Intensity

强度

Overthink

社会与文化

2024-08-13

58 分钟
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What do skydiving, guitar-playing teenagers, and deep-seated psychic states have in common? They're all intense! In episode 110 of Overthink, Ellie and David untangle the role of intensity in shaping our aspirations, cultural tropes, and political goals. They trace the concept’s history from its tricky roots in Aristotle's theory of change, passing through medieval science and princely romanticism, to the thrills of skydiving and breathwork today. They turn to Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze...
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  • Hello, and welcome to Overthink, the podcast.

  • That gives you an intellectual adrenaline rush.

  • I'm Ellie Anderson.

  • And I'm David Pena Guzman.

  • Ellie.

  • I went skydiving recently.

  • So intense.

  • Yeah, it was for my 10th year anniversary.

  • My partner surprised me, which was shocking because he's afraid of heights.

  • Few things scare me more than the idea of skydiving.

  • They just had a skydiving episode recently on the Bachelorette, and my palms are sweating, literally, just even remembering the scene from the Bachelorette in which they went skydiving.

  • So I can't imagine actually skydiving.

  • What was that like?

  • I mean, it was intensity in itself, I would say, you know, blood pressure rising, adrenaline rushing, feeling of danger to the max.

  • Because you're literally jumping out of a plane at 9,000ft, and these are all feelings that are really hard to quantify.

  • Right.

  • You feel them swelling up inside you, but how do you talk about how afraid you were or how much vertigo do you have?

  • Oh, my God.

  • All I know is just even thinking about it, there's the palm sweating, but then there's also just, like, a swelling of the chest.

  • And, like, I'm somebody who literally blacked out on an amusement park ride in Copenhagen.