In this episode, Jay Conrad Stewart and the Jeantrepreneur take a wrecking ball to one of the most marketable philosophies of the last fifteen years — and to the franchise that built it. The argument is architectural, not personal: Stoicism, as Zeno designed it and Marcus Aurelius practiced it, was a peace technology for governing the visible self under pressure. It was always meant to interface with a backend the founders ran in parallel — Greek religion, philosophical communities, dialectical practice, the journal as durable storage. The modern revival has stripped the front-end of everything it was meant to interface with, packaged the residue as a complete life system, and sold the trap as the solution.
6 May 2026
Thyrsus - Episode 1 | The Agency Problem
The Cerebral Is the Final Boss.What if population control never went away — it just moved indoors? Jay Conrad Stewart and The Jeantrepreneur trace a line from Thomas Malthus to your morning scroll, arguing that the real scarce resource isn't grain or water — it's your capacity to think for yourself. They unpack Timur Kuran's preference falsification, Eric Weinstein's N² Revolution, and the Dostoevskian cost of telling the truth in public. They ask whether AI agents are prosthetics for a cognitive function we broke or replacements for one we never widely had. Along the way: Michelangelo hiding from a pope who wanted him dead, soup thrown at Monet, the Enlightenment rivalry nobody taught you about, and a proposal called Neo-Godwinism that bets everything on human agency being the solution rather than the problem. Malthus worried about too many mouths. We should worry about too few minds.
8 Mar 2021
MetaState: Ghost in the Machine. Chapter 6 - A Memory for Forgetting
Quickly, our experiences deprecate to deeper and more defunct representations of our former lives. The day it happened to a year from now, the mind's holons abstract recall to primitives, criteria of relevance.
Stamping in can better seal the deal for recall but how much and how often. Do words as symbols inform us for long, or must other conditionals assist along the way for a better permanent impermanence with our own mind's eye?
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