Gods, Masters, and Clout Casey Franco

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Many things in modern life make us fearful. The Fear Inoculant series will explore ways to be less fearful and live a more authentic life. In this, the first of three episodes, we cover a host of philosophical concepts aimed at demystifying reality in order to lay the groundwork for examining social movements in the next episode.
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In this episode: Aristotle’s Rhetorical Triangle, how I escaped a cult, why we must care about others, and how it can all be applied to persuasion, art creation, ideology, and modern life. We delve into some of the philosophical reasons behind what makes one “good” at rhetoric. I talk about how some of Lacan’s, Freud’s, and Jung’s psychological writings can be used to cultivate authority, humanity, and logic. As I explain each pillar of the triangle, I’ll then use that same method to analyze my own life to give a better idea of who I am: my ethos of what led me to co-found Jam Street Media, the pathos of my grandmother’s imperative to me, and the logos of the book that caused my exodus from religion.

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Chapters -

00:56 - Episode Introduction

4:20 - The Rhetorical Triangle

14:40 - Ethos (The Concept)

30:55 - My Ethos (What I’m Credible to Speak On)

39:24 - Pathos (The Concept)

55:16 - My Pathos (How My Grandmother Sees Me)

1:00:10 - Logos (The Concept)

1:12:45 - My Logos (Using Logic to Escape a Cult)

1:29:53 - The Wrap-up

Links and Citations -

School of Liberal Arts Rhetorical Triangle Analysis - https://www.lsu.edu/hss/english/files/university_writing_files/item35402.pdf
Salvoj Zizek on Gratification of Capitalist Consumption - https://youtu.be/P18UK5IMRDI
Manipulation vs Persuasion by Michael Roberts - https://medium.com/@michaelwroberts/the-difference-between-persuasion-and-manipulation-27eb4c02fd2d
Meerkat Facts - https://www.natgeokids.com/au/discover/animals/general-animals/meerkat-facts/
Social Contract Theory - https://iep.utm.edu/soc-cont/
Michael Heumer, The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
Liberalism - https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/art_sci_etds/244/
Stanley Milgram’s Experiment on Obedience and Authority - https://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/psych101/socialpsychology/section7/
How to understand power - Eric Liu - https://youtu.be/c_Eutci7ack
Lacan’s “Big Other” - http://www.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/lacan/terms/other.html
Freud’s “Superego” - https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html
Sam Harris on Freewill and Genetic determinism - https://samharris.org/the-illusion-of-free-will/
Lacan on Desire - https://www.lacanonline.com/2010/05/what-does-lacan-say-about-desire/
Zizek on the lack of a “Big Other” - "What is the big other?" - The Pervert's Guide To Ideology 2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwIDNW89AqQ
Turlock’s churches - https://townsquarepublications.com/turlock-worship/
Videos I made for iHeart -
Lacan on “The Subject” - http://www.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/lacan/terms/subject.html
Empathy - https://lesley.edu/article/the-psychology-of-emotional-and-cognitive-empathy#:~:text=According%20to%20Hodges%20and%20Myers,but%20without%20the%20self%20actually
Effects of the Agricultural Revolution - https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldhistory2/chapter/effects-of-the-agricultural-revolution/#:~:text=The%20increase%20in%20agricultural%20production,loosely%20regulated%20agricultural%20market%2C%20and
Yuval Noah Harari on Human Superiority - https://ideas.ted.com/why-humans-run-the-world/
Lacan’s “Signifiers” - https://nosubject.com/Signifier
Reptile Brain vs Mammalian Brain - https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_05/d_05_cr/d_05_cr_her/d_05_cr_her.html
Genetic predisposition vs Experience - https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-nature-versus-nurture-2795392
Structuralism - Calhoun, Craig, ed. 2002. "Structuralism." In Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN9780195123715.
Joseph Campbell’s “The Hero With a Thousand Faces” - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces
David Hume’s Moral Philosophy