In this episode we review the 2021 Shaka King movie "Judas and the Black Messiah" about the story of Fred Hampton, a 21 year old Black Panther from Chicago who was assassinated by the FBI in 1969, aided by informant William O'Neal. The movie is extremely well shot, well composed, and rich with reflections on the role of racism, the FBI, and radical politics in our world.
2:54 - Facts about the movie ||
11:12 - Plot Summary ||
18:12 - Our thoughts ||
1:08:21 - Wrap up ||
Outtro: Dead Prez - Police State

Episode 61: Dic Flick (Judas and the Black Messiah)

Friend of the show TrueHorror (https://twitter.com/TrueHorror69) joins us late to share how Hunter S. Thompson impacted his life and his feelings on Hunter as a person.

More from TrueHorror: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe7nj6gJMS0UDQ4bPh6nBMw

Bonus: True Horror on Hunter S. Thompson

Friends of the show Alex and Mike from Bored2Life (https://twitter.com/Bored2LifePod) join us live to talk about Hunter S. Thompson and how we think he is/was a good stepping stone into the world of critical thinking, what we think of his works, and how he has been perceived since his death.

3:35 - Who was Hunter?
5:38 - Our introductions to Hunter
13:14 - How Hunter wrote
52:45 - How Gonzo shaped us
1:06:20 - Wrap up


Bored2Life podcast: https://bored2life.libsyn.com/ (thanks for the episode art!)
Gonzovision playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyhbw_HbnGGjqXHjBklIz4JCCdxW02IOX
Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11BmZqUPYLk3UvwAwQ2HmsLFImoRMPWWibtvjGSI320w/edit?usp=sharing

Episode 63: Hunter S. Thompson (Babys First Theorist) w/ Bored2Life

(SPOILERS AHEAD)
In this episode we review the 2013 Neill Blomkamp movie 'Elysium' starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. In the mid 22nd century, Max (Damon) becomes irradiated while on the job and sets out on a heroic journey against insurmountable odds to break into the tech-utopia civilization in Earth's orbit, Elysium, that has the key to curing his and many others' illnesses. This movie is loaded with very meaningful scenes and tidbits that we weren't able to cover, which is exactly why you should watch it.

Evans notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ji3QPNPCaD0chIxBC4IQFQhjfxWI8CFAq1CHkPCzcLE/edit?usp=sharing

Episode 62: Dic Flick (Elysium)

We watched the new movie distributed by The Daily Wire called "Run Hide Fight" about a lone hero Zoe who stands up to a group of four students who decide to shoot up and bomb their Texas high school on Senior Prank Day.  It's quite the adventure into the world of people who are rather fixated on the rising cultural phenomena of mass (school) shootings with a cast of characters with...very interesting quirks and qualities between them all.

8:03 - Synopsis and Analysis
1:28:19 - Final thoughts

Episode 64: Dic Flick (Run Hide Fight)

In this episode, we discuss the ways in which the HBO adaptation of "Generation Kill" shows us how the 2003 invasion/occupation of Iraq was not only doomed to fail, but was experienced first hand within the first 50 days of the campaign by the recon Marines at the tip of the spear, the importance of the foreshadowed events, and the inner machinations of our war machine. The writing was on the wall, we just had to read it.

4:20 - The Sales Pitch and the Perfect Crime||
 ||>The Changing Perceptions<||
29:00 - Violence and Killing ||
43:51 - The Rules of Engagement ||
52:15 - The Motivations ||
1:02:31 - Power Dynamics ||
1:19:24 - Wrap up ||

Zak on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ravlow
their music too: https://soundcloud.com/ravlow
Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QBv51HWgTDElmok0k3JwE9O9nlIawKcXDs_PgU2KCOc/edit?usp=sharing

Episode 65: Generation Kill, Perspective, and War

In this episode, Adam joins the proles to talk about the messaging and musicality of the near legendary 2004 Lamb of God album "Ashes of the Wake".  But first, Adam gives us a little background on the emotions being experienced around the events that would inspire this album.

6:20 - Retrospective & Context
33:22 - The messaging
1:11:40 - The technicalities
1:36:24 - Final Thoughts

The album (Spotify): https://open.spotify.com/album/3ffdUrEvCQJX6mn2ZTq93m
Closing music: "Another Nail For Your Coffin" - Lamb of God
The Spaceship: https://thespaceship.tv/
Blowback Season 1: https://blowback.show/Season-1
This Is What Winning Looks Like (full): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI

Episode 66: Ashes of the Wake review w/ Adam

Join us this week as friend of the show revidicism comes on to talk about a paper she wrote for a college class about Ring doorbells, the ideology behind them, and what about those two things mixing is very strange and concerning. 

