#1546 Exist, Resist, Indigenize, Decolonize: A story of colonialism, cultural renaissance and modernity
Air Date: 3–4-2023
Today, we tell a story of colonialism, dispossession and cultural renaissance as a lens through which to understand alienation, a primary condition of modernity
Read more#1495 No One Supports the Economic Interests of Rural America
Air Date: 6–11-2022
Today we take a look at the reasons why Democrats lost rural America and why it's important to make gains outside urban centers through working-class coalitions and a focus on the policy failures of unchecked Republicanism.
Read more#1416 The Disneyfication of Our Past, Present and Future
Original Air Date: 5–8-2021
Today we take a look at the culture that Disney has helped create and how they did it, using cuteness as a weapon to push ideas from racist stereotypes and segregation to the masterful use of hollow nods toward progressivism while reinforcing the ethics of individualism in order to give systemic injustice a pass.
Read more#1334 Your Life Will Have Been What You Paid Attention To (Attention Economy) (Repost)
Air Date: 2–5-2020
Today we take a look at the past, present and future of behavior modification from worms to pigeons to prisoners, and finally, internet users.
Read more#1416 The Disneyfication of Our Past, Present and Future
Air Date: 5–8-2021
Today we take a look at the culture that Disney has helped create and how they did it, using cuteness as a weapon to push ideas from racist stereotypes and segregation to the masterful use of hollow nods toward progressivism while reinforcing the ethics of individualism in order to give systemic injustice a pass.
Read more#1261 Profitable Extremism (How Social Media Propagates Hate) (Repost)
Air Date: 4–2-2019
Today we take a look at the so-called "Algorithms of Oppression." Not that they're made to be that way on purpose but that it is a natural outcome of a profit-based system that incentivizes people to post the most click-baity content while the system learns the viewer's weaknesses to ruthlessly feed them whatever will keep them engaged.
Read more#1333 An Examination of Fear, Anger, Forgiveness and Grace (and Mr. Rogers)
Air Date: 2–2-2020
Today we take a look at the relationship between fear, anger and how to deal with the structural forces of harm in our society. To help us, we examine two of the greatest thinkers of the past 65 years, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mister Rogers, and go beyond the nonviolence of King and interrogate Mr. Roger's insistence on liking everyone just the way they are.
Read more#1269 Following the thread of the global Great Transition (Repost)
Air Date: 5–3-2019
Today we take a look at several topics that, at first glance, may seem to be unrelated but that I think are all tied together with a thread that runs through all of them and points the way toward The Great Transition we are currently in the middle of.
Read more#1345 All the Best COVID-19 Coping Mechanisms in One Place
Air Date: 3–26-2020
Today we take a look at the toll the pandemic is taking on mental health and offer a wide range of coping mechanisms to help get everyone through.
Read more#1334 Your Life Will Have Been What You Paid Attention To (Attention Economy)
Air Date: 2–5-2020
Today we take a look at the past, present and future of behavior modification from worms to pigeons to prisoners, and finally, internet users.
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