Pompiety

A Dialogue of the Damned

De: John Van Stan

Narrado por: John Van Stan

Two literary ghosts walk into the afterlife. One has a cigar. The other brings a hammer.

Pompiety: A Dialogue of the Damned is a satirical graveyard exchange between contemporaries, Mark Twain and Friedrich Nietzsche, resurrected for one last reckoning on progress, piety, and the fate of a bruised planet. Through sharp dialogue and ecological critique, the two probe the limits of technooptimism, dismantle the determinism inherent to science worship, and wrestle with the moral debris of modernity.

Their debate circles two forgotten virtues: pomp (a reclaimed respect for our species amid its self-loathing) and piety (a humility before the nature we’ve defiled). If humanity is to escape nihilism or ecological collapse, it may need both.

Written by a natural scientist and reviewed by scientists and philosophers, Pompiety offers more than clever banter—it’s a compact, unsettling meditation on what we worship, and what we destroy.

• Genre-bending: part philosophical fiction, part eco-satire, all conversation.
• Digestible but durable: a one-sitting listening with weeks of afterthought.
• Illustrated: each act features stark, woodcut-style art.
• Ideal for: listeners of speculative dialogue, environmental ethics, and irreverent intellect.

Pull up a seat with these gravefellows. The world may be ending, but the argument isn’t.

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