Overthinking It Podcast

Episode 258: Superman during The Purge

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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather discuss fictional dystopian surveillance states, recourse to works of fiction in political discourse, PRISM, and The Purge.

Spoilers for George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Further Reading
  • Big Brother is Hugging You
  • Hedley Lamarr from Blazing Saddles vs. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr](Hedy Lamarr)
  • The Purge
    • Alternative Titltes for This Episode
    • It’s Watchmen All The Way Down
    • TCP/IP Werewolf Communications
    • The Surveillance State that Makes Us Buy Cereal
    • Big Wrather is Watching
    • In The 24th Century, Nobody Hates Each Other Because Everybody Hates Each Other
    • I Just Purged All Over Myself

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