Quite Useless Greg Beam

Not knowing can be painful... but knowledge may come at a hefty price.

What if everything you thought you knew about Plato's Republic... was wrong?

An exploration of the art of philosophy, starring Plato, Simone de Beauvoir, Zhuang Zhou, Soren Kierkegaard, Diogenes of Sinope, Audre Lorde, and more!
This is the third in a four-part series inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. Scroll through the past episodes to find the first two parts, "Raising the Curtain, Lifting the Veil" and "Madmen." 

Joseph Campbell was a proponent of the power of myth in framing human life. But in America in the 21st Century, what myths do we have to live by?
Well... there's always Star Wars...

Antonin Artaud was a self-described 'madman' and persistent failure in the theatre... He was also one of the great artistic geniuses of the 20th Century.

Bertolt Brecht was the force behind some of the most popular and influential theater of the 20th Century. But he didn't make plays to entertain. He made them to wake people up to the insanity around them.
This episode delves into Brecht's background and work, his philosophy and his legacy... and leads to some surprising places.
This is the first in a sequence inspired by the Allegory of the Cave, from Plato's Republic.