Podcasts about hypernormalization

Why So Many Americans Feel Helpless — And How to Break Free | Karel Cast Ep. 25-74 ⸻ Description: Do you ever feel like nothing you do matters? Climate change, skyrocketing prices, broken politics — and yet the most common reaction is: “What can I even do?” You're not alone — helplessness is becoming America's national mood. In this bold episode of the Karel Cast, we dig into: • Why that feeling of helplessness is more than just personal — it's systemic. • How it creeps into your identity without you realizing. • The shockingly simple cure most people ignore. • What hypernormalization is — and how it keeps you stuck. • Plus: Why seniors are suddenly turning to cannabis in record numbers.

Infosec Decoded Season 5 #41: HypernormalizationWith sambowne@infosec.exchangeLinks: https://samsclass.info/news/news_052725.htmlRecorded Tue, May 27, 2025

Send us a Positive Review!Series Title: Living in a World of Hypernormalization [Part I of II]In this episode Val shares an update about how she is processing the recent events of her and Nathan's forced resignation in the face of excommunication by looking at this both as a personal issue for them but also plays with the idea that they are playing a symbolic role in a much larger narrative that is unfolding and colliding in both conservative Christian AND conservative political spaces and is gaining steam due to the concept of HYPERNORMALIZATION: a social phenomenon where cultural collectives know that things are very wrong but pretend that all is well.  Friday's episode dives into how HYPERNORMALIZATION might explain much that is going on in our own heritage tradition and why those who do not participate in the "rules of hypernormalization" (by acknowledging issues exist) are punished.  https://valeriehamaker.com/one-one-consultations/Support the showListen, Share, Rate & Review EPISODES Friday Episodes Annual Subscription $89 Friday Episodes Monthly Subscription $10 Valerie's Support & Processing Groups Donate: ⁠Venmo or Patreon⁠ Visit our Website

Hypernormalization keeps us in crisis—trapped in a false reality. But what happens when we see through it?--- Join and support the community: https://www.creationspaths.com/In this episode of _Creation's Paths_, Charlie and Brian explore the concept of **Hypernormalization**, a large-scale form of **gaslighting** used by those in power to maintain control by creating an alternative reality. They trace its origins to the **Soviet Union's collapse**, its adoption by **authoritarian regimes**, and its entrenchment in **U.S. politics**, from the **Moral Majority** to **Fox News** and beyond. They discuss how **privatization**, **deregulation**, and **corporate influence** manipulate public perception, keeping people in a state of **perpetual crisis** while diverting attention away from real economic and social issues.Charlie and Brian break down how **storytelling** is used to shape public beliefs about **property, work, and the economy**, exposing how concepts like **"personal property" vs. "private property"**, and **"deregulation as freedom"**, are constructed illusions designed to benefit the wealthy elite. They argue that **recognizing and deconstructing these narratives** is essential to resisting **corporate control**, **wealth inequality**, and **government manipulation**.They also discuss how **faith and doubt must coexist**, using religious and philosophical insights to emphasize the importance of **critical thinking** in navigating **propaganda**.__________________________Thank you for Liking and Subscribing to this podcastThank you for sharing this episode with your loved ones, friends and community--- Thank you for Tips or Donations:https://ko-fi.com/cedorsetthttps://patreon.com/cedorsett$CreationsPathsSubstack: https://www.creationspaths.com/For all of the things we are doing at The Seraphic Grove go to Creation's Paths https://www.creationspaths.com/For Educational Resource: https://wisdomscry.com Guided Meditations Playlist:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV0C8kiTKv0J2QAAlD1uaIJvQ3Sr9sIqO Christopagan Playlist:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV0C8kiTKv0ISXDQkZBRB7EHrUUJgXlGN The Everything Playlist:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV0C8kiTKv0Ln3eGW-tDk2R68PM6c182OCreation's Paths Podcast: http://www.creationspaths.com/podcastChurch of the Oak Podcast: http://churchoftheoak.com/Hallowstead Podcast: http://hallowstead.com/Social Connections:BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/creationspaths.comThreads https://www.threads.net/@creationspathsInstagram https://www.instagram.com/creationspaths/## Chapters:00:00 Introduction: The World as a Stage00:53 Meet the Hosts: Charlie and Brian01:03 Understanding Hypernormalization01:57 Historical Context: Soviet Union and Beyond03:32 Modern Examples of Hypernormalization07:23 The Illusion of Private Property10:42 Deregulation and Its Consequences20:06 The Role of Science and Experts24:16 Faith, Doubt, and Certainty25:46 Conclusion and Call to Action

