Audiobook Gaming

  We like to game whilst we listen to audiobooks. Tis the worst of both words. Worst of gaming, worst of audiobook, minimum focus! ADHD GLORY!  

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🎮✨ Ratchet & Clank + Revolutionary Philosophy = The Ultimate Combo ✨🎧 Just spent the night diving into Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando while listening to William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, Volume 1 (read by LibriVox). Let me tell you, the juxtaposition between high-octane space battles and 18th-century anarchist philosophy is... surprisingly epic. 😅

While Ratchet and Clank are busy dismantling evil corporations and saving the galaxy, I’m over here pondering Godwin’s bold ideas:

“Laws are not a product of the wisdom of our ancestors; they are the product of their passions, their timidity, their jealousies, and their ambition.”

It’s wild to think how both this audiobook and Ratchet & Clank share a common thread: challenging power structures and questioning authority. Who knew old-school anarchist philosophy could pair so well with a Lombax and a robot sidekick? 🤔💥

Anyone else love multitasking like this? Drop your weird audiobook + video game combos below! 👇

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Audiobook Source: https://librivox.org/anti-dictator-the-discours-sur-la-servitude-voluntaire-by-etienne-de-la-boetie/

Gameplay VOD Source: https://www.twitch.tv/murdochharris

VTuber Model Under The Unlicense: https://github.com/MoribundMurdoch/professorvtubermodel

Table of Contents:

Introduction: 00:00

Section 1: 24:32

Section 2: 43:36

Section 3: 01:38:45

Audiobook Description:

Anti-Dictator: The Discours sur la servitude voluntaire Étienne de La Boétie (1530 - 1563) Translated by Harry Kurz (1889 - 1973)

Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Friendship." Here, however, he tackles a different, more impersonal relationship: that of ruler and ruled. The argument in this work is encapsulated in this quote: "A people enslaves itself, cuts its own throat, when, having a choice between being vassals and being free men, it deserts its liberties and takes on the yoke, gives consent to its own misery, or, rather, apparently welcomes it." Montaigne claimed that Boétie composed this work at the age of 18, and it was published over a decade after the young man's tragic death at 32. Some commentators up to the present day have argued that Montaigne himself was the author, and that he used the cover of his late friend's name because of its radical content. Whatever the truth, these words have inspired anti-authoritarian thinking for centuries. - Summary by Ben Adams

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works, Political Science, Early Modern

Language: English

LibriVox recordings are Public Domain in the USA. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws.

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In the aptly titled treatise What's Wrong With the World , one of the twentieth century's most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other topics. A steadfast champion of the working man, family, and faith, Chesterton eloquently opposed materialism, snobbery, hypocrisy, and any adversary of freedom and simplicity in modern society. Culled from the thousands of essays he contributed to newspapers and periodicals over his lifetime, the critical works collected for this edition pulse with the author's unique brand of clever commentary. As readable and rewarding today as when they were written over a century ago, these pieces offer Chesterton's unparalleled analysis of contemporary ideals, his incisive critique of modern efficiency, and his humorous but heartfelt defense of the common man against trendsetting social assaults.

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Not to Counterfeit Being Sick By Michel Eyquem de Montaigne: Genshin Impact: Audiobook Gaming

https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-017-by-various/Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 017VariousA collection of short nonfiction works in the ...

There is an epigram in Martial, and one of the very good ones—for he has of all sorts—where he pleasantly tells the story of Caelius, who, to avoid making his court to some great men of Rome, to wait their rising, and to attend them abroad, pretended to have the gout; and the better to color this anointed his legs, and had them lapped up in a great many swathings, and perfectly counterfeited both the gesture and countenance of a gouty person; till in the end, Fortune did him the kindness to make him one indeed... #MichelDeMontaigne [See: Michel de Montaigne] 

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A Meditation Upon a Broomstick By Jonathan Swift: Genshin Impact: Audiobook Gaming

https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-008-by-various/Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008VariousA collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in ...

A Meditation Upon a Broomstick is a satire and parody written by Jonathan Swift in 1701. Edmund Curll, in an attempt to antagonize and siphon off money from Swift, published it in 1710 from a manuscript stolen from Swift (which forced Swift to publish a corrected and authorized version that he also had to write from memory), but the satire's origins lie in Swift's time at Moor Park, Surrey, when he acted as Secretary to William Temple. While in the household, Swift would read passages from Robert Boyle's Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665) for the young Esther Johnson ("Stella" to Swift).

Boyle's Reflections took the form of meditations on everyday subjects, where they were likened to religious themes. Boyle would consider a fire, or house cleaning, and see in it a reflection of God's relationship to man, or man to his soul. These reflections were very popular in the Temple household. One day, Swift, being bored with the predictability of Boyle's points, wrote his own Meditation and put it into the book. When the time came to read for the day, he read, instead of Boyle, his own Meditation Upon a Broomstick. The ladies of the house did not catch on until near the end of the meditation that it was absurd. Swift later wrote up the Meditation in a more formal manner and published it to counteract Curll's piracy.

[See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation_Upon_a_Broomstick ]

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1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors: Audiobook Gaming

https://librivox.org/1601-by-mark-twain/1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the TudorsMark Twain (1835 - 1910)Please note: t...

1601 depicts a highfalutin and earthy discussion between the Queen and her court about farting and a variety of sexual peccadillos, narrated disapprovingly and sanctimoniously by the Queen's Cup-Bearer, an eyewitness at "the Social Fireside. #MarkTwain [See: Mark Twain's "1601"] #Literature #Fart