Let’s chat with Glenn Newcomer of Be Your Own Drum Circle about stuff. Oh, all kinds of stuff. Connections between class consciousness and climate change. Plus: How capitalism affects video games and farming in similar ways. Also: What’s stopping us from imagining a better future? Additionally: Will academic meme studies replace art history in 20 years? Furthermore: We break down the Conservative Phrasebook of bad-faith dismissiveness. But then: We both attempt a Jordan Peterson impression. Brace yourselves for that. It’s one heckin’ darn of an episode.
Parental warning for like sixty donations to the swear jar.
Oh, here’s the link for that episode of Srsly Wrong I mentioned: “Ep 182 – SWEETIE TREK – Liberatory Sci-Fi (/w/ Lyta Gold)“
Sources
ExxonMobil Are Mustache-Twiddling Villains
“Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years Ago” – Scientific American
“Two-faced Exxon: the misinformation campaign against its own scientists” – The Guardian
“How Exxon, under Rex Tillerson, won Iraqi oil fiends and nearly lost Iraq” – The Washington Post
Breakdown of Oil & Gas industry political contributions – OpenSecrets.org
Billionaires Building Bunkers in New Zealand
“The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan” – Bloomberg
“Survival of the Richest” by Douglas Rushkoff via Medium.
They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival.
Excerpted from “Survival of the Richest” by Douglas Rushkoff
See, I wasn’t just pulling that loyalty collar thing out of my ass.
Music
- “Uncle Milk – 1 snow day (short)” by Uncle Milk (CC0 1.0)
- “Flava” by Blank & Kytt (CC BY 4.0)
- “Folk Guitar Music Track” by Dvideoguy (CC0 1.0)
- “guitar jingle3” by Hörspiel-Werkstatt Bad Hersfeld (CC BY 3.0)
- “SuperCheeseLoop16” by Sirplus (CC0 1.0)
- “Round it Goes” by C. Scott (CC BY 3.0)
- “Climate Dance” by Keshco (CC BY 4.0)
- “Ctzulu” by Uncle Milk (CC BY 4.0)
- “Dead Ants” by Uncle Milk (CC BY 4.0)
- “Addicted” by The Zombie Dandies (CC BY 4.0)
- “Moonlove Funk” by Cullah (CC BY-SA 4.0)
SFX
- “Downtown traffic and crowd noises” by Niedec (CC0 1.0)
- “Protest chant FX” by fredzed (CC0 1.0)
- “17 Chanting revolution” by Adam_N (CC0 1.0)
- “Thunder” by lennyboy (CC0 1.0)
- “Forest Ambience” by thearxx08 (CC0 1.0)
- “crickets.wav” by TicTacShutUp (CC BY 3.0)
- “Dj Drops – GospelDjDrops.com” by PastorDre
- “DJ Mix drop ins” by kennysvoyce (CC0 1.0)
- “sup BRO” by Willygoat (CC0 1.0)
- “Spaceship Atmosphere 03” by Tristan Lohengrin (CC BY 3.0)
- “UMADBRO?” by monkeyby (CC0 1.0)
- “Ambient Space 4” by Suburbanwizard (CC0 1.0)
- “Big impact” by AudioPapkin (CC0 1.0)
- “Choir” by Dean-Raule_DiArchangeli (CC0 1.0)
- “Big Boom” by unfa (CC BY 3.0)
- “Barking dog close” by dersuperanton (CC BY 3.0)
- “Barking dog far away” by dersuperanton (CC BY 3.0)
- “ANGRY DOG BARK SNARL with Reverb” by Jaylew1987 (CC BY 3.0)