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Wide-ranging talks on all things relating to spirituality, meditation, yoga, current affairs, politics and philosophy. contact me via info AT peteyates.uk.
Episodes
- TACO? - INTERESTING TIMES 94
In this podcast, I consider president Trump's blood-curdling threats to eliminate the entire civilisation of Iran and his sudden reversal into claiming that Iran's ten-point requirement to cease firing is a basis for future talks and an im…
- CONSTITUTIONAL 4
Join me on my constitutional. This episode is a few days out of date but, I believe, still of use. I consider the ongoing global conflict in the context of the economic, cultural, natural and informational systems which sustain human exist…
- MISSILES & THE FOG OF WAR - INTERESTING TIMES 93
In this podcast, I revisit the alleged failed missile attack on Diego Garcia. I look at how the story has developed and been disseminated. [Free. 15 minutes.]
- MISSILES, STARMER, GAZA - INTERESTING TIMES 92
In this podcast, I attempt to paint a picture of where we are now by drawing on Starmer's two-faced approach to war in West Asia, the on-going genocide in Gaza and the firing of missiles towards Diego Garcia by Iran. I take all of these as…
- EXTERNALITIES
In this podcast, I consider 'externalities' which is the name given to the dumping of waste products into water and air, and onto land by capitalist industrial production, free of charge. I argue this is done under the imperative of 'incre…
- CONSTITUTIONAL 3
Join me as I take my constitutional. Again, I consider subtle and not so subtle aspects of propaganda, mostly in the context of the state of the world, and particularly with respect to war in West Asia. I also briefly consider the state's…
- CONSTITUTIONAL 2
Join me as take my constitutional. In this episode I examine information flow and energy flow as primary levers of control for the hegemon. I do this in the context of unrelenting war propaganda by western MSM. [Free. 20 minutes.]
- WW3, POLITICAL ASSASINATION & MICROSEMIOLOGY - INTERESTING TIMES 91
In this podcast, I examine some small details of propaganda reactions to the recent assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei by USA-Israel in two interventions in the discourse surrounding this event. These are a BBC report of the event and a t…
- IRAN-US-ISRAEL WAR [28-2-26] - INTERESTING TIMES 90
In this podcast, I try to find my way through the fog of the first day of war between US-Israel and Iran to describe and elucidate what is going on regarding the configuration of forces and military capabilities. I also examine briefly the…
- WW3, AUTHORITARIANISM, ANTI-SCIENCE - INTERESTING TIMES 88
In this podcast I consider (1) Col Wilkerson's assertion that World War 3 is underway, (2) Mick Wallace's claim that, in the global north, governments are against their own peoples, and (3) the irrationality of the US administration's atte…
- GREENS WIN IN UK! - INTERESTING TIMES 89
In this podcast, I offer a contextual analysis of the Green Party's resounding win in the Gorton and Denton by-election in which a local working class, female plumber was elected to Parliament with a very decent majority over second place…
- CONSTITUTIONAL 1
Join me on my constitutional. Today I make a rough sketch of the geo-political situation and appraise some past prognostications on chaotic trends. [Free. 11 minutes.]
- EMPATHY & CIVILISATION
In this podcast, I examine Elon Musk's recent take on empathy, which essentially claims that it has to be applied partially for the good of civilisation. I show Musk's take to be incoherent, practically unfeasible, and redolent with MAGA f…
- TRUMP STEALS GAZA - "THIS IS THE WORLD NAKED" - INTERESTING TIMES 87
In this podcast, I interpret Francesca Albanese's exclamation, on hearing Donald Trump call for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza in order that it might be reconstructed as desirable real estate, that "this is the world naked". I discuss the pr…
- EXTREME WEALTH, PROPERTY & POWER
In this podcast, I examine the relationship between accumulations of extreme wealth and notions of property and their connection to power. I suggest how these might be re-configured so as to eliminate their current malignant threat to gene…
- STICKING IT TO THE MAN, UBI & DENIAL - INTERESTING TIMES 86
Join me on my constitutional. In this podcast, I examine how wide-spread and justifiable resentment at conditions of life under current power arrangements is channelled by the very agencies causing that resentment into serving their projec…
- AI, MONEY, TIME
Join me on my constitutional. In a somewhat rambling discourse, I examine an engagement with an AI on the subject of theories of money and, from there, proceed to take issue with 'technological solutionism' which suggests that technologica…
- BILLIONAIRES: WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR?
