independent thought – the paradise paradox

The Story: The lessons learned from working on The Paradise Paradox

We live in the information age. Now it is possible for someone with a few hundred dollars to buy a smarthpone and start producing videos and podcasts, and with a few original ideas, some nowse and elbow grease, they can literally present a threat to multi-million dollar media organisations – challenging them to a battle of wits over who can hold the attention of the everyman.

Of course, for many content creators starting out, they don’t have such lofty goals of epic proportions. All they have is a tiny vision, the humble expectation that, there must be someone out there who would enjoy what I have to say, and so I will share it.

Once we were confined to a handful of symbols, a few TV and radio channels, stamping their brands into our brains. Now we literally have more channels than we could imagine watching. Millions of individuals, holding up their symbols to the world, projecting their hearts, their hopes, what limits them, and what sets them free. A worldwide conversation presents itself, sometimes civil, sometimes rowdy or even disrespectful, but almost always devoid of physical violence. What kind of neuron are you, in this international brain?

Once separate, now we are connected. Now, more than ever, your voice matters. Now, you are powerful. With enough intention, clarity and purpose, your words can change the course of lives – or even just a single life.

In this episode, Kurt explains how he and Aaron started The Paradise Paradox, with humble beginnings and humble goals, and some out of date AV equipment. Kurt tells some stories about where the project lead them, interviewing some fascinating people such as Andreas Antonopoulos, Amanda B. Johnson and Jeff Berwick, and being interviewed by some of them as well. He also explains some basic tips for getting started with a YouTube channel or podcast, and his plan for a new project, “Cryptonomics”.

Join me on a world-bending, symbol-shining, signal-boosting episode of … The Paradise Paradox!

The Eps:

Opening Yourself Up to The World, Living Freely and Enjoying the Ride with Kurt Robinson on Anarchast

The Links:

The Illuminatus Trilogy by R.A. Wilson

Auphonic – automatically clean up your audio for podcasts and video

Boombox Saintz on Facebook

Super Ego on Facebook – awesome hip hop beats

Luis Fernando Mises – Emancipated Human

Luis Fernando Mises – Liberty Memes speech

Autonomite

The Cash:

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To download the audio, right click and press “save as”.

Remember to subscribe on iTunes or subscribe on Pocket Casts.

If you enjoyed the episode, don’t keep it a secret! Feel free to share it on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Reddit, or your office bathroom wall.

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The Story:

As you walk past billboards, TVs playing advertisements, use products with bright logos on display, listen to news radio and read corporate reports, if you’re not paying attention, it might be easily to overlook the fact that every person and every medium that is communicating to you, is attempting to change your beliefs, to alter your perception in subtle ways , that somehow work in their favour. Coca-Cola Amatil wants you to identify as a beach-ball-rolling Coca-Cola man, Pepsi wants you to believe that it passed the Pepsi challenge, and your own government wants you to identify as a patriotic citizen, and to believe that its enemies are raping, bestial monsters.

If everyone dropped their defences completely, letting this propaganda in without question, the world would end up a boring place, with people, instead of being sovereign, independent-thinking individuals, instead resembling pinballs moving around the board, bouncing off bumpers and repeatedly hitting pretty lights. People would adopt the words “Obey” and “Consume” as their personal mantras. Some parts of the world are getting dangerously close to this dystopia – but fortunately, we have the Internet to make people aware of the potential diversity of lifestyles, beliefs and opinions.

How can we recognise the more insidious forms of propaganda? What are the principles which advertisers and speech writers can use to bury their thoughts in our brains, making us believe that they are our own? And what are the costs if we are not vigilant enough? We explore these questions and more, in this mind-penetrating episode of … The Paradise Paradox!