandela's Presidental speech
This program contains the above speeches in full, to allow people to
contrast the aspirational to the historical relaity.
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Program 5: Poetry on trains
This program contains the poetry on trains.
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Program 4: Earth living on borrowed time
This program is about the inevitability of the demise of the Earth as a whole and all that sail upon unless they become space faring species before that fate befalls the Earth.
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Program 3: The ruthlessness of Darwinian evolution
This program focusses on Darwinian evolution as the essential driver of human violence and war.
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Program 2: Reflections on the grave
This program follows from the prevous one on the shortness of life and the inevitabioity of death. It is poetry of people reflecting on the grave and its contents.
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Program 1: The shortness of life and the inevitability of death
This program is about the shortness of human life and the inevitaiblity of our death. It contains the poetry of people over the centuries that have addressed the issue and so that have been forced to do so due to the immanancy of their death.
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Introduction Episode
This is an introductory preview to the podcast.
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