You are hungry and you recognize the danger, the danger of others, of fear, of uncertainy, of hunger. You retain your humor and your highly selective bullshit detector. You cannot forget. You know empty is so much bigger, and yet you know that maybe there is a power vibrating in every atom in this eternal Whole.

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Don the latest version of your favorite AR/VR glasses, turn your ASMR fractal visuals to high and enter the DELUGE-CAST XPERE OF DISCUSSION ™.

Who is writing this novel, where AI generators imitate humans constructing virtual realities, asking are we even here, what is this all for is this even a real podcast?Brought to you by one or several companies named Kaplan.

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Jackie wrestles with guilt, dread, and unease as the contradictions of her life become unbearably (and increasingly) impossible to ignore, all while the financialization of everything continues apace.

Greenland mining, amirite?

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VP McGuirk the most recent public figure to claim “nothing could be done but please forgive me”

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Ash hungers, mourns, fears. He yearns to understand, feed, and protect people as he struggles to make sense of another loss. The domestic and global political (which is also personal, natch) dynamics intensify the skyrocketing action.

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Crandall researches Six Arms, Fortress Europe, and Siberian anthrax. McMahon attempts meagre political musings.

Once again, it must be asked, are this headlines about now or 2034?

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May 20: In an assemblage of seemingly ever radical and not-so-radical moments from the shared pool of myths and dreams, the Siege gets beat by and beats back state violence

June 30: Our new main character, The Heat, debuts: sweltering, scorching, burning, searing, murdering as Victor Love prepares his battle plans.

July 31: The siege comes to a sudden, violent, devastating end.

(We have split “The Siege” chapter into two episodes; this episode covers everything from the May 20th dateline on p. 521 through the end of the chapter.)

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April 1: The Concert for the Climate becomes a deluge of occupying creativity and power… but will it become a trickle and go down as the most embarrassing protest action in modern memory

April 4: The occupation of DC builds to critical mass and Kate issues her demands to the state.

We have split “The Siege” chapter into two episodes; this episode covers everything from the start of the chapter until the May 20th dateline on p. 521.

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Matt’s secret reunion with the FBF crew and the breaking apart of his relationship with Kate open up an exploration of green capitalism, the security state, love and gender, and narrative. Plans, deception, misdirection, and friendship tangle and untangle.

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Tony, preoccupied with impending clandestine plans and thoughts of his daughters, is frustrated by another useless encounter with law enforcement, only to realize, perhaps too late, how threadbare (his) rights have become.

Is it Hobbes SZN? It IS Hobbes SZN.

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