Typically, people may describe a “wide-ranging” podcast conversation as covering topics from A to Z to あ. Maybe that’s the case for those podcasts. Us dawdlers? Eh…
Ryan thinks this episode is on the psychology of “over”-population and Malthusian growth dynamics. Harland thinks Ryan just doesn’t like being one-of-many and is heavily invested in the narrative of Lockean individualism or something. Whatever the case may be, they cover a wide range of topics from—Hey, look! Sections!
00:04:45 – Thomas Malthus stuff
00:13:34 – Paul Ehrlich/Tragedy of the Commons
00:20:38 – Ryan’s Lament/The Psychology of “Over”-population
00:35:28 – Harland’s Reverse/Back to Ecology
00:58:26 – Human Exceptionalism/Growth Curbs (eh-heh-heh…)
01:02:39 – Back to Psychology
01:34:02 – What is a Population?/Shit Related to Offspring/Harland Being Radical
4 Comments
Ebi, Odori Ebi · November 6, 2018 at 2:36 pm
Is the music at the end of these your own recordings? Tiny Cities Made of Ashes is the radio song that perked my ears toward Modest Mouse. I was going to ask about the music on podcast number 14 but then searched for a lyric and decided my discernment could not say whether or not it was an R.E.M. original so I just accepted it as such.
thedawdler · November 6, 2018 at 2:42 pm
R.T.P. McKenna wrote and recorded our intro music. The Modest Mouse cover you point to is Mark Kozilek.
Adam Frank · January 27, 2019 at 11:52 am
Agreed, “the population’s carrying capacity” is wrong but we must tolerate scientists in order to take from them their delicious results.
thedawdler · January 28, 2019 at 2:36 pm
https://www.dawdlersphilosophy.com/its-the-population-stupid/
-Ryan