Episode · Timcast IRL · 2021-03-05
Books mentioned on Timcast IRL #237 - The "Fourth Turning" Predicts Societal Collapse Then "New World Order" w/ Ben Stewart
Tim, Ian, and Lydia invite documentarian and musician Ben Joseph Stewart for some slightly less news-oriented conversation about 'The Fourth Turning,' a seemingly-prophetic book about what will happen to society, Bitcoin, and psychedelics. Support the show (http://Timcast.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The fourth turning
The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe is a generational theory book that argues history moves in repeating eighty-year cycles consisting of four distinct turnings, culminating in a major societal crisis or generational upheaval.
Discussed“according to a theory prophesied in neil howe and william strasse's the fourth turning the authors wrote the next crisis era would start around 2005 and climax around 2020 and would involve millennials and boomers fighting over the shape of the world to come”
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What Technology Wants
What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly is a visionary examination of human evolution, culture, and technology, famously framing technological innovation as a living, breathing seventh kingdom of life known as the technium.
Recommended“well here's the reason why i want to say that there's a really interesting book called what technology wants and it talks about evolution and it says there's two main camps and one is the contingency theory”
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Ishmael
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is a philosophical novel structured as a dialogue between a telepathic gorilla and a disillusioned man, exploring human civilization, environmental exploitation, and cultural mythologies.
Discussed“thank you very much for those that are josh for sending me a copy of ishmael for those that aren't familiar the meme i am a gorilla which we sell the shirt go to timcast.com click shop and you get your i am a gorilla t-shirt it's based off of alex jones saying this book ishmael is a psychic gorilla”
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DMT: The Spirit Molecule
DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman documents the author's pioneering clinical research into dimethyltryptamine as the first federally approved study of psychedelics in humans at the University of New Mexico.
Discussed“so if any of uh your listeners know dr rick strasman he wrote dmt the spirit molecule what he did was there was a long prohibition on psychedelics”
