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Hello everyone! Hope you're all doing well. As usual after a new episode I'll be getting to all the messages that I haven't gotten to yet. Always happy to hear from you all.

Thanks for making the show possible. Thanks for making life possible. Have a baby boy coming into the world in the next couple months and I rest easy because of your generosity.

Be well, and I hope you enjoy this one.

Stephen

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David Kurzweg

Wow...true knowledge is knowing you will never know everything; as close to the truth as possible. Thank you as always. Learning SO much. By the way, I started my journey with you around 5 years ago. I had just moved across the country and needed something to fill my time as my old network of friends and mental stimulation were gone. I am a Christian, but our new church and friends are decidedly more conservative and traditional than I had. I needed something more. I have always enjoyed philosophy because it makes me think, and I love thinking about such things. Scrolling through a list of potential podcasts, 'Philosophize This' stood out. I remember you were at approximately 25+ episodes in, so I started at episode 1. Here we are 5 years later and I finally caught up! Thank you for your practical, common sense approach to the subject. I have read books on philosophy that you have recommended (Nozick, Goff) as well as others. Your approach and trajectory are so pertinent, it helps me make sense of my questions of free will, infinity, and other questions. The dues I pay you and Patreon are worth every dime. On a final and personal note, I sense you are in a good place now. Your podcast is financially secure, and just from your tone of voice you are more confident than ever. Keep up the good work, we need you more than ever. Your devoted student, Dave.

Nick N

What is the difference between Zizek’s philosophy of ideologies and structuralism? Sure, structuralism can deal a lot with the origins of someone’s views, while Zizek does not seem to focus on that. However, the implications – that we all have different views, different ways we interpret, different ways our brains sieve through the information it receives – seems to be the same. And I’ve been wondering a lot if ideologies really differs all that much from structuralism. To me, it really seems that Zizek is a structuralist that simply does not worry about how ideas formed, but only how they are applied.