In this episode, we explore how language functions as both a cure and a poison, shaping perception, markets, and power. From Trump’s political rhetoric to Elon Musk’s meme coin experiments, we examine how words—spoken, written, or tweeted—can move financial markets, spark mass hysteria, and redefine reality.

We also dig into the philosophical roots of this phenomenon:

• How Plato and Derrida warned about the dangers of disembodied words.
• Why reading and listening are not the same—and how the medium alters meaning.
• Whether audiobooks reanimate text into a ghostly presence or a form of control.
• How language, like cryptocurrency, can be inflated, devalued, or weaponized.

In a world where words have market value, what happens when their meaning becomes unstable?

🚀 Tune in to explore the intersection of language, influence, and the economics of speech.

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Tangled is a weekly podcast created by author Jack Lively. Short of founding a new party for politically homeless liberals, I’m recording deeply researched podcasts that dive at unexpected angles into timely issues. I also sometimes talk about writing.

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What Universal Human Rights and Anti-Semitism Have In Common.

A rather lengthy rumination on human rights, international law, as it relates to middle east and the Israel / Palestine issue.

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Tangled is a weekly podcast created by author Jack Lively. Short of founding a new party for politically homeless liberals, I’m recording deeply researched podcasts that dive at unexpected angles into timely issues. I also sometimes talk about writing.

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Jack Lively writes at https://jacklively.substack.com/

Changes in political organization are prefigured by changes in music. In Jacques Attali’s words, music “heralds the emergence of a formidable subversion one leading to a radically new organization never yet theorized”,

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Tangled is a weekly podcast created by author Jack Lively. Short of founding a new party for politically homeless liberals, I’m recording deeply researched podcasts that dive at unexpected angles into timely issues. I also sometimes talk about writing.

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We live in a Cartoon World, where real-life, gamified social media, remote work, and the politics of exaggeration are no longer possible to tell apart. It's a full on Cartoon life.

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Tangled is a weekly podcast created by author Jack Lively. Short of founding a new party for politically homeless liberals, I’m recording deeply researched podcasts that dive at unexpected angles into timely issues. I also sometimes talk about writing.

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After more than a year of war, it's time to look back and reconstruct the narrative. Who better to take as our main protagonist than Bibi?

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Tangled is a weekly podcast created by author Jack Lively. Short of founding a new party for politically homeless liberals, I’m recording deeply researched podcasts that dive at unexpected angles into timely issues. I also sometimes talk about writing.

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On Speculation as inherent to the Human Condition. And, on EVIL as contingent to speculation.

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Tangled is a weekly podcast created by author Jack Lively. Short of founding a new party for politically homeless liberals, I’m recording deeply researched podcasts that dive at unexpected angles into timely issues. I also sometimes talk about writing.

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The US elections has brought crypto back into the collective consciousness. Mental images of Musk and Trump arm in arm, busily tweeting crypto memes, require us to delve into the mysteries of this technological substance. What is it? Why is it so fascinating to founders and billionaires? Why do communists and socialists hate it so? We're here to explain.

Related Links

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

https://etscrivner.github.io/cryptocurrent/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sovereign_Individual

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Tangled is a weekly podcast created by author Jack Lively. Short of founding a new party for politically homeless liberals, I’m recording deeply researched podcasts that dive at unexpected angles into timely issues. I also sometimes talk about writing.

Join me here and get in touch to say hello. It’s lonely out there but you’re not alone.

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Jack Lively writes at https://jacklively.substack.com/

This episode is an in depth discussion of fatalities in Gaza since the beginning of the October 7th war. We take a very close look at the reports coming out of the Hamas run Ministry of Health in Gaza. I am essentially transmitting the contents of a recently released investigation by Andrew Fox and the Henry Jackson Society into this question, and adding my own commentary - of course.

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Tangled is a weekly podcast created by author Jack Lively. Short of founding a new party for politically homeless liberals, I’m recording deeply researched podcasts that dive at unexpected angles into timely issues. I also sometimes talk about writing.

Join me here and get in touch to say hello. It’s lonely out there but you’re not alone.

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Jack Lively writes at https://jacklively.substack.com/