A slight verge from previous eps in that we spend a lot of time on this one talking Bad Takes. We’re still not sure why neoliberals, conservatives, and libertarians spend so much time citing the work of literal ANTIFA George Orwell, but hey--we’re just average book-loving sh*theads, not psychologists. We debate the merits of coveralls and yet again encounter child monsters. There is some discussion of RATS on this one, folks. Prepare yourselves.
On the show we read the Plume edition with foreward by Thomas Pynchon and afterward by Erich Fromm. For a left discussion of utopia and dystopia, check out Fredric Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future, and his essay “Progress or Utopia; or, Can we Imagine the Future?” from Science Fiction Studies.

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