872 – Topics

00:03 Epicurious about Epicurus: feedback request on happiness, Epicurus, Epicurus – a history and overview, Democritus and atomism, search for happiness, differing accounts of Epicureanism, stoicism, Epicureanism for individualism, influenced people like Karl Marx, Thomas Jefferson influenced by Epicurus, Epicureanism maligned throughout history, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, happiness and a measure of happiness, 2019 Leger survey, how to measure happiness, happiness associated with freedom

15:00 Moderation: pleasure, Epicurus accused of pure hedonism, pain often necessary for pleasure and happiness, avoiding politics, pleasure pursued ethically, life is simple but not easy, life’s a bitch and then you die, own nothing and be happy, Christians and Romans hated Epicurus, natural and necessary, unnatural desires – power opulence fame, no natural limit, led to politics

30:00 Fear formula: McKeever on psychology, Left as a death cult, self-sufficiency, cult of destruction, mass formation, fear as the means to gain objectives, politicians rely on fear, ignoring fear, irrational vs rational fear, public speaking, social metaphysics, fear of being judged, rational fear necessary for survival, fear of the darkness, practical politics based on imaginary fear, solution to fear is knowledge, determinism and free will, McKeever on Epicurus, atomic swerve

45:00 Metaphysical: Objectivism and Epicureanism, rejection of logic, natural meaning of words, empiricism, nothing comes from nothing, existence exists, epistemology based on reason, collectivists are happiness destroyers, utilitarianism, altruism confused with spirit of giving, natural esthetics, the Left chronically unhappy

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