CxD#245: 🐊 + 🐿️ + 🔥

1. This mesmerizing conversation was like listening to Depeche Mode at their most powerful: haunting, inspiring, tender, raw, like a shirtless, sweaty Dave Gahan. My Rhetoric of Animals class at UT will finish this semester with a discussion about many of the subjects raised here, and an inquiry into how effective an unscripted conversation like this one can be in helping people understand and feel a part of what they otherwise would dismiss as outside their horizon of responsibility.

2:33 - Amazon rainforest 13:47 - Discovery of the Amazon 18:24 - Werner Herzog 24:30 - Jane Goodall 38:19 - Anacondas 1:02:08 - Eaten Alive 1:14:32 - Joe Rogan 1:22:51 - Surviving in the Amazon 1:50:03 - Uncontacted tribes in the Amazon 1:59:58 - Surrounded by black caiman crocodiles 2:17:35 - Graham Hancock and ancient civilizations 2:23:06 - Aliens 2:53:08 - Climate change 2:58:19 - Jordan Peterson 3:15:41 - Hunting 3:22:57 - Ayahuasca 3:31:24 - Meaning of life

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2. I’m collecting emails from those interested in learning about Nietzsche, Zen, and what fire-breathing philosophical inquiry can teach us about how to live. Professors Wright and Moazzam-Doulat are superstars in their fields — you don’t want to miss this.

Check out my review of Professor Wright’s most recent book Living Skillfully here:

CxD📚'23 #16: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Living Skillfully + Request of CxD readers

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5. My buddy Nibbles Maverick Nutkinski offered some CxD medicine this morning:

“We must abandon the idea that humans are at the center of the ethical universe and bestow value on the rest of the natural world only insofar as it suits humanity’s ends.”