This is one of my all-time favorites: Octavia Butler's 1993 dystopian novel, "Parable of the Sower." Listeners, you're in for one heck of a ride.

What if dialectics were a religion? What will the US look like when the exploitation of the global south finally comes home? Plus, what to do when everybody else is acting calm in the middle of the apocalypse.

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Art from John Jude Palencar's cover art for "Parable of the Sower." Music by Kevin MacLeod.

The second half of our Brave New World discussion.

In this episode: We talk even more about Huxley vs Orwell (we can't help ourselves) and examine how fascism dresses itself up as a utopia to its subjects. Then we spend some time with the brilliant, the magnificent, the king of the debate-me-bros himself, World Controller MUSTAPHA MOND!

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Music by Kevin MacLeod.

Hey! First episode!

In this rough first attempt, we hop right into Aldous Huxley's dystopian classic, "Brave New World." 

How does propaganda really work? Why do we believe this book could trounce "1984" with one hand behind its back? What happens when you make Henry Ford into your actual God? All this and more in Brave New Pod Pt1.

Credits to Greg Klamt for the episode art and Kevin MacLeod for the music.