Really True Fiction

By: Luke Mason and David Parker
  • Summary

  • Really True Fiction is a podcast scouring famous works of fiction to swim through the real life lessons, thoughts, wisdoms, insights and ideas therein.
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Episodes
  • Ep. 89 - May The Ford Be With You - (Brave New World)
    Nov 16 2024

    Welcome to part two of our double bill on famous dystopia! In this episode Dan Holder and I delve into the 1931 novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. While disecting Huxley's vision of a dys(u?)topia, we chat about:

    • How this should've been an essay
    • Is this even dystopia?
    • Boring mantra and cliches; and how they are the death of thought
    • The passing of fads vs art
    • Hedonistic "happiness"
    • Ignorance of what you might want
    • Biological manipulation
    • Side effects of technology
    • External vs Internal reasons for doing things
    • Chestertons fence
    • Scientific "arrogance"
    • The ego when it is asked to elaborate on a conviction
    • Disagreeability in thinkers

    There is also spoilers for the movie Gattica at 40:05.

    This episode was a blast, talk soon!

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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Ep. 88 - Hegel's Wet Dream - (1984)
    Oct 30 2024

    In this episode my friend Dan Holder and I dive into maybe the most referenced/least read book ever: 1984. In this episode we chat about Orwell's favourite pub, paying attention to the little things in life and how thought crime makes us lose those things, how Winston is attracted to all the little things that will get him in trouble with the Party, post truth and how word manipulation unmoors us from ourselves, how Totalitarianism gets right to the deepest part of being human, class structure, joining in on a mass feeling, and how the mind must be destroyed and re-made for true tyranny to take hold.

    This was a lot of fun, I hope you enjoy it!

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Ep. 87 - Taming The Darkness Within - (Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows)
    Apr 17 2024

    Finally, we made it. I was very grateful to once again be joined by Dan Holder, Lydia Rollinson and Graham King to finish off the Harry Potter books. In this last instalment of the series we talk about:

    Students becoming more excellent than their teachers, changing your opinion of someone because they can change, believing in the cause, accepting help from others, leaving your safe havens for the bigger world, not hurting those who don't deserve it, being an inspiring figure, how emotions can blind you to other things that are going on, Voldemort's downfall being Harry's strengths, how tyranny is bad for everyone, upper party is the only beneficiary, opportunities costs when people of talent work on propaganda, how the journey can have sucky parts, getting the better of your low moments, feeling hurt and despair, Promethean vs. Hero, what it feels like when your crush isn't into you, deciding the right thing to do, kindness as compound interest, and seeing old friends.

    Thank you to everyone who listens to this episode, this series, and this podcast. What a trip to Hogwarts it has been. See you at the next episode!

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    2 hrs and 39 mins

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