Join me on my constitutional. I enquire into the matter of the extreme concentrations of wealth and power in the hands of a small number of billionaires and take issue with a couple of the regular justifications for this status quo. The fi…
- LOOKING BACK OVER 2024 AND FORWARD TO 2025 - INTERESTING TIMES 85
In this podcast, I reflect on events of the past year, particularly with respect to ecological, economic, and cultural systems. I compare my forward speculations of January 24 with events of the year itself. I also speculate on how the tre…
- THE SEMIOLOGY OF VICTUALS - INTERESTING TIMES 84
Join me on my constitutional. I discuss the use by right wing culture-warriors of a semiotics of food choices and dietary traditions and habits. An enemy can be signified by a food item! In this vein, just lately, Nigel Farrage MP got anno…
- CATCHING UP - INTERESTING TIMES 83
As I take my constitutional, I discuss the intensifying cold war on China, the rise in authoritarianism and state terror in the UK and beyond, and the intensification of military conflict in The Middle East and Ukraine. I also discuss how…
- RIOTS IN THE UK BECOME ANTI-RACIST TRIUMPH - INTERESTING TIMES 82
In this podcast, I reflect on the recent riots in the UK and the various responses to them. [Free. 51 minutes.]
- CONSCRIPTION: SERVICE OR SERVITUDE? - INTERESTING TIMES 81
In this podcast, I consider the grumbling discourse in the UK around conscription, which was raised as a policy by then PM Rishi Sunak in the run up to the General Election. I criticise this proposal from a variety of angles as well as tea…
- HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?
In this podcast, I discuss the proposition that "Hell is other people" which is found in Sartre's play Hui Clos (1944). I draw on my own reflections, and the works of Freud and Hegel rather than closely following the original play. [Free.…
- EQUALITY, NIETZSCHE, SOCIAL DARWINISM
In this podcast, I take issue with a range of pleas for inequality in society. I examine the idea that inequality is "natural", and the mobilisation of Darwin's account of evolution to propagandise for that idea and find these wanting. I c…
- OPTIMISM OF THE WILL, PESSIMISM OF THE INTELLECT - INTERESTING TIMES 80
In this podcast, I apply Gramsci's concepts of optimism of the will and pessimism of the intellect to some recent news items in order to expose the propaganda nature of their reporting by the BBC and other MSM, to expose the "common sense"…
- "LIFE IS ONLY REDEEMED THROUGH ART" - HOW SO?
In this podcast, I reflect on Nietzsche's apercu that "life is only redeemed through art". I consider social, cultural, political and individual aspects of the question. I ask, what help, if any, such reflections might give us when we are…
- WHAT IS FASCISM? 4 - SATURN EATS HIS SON & THE DEATH INSTINCT
In this wide-ranging podcast, I interpret Goya's painting of the early 1820s, Saturn Eating His Son. This leads me to considerations of Freud's notion of Thanatos or the death instinct, Nietzsche's readings of human cruelty and its relatio…
- CAMPUS BUMS OR HOPE FOR THE FUTURE? ON STUDENT PROTESTS - INTERESTING TIMES 79
In this podcast, I take issue with Professor Steven Pinker's take on the campus protests now spreading through the student body in the USA as revealed by an interview he did with the Radio 4 Today Programme this morning. I also tease out h…
- DODGY DAVE? - INTERESTING TIMES 78
In this podcast, I engage with the UK's Foreign Secretary's pronouncements on the Iranian missile attack on Israel. I argue that the FS' reflections are contradictory and incoherent and reflect the deep dysfunctionality at the heart of UK…
- RETALIATION - INTERESTING TIMES 77
In this podcast, I reflect on Iran's retaliatory drone attack on Israel, which we expected in the previous podcast and which subsequently happened. I examine configurations in the region which may lead to further escalation and the ramific…
- THE DIN OF RATTLING SABRES - INTERESTING TIMES 76
In this podcast, I reflect on growing geo-political tensions around Iran's intent to retaliate against Israel's attack on its Damascus embassy in which several prominent members of Iran's military were assassinated. I include in my conside…
- MUSIC - UP THROUGH THE WOODS
Guitar improvisation [Free. 4 mins 41 secs]
- THOUGHT FOR TODAY - INTERESTING TIMES 75
In this podcast we take a critical look at the output of BBC Radio 4's Today Programme which has an influential position in the distribution of news to the UK. We take a couple of examples for closer scrutiny, the daily homiletic Thought f…
- RULES BASED ORDER? - INTERESTING TIMES 74
In this podcast, I reflect on the ramification of The International Court of Justice's initial ruling on the charge of genocide levelled against the State of Israel by The Republic of South Africa. [Free. 29 minutes.]
