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#51 – Pinching The Impeachment Loaf

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Are you stuck trying to build a well-reasoned, impartial, and detached impeachment snowman from competing piles of steaming cable news shit? Yeah. Me too. The only lens that works: the wide-angle agitation propaganda lens. First, a virtual colon cleanse in the form of a micro-pod.
ALSO: Fcuk Twitter Twice Hard *Like it? Share it. You are the “marketing” team.*Subscribe on any podcatcher that doesn’t absolutely suck.*Also check out www.christophermedia.net www.escapingthecave.com

#50 – Agitational Dysfunction & Revolutionary Hatred

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n introduction to LeBon, his ideas on mobs, and The Psychology of Revolution–specifically: hatred. The forthcoming electoral reality show, 2020’s prepared script, how the spinoffs will be cast, and what happens when our Matrix Avatar Superheroes stumble into the Desert of the Real.
ALSO:
Unrealistic expectations on the Steaming Pile of Twitter
Was it your childhood dream to be Saul Goodman?
More on pseudo-environments and internal narratives
Fcuk Twitter
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#49 – Propaganda Blindspots & The Constituent Mob

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Institutions fail and democracy descends into mob rule when representative are paralyzed and terrorized by fear of their voters. Trump, Ukraine, and 2020’s year-long electoral reality show disguised as an idealistic impeachment. Informational sectarianism and how it’s easy to see “their” propaganda. Yours? Never! Their demagogue is your savior. There may be a way for a detaching informational unicorn treat that. MSNBC, CNN, and FOX are Pepsi, Coke, and Dr. Pepper; when everything is spin and propaganda, who’s a political infidel supposed to believe?
Also:
Alternate Informational Universes
Half-assed media sophistication: not enough
Why can’t we watch the opposition’s media without going nuts?
Our dueling scandals aren’t automatically mutually exclusive
More on the the Current Events Man
Media isn’t free. You are the product being sold.

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#48 – The Internal Narrative Trojan Horse

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“The fiction is taken as truth because the fiction is badly needed.” A quick introduction to Walter Lippmann and the commonality between him, Ellul, Bernays, Haidt, and Harari. People can’t personally perceive the world beyond their own sliver of firsthand experience. Therefore, the Current Events Man is beholden, dependent upon, and therefore exploited by the propagandist and his digital distortions. If democracy is demands an “enlightened citizenry”, it’s likely doomed from the start. Paradoxically, there’s a stab at some hope in here too. Weird.
ALSO:
Te Nosce, bitches
Competing Scandals; Competing Networks; Competing Narratives
Smoking, Facebook, and associative dopamine addiction.
The Matrix and the Internet
The responsibility and danger of exposing “their” delusion
All Cats Meow
Why we believe the ridiculous
Finding hope in human imperfection
More on likability and art
The Hobgoblin
Where the hell is Jill Stein? #NeverForget

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Episode 434: Shop on Main Street (1965)

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We conclude Czechtember 2019 with a look at Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos’s The Shop on Main Street. Also known as the Shop on High Street, the film was released in 1965 and written by Ladislav Grosman, based on his own story and book. The film tells the tale of Tono, a carpenter who has been refused from working on his little town’s major building project. Instead, he’s assigned to be the Aryan face of a Jewish shop run currently by Mrs. Lautman, a nearly deaf and partially blind widow.

#47 – Wokeflake Comedy: Sociological Propaganda

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A rare ETC podcast: one topic. The stage that was once the playground of Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, and even Andrew Dice Clay has been stormed by a mob of Social Vengeance Warriors hell bent on using comedy as a delivery mechanism for textbook sociological and agitation propaganda, complete with its own version of the Ten Commandments (now in print!) and a handy scapegoat Satan. When does the “Thank You, Comrade!” showcase start?
ALSO:
Controlling speech is controlling thought; Speechcrime is Thoughtcrime
Unless Nickelback is your standard, nothing great has ever come from timid conformity.
“Unanimity requires compliance” and defiant creative independence

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