David Boles: Human Meme

David Boles: Human Meme

This Human Meme podcast is the inflection point for what it means to live a life of knowing. We are in the critical moment of human induction. David Boles is a writer, publisher, teacher, lyricist and author living and working in New York City. He has dedicated his life to founding the irrevocable aesthetic. Be a Human Meme!

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October 8, 2025 16 mins

“Taking the black pill” names a posture of fatalism that migrated from fringe men’s forums into the wider internet. The metaphor riffs on ...

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Consciousness is the raw fact of experience itself, what philosophers call qualia. It's the redness of red, the sharp bite of winter air, ...

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The concept of spiritual and moral hollowness that T.S. Eliot crystallized in "The Hollow Men" (1925) emerged from a crisis of meaning that...

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A persistent gap between public imagination and technical reality defines the common understanding of artificial intelligence. The popular ...

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The old archivist, Dr. Aris Thorne, felt a jolt of audacious heresy as he slid the glossy print into the maw of the machine. It was a photo...

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In the sprawling, often-anonymous landscape of the internet, a persistent shadow lurks, eager to sow discord and inflict reputational harm:...

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It's a wonderfully curious thing, isn't it, how two little words like "less" and "fewer" can stir up so much conversation and, at times, ev...

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So, after all this time, have we ever actually found evidence of alien life on Earth? It's a question that gets to the heart of our place i...

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The cosmos harbors many mysteries, but few capture our imagination as completely as black holes, regions of spacetime where gravity so domi...

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July 16, 2025 18 mins

Nowhere was the tension between local and standard time more vivid than in Indiana. Before 2006, the state was a confusing patchwork of time observance. Some counties followed Daylight Saving, while others steadfastly refused. Some aligned with Chicago on Central Time, others with Ohio on Eastern Time. Locals became "time-bilingual." A dentist in Jasper might advertise appointments at 9 a.m. "slow," knowing that patients driving fr...

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The phrase “if the center holds” has its conceptual roots in the broader cultural and literary assertion that social, political, or ideolog...

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The first forgotten truth emerges from the medieval understanding of time as a living, breathing entity rather than a mere mechanical measu...

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The human yearning to create intelligence beyond our own biological constraints stretches back to antiquity, manifes...

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June 4, 2025 17 mins

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May 28, 2025 26 mins

We begin with a silence, the kind that rings heavy in the ears of the alone. This is the quiet place many young men now occupy—a self-impos...

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