The Great Ungaslighting

Craig Boreth
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We've all been conned into accepting a human culture that's out of sync with human nature, but it's time to fight back and put the kind back into humankind.

  1. Ep54 -- Intrinsic Accounting

    12/17/2025

    Ep54 -- Intrinsic Accounting

    Finding ways to accentuate the positive, and figuring out what those "Anti-Elon Tesla Club" stickers are really saying.

    24 min
  2. Ep53 -- The Paths Not Taken

    11/06/2025

    Ep53 -- The Paths Not Taken

    The power and promise of imagining alternate realities: Remembering a pre-enshittified internet; revealing a less awful form of capitalism; and, considering a different type of Zionism.  MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: CSA: The Confederate States of America (YouTube) Jeff Tiedrich: Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion (Substack) Daily Links from Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic.net) Good Thing/Bad Thing Graph (Google) Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023 (Rand) Ahad Ha'am: Nationalist with a Difference (Commentary) The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left (Commentary) Einstein Opposed Zionist Colonization (Canadian Dimension) Hannah Arendt on Political Zionism (Arab Studies Quarterly) Ben-Gurion: Letter to His Son (Jewish Voices for Peace) A Zionist State at Any Cost (Jacobin) The Iron Wall (Jabotinsky Institute)

    39 min
  3. Ep52 -- The Extreme Center

    09/25/2025

    Ep52 -- The Extreme Center

    If playing to the center has brought us to this, shouldn't moderate Democrats more accurately be called Extreme Centrists? ------------------------------------------- Lennar Lobbies for Endless Profits -- Substack Lennar Launches e-Marketplace -- The Lever

    25 min
  4. Ep51 -- Believing Is Seeing

    07/23/2025

    Ep51 -- Believing Is Seeing

    Our views and experiences impact how we see the world.  One man's take on a 19th-century anti-monopoly law changed the world entirely. Mentioned This Week: Tony Conrad's "The Flicker" [YouTube]"Google Is Now the East India Company [The Honest Broker]"Beware of the Google AI Salesman" [HouseFresh]"The Antitrust Paradox" [Wikipedia]"The Profound Nonsense of Consumer Welfare Antitrust [The Antitrust Bulletin]

    27 min
  5. Ep50 -- Excuses, Excuses

    06/05/2025

    Ep50 -- Excuses, Excuses

    This episode explores how we so often believe in something -- from who is the NBA GOAT, to the legitimacy of one's economic status -- and then work backward to figure out why it's true.   Mentioned this week: CNBC: Banks Keep Credit Card Rates High Doctorow: The Meritocracy to Eugenics Pipeline Forbes: Under-30 List Psychology Today: Your Brain on Power NYT: The Techno-Futurist Philosophy Behind Musk's Mania

    23 min
  6. Ep49 -- Learning the Wrong Lesson

    05/07/2025

    Ep49 -- Learning the Wrong Lesson

    They say that experience is the best teacher, but what if you're not a particularly great student and you learn the wrong lesson?  I share a wrong-lesson experience from my childhood that stayed with me for decades, and nominate the Greatest Wrong Lesson Learner of all time. Mentioned this week: William Deresiewicz’s book, EXCELLENT SHEEP Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset Stellantis Announces Dividend The History of Monopoly!

    18 min
  7. Ep48 -- Blame the Burrito

    04/02/2025

    Ep48 -- Blame the Burrito

    Next time you inhale a burrito and slip into a food coma, don't blame yourself, because the very nature of the burrito requires that it be eaten too quickly to maintain consciousness thereafter.  On this episode of The Great Ungaslighting, we explore ways that we misdirect blame, and how that can lead us to pursue the exact wrong remedy. Mentioned this week: The BIG Newsletter: Why a Corporate Deal You Haven't Heard of Should Scare You New Yorker Cartoon:  Neanderthal's in Charge American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine: The Connection Prescription Cut List Optimizer ShopShop App Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator

    17 min
  8. Ep47 -- The Finger Butt Fallacy

    03/18/2025

    Ep47 -- The Finger Butt Fallacy

    This week I discover how a NSFW photo trick -- that makes it appear as if a naked butt is above your head -- helps explain what's wrong with everything from our understanding of high egg prices to the Chicago School's "rational markets" argument. MENTIONED THIS WEEK: YouTube: Paul Rudd explains the finger-butt technique YouTube: The Kids in the Hall "Crush Your Head" sketch The BIG Newsletter: "Hatching a Conspiracy" Pluraslistic.net: Yanis Varoufakis's "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?" Counterpunch: "Can Freedom and Capitalism Co-exist?"

    18 min
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We've all been conned into accepting a human culture that's out of sync with human nature, but it's time to fight back and put the kind back into humankind.

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  • Creator
    Craig Boreth
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    55
  • Rating
    Clean
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