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Conspiracy UnlimitedThe publisher of my new book The King In Orange is rather more enthusiastic about marketing via podcasts than my publishers have generally been, or maybe it's just that this book is more appealing to the podcastoisie than my other titles. One way or another, I've been spending a good deal more time than usual on the phone talking to podcasters in the last few weeks, and the podcasts are starting to go live. 

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. 

Michael Decon ProgramThose of my readers who have more time on their hands may want to tune in to the Michael Decon Program, where Michael, co-host Myke Hideous, and I spent upwards of two and a half hours talking about -- well, The King in Orange, yes, but also politics, the current virus panic, unidentified flying objects, Japanese monster movies, Elon Musk, and much, much more. You know those late night conversations over a couple of beers that spin out in every direction you can imagine and some you can't?  This was one of those. It was a wild time and worth a listen. You can take it in on YouTube here, on iTunes here, and on Castbox here

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)
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From: [personal profile] claire_58
We listened to the Michael Decan podcast last night.
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: 2021-04-27 03:49 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] claire_58
Unfortunately social science research doesn't work quite like that. At least not in the field I studied. You can be sure I will be continuing to observe and to see if what I have observed so far is strengthened or weakened by new information.
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