Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley Messiah, Would Like to Sell You a Ticket to the Ark (S2. Chapter 34)
Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley Messiah, Would Like to Sell You a Ticket to the Ark | The Tao of Lloyd
Lloyd Dobler explores Peter Thiel, Palantir, billionaire apocalypse culture, surveillance capitalism, and Chapter 34 of the Tao Te Ching in this satirical philosophy podcast blending political commentary, Taoism, Gen X humor, and spiritual reflection for the age of late-stage capitalism.
S2. Chapter 30: Operation Epic Missing Endgame
In this episode of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler takes on Chapter 30 of the Tao Te Ching: an ancient warning about force, escalation, and wars with no exits—and drags it straight through the U.S./Israel war with Iran, the fractures inside the MAGA coalition, and a political movement discovering that the very thing that made it powerful may now be the thing that breaks it.
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A 10-minute Zen-punk morning meditation with Lloyd Dobler: four sacred questions, monkey mind riffs, and a reset for late-stage everything. Press play.
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Lloyd Dobler channels Lao Tzu, Bruce Lee, and Standing Rock to ask: how do we stay liquid in a country obsessed with hard takes? Be Water, My Friend is a meditation on softness as strength, ego as ice, and the radical art of flowing through empire.
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In this chapter, Lloyd reads Chapter 6 of the Tao Te Ching and wrestles with what it means to let go in an age where everything is engineered to keep you holding on. From AI hype and Trump-era theatrics to the quiet rebellion of washing one dish instead of arguing about it online, this episode finds softness in the absurd.
Chapter 5: Does the Center Hold?
Lloyd Dobler cracks open Chapter 5 of the Tao Te Ching and ends up between Lao Tzu and Yeats, trying to breathe through the noise of late-stage empire.
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Season 2 Trailer
Lloyd Dobler is back. Older, grayer, and still trying to meditate through a coup.
In Season 2 of The Tao of Lloyd, the Gen-X dissident and accidental anti-guru starts over—using the Tao Te Ching as both the lens and the light to find stillness in Trumplandia.
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