In this episode, I delve into the complexities of what it means to be well in an unwell world. I explore the concept of soul loss, the importance of deconditioning and unlearning, and the power of collective healing. I also discuss the importance of being in right relationship with self, others, and the world.Key Takeaways:Soul loss is a real phenomenon that occurs when we suppress parts of ourselves to conform to societal expectations.Deconditioning and unlearning are essential for healing and creating a new, more just world.We heal in community, and collective liberation begins with being in right relationship with self, others, and the world.Episode Highlights:01:24: The question: How can we be well in an unwell world?04:42: The concept of soul loss07:31: Deconditioning and unlearning11:12: Collective healing18:15: Hypernormalization and the refusal to stay the sameMentioned in the episode:Compassion Prison Project:https://compassionprisonproject.org/how-it-all-began/Voices on the Side Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/voices-on-the-side/id1688949334Disrupting the Wellness Industry (Episode):https://www.higher-love.com/The Nap Ministry:https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/Connect with Megan:Instagram: ⁠@‌HigherLove_withMegan⁠ Website: ⁠www.higher-love.com⁠Music:Good For You by THBD ⁠https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MNCAIWXJ7PY&t=0s Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream:https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary Music promoted by Audio Library ⁠https://www.youtube.com/audiolibraryProduction credits:This episode was written and recorded by me and produced by Lucy Lucraft (https://www.lucylucraft.co.uk/about )If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a 5* rating and review!

Hypernormalization: Pretending everything is fine, when it is obviously NOT fine. The goal is to keep us overwhelmed and confused and disengaged. Resist your apathy. Resist in any way you can. Join a co-op, a tenants union, a mutual aid network, a food pantry, local politics, and fight for a new reality that doesn't force so many to pretend it's not happening. FOUSHY ON IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/DEhR7_Rge95/?hl=enTHE DOCUMENTARY WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisationTHE DOCUMENTARY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7T07WfIhMDONATE TO KIDS IN PALESTINE: www.pcrf.netGET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.comTUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT: www.instagram.com/mydbpodcastOR BE A REAL GEM + TUNE IN ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/MYDBpodcastOR WATCH ON YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/juliemerica The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today on Moment of Zen, Samo Burja and Rudyard Lynch return for for a mind-bending discussion and deep dive into the concept of "long ripples" — how ideas and events from the distant past continue to shape our present and future in unexpected ways. From Plato's influence on modern political movements to the unforeseen consequences of the Industrial Revolution, this conversation challenges our understanding of historical cause and effect. Are we truly progressing, or are we caught in cycles we fail to recognize? Can we learn from the past, or are we doomed to repeat it in new, technologically-amplified ways? This episode is a rollercoaster ride through time, technology, and human nature, forcing us to reconsider our place in the grand sweep of history.  Both Samo and Rudyard are hosts of Turpentine shows, Live Players and History 102, respectively. CHECK OUT: Live Players: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5fbMTkHBnom1JIBWYNVBK1 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-players-with-samo-burja-and-erik-torenberg/id1718925188 History 102: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36Kqo3BMMUBGTDo1IEYihm Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/history-102-with-whatifalthists-rudyard-lynch-and/id1730633913 —

