Feb 26, 2020
John Allen returns with what is. He talks about:
0:00 The car.
4:00 Conversations can be tiring.
8:00 Acting out of awareness not conditioning.
11:00 Living in a world of labels.
14:00 Proselytizing.
15:30 Childhood forced him to question a lot of stuff.
22:00 When he first got married it felt like one of the low points in his existence.
26:00 Preferring to spend my time in the basement.
32:00 His Dad's romance about the movies. The Allen theatres were the only theatres in North America. Huge distributors.
36:00 Why dentists commit suicide.
40:00 How Freud and Jung were horny guys.
43:00 How we never have a serious cultural conversation about sex
45:00 How not knowing is the only creative place.
47:00 The car getting towed away makes him want it more.
49:00 Selling his mother's ring and sobbing in front of the jewelery store.
51:00 Guy pals always come through.
54:00 Suburban women will dictate US election.
1:04:00 Democratic race is almost done.
1:19:00 The pharmaceutical industry tries to co-opt you first before they come after you
1:21:00 Taking the subway to dancing.
1:23:00 Looking around for the pills. For an exit.
1:27:00 Interchanging driving the kids with driving the girlfriend.
1:32:00 Looking forward to the car returning from the shop.
1:39:00 This is virtual reality.
1:42:00 Big John’s anger at the Leafs losing to a Zamboni driver.
1:46:00 The Harvard notion of “leadering”. Mourinho getting lost in technical solutions - coaching like he did five years ago.
1:48:00 Deconstruction for everything is how we see.
1:56:00 Depression - writing it down and pulling on the thread.
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References:
Aldous Huxley's Perennial Philosophy
Krishnamurti
Joseph Campbell
The Last Waltz
Jordan Petersen
Jung's Princeton Letters
Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow
Freud
Saving Private Ryan
Camus' L’Etranger