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Metaphysical Exile

by Fernando Olszewski

My name is Fernando Olszewski. I am a PhD student in philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and hold a master's degree in philosophy from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. I have a background in philosophy and economics. The texts I read here are my own reflections, and so are the free format episodes.If you'd like, you can support my work via Patreon or Ko-fi:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewskiKo-fi: https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski

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Episodes

  1. Behind the scenes of life...

    First free format recording.

  2. The day my dog died

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/09/the-day-my-dog-died.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/IOWI4m9jhZc?si=VcOlOeu7TvKg_sJJ Music by REPULSIVE

  3. Ephemerality; or, The Life of an Insect

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/09/ephemerality-or-life-of-insect.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/2ETSMrFEa0U?si=I1DNdD2HPXzgrVdT Music by REPULSIVE Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewski Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski

  4. Creutzfeldt-Jakob

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/08/creutzfeldt-jakob.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/vXX5rJruZCQ?si=mpgYG7udZQPjWpWq Music by REPULSIVE Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewski⁠⁠⁠ Ko-fi: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski⁠

  5. Prosperity Gospel: the fifth column of dumbism

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/08/prosperity-gospel-5th-column-of-dumbism.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/FfwJkOOiskU?si=WYTRJNmrlvVixOCO Music by Scott Buckley Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewski⁠⁠ Ko-fi: ⁠⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski⁠

  6. The sad ‘pathologization’ of pessimism

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/08/the-sad-pathologization-of-pessimism.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/Le-6GRKhHLk?si=SoYgmgG5RVpiepBA Music by REPULSIVE Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewski⁠ Ko-fi: ⁠⁠https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski⁠

  7. The Dark Dharma

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/08/the-dark-dharma.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/3ue4280B1Ek?si=dIr_OdhWlwJevvqE Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewski Ko-fi: ⁠https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski⁠ Music by Scott Buckley

  8. Sad Life Chronicle

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/07/a-sad-life-chronicle.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/ChbqbPOgdEI?si=q9XNTWgEVA2vuT8K Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewski⁠ Ko-fi: ⁠https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski⁠ Music by Scott Buckley

  9. Zapffe, Nietzsche, and the Tragic

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/07/zapffe-nietzsche-and-tragic.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/SSnx6ry5b1U?si=BwBycqPzV9yMZMre Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewski Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski Music by Scott Buckley

  10. The dancing God

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/07/the-dancing-god.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/vdG4-ylT2Pg?si=z9BJyVUrmIJR49xc Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewski⁠ Ko-fi: ⁠https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski⁠ Music by REPULSIVE

  11. Misanthropy and Compassion

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/06/misanthropy-and-compassion.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/vdG4-ylT2Pg?si=Nbu2ELLrlKoU08xz Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewski Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski Music by REPULSIVE

  12. A UFO in Curitiba! (ufology is hilarious)

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/06/a-ufo-in-curitiba-ufology-is-hilarious.html Music by Scott Buckley

  13. The Solution to Life, the Universe, and Everything

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/06/the-solution-to-life-universe-and.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/V1mWH6w2Sl0?si=Y3MR-JbXxh3QlNzi Music by Scott Buckley

  14. What I fear the most in other people

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/06/what-i-fear-most-in-other-people.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/aZHyVGeJx54?si=rg5nLj8lJ7qKdIAs Music by Scott Buckley

  15. In Defense of Euthanasia: The Case of Célia Maria Cassiano

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/06/in-defense-of-euthanasia-case-of-celia.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/Wt7BwZP3Elw Music by Scott Buckley

  16. There is no light. There is no hope.

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/05/there-is-no-light-there-is-no-hope.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/eCqzPiQS91Y Music by REPULSIVE

  17. Why I am a Buddhist (even though I'm not)

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/05/why-i-am-buddhist-even-though-im-not.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/4z1o2A-8YKU Music by Scott Buckley

  18. Why I'm not a Buddhist (even though I am)

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/05/why-im-not-buddhist-even-though-i-am.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/ArG7tYO_D6U?si=Q4fnSoDNb9tOBWwH Music by Scott Buckley

  19. Parents as the (literal) murderers of their children

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/02/parents-as-literal-murderers-of-their.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/Jp9eJk_HkXw Music by REPULSIVE

  20. Baal and Molech: my obligatory take on Epstein

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/02/baal-and-molech-my-obligatory-take-on.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/TD6MFZIL9O0 Music by Scott Buckley

  21. Carcasses

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/02/carcasses.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZrooRHda1hc?si=qAkf-tvu_d54cXEf Music by Scott Buckley

  22. The poor dog

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/02/the-poor-dog.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/jryxNOFrzV0?si=P-AjhWLxSi4adKRq Music by REPULSIVE

  23. Adversus optimismus: against optimism

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/02/adversus-optimismus-against-optimism.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/W9KQkMiXRcs?si=bJJxqoEobajE3rjm Music by REPULSIVE

  24. If it harms my existence

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2026/01/if-it-harms-my-existence.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/hTCtsD3thyU?si=wGIs9YvK8q67Y7Fm Music by REPULSIVE

