The Crumbling

Sophia and V move into talking about two proto-chuds whose 
admissions of elitism would make Anton LaVey blush: HL Mencken and 
Albert Jay Nock. Both were brutally critical of democracy, and Nock 
was one of the first figures on the right to refer to himself as 
"libertarian." This episode explores three of the main characteristics of 
all libertarian ideology that remain elusive unless you've had to read a 
lot of this nonsense.

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Sophia, V, and Davin start a journey through the history of right
libertarianism (libertarian capitalism), starting with its ideological
 forebears, and laying out some definitions. They discuss some of the
 greatest sh*t-talkers in philosophical and political history - French
 people in the 18th and 19th centuries. They discuss a bit of the history
 of socialism, and how that relates to the inception of the word
 "libertarian," as well as the birth of the word "capitalism." More
 importantly, they totally don't do the song "AI SCREAM" by Japanese
 idol group AiScReam. Totally never happens.

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Sophia and V continue the two part interview with Aly Wane, an 
immigrants' rights activist, about his history with the work, his thoughts 
about our current moment, how we got there, and where we can go 
next. The connections between this and the prior interview with David 
Livingstone Smith are discussed, as well as ideas on dehumanization. 
The parallels between the oppression of transgender people, 
immigrants, and Palestinians is discussed at length, and so is how to 
find solidarity among us all, so that we can all achieve justice.

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Sophia, Davin, and V embark on the first episode of a two part 
interview with Aly Wane, an immigrants' rights activist, about his history 
with the work, his thoughts about our current moment, how we got 
there, and where we can go next. The "post-truth" moment is 
discussed, and how that informs the specific atrocities that we're all 
seeing laid out before us right now, in May 

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Sophia, V, and Davin interview David Livingstone Smith, a professor of 
philosophy at the University of New England. The crew take a deep 
dive with Professor Smith into his area of expertise - dehumanization. 
They talk about how he got started studying dehumanization, how it 
arises, how it leads to genocides and other atrocities, and how it relates 
to our ongoing epistemic crisis (or, as we like to call it, "our sense of 
collective reality crumbling"). This is an eye-opening interview about a 
topic that everyone has heard of, but not enough people study, and it 
gives some language for how to talk about things happening right now.

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Sophia and V are once again schooled by Davin on the court...the 
actual court, though, and not physically on it, and really it's other people 
that got schooled...but you get it! They talk about how a certain UConn 
athlete (!!!) accidentally revealed the truth of how student athletes were 
compensated (or not), and how things have changed since then. The 
connection between this kind of exploitation and past exploitations is 
shown clearly for the audience, and everyone is left wondering how we 
fix something so monumentally broken.
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Finally, Davin gets to tell a story! He fills the other co-hosts in on the 
story of the exploitation of NCAA athletes, prior to the push for 
some of them unionizing. He describes the conditions that led up to 
that movement, showing how the league continuously profited off 
of them, while denying them any chance at making money from 
their work.
 Also, two announcements:
 Tragically, Andrew has left the podcast, and so Davin and Sophia 
must search for a new third. In this episode, they try out a new co
host, V., in this episode.
 AND the Patreon now has new tiers, which feature some actual 
merch! Stickers and shirts! Please subscribe and rate the show if 
you like where it's going!

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Returning for Part 2 of their deep dive into labor history. with a (mostly) serious panel discussion, Sophia and Andrew explore where we stand today, the historical impact of labor movements, and how they can help us build a future rooted in trust, authenticity, and solidarity. Join the conversation on the past, present, and power of collective action.

Featuring 
Kim Kelly (  Author, Journalist )
https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913

Steve Mooser ( Labor History), Treasurer of the Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health https://connecticosh.org/
 Vice President of the Greater New Haven Labor History Association https://www.laborhistory.org/
,& former Director of Health and Safety of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)

Steve Thornton (co author of the book Radical Connecticut)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209155741-radical-connecticut

Henry Snow (Colby College). @henrysnow.bsky.social ; https://notthisway.substack.com/

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T he co-hosts have a chance to chat with the journalist Kim Kelly, author of the book Fight Like Hell and the upcoming book Fight To Win, about how labor movements provide a way to build a society based on trust, where disinformation doesn't have a chance to flourish. They also ask her what killer metal records have been coming out lately.