“The first 60 podcasts in the series did nearly all of the work of expanding my awareness of potential alien stuff beyond the widely recognized existence of physical discs flying around the world’s airspace. As a result, I’m now reading much more interesting works on the much broader category of high strangeness. similar to my previous utterly unscientific awareness of physics and then being introduced to the much more up-to-date notion that there are no such objective things as space and time, that they are “doomed” as descriptions of objective reality, and that because matter can only exist in the context of space and time, nothing that we see or otherwise experience in our lives can resemble reality. Which is to say, this podcast reset a great deal of what I thought was true. The presentation of the material is pretty good. I agree with the previous critique that the presenter doesn’t adhere to the strictest rules of delineating fact from supposition. The flipside of that is that in other podcasts I sometimes get tired of hearing endless qualifications and rigorous attribution. It’s not a dealbreaker for me. I’m more a fan of the AP style of writing, as opposed to a more academic style. But the foundation of my appreciation for this podcast rests and the fact that it is like no other podcast I’ve come across. It stretches the boundaries of the listener’s thinking while working hard to remain within the confines what is conceivable and at least reasonably logically derivable. And it does well in explaining the pathway from existing knowledge to the bizarreness of high strangeness. My only other criticism is that the last half dozen or so editions have been pretty repetitive. Repeating explanations of complex concepts is one thing but I’ve begun to hear many, what are for me, very well understood concepts over and over again. It would be understandable if the presenter was running out of material. Regardless of whether that is the case, what he has provided so far has been exceptional.”
dtfhh HC judg via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/01/22