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Ramy’s Hulu show and Aziz Ansari’s new special are both spiritually rich triumphs for believers worldwide. Azhar Usman unpacks these pieces of art with Imran Ali Malik on the latest episode of American Submitter.
This one’s pretty good.
@AmirSulaiman on virtues and spiritual states. Subscribe on patreon.com/submitter to listen to the entire episode. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzqma8OHLnd/?igshid=wzdmdwirijak
I AM THE FULL RANGE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE //// JE SUIS LA GAMME COMPLÈTE DE L'EXPÉRIENCE HUMAINE
Starting a new weekly (God willing) format for people who choose to support the podcast. We are looking to open up a $3 tier after we get 40 people to become monthly patrons. Help us get there by supporting us today at $8 and get access to this conversation — you can always switch your monthly amount later. When you sign up you get a special URL just for your account which you can plug into any podcast app, and have it show up on your phone just like our normal feed. In this episode, we talk about the journey of the podcast thus far, and a bit about the updates as we launch @i.a.malik_studio, which it is our hope and intention to support this and many other projects in the months and years to come. (at Rockridge, Oakland, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzJaAl4pi_U/?igshid=1t6z2oz8vq9lu
It's temporary but completely arresting, this stark panicked feeling, being suddenly aware of being tied to a timeline that evades all forms of escape. That all attempts for Truth, Lies, War, Love, all of Earth's toiling comes to a plain end. Maybe you want to be
SOPHISTICATION
Not too long ago there used to be only two types of coffee: Folgers and Maxwell House. Now between french presses, aeropresses, pour-overs, single origin beans, merchant blends, and cold brews, it is unconscionably difficult to pinpoint what your preferences are, or should be. Within the simple choice to get coffee comes another set of choices. To be a consumer today means to be forever playing with the matryoshka dolls of choice; within every choice another choice, and so on. is is our great America. A never ending proliferation of choices which are made to keep us busy and unquestioning of the reality of life until the last drop.
In 2005, Psychologist Barry Schwartz told us about this in his famous TED talk and book, “Paradox of Choice.” He proved that the more choices we have the harder it is to make a choice. For him, the paradox of having too many choices is paralysis in the face of it. With so many choices, young people are taking longer than ever to figure out careers and marriages and “which brand of jeans reflects my personality best?”
Despite the thousands of micro decisions we make in a single day, we human beings are incredibly adept at it. We do not see people walking around the streets without pants on because they couldn’t decide which jeans they wanted to buy. In fact, if you do see a person walking around without pants on, you can be pretty sure it’s because they chose not to wear pants. Once overcoming paralysis we are left with the side effect of unnecessary sophistication. Each person is made to become a consumer par excellence. We come to know exactly what we want and when we want it. How else are we to cope? In our Cost-Co world the default is that anything and everything will be copious, and any cup we are not picky about is doomed to overfill. is is how I have come to know that when it comes to coffee my preference are Ethiopian beans of the Yirgacheffe variety, done as a pour-over with water heated at 176 degrees fahrenheit. I do not necessarily like this about myself, but I know this about itself. As I hand-grind my beans every morning, I often find myself thinking, “there must be more to adulthood than this.”
Of course sophistication of any type is not actually adulthood but worldliness. It’s a side effect of being alive for longer than others. Sophistication is often mistaken for what it really means to be an adult, which is about being self-reliant, responsible, and gradually expanding one’s realm of concern further outside of one’s self. ese are not things that come naturally in a society so focused on keeping us busy figuring out our micro-preferences. Now we tend to push off major life choices like starting a family or getting a serious career and focus on the trivial choices by cross-referencing Yelp reviews to figure out which restaurants we need to try next.
I say this as a man of my time; someone who spent his twenties wildly switching careers, trying out everything that seemed fun, and in the process learned to identify pretty much everything he does not like. What does this mean? Take me to a sub-par sushi restaurant and it will probably kill a little something inside of me. e very thought of being subjected to the ashen drip coffee at Starbucks makes me cringe. If you think about it, being sophisticated is really the opposite of adulthood, seeing that it makes a man into an overgrown baby who is seriously inconsolable what his sashimi is anything less than fresh and buttery.
All of this is to say that I do not have the answer to this problem. I merely recognize the fact that the rising generation of adults will largely be made up of cranky babies. These are people who do not know how to deal with not getting their way. Our plethora of choice entrenches our preferences before we get the chance to experience the bigger things in life. Sophistication was a concept that before may have been associated with being over the age of fifty, when a discerning palate would more likely be tempered by wisdom, or at the very least slightly more tolerable. If we do not pay attention to this phenomenon in ourselves, and do nothing about it, then much like the sophists of Ancient Greece destroyed their own civilization by devaluing truth, we, the sophisticates in our time, by exchanging the hard choices for easy ones, might be the cause of our own demise.
American Submitter: The Key To Knowledge (Audio Podcast)
American Submitter: The Key To Knowledge (Audio Podcast)
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The Wikipedia entry of Menlo Park, California literally begins with the words “Menlo Park is an affluent suburb”. Apparently 21% of Menlo Park residents work at Facebook. In any case, it’s still in many ways a typical nice and…
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To understand the world, it helps to have a key to decode its messages. Here’s the story of a man from Menlo Park, and his unlikely journey towards finding that key in Islam.
This podcast episode was so beautiful, by a Zaytuna Institute student.
h/t AM
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I tried to combat the depression, to no avail. I'm starting med school in September, and am terrified of failing. What should I do? :(
If you are seriously depressed you should seriously think about deferring medical school, would be my thought, given the limited way you've presented your problem.
