Cultured Swine

Plots and prognostications! Trouble brews in the culture as forces from beyond, forces from within, and forces from the forgotten list of unresolved disputes rear their ugly heads! 

A huge thanks to Terminal Khaos Builders for providing all music used in this episode! Our intro and outtro music is "Oh, they never lie," off the album "12 Views of Iain M. Banks's Culture." Check out their music here:

https://terminalkhaosbuilders.bandcamp.com/music

In this episode we cover the first three parts of Excession.

(Introduction to the Boh isattva vow):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva_vow

(This may not be available due to the NYT Scott Alexander doxxing scandal):

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/04/samsara/

(This audio version may still be up):

http://sscpodcast.libsyn.com/samsara  

(Here's the comic GSV mentioned):

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-01-29

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Featuring Hobodemon!

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Covering the beginning of the short story "State of The Art" to the end of chapter 4.

State Of the Art radioplay --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRl9D_agLbU

The art is finally stated

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Featuring State of The Art from the beginning of The Road of Skulls till the end of Piece.

Maniacal mobsters strongarm sadsack shooters! Perfunctory plants pluck probing people! Feckless factories facilitate freaky facts! And Ian M. Banks writes about religion for a while. Find out more on today's episode!

Link to Meditations on Moloch: 

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

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Covering Numeral 2 through the conclusion of Use of Weapons

frazoj = [ "Souls do exist. " , "Souls do not exist. "]

firstbook = ''

secondbook = ''

i = 0

while i < 140000 :

    firstbook = firstbook + frazoj[ i % 2 ]

    secondbook = secondbook + frazoj[ ( i + 1 ) % 2 ]

    i = i + 1

print(firstbook)

print(secondbook)

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20130129.gif

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Covering the beginning of part 3 up till chapter 12

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/30/the-invention-of-moral-narrative/

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Covering chapters word-five to numeral-seven. 

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Covering the beginning of part two up to the end of chapter word-seven.

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