In this episode of History 102, 'WhatIfAltHist' creator Rudyard Lynch is joined again by Bismarck Analysis's Samo Burja (podcast host: Live Players) for a mind-bending discussion and deep dive into the concept of "long ripples" — how ideas and events from the distant past continue to shape our present and future in unexpected ways. From Plato's influence on modern political movements to the unforeseen consequences of the Industrial Revolution, this conversation challenges our understanding of historical cause and effect. Are we truly progressing, or are we caught in cycles we fail to recognize? Can we learn from the past, or are we doomed to repeat it in new, technologically-amplified ways? This episode is a rollercoaster ride through time, technology, and human nature, forcing us to reconsider our place in the grand sweep of history. 

Welcome to Episode 42 of Fully Automated. This is a repost of Episode 11 of Class Unity Transmissions (posted on Dec 17, 2023). In this episode, we are joined by Efraim Carlebach to discuss the 10-year anniversary of the publication of Mark Fisher's seminal essay, Exiting the Vampire Castle.  Published on November 24, 2013, Fisher's essay is remembered today as a powerful shot across the bows of what was known at the time as the “call out” left. In particular, the essay was a response to a recent controversy stemming from the appearance of “working class” comedian Russell Brand on the BBC's Newsnight program. Feminists expressed outraged at the BBC's choice to interview Brand at all, noting the sexually insensitive nature of his content. Fisher repudiated these critics as “PoshLeft moralizers” and witch-hunting scolds, leveraging Brand's apparent deafness to the linguistic norms of the middle-class gender lexicon in exchange for online clout. In their insistence that Brand's white male privilege made him one of the oppressors, they had blinded themselves to the foundational role of working-class culture in revolutionary politics.  Fisher's defense of the working-class culture notwithstanding, his position on the priority of working-class politics was more ambiguous. In this discussion, we start by trying to situate Fisher as a left anti-capitalist. After his suicide in 2017, Fisher's work on “capitalist realism” became something of a totem for the millennial left. However, as Carlebach argues, Fisher was never fully clear on what he meant by the term. On the one hand, he often referred to the idea — frequently attributed to Fredric Jameson — that we are so profoundly mentally stuck in within capitalist ideology that “it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” On the other, he would sometimes make the interesting move of saying that capitalist realism was specifically “a pathology of the left.”  Ultimately, the ambiguity was short-lived. Where Fisher has once posted approvingly of Adam Curtis's documentary HyperNormalization, a pointed criticism of the counter-cultural left, the defeat of Jermey's Corbyn's leadership of the British Labour Party would see this theme would soon drop out of his work. The culturalist nature of Fisher's defense of the working class folded easily enough into Fisher's late-life return to the New Left, the politics of “consciousness raising,” and the idea of what he called “acid communism.” If you enjoyed this show, please leave a kind review on your podcast app. You call follow the show on Twitter/X: @occupyirtheory

Author Peter Kurth takes the Gaslit Nation Self Care Q&A!  In the second part of this special interview, Andrea interviews Peter Kurth, author of American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson, which helped inspire Andrea's latest screenplay based on Thompson and her urgent lessons for us today. Gaslit Nation has always been a show that combines the power of art with fighting fascism, and this interview captures that call-to-arms.  To our Patreon community at the Truth-teller level and higher, save the date for our January 18th 8 pm ET Quit Twitter Social Media Workshop. If you hate social media, if you miss Old Twitter before Apartheid Barbie Musk deliberately destroyed it, if you want to elevate your voice for those who need your solidarity and support, then this is the workshop for you! We'll be joined by organizer Rachel Brody who helps various campaigns with their social media strategy and helps lead the statewide coalition to replace Jay Jacobs, the useless chair of the New York state Democratic Party who, from George Santos to Republican control of the House running through New York, has cost this country so much. This is an event not to miss! To get access, subscribe to the show at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit  To get access to our January 18th social media workshop, subscribe at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit  Thank you to everyone who supports the show – we could not make Gaslit Nation without you!

