Watch or Listen on your preferred platform: On this episode I'm joined by the ever-articulate scholar, Erik Davis, who wrote one of my favorite non-fiction books of all time: Techgnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (seriously, it's remarkable). Erik also recently released...

Recently I was watching John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight episode on Facebook, and for the first time in my life found myself terribly at odds with his opinion. The segment was largely dedicated toward condemning Facebook for their actions in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), specifically for their poor...

Throughout most of human history there has been a divide between the wealthy and the poor, the elite and the lower class, those who lead and those who follow. This seemed an inevitable continuation of our ape-ancestor’s proclivity towards hierarchies, an evolutionarily-hardwired behavior driven by our nervous systems and the...

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The internet: the collective thoughts of a species. The word, Kotodama, is a Japanese word that roughly translates to "the spirit or the power of language." It is the belief that words can influence our environment, our minds, our bodies and our souls. In many ways, it's simply speaking to the power of symbols--for words are symbols, just...