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Isolated Together: Anxiety, Alienation, and Despair in the Age of Covid
Isolated Together: Anxiety, Alienation, and Despair in the Age of Covid
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66 minutes
Released:
May 6, 2021
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This week Chris is temporarily replaced by a special guest that long time listeners will remember from the early days of the pod, Jenny. The gang talks about the loneliness of social distancing, the long term effects of pandemic based hyper-alienation, and what the political prospects moving forward look like. Society of the Spectacle (sections 28, 172, 221)https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htmThe pandemic has unleashed the age of individualismhttps://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/the-pandemic-has-unleashed-the-age-of-individualism-11608132621601.html22 percent of millennials say they have “no friends”https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/1/20750047/millennials-poll-loneliness?fbclid=IwAR1Z7EBeAAXgcUTw5mUA_eOGIQDk_0dM5GUweA6OOv4Fe1B5gbN8qtpCCnc Pandemic shaming: is it helping us keep our distance?https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/apr/04/pandemic-shaming-is-it-helping-us-keep-our-distance?fbclid=IwAR3FsljvgtF4TqI2DbwJvZFBISsKk-7anRcP0YO-f0F8xLsgh2bqEOnRGOU Isolation, Stress, and Poverty: Capitalism and Our Declining Mental Healthhttps://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/11/23/isolation-stress-and-poverty-capitalism-and-our-declining-mental-health/ Music: Joy Divison- IsolationSupport the show
Released:
May 6, 2021
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