It’s time to address over-representation of the English in my podcast reviews. Today I pay homage to the Australians, who come in at 10% of our listener/reader base, second only behind the US.  By comparison, the UK is at 6%.  Based on this one slim fact, I am prepared to claim that Australia is the most Philosophical country on earth. Exhibit A:

So by this special calculus, the US is as philosophical as it should be, the UK half so, and Australia almost three times as much.  One asks oneself why the thinkers from Down Under have taken to us in such a disproportionately large number and why they contribute so much to the world-historical development of philosophy relative to their population (and location on the other side of the world).  You’ll recognize a few names on this list.

I, of course, cannot answer that question and that, in any case, wasn’t the intent of this post.  Rather, I’d like to talk about a little show called “The Philosopher’s Zone” (TPZ).

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