alt Hacker NewsI Just finished listening to this episode of Philosophize This podcast https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/simulacra-and-simul.... Whole-heartedly recommend this podcast episode the entire podcast to anyone who is remotely interested in learning the "modern western canon" in Layman's terms.
Second that recommendation, and I think that podcast would particularly as appeal to a lot of the HN crowd. I listened from the beginning until the early/mid 20th century philosophers and understood so much more about my own perspective on the world as a result.