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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, Curtis Yarvin, Freedom Cities, "Anarcho-Capitalism", and the Neofeudal Order Still to Come

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How Jewish Socialists Made an Outhouse for the European Soul

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https://literatemachine.com/2024/11/07/what-do-we-do-now/What do we do now that the orange fascist is back?

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This a Q&A episode in honor of the YouTube channel hitting 10,000 subscribers.

Topics include degrowth and socialism, private cities, anime, Loki Season 2, and my cat 

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As commerce transforms around the new rent-extracting digital fiefdoms, algorithms and AI become a way to transform skilled labor into machine-learning piecework. In Severance, technology is used to …

How Tony Stark, the myth of meritocracy, and our unspoken beliefs about genius explain Elon Musk and the (re)turn of eugenics to the right wing

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What does comedic science fiction television show The Orville tell us about how capitalism will end? How did Germany go from having the largest and most powerful socialist movement in the world to fi…

Does Star Trek show us what socialism looks like? What would it look like if we organized society democratically instead of allowing a few people to control most of the resources?

Bibliography and …

Marvel's Loki shows us what fascism looks like, and how it comes to take root within innocuous conservatism.

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Is the Paw Patrol an unintentional conservative utopia? What can the show tell us about how the political spectrum views the police, its purpose, and its funding.

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How Aaron Sorkin whitewashes the story of hippy activism, and how the hippy activists whitewashed themselves.

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Pete Doctor takes us into the meaning of life, but is there something hollow at its center of it?

Bibliography and Further Reading

* Soul using uncomfortable blackface: https://noripatterson.medium.c…

What does it mean to be an artist?

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* The high school students put one of Simon's poems into their high school yearbook, they don't post it up everywhere. Henry puts the poem up in the mu…

In the 1990s, Myst and Doom fought a war for the soul of video games. Myst sold almost twice as many copies. Within ten years, the entire industry had remodeled itself around Doom. Special call out t…

For 30 years, Dave Sim engaged in one of the most remarkable ongoing artistic endeavors ever while he gradually lost his mind.

Bibliography and Further Reading

* A collection quotations of Dave Sim…

How the worms ate into my brain, what I did and did not understand about The Wall, and what it tells us about the rise of the Alt-Right.

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What do you do when the authorities have been compromised?

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In the 2018 Doctor Who episode “Kerblam!”, something is killing workers off at a far future Amazon analogue. Is it Capitalism? Or is the system not the problem? In this episode, Doctor Who is used as…