<p>Toby Shorin, cultural theorist and essayist, argues that the biggest threat of our time isn’t AI taking your jobit’s the optimization mindset turning every natural human impulse into a protocol to follow.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we discuss:</p><ul><li><p>Why the embodied turn in culture goes way beyond peptides and biohacking</p></li><li><p>The real difference between a protocol and a practiceand why it has political consequences</p></li><li><p>Who actually benefits from the loneliness epidemic narrative</p></li><li><p>What the AI cult in the Bay Area looks like from the inside</p></li><li><p>Why poetry might be the only real escape from living life as a spreadsheet</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:44 Why everyone is obsessed with their body right now 7:08 The philosophy behind biohacking and morphological freedom 10:42 Why &quot;don&#39;t die&quot; is actually a fear-based philosophy 13:27 What AI really threatens it&#39;s not your job 14:50 AI mastered chess. Chess adoption only grew. 18:05 Why PE firms are buying sports teams 20:41 Body as asset vs. body as practice 26:24 What is a narrative subsidy? 28:44 Who actually benefits from the loneliness epidemic 29:20 We forgot how to do the dance 31:52 Did Andrew Huberman invent seeing light in the morning? 32:44 How insurance culture took over everyday life 36:45 Two ways out of the optimization loop 38:00 The poetic way of seeing 40:29 Toby reads a poem he wrote this morning 42:09 The William Carlos Williams connection🎧Stay ConnectedSubscribe to Endgame ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/@endgamepodcast ● Amanda on X: https://x.com/amandacassatt ● Serotonin on X: https://x.com/serotonin_hq ◽️Links to Follow:Endgame on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/45B9szUxVXEwfCDA6uRxwq?si=HT9XXqF9Q2CcM9hfLbmkVg ◽️Endgame on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/endgame-with-amanda-cassatt/id1801809440 ◽️Follow Toby Shorinhttps://www.instagram.com/tobyshorin/https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobyshorin🔔 Don’t forget to Subscribe!#Endgame #TobyShowin #BodyFuturism</p></li></ul>