Simon Says

Situating, Part 1

An army of Aikidokas / 3 is the magic number of components in an Eastern thought system / Inductive vs. Deductive/ Simple not Easy (again) / Situating, absorbing, redirecting. That's all / Situating is describing / The principles of Situating / Meet your opponent where they are, not where they are not / The smell of NAPLAM in the morning / Monica cleans up. Questions? Gripes? Fat donations? Visit theaikidiot.com [http://theaikidiot.com] or write to us at theaikidiot@proton.me [theaikidiot@proton.me]

Recap

As promised, a recap / The importance of being able to fit one's ego in something smaller than a football field / Wyatt Capulet vs. Hunter Montague / Billy Montague vs. Tammy Capulet / A gunfight at the Saloon / The artificial cannot be discarded / Thanks, and check out the additional materials in theaikidiot.com [https://www.theaikidiot.com]

Fixing some wrong impressions from the last episode and then promising a recap episode because it’s all turning into a big mess.

The comic aspect of the Dao / Apologies to the listeners / From single cell to "Mom! I have consciousness!" / A better description of "Natural" and "artificial" / Drifting toward the artificial / Meeting a man in a dark alley

Simon Says

* Monica plans a prison break with Dr. Simon / * When in doubt do Aikido / * Stanislav Petrov saves the world (Really, he does. Twice) / * Natural vs. Artificial balance (Not Tom Cruise!) / * Life is complicated /

The Other Guy, Part 2

* Monica stages a coup. * When we encounter ideas we dislike, we tend to stretch them ad-absurdum. * Can Aikidoing deal with real bad people doing real bad things? * Buying a gun in a very bad neighborhood. * Why drug lords and and murderers find it difficult to switch occupation. * The cycle of escalation in our bad neighborhood. * The "rabid dog" - senseless, contextless violence. * Moderate, not soft.