I had never heard of Watts (a bit surprising in retrospect), and these clips hooked my interest.
An appeal of this approach (spoken word + lofi) is that it is easier to understand, and puts greater emphasis on the semantic meaning over the musical sound.
Perhaps music is another way to get rationalist ideas out into the main-ish stream.
A couple years ago Spotify started recommending lofi songs that included Alan Watts clips, like this: https://open.spotify.com/track/3D0gUUumDPAiy0BAK1RxbO?si=50bac2701cc14850
I had never heard of Watts (a bit surprising in retrospect), and these clips hooked my interest.
An appeal of this approach (spoken word + lofi) is that it is easier to understand, and puts greater emphasis on the semantic meaning over the musical sound.
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PS. I love the chibi shoggoth