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Thursday Sep 28, 2023
UNLOCKED: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
On 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?
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