Joe Costello returns to the show (and joins us in our attic) to talk about how the industrial revolution killed American democracy.

Among topics we discuss are: the politics of technology, Trump as pure distilled America, the civilizational similarities between the USA and USSR, how technology changes society and induces amnesia, why the internet didn’t lead to democratization, how the USSR was a good place for dissident culture, the outdated US Constitution, which was created before the rise of the industrial corporation when economic power was very local, and…much, much more.

—Yasha

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