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UNLOCKED: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
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Length:
89 minutes
Released:
Sep 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
On US politics being stuck.
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We talk to political theorist Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut. Studebaker holds that hope is a problem because it's used by professionals to keep people engaged in a system that simply doesn't deliver. Hence the culture wars and the focus on various 'vices'.
How are both left and right complicit in this situation? What's the solution? Are we dependent on oligarchs going rogue to shake the system? Do we need to hit rock bottom to rekindle our political imaginations?
[This was originally a subscriber exclusive. Sign up now at patreon.com/bungacast]
We talk to political theorist Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut. Studebaker holds that hope is a problem because it's used by professionals to keep people engaged in a system that simply doesn't deliver. Hence the culture wars and the focus on various 'vices'.
How are both left and right complicit in this situation? What's the solution? Are we dependent on oligarchs going rogue to shake the system? Do we need to hit rock bottom to rekindle our political imaginations?
Released:
Sep 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
/22/ Sport & Scandal: In which we discuss Fifa, football and corruption. Also why doping, diving and cheaing is actually good. by Bungacast