For the ninth episode I am rejoined by John Egan. We discuss the dystopian novels of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, the politics of anti-authoritarianism , the dangers of surveillance capitalism, the idea of the "luxury trap", the domestication and captivation of human beings, and the notion of human progress as it relates to human happiness and standards of living.

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