In this episode, Adam is joined by artist and illustrator Sterling Bartlett, who discusses his new project 'How Did We Get Here?,' a comic strip that depicts an extraterrestrial figure of sorts that comes to Earth and tries to tell us about all the things that have destroyed our society and eroded our culture: the blue chip art world, decadent Hollywood franchises, the doctrine of personal responsibility, Jerry Saltz, and the limitations of imaginations that Mark Fisher theorized as capitalist realism among them. They also discuss the dreaded art world that we've to some extent turned out back on, the decadence of the radlibs, and our shared lifetime interest in professional skateboarding.

(note: this episode was recorded shortly before the new year)

Links:

Sterling Bartlett 'How Did We Het Here': https://www.sterlingbartlett.com/#/how-did-we-get-here/

Junji Ito: https://www.viz.com/junji-ito

Elijah Berle and Gilbert Crockett for VANS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ZzHtww6Tc&t=934s

The Reality of Recycling: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/5-recycling-myths-busted-plastic/

The Political Fraud of AOC's Green New Deal: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/23/cort-n23.html