3:34 - Paper Synopsis || 
17:28 - The Ideology behind Ring ||
(28:31 - The State, Ring, and Information; or The Socialization of State Authority) ||
45:50 - Final thoughts

her twitter: https://twitter.com/revidicism
DC Food Not Bombs: https://twitter.com/dc_fnb
Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lx_71Oo791D2ZAp5DpBMGtprA9_Zo6cnXsJO-vsrUvE/edit?usp=sharing
Outtro music: Jeffrey Lewis - Securicor

Episode 67: Ring Doorbells Are Weird w/ revidicism

We finally did it, we watched the movie everyone's been waiting for! In this, our 69th episode, we give a somewhat real-time commentary on this amazingly magical piece of fiction.

Episode 69: We Finally Watched It!

We're back behind the mics again talking about the 2001 TV movie Conspiracy. It covers the 1942 Wannasee conference in which 15 of the highest ranked Nazis met to discuss the Final Solution to the Jewish Question that had been escaping their greasy little minds until this point. Over the course of a few hours and swipes of the pen, these 15 men crafted a highly automated system for genocide the likes of which had never been seen before. We discuss the brutality integral to their ideology, where it came from, and how much of absolute losers these guys really were.

1:17 - Background and Trivia
14:34 - Fates of the Attendees
38:13 - Synopsis
1:12:31 - Wrapup

Outtro - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Napalm Death)

Episode 71: Dic Flick (Conspiracy)

Welcome back to the show! In this first half of our new episode, we go through some background and side knowledge for a paper written by Evan in fall 2021 for an ethics class required for his Computer Science degree. Specifically what is done here is to bring up more examples than talked about in the paper and some things to think about in the future when we hear about the joys of crypto currency, "THE ALGORITHM", and those with bloated egos who drive our technological lives forward.

0:48 - What is this episode?
2:19 - Motivations
3:39 - The Order of the Engineer
12:23 - Why we need materialism
15:38 - Bonus knowledge/thoughts
21:54 - Sources/further reading

Notes/Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wd7obLR61fbiPEPIO8vbNpuun6YmwFXDrav1T8I5APU/edit?usp=sharing

Episode 70: Materialism and Technology (Part 1)

Part 2 of Episode 70 wherein Evan reads his paper that gave rise to this two part episode.

1:37 - Materialism, Class, and Their Importance
6:00 - Technological Development and Materialism
9:16 - Example: Mass Surveillance
14:39 - Example: Technology Accelerating Abusive Economics
17:46 - Example: Facebook, Harmful Content, and the Profit Motive
24:09 - Conclusion; or how Cybersyn is a Model for Moral Technology Usage

notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wd7obLR61fbiPEPIO8vbNpuun6YmwFXDrav1T8I5APU/edit?usp=sharing

Episode 70: The Imperatives for a Materialist Analysis of Technology (Part 2)

Episode 68: 2025-A World Enslaved By A Virus (Dic Flick) (REUPLOAD)

This week is a crossover with the Twitter space sensation MINDFULL WELLNESS hosts Juniper Nest and previous monologuer TrueHorror, and a classic couch session with the two.

3:02 - WHAT IS MINDFUL WELLNESS ||
42:54 - A VERY WISCONSIN ARTICLE (https://www.wpr.org/ethnic-fraud-madison-kay-leclaire-faces-allegations-posing-indigenous-native-person) ||
1:01:47 - eREX'd IN THAILAND ||
1:15:58 - PITBULLS ARE WHAT? (https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/pit-bulls-jews-of-the-canine-world) ||
1:43:32 - ONE SENTENCE TO RULE THEM ALL ||

Juniper's twitter - https://twitter.com/junipernest ||
Gadsden's twitter - https://twitter.com/TrueHorror69 ||
revidicism's tweet - https://twitter.com/REVIDICISM/status/1620680628223242240?t=HkTLrkDqeLNrcUzmmdrJKg&s=19

Episode 72: A Mindfully Well Couch Session (w/ JuniperNest and TrueHorror)

The prefaces to the V.I. Lenin publication "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" published in 1917.

Full text: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/pref01.htm (0:12)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/pref02.htm (3:28)

Prefaces

Chapter 1 of "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" where Lenin describes how monopoly capitalism exists in the world and its position in the grand picture of capitalist development.