Niko Jilch joins me to discuss world history through the lens of money, how the EU attempted to break free from the U.S. dollar, and how Bitcoin provides hope for the future. Niko Jilch is a financial journalist, moderator, and speaker from Vienna. He has worked as an expert on financial markets, investing & Bitcoin for over 10 years. // GUEST // Twitter: https://twitter.com/NikoJilch Substack: https://substack.com/@fixthemoney Podcast: https://www.fixthemoney.net/podcast// SPONSORS // In Wolf's Clothing: https://wolfnyc.com/ Gold Investment Letter: https://www.goldinvestmentletter.com/ iCoin Hardware Wallet (use discount code BITCOIN23): https://www.icointechnology.com/ Wasabi Wallet: https://wasabiwallet.io/ Casa (use discount code BREEDLOVE): https://keys.casa/ Bitcoin Apparel (use discount code BREEDLOVE): https://thebitcoinclothingcompany.com/ Feel Free Tonics (use discount code BREEDLOVE): https://botanictonics.com Carnivore Bar (use discount code BREEDLOVE): https://carnivorebar.com/ // OUTLINE // 00:00 - Coming up 00:57 - Intro 02:30 - Helping Lightning Startups with In Wolf's Clothing 03:16 - Introducing Niko Jilch 03:38 - The End of the Gold Standard 09:23 - Establishment of the Euro 12:59 - Similarities between Euro and Bitcoin 14:18 - America's Cooperation with China and Saudi Arabia 16:36 - The EU: A Decentralized Peaceful Community 18:24 - Our Currency, Our Problem 19:59 - Maximize Your Profits with Gold Investment Letter 20:55 - Secure Your Bitcoin Stash with the iCoin Hardware Wallet 21:51 - The Market Effect of Gold Marking 25:16 - Misunderstanding Digital Gold 26:44 - Invasion of Iraq and Domination of the U.S Dollar 30:08 - Uncertain Future of the Euro 34:31 - Global Reserve Currency and Energy 37:06 - A Bitcoin Wallet with Privacy Built-In: Wasabi Wallet 37:57 - Hold Bitcoin in the Most Secure Custody Model with Casa 38:46 - Bitcoin and Hope for the Future 44:47 - The World of Hypernormalization 47:28 - Why Bitcoin Counts 50:54 - How to Find Niko's Work // PODCAST // Podcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE? RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL // Bitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7 Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22 Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22 Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedlove // WRITTEN WORK // Medium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/ Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ // SOCIAL // Breedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22 WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22 All My Current Work: https://vida.page/breedlove22

Popular culture has been important in UFO folklore, both absorbing the existing stories around UFOs and creating new narratives. The 90s television show The X-Files was probably the most important of all UFO-related media. Show creator Chris Carter and writer Glen Morgan talk about making the show and its relation to the UFO narratives at the time. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The powerful puppet masters have created their own version of reality with the assistance of the banks and political powers. We experience the reality that they want us to. Nothing happens thats not okay with them. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shadowbannedpodcast/support

We're unlocking our Adam Curtis interview. Description below. New episode coming soon! *** Filmmaker Adam Curtis chats with ladies about his new docuseries Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World and why you will never catch him using the word "neoliberalism."

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On all podcast platforms. This episode, I was joined by documentarian, and former roommate, Megan Hattie (twitter: @themartiantide), we talked about numerous things, such as: - What it was like being former roomies - What upstate New York is like, and how it's different from New England - Megan's podcast I-5 Cinemabound, where she talks with co-host Rob, and a guest, about a movie and documentary - Briefly touch on Westworld (HBO) - Society Show Quiz: Is it a movie, tv show, video game, or book? - Megan talks about her own documentaries, particularly Laura in Search of Teeth, about a woman who collects body parts - Megan recommends viewers watch The Raft (2018) - We talk about Hypernormalization, one of my favorite documentaries that Megan just watched - Other Adam Curtis documentaries, including Can't Get You Out of My Head - Hackers tampered with a water treatment facility in Florida and attempted to poison the town residents - Nevada governor proposes a law that would allow tech companies to create county-equivalent governments - The Biden administration wants to scrutinize WHO data confirming Covid did not originate in a lab. Very Trump-like - Sad! - All of this, and much much more! Leave a message on the Society Show voicemail: (917) BETH-1EU [(971) 238-4138 Follow the show on twitter: @society_show Write in to the show: societyshowpodcast@gmail.com

