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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: UNLOCKED: /361/ A Nightmare on the Brains of the Living ft. Benjamin Studebaker
Description: On US politics being stuck.
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We talk to political theorist Benjamin Studebaker about his new book, The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut. Studebaker holds that hope is a problem because it's used by professionals to keep people engaged in a system that simply doesn't deliver. Hence the culture wars and the focus on various 'vices'.
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How are both left and right complicit in this situation? What's the solution? Are we dependent on oligarchs going rogue to shake the system? Do we need to hit ro...