Radically Human

Part 1: Fly-Ass Veeps! Christophe Difo and Sean Prophet break down the news. The VP debate, the batshit plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, the latest in the trump/COVID saga, Doris Miller, a WWII hero and future aircraft carrier.

Part 2: A Social Dilemma? Analysis of the latest reefer-madness moral panic documentary on Netflix about social media. A deflection from the true and much larger menace of social media as a tool of capital, fascism, and the status quo.

Off The Radical Secular Radar.

Part 3: Radical solutions. Meditation and Sam Harris.

The Radical Secular presents politics from a liberal, cosmopolitan perspective.

Show notes:

No Vietnamese Ever Called Me N****r

Dorie Miller

The Social Dilemma

Racism in the US Military and Law Enforcement

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Christophe Difo and Sean Prophet discuss Donald Trump's Covid diagnosis, the Rose Garden superspreader event, and the presidential debate. We talk about how to understand widespread schadenfreude about a President facing very personal consequences, of failing to keep his nation safe.

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GUEST SEGMENT - CLIMATE CHANGE:

Our returning guest Joseph Occhipinti is a graduate of McGill University. He has a degree in Human Geography. As a geographer, he focuses on spatial patterns and dynamics. He is also a professor. He is a writer, a nature blogger and considers himself an explorer of both places and ideas. He has been working to educate others both in the classroom and on social media about climate change for many years, and more recently the emerging threat of Covid-19.

Show notes:

The Full Story of Trump and COVID-19

Russian court jails gulag historian Yury Dmitriev for 13 years

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The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a watershed moment for democracy. Christophe Difo and Sean Prophet discuss her life, her accomplishments, the legal implications of her death, how the Dems should fight back. We also discuss climate change and the fossil fuel mafia, how all this is connected, and what we can do about it.

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Show notes:

Trump's SCOTUS shortlist:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court rulings:

Chief Justice Roberts’s lifelong crusade against voting rights, explained:

You’re Wrong. The War in Afghanistan is Not America’s Longest War.

Miranda v. Arizona

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Don’t waste your time posting on FB or texting like-minded friends. Get organized. Target candidates in vulnerable Republican senatorial races or those who just hate Trump. CALL THEIR OFFICES ON THE PHONE. Call them every day. Say (as politely as you can) that you request that the senate not confirm another supreme court nominee until after the next president is sworn in on January 20, 2021.

Reports say that Lisa Murkowski has already stated she WILL NOT vote for a new supreme court justice until after the next president is in office. Call her!

Lisa Murkowski: (202) 224-6665 (Hates Trump)

Mitt Romney: (202) 224-5251 (Hates Trump)

Susan Collins: (202) 224-2523 (Is going to lose anyway – so should hate Trump)

Martha McSally: (202) 224-2235 (Vulnerable)

Cory Gardner: (202) 224-5941 (Vulnerable)

We have to have FOUR Republican senators who will vote against in order to save the supreme court. Don’t waste your energy complaining to McConnell. Don’t try to reason with him (but you said in 2016…) that is a waste of energy.

And give a shit-ton of money to every senate candidate we need to win an election and stay in office:

John Hickenlooper in Colorado

Mark Kelly in Arizona

Sara Gideon in Maine

Cal Cunningham in North Carolina

Amy McGrath (Mitch's opponent!!) in Kentucky

Margaret Walker is a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) candidate in Human and Organizational Psychology at Touro University, she holds a Master of Social Work (MSW) from Fordham University with post-graduate training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) from the Beck Institute in Philadelphia, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science from Rutgers University. In addition to serving as founder and managing clinical director of her private psychotherapy practice, Ms. Hurst currently serves as Program Director of two residential substance abuse treatment facilities on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Additionally, her work in Human and Organizational Psychology is focused on behavioral health organizations and identifying impactful methods of improving treatment outcomes for patients in marginalized communities.

Christophe Difo and Sean Prophet talk to Ms. Walker about the pitfalls of social media, recovering from Republicanism, functional / rational libertarianism, cognitive biases, self-interest, self-actualization, addiction, treatment and Alcoholics Anonymous. We also discuss false right-wing claims of victimhood, (the wolves in victims' clothing), and prosocial responses to narrow human self-interest in the form of efforts toward altruism, reciprocal and otherwise.

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Show notes:

Rawls' Veil of Ignorance.

The Stanford Prison Experiment.

The Milgram Experiment.

The flawed "rat park" addiction study.

Naomi Klein "No Logo"

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The Just Words Fallacy

Christophe Difo's T-Shirt this week is available from No Gods No Masters.

Sean Prophet's T-Shirt this week is available from redbubble.

Forces of accelerating change in America are driven both by technology and demographics. Christophe Difo and Sean Prophet discuss yet another incident of police racism, and Trump's backlash against anti-racism training for US Government employees. We also discuss our new computer-generated announcer voice, and the implications of the technological singularity for the future of jobs and our political system. Specifically how automation has been leading the world inexorably for hundreds of years toward redistributionist socialism, and increased economic integration through trade.