Full text: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch01.htm

I: Concentration of Production and Monopolies

Chapter 2 of "Imperialism" where Lenin describes the role that banks play in bringing capitalism from its monopoly stage into its imperial stage. Namely he looks at the capital held by banks, the concentration of this capital, and the beginnings of how this capital flows in and out of banks.

Full text: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch02.htm

II: Banks and their New Role

Full text: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch04.htm

IV: The Export of Capital

Full text: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch05.htm

V: Division of the World Among Capitalist Associations

Full text: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch06.htm

VI: Division of The World Among The Great Powers

Full text: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch08.htm

VIII: The Parasitism and Decay of Capitalism

In this chapter, Parenti lays the groundwork for not only the definitions of several phrases and concepts to be used throughout the text, but also begins to give an idea the history of economic and military imperialism and how they are effectively joined at the hip.

Across the Entire Globe (1:12)||
The Dynamic of Capital Expansion (4:09)||
Not Necessary, Just Compelling (8:58)||
Myths of Under Development (11:37)||
Artificially Converted to Poverty (18:30)||
Development Theory (24:58)||
Neoimperialism: Skimming the Cream (28:57)

1: Imperialism 101

In this second chapter of the text, Parenti looks at the way the American empire (as a functionary of international finance capital) has existed and transformed over the decades. Namely, he looks at how finance capital became international and how the United States became the vanguard of international finance capital and the tools by which international finance capital is upheld.

Market Inequality (0:23) ||
Debt Domination (2:53) ||
Foreign Aid as a Weapon (6:44) ||
With Rational Violence (9:43) ||
Low Intensity Imperialism (21:37) ||
Globalization by GATT (26:55)

2: Imperial Domination Updated

In this chapter, Parenti describes the ways in which class politics plays into imperial politics and imperial interests along with the ways in which an imperial nation can legitimize itself by manufacturing enemies against which it can flex its muscles. He also answers a fundamental question of imperialism: why would you spend $3 to protect $1 of investment?

A Global Military Empire (0:48) ||
Why Intervention? (6:09) ||
Common Confusions (15:09) ||
Inventing Enemies (20:12) ||
Who Pays? Who Profits? (23:52) ||
The Myth of Popular Imperialism (29:37) ||
Cultural Imperialism (35:55)

3: Intervention: Whose Gain? Whose Pain?

Michael Parenti in this chapter discusses the right-wing concept of "anti-America" fits in to the class structure of empire and how both the class and economic interests of the imperial class do not match up with the common peoples, who are typically fooled and fleeced into believing that imperial interventions serve "our interests".

Exporting Jobs (0:28) ||
Empire Against Environment (6:00) ||
American Casualties (9:41) ||
Impoverishing the Republic (14:21) ||
The Few Against the Many (20:36) ||
A Moral Self-Interest (27:19)

4: Strong Empire, Weak Republic

In this chapter, Parenti looks at, among other things, how neoimperial actions are not simply a macho flexing of muscles but rather a carefully considered execution of class based politics. He also importantly and correctly addresses the claim that US foreign policy is stupid and self-contradictory: it is not, for the interests it serves are correctly served.

Unexamined Assumptions (1:17) ||
Macho Posturing (3:46) ||
In the Name of Democracy (7:39) ||
The Hunt for Red Menace (11:59) ||
What Are "Our Interests"? (16:33) ||
Consistent Inconsistencies (24:14) ||
Arms for Profit (32:50)

5: A Dreadful Success

In this chapter, Parenti briefly goes over the ideas that the Gulf War was sensationalized by corporate media and that our empire deliberately conceals information to keep itself running. Not only that, but he also looks at how drugs have played a major part in not only our capitalist empire domestically and abroad, but also their historical place in extracting money from colonized lands.

Driving Away Demons (0:31) ||
Looking Left for Terrorism (5:17) ||
Protecting Americans Abroad (8:34) ||
Reaching for Pretexts (13:55) ||
The Gulf War Lies (20:16) ||
Some Real Reasons (24:40) ||
The "War on Drugs": Cover Story (30:11) ||
Which Side Are You On, Boys? (33:47) ||
Drugs as a Weapon of Social Control (38:45)

6: Drugs, Lies, and Video Wars

In this chapter, the main focus is the question of what makes up a worthy cause for US imperialism to take action? Well, it turns out there are many answers, though either fabricated or hypocritical. Whether it's anti-American nations "acquiring" nukes or "using mycotoxins" rest assured the US will get hopping mad and ready to pounce.

