Aesthetic Resistance Podcast

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Dennis Riches, Hiroyuki Hamada, and George McIntyre. Topics discussed: Exploding pagers in Lebanon, Democratic Party corruption of the presidential candidates’ debates, the apparent return of CIA mind control operatives in the recent Trump assassination attempts (similarities to the strange wanderings of Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman and Charles Manson), Vietnam 1973-75/Ukraine 2022-2024, a culture of departure: the dream of colonizing Mars. Music track “Take the Wind” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Dennis Riches, and Shaenah Batterson. Topics discussed: increasing numbers of activists and journalists being arrested, violation of basic free speech rights, the CIA budget: look around at social media and traditional media—how big is the budget and what is it being spent on? Anti-communist “left” media. Tucker Carlson and Russell Brand put a prayer performance into the political discourse, increasing and worsening degrees of anti-communist historical revisionism, the “simplification” of the US presidential election cycle: is this one sign of the end of electoral democracies? Artistic freedom in mid-century film and television. Directors mentioned: John Boorman (Zardoz, 1974), Val Lewton (Cat People, 1942), Abraham Polonski (Force of Evil, 1948). Music track “Big Plans” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, George MacIntyre, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry and Dennis Riches. Topics discussed: Political crisis in France, arrest of Telegram owner in France, the slow death of Israel, entertainment depleted of significance for the culture, fear of communism, Gramsci's warning: the time of monsters or the time of morbid symptoms? The Century of the Self, interpreting the history Vietnam's independence struggle, 1940 to the present.

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada and Max Parry. Subjects discussed: The 2024 Democratic Party Convention, sadism and torture go mainstream--Israelis' pride in genocide, the loss of knowledge about Marxism and anti-imperialism, the merger of mass culture and the political class. Music track "Suffer Me" by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Daniel Broudy, Shaenah Batterson, Hiroyuki Hamada, Max Parry and Dennis Riches. Subjects covered: Gaza, social media censorship in the UK, the 1989 invasion of Panama, critical research on “the Internet of BioNano Things”, biosecurity research and its links to the trans-humanism and de-population agenda, the problem with the theory of “mass formation,” the shifting narrative over the decades on catastrophes needed to pursue Sustainable Development Goals—the coming ice age, overpopulation, the hole in the ozone, global warming. Closing music track “Surrender” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, Shaenah Batterson, Dennis Riches. Subjects covered: What has been lost with the loss of handwriting and letter writing, looking back at “the covid years” and their ongoing effects, induced food scarcity, performance enhancing drugs in sports and other competitive endeavors, missiles “find” a refugee camp, an atom bomb “fell” from the sky—how language use strips of acts of war of their human agency, as in the bland official pronouncements on the Hiroshima memorial day, August 6, 2024. Music track "Baby Love" by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, and Hiroyuki Hamada. Subjects covered: the Olympics opening ceremony, the rise of Kamala “Kamalot” Harris, the Clinton-Obama factional divide, the disappearance of the Trump assassination attempt from Internet searches, elections in Venezuela, the demise of Israel, “Cuba: An African Odyssey” (documentary film) and the demise of apartheid South Africa, the privatization of forest fire suppression. Music track “Carpenter’s Son” by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Dennis Riches, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada, & Cory Morningstar. The US presidential election gets even weirder, environmental protection vs. climate crisis vs. war; apples, bees and honey, BlackRock (and other investment firms) capture the working class in private pensions, putting a young future assassin in their advertising, NATO summit in Washington. Recorded on July 16, 2024. Music track "Holy Hunger" by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Participants: John Steppling, Shaenah Batterson, Max Parry, Hiroyuki Hamada & Dennis Riches. Topics covered: revelations about who did the killing on October 7th, 2023, French elections, Sweden and Norway ascend to NATO, the "trad wife" phenomenon, late stage capitalism as a con in which everyone is the mark being cooled out, a mark who must con others in order to regain his sense of worth. Music track "Betty" by Jack Littman, used with permission.

Why does the right and much of the left denounce the Frankfurt School? Green capitalism and climate anxiety vs. genuine concern for environmental protection.

Closing music track Take the Wind by Jack Littman, used with permission.