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- Waking From the Great Nap: Disinfo, The Post-War Order, & Being Human in an AI World | MTS #1
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The post-WWII "Great Nap" is over—welcome to the chaos of 2026! In our debut episode of Monitoring the Situation, Kale Zelden and Steve Skojec dive deep into the speed of modern life, from AI debugging its own code to demographic implosions in China and Europe. We unpack historical pivots like Bretton Woods, the illusion of global stability, technology's role in isolating us, and why robots might soon fill the gaps left by falling birth rates. Is the world order cracking? Are we prepared for AI's agency?
2 hr 7 min
About Monitoring the Situation
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Monitoring the Situation is a podcast about the forces shaping our moment—often quietly, sometimes invisibly, moving beneath the surface of a world with fractured attention.
Hosted…
by two Gen Xers, Steve Skojec and Kale Zelden, the show explores technology, culture, science, philosophy, media, and geopolitics through a single guiding question: why are the things that are happening, happening?
We live in an age of unprecedented information, accelerating technology, and constant noise—but progress in tools hasn’t always meant progress in wisdom. Each episode looks beneath the surface of daily headlines and cultural trends to examine the deeper currents at work: how the human mind adapts, how power concentrates, how meaning erodes or re-forms, and how emergent phenomena—from AI to surveillance to UFOs—fit into the bigger picture.
This isn’t a news roundup or an outrage machine. It’s a long-view conversation about signal and noise, insight and illusion, progress and its costs.
We’re awake, and we’re paying attention.