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Podcast: Macroaggressions
Episode: #516: Trump’s Brave New World
Description: The new technocratic era is underway with Donald Trump’s return to the White House, and things are already taking an ominous turn with the unveiling of his new $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure program. Partnered with some of the worst people in Silicon Valley, such as Larry Ellison and Sam Altman, his second administration is shaping up to be even more dangerous than his first.
How do the lessons found in the 1932 book Brave New World translate to today’s world, and are we about to embark on a societal transformation? Could the fictional “savage reservation” where those who have...