Philosophy of Vopiscus

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Heavy metal philosopher of psychology, sociology, and political theory. Grease your mental gearbox with this collection of concise concepts meant to get the creative juices flowing. (formerly titled Psychic Lube)

  1. Jul 25

    Ep33 - Contra Buddha

    Quick shoutout to the always entertaining history podcast, the Duo Stulti; in this morning’s episode on Cicero, Dune detoured into bashing Buddhism for exactly the same reason I would, so I was inspired to join in the fun. Intro theme: "Shattered", by ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar⁠ Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/⁠ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): ⁠https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/⁠ The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK⁠ Practical psychology tech: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/PsychicLube⁠⁠ Duo Stulti, The Worst of History 11: Cicero, The Libtard: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0RoNs9tKDOE6ZlJqNUpaEw

    Ep33 - Contra Buddha

  2. Jul 10

    Monopoly on Violence (Political Short)

    Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/Intro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitarTranscript: The state conceived of as a monopoly on violence is already a totalitarian framing.  Once a monopoly on violence is secured, there is infinite leverage for governmental expansion.  Only when the capacity for organized violence is retained by the citizenry can the government be held to account.  The 2nd amendment is the reason America crawls, rather than sprints, toward full-blown slavery. Without limits to government growth, any issue that a government is considered necessary to solve is guaranteed to become a bigger and bigger problem, whether that’s war, welfare, healthcare, homelessness, food production, drug abuse, terrorism, or theft of marshmallows. It needs to be remembered that any organized body of people collecting a paycheck is a for-profit entity, and the government is no exception.  Whatever they’re guaranteed a budget increase to deal with, they’re incentivized to worsen. Voting is only real to this extent: The political party handed power by the unelected bureaucracy is whichever one can at the moment do a better job convincing the populace of reasons to increase the federal (or state or municipal) sphere of responsibilities (and thereby, the budget). The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK

  3. Feb 22 ·  Bonus

    Socialism is Slavery without Accountability for the Slave-Owners

    [Political Theory Series] Right now the government takes one quarter of the fruit of my labor.  I don’t get to decide where that money goes or what it gets used for.  We are one-quarter socialist, from where I’m sitting.  Just heard that in New York City, which is not my problem, but a useful example, they’re trying  to raise taxes by another 9%, and trying to pass a law that prevents you from selling your property to anyone but the government.*  Okay, so fast-forward that madness a few generations, and you have a world in which everyone lives in government-owned housing and works without pay.  Someone else decides where you live, what you do, and what stuff you can have.  How is that different from slavery?  Only in one respect: you’re owned by committee, instead of by an individual, so there’s no one to hold accountable when things go too far.  Fork socialism. *correction: proposed NYC law is about selling apartments, not houses (yet). Certain non-profits would get first dibs on multi-family residential purchases. Still illustrates the trend. Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK

  4. 12/22/2025

    Ep32 - The Plagiarizing Ego

    Why do we maintain our positions? I recently caught myself getting defensive about ideas I didn’t even come up with, and so now I present to you the concept of the Plagiarizing Ego. Intro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK Practical psychology tech: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/PsychicLube

    Ep32 - The Plagiarizing Ego

  5. 11/26/2025

    Ep31 - Semantic Contagion

    Ideas, as neural patterns, live in the brain, can regulate and originate behavior, and can spread from one brain to another. In this episode, we’ll think about the concepts of semantic contagion and rational malware. The Last Word on Anger https://www.patreon.com/posts/last-word-on-136290288 Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK

    Ep31 - Semantic Contagion

  6. 10/02/2025

    Ep30 - Conspiracy Therapy

    How to use conspiracy theories to improve your personality. TL/DW: The ways governments trick their populations potentially mirror the ways we trick ourselves. The Last Word on Anger: https://www.patreon.com/posts/last-word-on-136290288 Intro/outro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK

  7. 08/03/2025

    Ep29 - Personality Programming & Suprahuman Entanglements

    “...anyone who considers the basic drives of man.... will find that all of them have done philosophy at some time – and that every one of them would like only too well to represent just itself as the ultimate purpose of existence and the legitimate master of all the other drives. For every drive wants to be master – and it attempts to philosophize in that spirit.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/ The Podcram (highlights from other podcasts): https://open.spotify.com/show/7eXzt8qPiuh0Er6CIwVKFK Intro theme: "Shattered", by https://www.youtube.com/@VopiscusGuitar Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychic-lube/id1747070167 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@psychiclube

    Ep29 - Personality Programming & Suprahuman Entanglements

  8. 06/21/2025

    Ep28 - Goals vs Whims

    You don’t need to “get in touch” with your feelings. Whim is the polar opposite of conscious self-direction. You need top-down alignment, not bottom-up, or you’ll be reversing the neural circuitry that gives us humans what little autonomy we’ve managed to evolve. The Podcram Ep32 - Emotions, DrLaith al-Shawath:https://open.spotify.com/episode/1UNtQ3QvZn6Vla75cxkc5O Psychic Lube Ep13 – EmotionalSnipe Hunt:https://open.spotify.com/episode/3kdOhZqZhUNPjW2LOkT3Cz Augmenting Willpower (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Augmenting-Willpower/dp/B0CMY2T4D5/ An Idea is Not a Product: Moving Daydreams from Your Head to Your Wallet (audiobook): https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Not-Product-Moving-Daydreams/dp/B0CXFXXLB1/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/psychic-lube/id1747070167 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@psychiclube

    Ep28 - Goals vs Whims
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Heavy metal philosopher of psychology, sociology, and political theory. Grease your mental gearbox with this collection of concise concepts meant to get the creative juices flowing. (formerly titled Psychic Lube)

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  • Creator
    Vopiscus
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
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