Only one day late, we celebrate #inaugurationday2021 and, like everyone else in the world, rant about the #insurrection that kind of almost happened on #CapitolHill on #January6th. Topics include Cambridge Analytica, Palantir, and Blackwater. Also, we agree that #AdamCurtis and his movie #Hypernormalization is true and good. We're back folks

In his 2016 film Hypernormalization, Adam Curtis uses the Soviet Union of the late 1970s--a society that everyone knew was crumbling but for which no one could imagine an alternative, forcing politicians and citizens alike to maintain the pretense of management--as a model for the West today. In the wake of the horror unfolding across the U.S., where no one knows how or has the political will to solve the problems confronting us, A&E discuss how Kenosha signifies a new wrinkle in American history, a shift to something much more dark on the horizon.

Philip Cunliffe, excorcizing the demons of Cosmopolitan Dystopia Hello everyone! Welcome to Episode 25 of Fully Automated. This week we are joined by Dr Philip Cunliffe, Senior Lecturer in International Conflict at the University of Kent. Phil has been a guest on the show before actually. He joined us in Episode 16, for our “What the Brexit?” debate, at the 2019 ISA Convention, in Toronto. And listeners may also be familiar with his voice from the podcast Aufhebunbga Bunga, which he records with Alex Hochuli and George Hoare. Today we are going to talk with Dr. Cunliffe about his new book, Cosmopolitan Dystopia (Manchester Press, 2020), which is a detailed study of the negative impact of human rights discourse on global politics since the end of the Cold War. Now, for many on the left, this will be a controversial point. As he notes in the book, many see human rights discourse as a cover for US imperial ambitions. Yet, says Cunliffe, we can’t explain the popularity of global human rights discourse, or the extent to which it is invoked even by European powers, solely through the lens of American hegemony. You need a more nuanced account. And this is where Cunliffe brings in the idea of reading human rights discourse as a counter-utopian, or anti-political, symptom of the neoliberal era. Cosmopolitan Dystopia On the surface, this argument might appear paradoxical. How can human rights be anti-utopian? But I think any listeners who might have watched the Adam Curtis documentary HyperNormalization will already have an insight into where Phil is taking this argument. As he notes, a key value at the heart of contemporary liberalism is an aversion to the so-called “fate of utopians.” Human rights violations happen, according to this schematic, because people want to change the status quo. In this interview, we cover a range of issues. For me though, one of the highlights is our discussion about the complete lack of critical self-awareness of people like Juergen Habermas and, more recently, Samantha Power. In their support for interventions in Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s, liberals invoked the idea of the ‘just’ liberal war, and paved the way for the liberal justification of future American wars, from Iraq to Libya and Syria. But this book is not just a critique of American wars — it also examines the bloody interventions of the British and the French, in Africa. The common element to all these cases is the fervent belief among cosmopolitan liberals that the world is better disposed to their ideals than it really is (which is not to say the world isn’t oriented to cosmopolitan ideals — just that they might not be liberal cosmopolitan ideals!). Now, I’ll say that I don’t know that I fully agree with all of Phil’s positions here. On the one hand, I do think he makes a compelling case that there’s been a substantive “restructuring” of world order going on, as a result of what he terms the “cumulative weight” of interventions since the Cold War. But I am just not sure I am as persuaded as he, that self-determination and sovereignty are necessarily the solution to the problems of contemporary capitalist order. I may be wrong about this, and certainly I think the left would be foolish not to try to leverage the power of the state as much as possible, to achieve its goals. But I think there’s a risk of maybe fetishizing the benefits of what some call ‘delinking’ at the expense of engaging on the terrain of international and transnational institutions. For more on this, listeners might want to revisit Episode 14, where we talked about this a bit with Lee Jones. Anyway, that all said, I think this is a magnificent and politically important book. And I think Phil has made a real contribution with it. It should be widely read, and discussed.  