  25. The chronicle of a daring species

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/12/the-chronicle-of-daring-species.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/gp9iOcsLLEo?si=sDpve_Xa86GHl8FX Music by REPULSIVE

  26. Pessimism, Quietism, and Impotence

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/12/pessimism-quietism-and-impotence.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/WHZ15h8V2Ao?si=7B_qfaFzYEwXytrR Music by REPULSIVE

  27. Antinatalism and Eugenics

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/09/antinatalism-and-eugenics.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/BeXeultYtPw?si=aS95FzDr3uD1EAp_ Music by REPULSIVE

  28. We don't owe the past a future

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/09/we-dont-owe-past-future.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/F_yzfGVjw7s?si=8Vvnca31Opw9Quna Music by REPULSIVE

  29. Martyrs of Reality

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/07/martyrs-of-reality.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/eEMuQ2KbW_8?si=i9s-PQUNWW72HRZI Music by REPULSIVE

  30. We have to talk about antinatalism... again

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/07/we-have-to-talk-about-antinatalism-again.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/CSBi4WQNofM?si=6imyNJ_6tB-bbOvf Music by REPULSIVE

  31. Thanatosphere

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/06/thanatoshere.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/evwubNZE-VA?si=QQDPxHvGOSZu2DMp Music by Scott Buckley

  32. The Catastrophe of Birth

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/06/the-catastrophe-of-birth.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/BrG9v2KgSgY?si=NFJpAaPd3fTQLxdb Music by REPULSIVE

  33. Extinctionists x Longtermists

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/06/extinctionists-x-longtermists.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/wx9MigRocPY?si=DRFyh8VUmWQThHPU Music by Scott Buckley

  34. The Angel of Death

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/05/the-angel-of-death.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/iYAvtojsKr4?si=XiqlOti8bfjTQWD4 Music by REPULSIVE

  35. The God of Carnage

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/04/the-god-of-carnage.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/BAJ_oG6gO2A?si=ax77893PMxictXoC Music by Scott Buckley

  36. Why Are We Born?

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/03/why-are-we-born.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/ubCfPXAlWMw?si=scy_lIQZPZFj8XV0 Music by REPULSIVE

  37. Christians That Hate Christ

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/02/christians-that-hate-christ.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/lfP3cyJTs1o?si=9GPTgQNQwgL4VQTI Music by REPULSIVE

  38. Woke Jesus: a brief philosophical analysis based on Schopenhauer

    Text:https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/02/woke-jesus-brief-philosophical-analysis.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/Vj2jaDHS6zo?si=gwYdXYK1sR6uOxtH Music by Scott Buckley

  39. The Mistake of Roko's Basilisk

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/01/the-mistake-of-rokos-basilisk.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/7uGuhGHakqs?si=E7h8eU0LMHzEONoN Music by Scott Buckley

  40. The Fall into Time

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2025/01/the-fall-into-time.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/q2Rp0RPKvAc?si=d_5ijOMJ_kewDmAm Music by REPULSIVE and Scott Buckley

  41. Darkness

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/12/darkness.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/oByt3Lc4eYk?si=QmSL49L1WTJxgpn3 Music by Scott Buckley

  42. The evil God

    Fixed and updated version. Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2020/11/the-evil-god.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/LnZZVcj5ho4?si=Vt-tfj1z3p1OlUY5 Music by Scott Buckley

  43. The metaphysical exile

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/12/the-metaphysical-exile.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/rk_Amq9Yl5M?si=SKQT4ky6imziy5Vb Music by Scott Buckley

  44. Decadence

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/11/decadence.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/DyfTqcUpIeQ?si=CrRkp8wEeT2yVKPh Music by REPULSIVE

  45. Nature's Unluckiest Children

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/10/natures-unluckiest-children.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/V6XMSQuxZgk?si=GhsSEDS9DhVy4HUg Music by Scott Buckley

  46. The Vastness

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/10/the-vastness.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/2O9HNjHzMuQ?si=gVIWqYA_stIVNJFk Music by REPULSIVE

  47. Toxic Positivity

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/10/toxic-positivity.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/WnodO88ubbQ?si=H_cfieQeyj2sPVcS Music by REPULSIVE

  48. Excess Lucidity

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/09/excess-lucidity.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/UYPL_NhxgUA?si=mkw2wyLRYhAlV4GH Music by REPULSIVE

  49. Crushed; or: The Sweet Illusion

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/08/crushed-or-sweet-illusion.html YouTube: https://youtu.be/jdPjU2PGGlM?si=qYmAxsa6A1ZN4JDJ Music by REPULSIVE

  50. A los muchachos de Colombia

    Text: https://www.metaphysicalexile.com/2024/07/a-los-muchachos-de-colombia.html Music by REPULSIVE

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My name is Fernando Olszewski. I am a PhD student in philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and hold a master's degree in philosophy from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. I have a background in philosophy and economics. The texts I read here are my own reflections, and so are the free format episodes.If you'd like, you can support my work via Patreon or Ko-fi:Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/fernandoolszewskiKo-fi: https://ko-fi.com/fernandoolszewski

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