Dr. Mara Einstein, author of Hoodwinked: How Marketers Use the Same Tactics As Cults, helps us recognize the cult tactics being used to hoodwink us into submission and get us to act against our own self-interest. This conversation was recorded February 4, 2025.

About Dr. Mara Einstein

Dr. Mara Einstein has written books on branding religion (Brands of Faith), cause marketing (Compassion, Inc.), and deceptive marketing practices. This last book was Black Ops Advertising, which The New York Times called “well-researched and accomplished” and The Guardian agreed, saying “Einstein’s explanations of all this – from internet news organisations to TV product placement and even dating sites – are thoroughly researched, elegantly explained and often alarming, even for readers familiar with most of the above facts in the abstract.”

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Grant Morrison and Douglas Rushkoff celebrate the publication of the first biography of Robert Anton Wilson with author Gabriel Kennedy (PropAnon). Kennedy and Morrison walk us through the Chapel Perilous and land us safely back in consensus reality.

📕 Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson by Robert Anton Wilson is now available.

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Rushkoff discusses the importance of looking between major global events in order to find connection and meaning.

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Rushkoff shares a new monologue that makes sense of Trump's latest round of seemingly outlandish proclamations.

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Award-winning author and host of Discovery/HBO’s Alien Encounters: Fact or Fiction Mitch Horowitz helps us create the conditions for a tide pool where only rivers seem to flow. This conversation was recorded on December 10, 2024, at CX in New York City.

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Join Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with PEN award-winning author, speaker, and narrator Mitch Horowitz for a special Team Human Live on December 10 at CX in New York City.

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Harvard & MIT Humanist Chaplain and Author of Tech Agnostic Greg Epstein helps us understand the Silicon Valley religion.

In his monologue, Rushkoff reminds us about the importance of mutual aid in our communities and the ways AI and Big Tech are fueling a return to historical norms of inequality.

📕 Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation by Greg Epstein is now available at your favorite bookseller.

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday, November 6.

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Rushkoff reflects on the US election and reminds us how we can center mutual aid and community support to foster resilience.

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Host of The RegenNarration Anthony James makes the case for us to pause long enough for the planet to do its thing.

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Douglas Rushkoff celebrates the release of Program Or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands For The AI Future in a special Q&A with cultural analyst Matt Klein. Recorded Friday, October 4, 2024.

📘 Program Or Be Programmed: Eleven Commands For The AI Future is now available.

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