The Future Is A Mixtape

This week, Matt & Jesse discuss the second point on "The Poison Pyramid" -- namely the horror-show of Capitalism, and why it's an awful idea that we should refuse to carry with us into our much-deserved future.

Mentioned In This Episode:

David Graeber's Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit

David Graeber's On Bureaucratic Technologies & the Future as Dream-Time

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster - a Nonfiction Book by Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit's Essay: When Media Is the Disaster: Covering HaitiBen Ehrenreich's Essay: Why Did U.S. Aid Focus on Securing Haiti Rather Than Helping Haitians?

One Nation Under God - A Nonfiction Book by Kevin M. Kruse How 'One Nation' Didn't Become 'Under God' Until The '50s Religious Revival - an Interview with Kevin M. Kruse for NPR's Fresh Air

The Corporation

Barbara Ehrenreich's Comments About Why Marx Would Be Shocked Over Capitalism's Ability to Create Scarcity Rather Than Its Promised Post-Scarcity

OXFAM: An economy for the 99 percent

The world's eight wealthiest people

Mark Zuckerberg is Giving Away His Money, but With a Twist by Fortune Magazine's Mathew Ingram YouTube Playlist: Capitalism

David Suzuki's YouTube Video on Capitalism's Savage Externalities

Anohni's Song - "4 Degrees" From Her Gorgeous & Ferocious Album Hopelessness

James Lovelock, the Prophet - Eminent scientist says global warming is irreversible - and over 6 billion people will perish at the end of the century

Parecon: Life After Capitalism by Michael Albert

For the debut episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matt & Jesse introduce the concept of "The Poison Pyramid" -- an idea-shape composed of three very bad ideas that shouldn't be part of humanity's shared future. The discussion tackles the first of these bad ideas: Religion.

Mentioned on this episode:

"You know what's cool… a billion dollars"

Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity by R. Buckminster Fuller

Utopia by Thomas More

Saving Spaceship Earth By Matthew Snyder

Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future

HyperNormalization by Adam Curtis

Kim Stanley Robinson says Elon Musk's Mars plan is a "1920s science-fiction cliché"

Cell Phones And Flying · Louis C.K.

"The Four Horsemen"

"An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris" in Glendale, California

On Orientalism by Edward Said

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Godless Parents Are Doing a Better Job by Tracy Moore