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Episode #146 ... Bergson on Laughter pt. 2 - Vitalism (Patreon)

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2020-10-20 19:57:39
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Sorry for the wait. Thought I would feel good enough to record. Ended up taking a while. Still have multiple episodes saved up and written. Recording another one today to release soon just in case. This golden age of shows will come eventually, I promise. Thanks for making it all possible.

Stephen

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David Smart

Thanks for all your hard work Stephen! Long time fan, hope you getter better and looking forward to more episodes :)

Larry

Bless you, man. You do such great work. Go at your own pace

Dizzie

It's always a delight to see a new episode! Waiting certainly doesn't diminish that. Hope you're feeling better

Nolan Swartz

Always worth the wait. Thank You!

Basil Cabrera

Thank you sir for another dose of your great translations. I hope you continue to feel better. Best wishes.

John Ennew

Thanks for doing what you do - its always brilliant

Elizabeth Stark

Thanks so much - thanks to the delay I have an excuse to go back and listen to the two back-to-back :-) Wishing you health and peace.

Nite Jewel

Thank you for what you do!

Luc Longpré

One of my favs. Thanks so much!

Ethan Stein

What a wild theory for laughter! I'm not 100% sure if i've got this right, but am I correct that laughter is essentially intuitive? We don't really intellectualize why we are doing it when we do it, but it has a definite purpose for people as a species. Good thing SW pointed out the evolution context. So laughing is in a sense maybe like a dog barking at another dog? Perhaps minimal or no intelligence involved mainly just vital impulse. The Dog doesn't know why it is barking and never will. But all good dogs bark.

CSToney

I'm glad you have enough pride in your work to wait until the moment is right for you to record/release these new episodes. Always worth the wait

prullansky

Fuck, what a way to end an episode.

Julia Moore

I'm thinking of you and hoping you're feeling better. Thanks for all that you do to help me understand the world a little more.

Tim Wright

What a great episode, the last one left me feeling a little hopeless.

Scott Womer

This was a surprise of an episode by being more profound than I initially expected from an inquiry into laughter.

Dylan

Yessss, it's been so long since any "hermetic" philosophers have been mentioned. Polarity and flow are seen as natural laws that he seems to have either learned or understood at a deeper level than visible on the surface. AND you brought back Heraclitus, great episode :)

Tony Ivanova

He basically talking there about quantum physics

September Lorena

Always worth the wait, ordered a shirt off tee-springs as well 😍

Sarah Hashmi

I start listening to his podcasts 3 years ago and I can see it has a defining moment in my life. I just got my first job so I finally can be a patreon. I definitely know more today than I did yesterday. Great episode and beautiful ending quote.

Kateryna D

Hey guys, I am a relatively new listener (on episode 76 currently). Stephen mentioned a lot the store with show's merchandise. Do you know where to find it? Thanks to anyone who answers :)

Eric Jackson

Thought it might be appropriate to check-in and lend a word of appreciation to the overall body of work. Thrilling stuff. Stephen, you are such a strong writer - I found you on YouTube during a pretty bound-up era in my life a few years back - working through PTSD currently, its all good, not a permanent condition and a trusted professional helps too. Anyway, sh*t was really dark for me for a bit and the power of your writing kept me grounded when I needed it. I am in your debt so I thought I'ed come around and say hello. Much thanks, Portland Oregon.

Cornelius Hodges Jr

It’s kinda refreshing when we get an easy to listen to episode on a simple topic that we can dive deeper into. Laughter is so important to our society. By the end of the episode I started to wonder how would Bergson process the new age of memes? Memes not only take on a life of their own, but they’re also virtual medicine. However they tend to drive us to the two extremes he warned us about. Laughing too much is not taking things seriously, & not laughing at all is not enjoyable. At this point culturally we almost joke as a natural reflect & out of habit. Sometimes I even refer to memes as the Millennial defense mechanism. I would’ve love to see how memes impacted Bergson’s theory on laughter & what it is/where it comes from.

Ryan Schafer

I kept thinking of Dune when I heard the Bergson pair of episodes. There's a passage in Dune about the sardonic that sounds strikingly similar to Bergson's theory on laughter. Too cool. "Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man." - Dune

Matt Whitby

I liked this one because I never laugh so it was interesting to me. Bought on book on Bergson to delve further.