John Higgs | Talking Timothy Leary & Twentieth Century Weirdness
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English - December 07, 2016 20:44 - 1 hour - 80.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 738 ratingsSpirituality Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture Philosophy paranormal ufo magic occult Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week we speak to author John Higgs about the singular oddness that was the twentieth century -the century that gave us space travel, nuclear weapons, the internet, existentialism, quantum theory, chaos mathematics, some fairly impressive genocide events and the greatest material lift in quality of life for the most people ever.
Along the way we talk about Timothy Leary and the counterculture, meeting Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Moore's Fossil Angels and the shortcomings of transhumanism.
Very good times.
Show Notes
John's blog and website John on Twitter Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century John talking to Alan Moore about the twentieth century