- CHUANG TZU 3 - CRACKING THE SAFE
In this podcast, we discuss Chuang Tzu's Cracking the Safe [ix. 2.], which outlines the emergence and persistence of kleptocratic states and the operations of their rulers. Chuang Tzu mocks the plethora of 'rules and principles' rhetorical…
- LOOKING BACK OVER 2023 & FORWARD TO 2024 - INTERESTING TIMES 73
In this podcast, we look aback over 2023 and offer our prognostications for 2024. Amongst themes discussed are war, environment, economy and geopolitics. [Free. 52 minutes.]
- TURKEY, DEVOLUTION, GAZA - INTERESTING TIMES 72
In this podcast, we walk into the labyrinth of current affairs discourse surrounding the genocide taking place in Gaza. Considerations include: the possibility of escalation of violence into regional war, the geo-politics of Turkey and NAT…
- CHUANG TZU 2 - CUTTING UP AN OX
In this podcast, we discuss the Chapter of the Chuang Tzu entitled Cutting Up An Ox . In this chapter, we see the application of non-doing (wu wei) to a specific practical task and how it enables the highest degree of skill. We expand on C…
- WHAT DOES THE BBC WANT YOU TO THINK TODAY? RAW THOUGHT
In this podcast, we discuss two recent propaganda offensives that the BBC is engaging in and which the rest of the MSM are parroting. They are the propositions that (1) carbon capture and storage can mitigate climate disruption and we can…
- CHUANG TZU 1 - ACTION AND NON-ACTION
In this podcast, we consider a passage from the Chuang Tzu entitled Action and Non-actio n . We describe how the processes of action and non-action are not stark opposites but mutually dependent phases of a profound meditation on the Tao.…
- MUSIC - GRACE OF RAIN
Some guitar improvisation. [Free. 3 mins 29 secs.]
- A MAD MONDAY IN UK POLITICS & BEYOND - INTERESTING TIMES 71
In this podcast, we discuss three political events reported in the UK on Monday morning [13/11/23]. They are: the sacking of the Home Secretary, the appointment of David Cameron as Foreign Secretary, and the Liberal Democrats call for a ce…
- A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR OUR FUTURE? - INTERESTING TIMES 70
In this podcast, we reflect on recent events in Gaza. We pay particular attention to huge pro-Palestine marches and demonstrations across the earth, as well as geo-political shifts that are taking place this moment. We plead for immediate…
- BALLOTS, BOMBS, BLOWBACK - INTERESTING TIMES 69
In this podcast we reflect on three current events - the Tory byelection defeats in the UK, the crescendo in ongoing violence in Israel-Palestine, and the authoritarian crackdowns on the supporters of the people of Gaza in Europe and beyon…
- CHUANG TZU - AN INTRODUCTION
This podcast is an introduction to our forthcoming series on the work of Chuang Tzu, and which builds on our long series on Lao Tzu. [Free. 27 minutes.]
- TORY CONFERENCE 23 - INCOMPETENCE, FRAGMENTATION AND MADNESS - INTERESTING TIMES 69
In this podcast, we reflect on widely reported items from the 2023 Tory Part Conference, and plug into some of the wider political and philosophical issues they give rise to. [Free. 42 minutes.]
- LAO TZU 68
In this podcast, we engage with the final chapter [81] of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching . In this chapter, Lao Tzu is suspicious of book learning and loquacious oratory, instead intimating that knowledge gained through meditation and clear seeing…
- TRAILER FOR ’THE APOCALYPSE & YOU’ LIVE EVENTS
In this podcast, we outline the material we'll cover in our forthcoming series of live talks on zoom. The series starts on 15th October, 1pm BST and four more events follow at weekly intervals. To book, visit http://peteyates.uk/live-event…
- LAO TZU 67
In this podcast, we discuss Chapter 80 of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching . In this chapter, Lao Tzu considers and recommends a life of rural simplicity in a 'small is beautiful' culture. There are many resonances with some strands of current envir…