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!
Episodes
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...
The fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century was not merely the collapse of a political order or the ruin of marble monuments. It was the...
When a society starts to devalue education, the consequences quickly ripple through every aspect of civic, cultural, and econ...
First, let’s be honest: calling something “precious” can sometimes act as a velvet rope, a cordon sanitaire that says, “This is off-limits. This is ...
Let's talk about something that might have happened to you, or someone you know: going to the doctor and getting a blood pressure reading that seems way t...
Yes, that infamous -- Roman dodecahedron.
Across the gnawing of human civilization, a subtle yet persistent blindness emerges — one not simply defined by wars, environmental neglect, or productivi...
When we speak of wonders, we often conjure images of iconic structures like the Great Pyramid or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. But obscured by the passa...
Long before modern cities and towns covered Nebraska's landscape, the land held secrets of communities that finessed their environments with skill, creati...
From the highest crest of an ancient mountain stood a stone—a towering monument sculpted by the gentle and patient artistry of the universe itself. Here, ...
Henry VIII’s marital saga was as much a tale of personal ambition and passion as it was one of statecraft and religious upheaval. From the outset of his r...
The concept of social safety nets affects every single one of us, whether we realize it or not. These programs and policies—Medicare, Medicaid, unemployme...
How do we punish those who break the rules? Over the past thousand years, we’ve moved from brutal public executions and torture to sophisticated legal codes and debates over ...
Regret, in its multifaceted complexity, is an embedded facet of the human condition—a reflective, often painful acknowledgement of choices that have led us astray from our id...
The most curious unrealized secret of the known world is that humanity’s survival hinges not on technological advancement or resource extraction but on our collective ability to transcend the illusion of separaten...
Throughout history and into our contemporary world, the invocation of divinity in everyday life—particularly in non-religious arenas such as sports and politics—highlights the deeply rooted cultural inclination to...
Suspension of disbelief, as it is often understood today, traces its formal articulation to the English poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who coined the phrase “willing suspension of disbelief” in 1817...
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