Do you feel the hustle? The anxiety? The quiet numbness? This isn't accidental. It's the design. In the finale of our Amusing Ourselves to Death series, we confront Postman's devastating truth: The greatest threat to your freedom isn't a physical tyrant—it's the soft tyranny of your own pleasure. We have become enslaved not by force, but by our own amusement. The episode opens with the story of an ordinary life that ends not in tragedy but in sedation—the slow drift into a life of pleasant co...
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Do you feel the hustle? The anxiety? The quiet numbness? This isn't accidental. It's the design. In the finale of our Amusing Ourselves to Death series, we confront Postman's devastating truth: The greatest threat to your freedom isn't a physical tyrant—it's the soft tyranny of your own pleasure. We have become enslaved not by force, but by our own amusement. The episode opens with the story of an ordinary life that ends not in tragedy but in sedation—the slow drift into a life of pleasant co...
#129: Student Debt, Delusion, and Diplomas: How Bad Math and Big Promises Are Crushing a Generation
Intellectual Freedom Podcast
31 minutes
1 month ago
#129: Student Debt, Delusion, and Diplomas: How Bad Math and Big Promises Are Crushing a Generation
College was sold to us as the golden ticket. A rite of passage. A guaranteed path to success. But for millions of Americans, it’s become a slow-moving financial crisis—one monthly payment at a time. In this episode of Intellectual Freedom, we peel back the layers of one of the most dangerous and under-examined decisions facing students and families today: signing your future away without doing the math. We’ve normalized debt so deeply that taking out $80,000, $150,000, or even $250,000 in stu...
Intellectual Freedom Podcast
Do you feel the hustle? The anxiety? The quiet numbness? This isn't accidental. It's the design. In the finale of our Amusing Ourselves to Death series, we confront Postman's devastating truth: The greatest threat to your freedom isn't a physical tyrant—it's the soft tyranny of your own pleasure. We have become enslaved not by force, but by our own amusement. The episode opens with the story of an ordinary life that ends not in tragedy but in sedation—the slow drift into a life of pleasant co...