Welcome to Episode 11, of Fully Automated, an Occupy IR Theory podcast! Today, we have Part One of our first ever two-part episode, on the topic of Situationism! Joining me for this episode are two friends of mine from Columbus, Ohio, Charlie Umland, and Jim Calder. They are pretty sharp, when it comes to this topic. And, over the course of this two-part episode, they’re gonna help us understand just who the situationists were, and who they weren’t. Now, coincidentally, situationism has sort of been back on the radar, lately. In February 2017, the New York Times ran a piece by Robert Zaretsky, called ‘Trump and the ‘Society of the Spectacle’.’ In the piece, Zaretsky offers this very Situationist sounding line: Like body snatchers, commodities and images have hijacked what we once naïvely called reality. The authentic nature of the products we make with our hands and the relationships we make with our words have been removed, replaced by their simulacra.” In the episode, Charlie, Jim and I get into some discussion of this piece. One of our big points is that perhaps Zaretsky’s take is kind of off the mark. For him, the Trump is the master of the image, in a time when the very form of image itself, has hijacked our reality. Focusing on the image as the problematic form this way, however, Zaretsky’s Situationists resonate somewhat too cynically. Indeed, it could be said they bear a familiar resemblance with the work of another famous French scholar, Jean Baudrillard. Now, Baudrillard doesn’t hail from Situationism. But he is a critic of contemporary capitalism, and he is particularly preoccupied with the rise of what he terms ’hyperreality’ — an economic era dominated by the logic of the image, wherein humans have been seduced into a state of passive consumption. For Baudrillard, where older modes of capitalism were predicated on production of actual goods, society today is a simulation; we are a consumer society, but what we consume is nothing more than signs, or symbols. In such a society, even political resistance has sort of dissipated into a kind of moral relativism; we no longer fight for any particular group’s “code” — instead we adopt a stance of ironic “fascination.” This attitude of fascination, or what we might even call flanneurism, is exemplified in a scene in the recent Adam Curtis documentary, Hypernormalization. In this scene, we meet a young Patti Smith, giggling as she recounts the ironic prospect of poor people, watching movie trailers over and over, on a small screen outside of a cinema. Its as if she’s hypnotized herself, by the total surrender to passivity of the people watching the screen. She is overwhelmed by the cynicism of it all, and can only laugh. But in the episode, we make the argument that this is perhaps precisely the wrong way to interpret the Spectacle. Situationism is much more than simply a critique of seduction; the theory of spectacle is NOT simply that we have been reduced to the status of a mass of consumers, or that we are simply distracted by the ongoing barrage of the media’s meaningless images. To the contrary, a key concept that has come up for us in our discussions is that of “separation” — which is something like the alienation experienced by everyday people, not just in capitalism, but also in other highly bureaucratized technical systems, like the Soviet Union, when rationalities of expertise work to delegitimize any demand they might make, for true collective participation in the productive systems that govern their lives. And, we argue, it is in this sense that Society of Spectacle is still very much a Marxist project. One need only consider how frequently the topic of the proletariat is discussed, and the various tasks to which it must attend, if it is to survive. So, a little bit about our guests today. Both are from Ohio: Charlie Umland is a cook. He likes to learn about art and philosophy and communism, and he is an unapologetic D&D fan.