The term "singularity" as introduced by Ray Kurzweil in his 2005 book, "The Singularity is Near," represents a convergence of trends that is so powerful that it's impossible to predict with any degree of clarity what might lie beyond it. A corollary of the singularity concept is that the faster change accelerates toward a singularity, the greater will be the social resistance to that change. This resistance is at least a partial explanation for the rise of Trumpism.

As an example of the kind of stark choices we face as a planet going forward, we focus on the Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode, "Past Tense," parts 1 and 2, in the later part of our conversation. All this leads us to believe that the 2020 election is looking more and more like a political singularity, an event of pivotal importance to our civilization, beyond which we cannot foresee outcomes, with any degree of clarity.

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The Just Words Fallacy: https://medium.com/just-words-fallacy

The Singularity is Near:

https://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-Transcend-Biology/dp/0143037889

Christophe Difo's T-Shirt this week is available from No Gods No Masters.

https://www.no-gods-no-masters.com/

Sean Prophet's T-Shirt this week is available from Crazy Dog T-shirts.

https://www.crazydogtshirts.com/

As the Republican party deepens its embrace of white nationalism, and transforms itself into a white identity party, America's lurching into a form of hybrid civil warfare. Combining the influences of racism, Christianity, and hyper-capitalism, the GOP and its supporters are threatening democracy as never before. At the same time, the GOP made a strong pitch at its 2020 convention to suburban women and black men, to accept its false claims to the mantle of feminism and racial justice. Christophe Difo and Sean Prophet discuss the aftermath of the RNC, the Jacob Blake shooting, the Kenosha Guard, and the Kyle Rittenhouse murders.

The Radical Secular presents politics from a liberal, cosmopolitan perspective.

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The Just Words Fallacy: https://medium.com/just-words-fallacy

Why There Are So Few Moderate Republicans Left

And why that’s not likely to change.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-there-are-so-few-moderate-republicans-left/

Kenosha Tells Us More About Where the Right Is Headed Than the R.N.C. Did

The conservative media’s embrace of Kyle Rittenhouse speaks volumes about its priorities.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/sunday/kenosha-kyle-rittenhouse-trump.html

Matthew Remski writes and presents on yoga wellness in the shadows of predatory capitalism, institutional abuse, and climate change. He is the author of eight books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, including Practice and All is Coming: Abuse, Cult Dynamics and Healing in Yoga and Beyond. He’s also the co-host of the Conspirituality Podcast. He lives in Toronto with his partner and their two children.

The female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated realm of conspiracy theory (with its negative focus on global politics) may seem antithetical. There is a synthesis of the two, however, that we call ‘conspirituality’. We define, describe, and analyse this hybrid system of belief; it has been noticed before without receiving much scholarly attention. Conspirituality is a rapidly growing web movement expressing an ideology fueled by political disillusionment and the popularity of alternative worldviews.

It has international celebrities, bestsellers, radio and TV stations. It offers a broad politico-spiritual philosophy based on two core convictions, the first traditional to conspiracy theory, the second rooted in the New Age: 1) a secret group covertly controls, or is trying to control, the political and social order, and 2) humanity is undergoing a ‘paradigm shift’ in consciousness. Proponents believe that the best strategy for dealing with the threat of a totalitarian ‘new world order’ is to act in accordance with an awakened ‘new paradigm’ worldview.

Abstract from Ward and Voas (2011): "The Emergence of Conspirituality"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13537903.2011.539846

https://matthewremski.com/wordpress/library/archive/

https://matthewremski.com/wordpress/

https://conspirituality.net/about/

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Is your voting strategy concerned with best outcomes? Or do you pine away for the ideal candidate (who probably doesn't exist)? Christophe Difo and Sean Prophet discuss the deontological approach to voting, vs. utilitarianism, and the trolley problem, guiding you to the best ethical outcomes to reduce human suffering. The Radical Secular presents politics from a liberal, cosmopolitan perspective.

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Joseph Occhipinti is a graduate of McGill university. He has a degree in Human Geography. As a geographer, he focuses on spatial patterns and dynamics. He is also a professor. While developing a class, he was searching of a current event to illustrate the concept of diffusion. This led him to discover in December of 2019, that a pandemic was brewing in China. He is a writer, a nature blogger and considers himself an explorer of both places and ideas. Since discovering this pandemic, he has been working to educate others both in the classroom and on social media about this emerging threat.

Mr. Occhipinti talks with Christophe Difo and Sean Prophet about Covid-19, and about the sociopolitical dynamics of how the United States, one of the world's foremost scientific nations, is failing in its response to the crisis. The Radical Secular presents politics from a liberal, cosmopolitan perspective.

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Do you have to be atheist, to be secular? What is the difference? What is theocracy, and why is it so dangerous? Do secularists want to end religion? How did religion and government first become intertwined? Christophe Difo and Sean Prophet explore the consequences of the strengthening of ties between evangelical Christianity, and the US Government. The Radical Secular presents politics from a liberal, cosmopolitan perspective.

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