{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6668a3bca033650012adeb34/696d314636ab0b5268561360?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"EPISODE 2 - Enframing & Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6668a3bca033650012adeb34/1768763751262-8b119224-b2f4-4c64-8796-c3c97f6c6a99.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Episode 2 of Park Bench Ontology looks at enframing — the idea that modern systems don’t just control what we do, but how the world shows up to us in the first place.</p><p><br></p><p>Using Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, we trace how empathy, humanity, and morality become measurable outputs inside a technological worldview — and what happens when people start treating themselves like machines.</p><p><br></p><p>This isn’t about robots. It’s about work, burnout, identity, and why being human now feels like a performance metric.</p><p><br></p><p>When everything becomes a resource — attention, emotion, relationships — the question isn’t “Are we free?”</p><p><br></p><p>It’s “Free to do what?”</p><p><br></p><p>Park Bench Ontology is a lo-fi philosophy series about ideology, culture, capitalism, and existential drift.</p><p><br></p><p>New episodes weekly.</p><p>🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.</p><p><br></p><p>🔗 Follow &amp; Support:</p><p>🌐 Website: http://gavinstephens.ca</p><p>🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized</p><p>📷 Instagram: @countgavin</p><p>🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com</p><p>🎵 TikTok: @ParkBenchOntology</p><p>📼 YouTube: http://youtube.com/@parkbenchontology</p><p><br></p><p>Also, Check out the Substack: Dispatch From The Simulation</p><p><br></p><p>Subscribe and leave a review!</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Gavin Stephens "}