Breaking-ish

Ancient questions. Modern nonsense. One very confused dog.

ozobozo runs four channels: Philosophy, psychology, ancient traditions, and the day's news with the jokes it has earned. Each one is a different way of asking what on earth is going on inside a human head.

The ozobozo television set, a retro TV with a dog's ears for antennas and a dog's face on the screen.

Four channels, one question

Philosophy, psychology and the old traditions each answer it differently. The news is where all three get tested.

Philosophy

Where the argument started.

Two and a half thousand years of people in robes and cardigans asking the same few questions: what is real, what is good, and how would we ever know. We take one idea at a time, strip out the jargon, and check whether it still holds up on an ordinary Tuesday.

  • Ancient Greece
  • Stoicism
  • Existentialism and absurdism
  • Ethics
  • Epistemology

Psychology

Why you did that.

What research actually shows about how minds behave, as opposed to how we describe ourselves afterwards. Studies explained properly, sample sizes included, and we say so when a famous finding failed to replicate.

  • Cognitive biases
  • Depth psychology
  • Attachment and relationships
  • Memory
  • Behavioural economics

Ancient Traditions

The oldest answers we have.

Long before psychology had a name, several civilisations had already mapped the mind and written down what they found. We read these traditions as serious thought rather than decoration, we name the text an idea comes from, and we don't flatten them all into the same vague glow.

  • Vedanta and the Upanishads
  • Buddhism
  • Taoism
  • Sufism
  • Ritual and contemplative practice

News and Satire

Today, with a head tilt.

The day's headlines in plain words, plus invented ones for the stories that deserve mockery. Real posts are tagged News. Made-up ones are tagged Satire, every single time, on every platform. That rule is not negotiable.

  • The daily roundup
  • Invented headlines
  • Comedy clips
  • Corrections

Seen something ridiculous?

Send us news tips, clips, corrections and ideas for the thinking channels. The editor reads every one, then sleeps on it.

Send a tip