- 94
- Episodes
- 44
- Transcribed
- 1,639
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 127M
- YouTube views
About Academy of Ideas
Free Minds for a Free Society
- Publisher
- Academy of Ideas
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 31 Mar 2021
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
44 of 94 episodes have a transcript.
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Psychology of NPCs – The Unthinking Masses
13 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Mystery Science Can’t Explain — Near-Death Experiences
14 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Cure for the Sickness of Modern Society – Henry David Thoreau
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The Psychology of NPCs – The Unthinking Masses
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] NPCs are shaped by unhealthy social environments. Common to the upbringing of the NPC is what the child psychologist Alice Miller called poisonous pedagogy, which is a style of child rearing that treats the child's emerging autonomy as a threat and something to be controlled. Instead of allowing a child to be guided by his or her curiosity and to develop independence and freedom of thought, parents focus on raising obedient and compliant children. they teach their children that if they want love and acceptance they must submit to the parent's will the unspoken aim of this pedagogy alice miller explained is that the child's will must be broken as soon as possible or as jerry kirkpatrick writes in independent judgment and introspection most parents are loving toward infants but when the children move into their terrible twos parents begin controlling often the controlling continues throughout childhood Choice and self-assertion are seen as a disruption of authority and disobedience. […]
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- Rolf Dobelli
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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- YouTube views
- 126,926,566
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 572 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 1,067 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
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- Quality
- 32
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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