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/361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
🕑 Added 2023-08-29 05:09:05 +0000 UTCOn 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?
Comments
Samuel Lieblich
This is such a good episode. Please please open it up to the public so I can share widely.
Eli S
Very glad to see how mad Studebaker is making leftists with his demand that socialists and Marxists should learn from the past and try something new instead of Soviet Union or Maoist China reruns.