Chris the Brain Hoyt is one of our most fascinating interviews to date.  Chris is a local Marketing Strategist with a gift for words and creative concepts.  Chris is also the Owner of Apprenace - a forward-thinking internship and apprenticeship company. Started Fat Atom Marketing with a partner. Is a naturally introverted person. Being a "smart person" can be a threat to others.  Chris' person is a way to diffuse the situation and poke fun at himself, thus disarming naysayers. Chris doesn't think that he is "better than everyone else," but that we all have our own special gifts. There is currently much pressure in society to be like everyone else.  Chris prefers the term "Hypernormalization" to describe this. Tony mentioned Abraham Loncoln's 1859 speech to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, also known as the "Mudsill Speech." Chris' podcast is called "Post-Modern Living," and is his way to vent about "all the lies adults tell children." He went into marketing because it's the place he "saw the most chaos and disorder in the world." Apprenace - Chris has always loved working with young people, and had lots of great experience with internships. Tony mentioned that Chris would enjoy learning more about John Taylor Gatto Apprenace is not a college alternative.

Through my illness I yet find the strength to link barely-put-together ideas into mumbled sentences, almost making sense at some points. But fear not! I descend into mad ramblings yet again! If name dropping philosophers was currency I'd be breaking the bank (I don't even know what this means). Philosophers & thinkers mentioned: Beaudrillard, Slavoj Zizek, Marx, Adam Curtis.

Corey Pein of the podcast News From Nowhere and the forthcoming book "Live Work Work Work Die" joins Adam and Shane to talk about the ongoing crises in Saudi Arabia, nationalist marches in Poland, and how the concepts of accelerationism and hypernormalization might play a big role in these and other crises around the world. 

Topic for the show:  We discuss the North Korea situation and how the alternative media is pushing the war narrative.  We also do our review of Hypernormalization by Adam Curtis. 

Next week's show Monday Sept 4th (Labor Day) we celebrate Werner Herzog's birthday with Bucky Sinister! The comedian/poet/novelist drops by to discuss his favorite documentary, 1999's MY BEST FIEND about Herzog's tumultuous working relationship with German actor/madman Klaus Kinski.We also discuss the protests, West Wing Weekly live show at the Castro, The Defiant Ones, Citizenfour, I Called Him Morgan, Hypernormalization, and upcoming shows.Paco's show The Charm Offensive Sept 13th at the Punchline.Benefit for the Punchline's Damien Hernandez Upsetting news about Cinefamily.

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42 Minutes 248: Douglas Rushkoff - Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus - 11.08.2016 On Election Day, the program considers our operating system with media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, and discuss his recent book, Throwing Rocks At The Google Bus. Topics Include: Money, Media & Social Justice, Digital Technology, Value Extraction, Human Values, Economic Model, Standing Rock, Terra Firma, Currency, The FED, Conspiracy, Empire, Bazaar, Peer To Peer, Innovation, Central Capital, Pivot, Investors, Hypernormalization, Feedback Loops, Algorithm, Chobani, Distributism. http://www.rushkoff.com

In 1975, New York City was on the brink of financial disaster. In the previous years the city officials had borrowed more money from banks to prop up its flailing local government until, finally, the banks decided that it was enough. This decision would have long-reaching repercussions that seem to have led directly to how we see the world today. The final decision to take control of a government and effectively replace publicly elected politicians with bankers would fundamentally shape the future of the modern world. Some of the world's greatest enemies like Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Al Qaida were a direct result of carefully crafted narratives by western governments in order to maintain the status quo. The youth counter culture who thought they were rebelling and making a statement by withdrawing from public and political action played directly into the hands of the governments who were now just managers. How did one city's fall to bankers produce the carefully maintained illusion of a free world? Were the revolutions that shook the Middle East in recent years and the Occupy Wall Street movement the prototypes for the next stage of our social evolution? This case file the Theorists turn up the house lights and take a peek behind the curtain of modern society to find out what's real and unreal in...HyperNormalization   Support The Alien Theorists on Patreon $5/ month for everything we do. Buy merch and one-time donations alientheorists.com