Crazy Town7 Juni 2023

How to Fast-Track Collapse: Manipulating the Masses While Massaging Megalomaniacs

Meet Steve Bannon, the Molotov mixologist who wants to light the world on fire. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.

For an entertaining deep dive into the theme of season five (Phalse Prophets), read the definitive peer-reviewed taxonomic analysis from our very own Jason Bradford, PhD.

Sources/Links/Notes:

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Video: Mutual Aid in the Great Unraveling, Part 2 with Dean Spade, Joanna Swan, and Aliza Tuttle, Post Carbon Institute, November 2022.
Dean Spade, "Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)," Verso Books, October 2020.
"Democracy Rising" essay series on deliberative democracy
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Joshua Green, "Inside the Secret, Strange Origins of Steve Bannon’s Nationalist Fantasia," Vanity Fair, July 17, 2017.
David Breitenbeck, "A Brief Summary of Traditionalism," The Imaginative Conservative, March 21, 2019.
Generation Zero, Bannon's poorly reviewed documentary
Guo Wengui's video for his song, "Take Down the CCP," -- the third best comedy yacht video of all time.
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