033 - Caffeine and Capitalism: A Culture's Choice of Drug
05/20/23 • 19 min
Indigenous cultures often have hallucinogenic traditions, from Meso-America, to Africa, the Pacific, and indigenous Europe. The United States, Spain, and Japan, just as diverse, all drink similar amounts of coffee while being very different cultures. Why do these cultures that differ so much share these traits, and what do these, and the use of other drugs tell us about the values and customs of a culture?
I’m Sam and this is the Illegitimate Scholar Podcast. The weekly cultural anthropology and history podcast that tries to make sense of our senseless world through indigenous and historical examples, academic methods in social science, and a perspective not limited by the crushing restrictions that come with traditional academia and public schools.
Today we are going to find out the similarities in a few indigenous hallucinogenic traditions, and why these similar traditions thrived in these very different cultures. Then, what makes alcohol tied to settled life. What makes alcohol give way to caffeine as the main drug of the west, and what are the consequences of this shift are. Finally, what the drugs of the last few decades have to say about the state of our modern culture.
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Indigenous cultures often have hallucinogenic traditions, from Meso-America, to Africa, the Pacific, and indigenous Europe. The United States, Spain, and Japan, just as diverse, all drink similar amounts of coffee while being very different cultures. Why do these cultures that differ so much share these traits, and what do these, and the use of other drugs tell us about the values and customs of a culture?
I’m Sam and this is the Illegitimate Scholar Podcast. The weekly cultural anthropology and history podcast that tries to make sense of our senseless world through indigenous and historical examples, academic methods in social science, and a perspective not limited by the crushing restrictions that come with traditional academia and public schools.
Today we are going to find out the similarities in a few indigenous hallucinogenic traditions, and why these similar traditions thrived in these very different cultures. Then, what makes alcohol tied to settled life. What makes alcohol give way to caffeine as the main drug of the west, and what are the consequences of this shift are. Finally, what the drugs of the last few decades have to say about the state of our modern culture.
Discord:
Audio Podcast:
Twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/ill_scholar
BOOKS
“The Horse, the Wheel, and Language”::
“Uncommon Ground: The History of Coffee and how it changed the world
Audible AUDIOBOOKS, free trial: https://amzn.to/3TJOARA
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases
#podcast #history #anthropology #culture #socialanthropology #culturalanthropology #politicalscience #geopolitics #indigenous #politics #libertarian #liberty
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https://discord.gg/KhJgpMj6Jj
Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/IllegitimateScholar
Audio Podcast:
https://pod.link/1650280020
Twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/ill_scholar
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRH77S0fVLmAZU4xLnAxuvw
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034 - Death of Tradition in Medicine
Besides the explosion of medical company monopolies, not much has changed with medicine in my lifetime. My boomer parents took pills for everything and they encouraged me to. mention of a headache gets an ibuprofen, rather than a glass of water. Even at a young age I was obsessed with primitive people and I wondered how they survived without our modern medicine, or even toothpaste. It was only once I was much older that I realized that much of the problems we have are due to our modern life and they way we live, and our culture decided the best solution was to pop pills and make $400 rubber insoles rather than actually change the culture to just not create those problems that need industrial solutions.
I’m Sam and this is the Illegitimate Scholar Podcast. The weekly cultural anthropology and history podcast that makes sense of our senseless world through indigenous and historical examples, academic methods in social science, and a perspective not limited by the crushing restrictions that come with traditional academia and public schools
Today we are going to talk traditional medicine, the pros and cons and what it can do and can’t do. Then where our modern health system comes from, what the nature of our health culture is, and why people are so fat and miserable in the west.
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“The Horse, the Wheel, and Language”::
In Defense of Food:
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