Discouraging Arms Proliferation (0:22) ||
Chemical Warfare Hoax (8:19) ||
Humanitarian Pretense (12:07) ||
For Freedom-Mujahideen Style (14:44) ||
Famine Relief for Conoco (18:16) ||
Elections Yes! (Depending on Who Wins) (24:11) ||
Operation Facelift (32:48) ||
Coming Out of the Capitalist Closet (39:16)

7: Worthy Causes

In this chapter, Parenti looks at the difference between government and State and how that difference, or lack thereof, is key to the functionality of empire. Furthermore, he begins plumbing the depths of State power in the US and just how dangerous it is not only because it can readily break constitutional laws, but also how much destruction has been left in its wake. 

The State Against Democracy (2:14) ||
Conservative Consistencies (11:21) ||
An Executive State (14:28) ||
Expose as Cover-up (19:30) ||
Keeping the Government in Line (21:35) ||
Consitutional Tyranny (25:57) ||
The State in Society (28:41) ||
Conspiracy Theory? (33:49)

8: Democratic Governance vs. The State

In this chapter, Parenti looks at how the ruling bodies of America have essentially turned its economy into that of a third world nation under imperial rule. Whether it's through Reaganomics or corporate welfare, the American economy has been creating an ever more degenerate form over the decades.

Trickle Down to the Free Market (0:24) ||
Conservative Double Standards (3:21) ||
Welfare for the Rich (6:09) ||
The Tax Game (10:41) ||
A Military Feast (15:38) ||
A People's National Debt (17:53) ||
Toward 1893 (20:09) ||
Old Problems, No Solutions (28:38)

9: Voodoo Economics: The Third Worldization of America

In this chapter, Parenti fact checks the right-wingers who cry bloody murder who call college campuses "left wing establishments" all while firing, blacklisting, etc. those who voice opinions to the left of Mussolini. It is worth noting too that Parenti was the recipient of this ideologically based discrimination from a university.

A Temple of Knowledge (1:36) ||
A Matter of Some History (4:02) ||
The Open and Closed University (10:58) ||
Lefties Need Not Apply (18:24) ||
Elastic Criteria (24:09) ||
Presumptions of Objectivity (30:16) ||
Quarantine the Survivors (35:51) ||
The Myth of the Radical Campus (39:02)

10: The Empire in Academia

In this final chapter, Parenti gives a brief summary of many discussed points in the text thus far with justification based on reality as to why empire needs to be dismantled. Possibly one of the most solid responses he gives is to the common right wing claim of "You feel jealousy towards my wealth", that is: "We feel outrage!"

"Moderate Alternative" (1:25) ||
Military Spending and Peacetime Conversion (4:33) ||
The National Security State (6:49) || 
Electoral Reform (8:02) ||
Tax Reform and Labor Law (9:23) ||
Agriculture and Ecology (11:47) ||
Health Care and Safety (13:17) ||
Fiscal Policy (14:21) ||
Social Justice and Jobs (15:21) || 
Class Warfare a Two-Way Street (18:10)

11: Real Alternatives

In this episode friend of the show Jon comes on to explain how the 1971 Project Cybersyn in Chile would have addressed and solved many issues the US and many other capitalist countries have seen arise since Covid-19 started tearing through swaths of the population and also how Cybersyn represents a higher order of social, technological, and productive development than where we are at now.

2:35 - Original Motivations for this Episode ||
18:00 - Salvador Allende's Chile ||
26:15 - Cybersyn and Human/Productive relations ||
54:37 - Could Cybersyn work in the US? ||

Show notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EqE11hF5wa0S20FaeVYNxwXdELDjBIqwzsd8CSk-NRg/edit?usp=sharing

Episode 53: Cybersyn, the US, and Covid-19 w/ Jon

In this episode, Taylor leads us through 2008 David Zucker "comedy" movie "An American Carol" packed with an "all-star" cast and totally not littered with fascist propaganda. You're better off listening to us talk for 110 minutes about the movie than watching all 75 minutes of it.

5:10 - General Facts about the movie ||
12:50 - Synopsis ||
1:32:04 - Trivia ||
1:37:18 - Amazon reviews||
1:49:10 - Wrap up

Episode 56: Dic Flick (American Carol)

Doing the most with what little we have.
Compensating for all the ways capitalism makes us feel small.

Dic Proles

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