More King In Orange Podcasts
Apr. 25th, 2021 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Those of my readers with just a little free time on their schedule can take in a nice crisp 45-minute podcast with Richard Syrett on his podcast Conspiracy Unlimited, which you can listen to here. Richard and I had a good thoughtful conversation and covered most of the basic concepts of the book, focusing on the political dimension of the Trump phenomenon.

By the way, I was struck with another example of the almost Nietzschean revaluation of all values currently under way in our society. For many years the cultural cliché has been that thinkers in the mainstream are calm, tolerant, and broadminded, while conspiracy theorists out on the fringes are tense, obsessed, and fixated on some improbable narrative or other. It's been a source of some amusement to me that these days, it's the mainstream that's tense, obsessed, and fixated on a whole flurry of improbable narratives. As for the hosts of these two conspiracy-themed podcasts -- you guessed it, they were calm, tolerant, and broadminded, as we discussed the decidedly edgy perspectives of The King in Orange. It really is getting weird out there...
The privileged freakout
Date: 2021-04-26 05:52 pm (UTC)The privileged people are freaking out about corona virus partly because they can't control it or easily down load the risks onto the lower classes. Admittedly they've done their very best on that last bit. The monied classes are used to being able to buffer themselves from whatever misfortunes hit the rest of us. Working class people are used to having to manage and just live with all kinds of things they can't control.
I've also observed repeatedly over the last year and a bit that it seems to okay if young people O.D. on opioids (death by technology) and absolutely outrageous that anyone, even people in their 9th or 10th decade, die of a disease (biology). Man the Conquerer of Nature has dropped the ball and that just can't be tolerated.
Re: The privileged freakout
Date: 2021-04-26 11:09 pm (UTC)Re: The privileged freakout
Date: 2021-04-27 03:49 pm (UTC)Re: The privileged freakout
Date: 2021-04-27 03:52 pm (UTC)