Holy shit that was amazing, this must’ve taken a huge effort i love it. Sad to hear but incredibly informative

To coincide with our appearance on Chapo, we are unlocking this premium episode of Seeking Derangements for free. You can find more premium eps at https://www.patreon.com/seekingderangements Love you!

intro/// Christine Lewin - Juicy Fruit

Ben and I had Felix and Brandon on the pod to talk about internet freaks but we all spent like 45 minutes talking about the people who had the biggest influences on us as younger people and "internet activists". 

outro/// Wally Badarou - Back To Scales Tonight

UNLOCKED SD 6: Boys' Chat feat. Felix Biederman & Brandon Wardell

we had the pod list boys on and we all screamed a lot. jacques is getting a mic soon. ben got his a few days ago. life is pain. have a nice one

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track id:
intro/// Lou Courtney - I Don't Need Nobody Else (1974)
outro/// Cici Kizlar - Gencim, Yaşamı Severim (1975)

SD 24 - Help Me feat. Pod About List

We take a look at the recent hubbub surrounding the USPS, what motivates the drive toward privatization, and the larger ideological underpinnings of the Libertarian revolution.

Episode 94: Koch'd Up (Part I)

By now, it's largely taken for granted that country music is a racialized signifier, interchangeable with right-wing politics. And it’s not such an unreasonable generalization: the political currents of twanged and drawled patriotic paeans like Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA," Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)," and Brooks & Dunn's "Only In America" leave little to the imagination.

But how, exactly, did this come to be? After all, country music, a descendant of the blues, folk, Tejano, and other genres, with connections to labor organizations like the Industrial Workers of the World and social-justice movements, has historically attracted musicians spanning the political spectrum, and didn’t necessarily emerge from such a staunchly right-wing political tradition.

Rather, popular conceptions of country music have long been deliberately shaped by a series of broader ideological projects. Throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, conservative politicians and other right-wing forces have exploited the genre to promote illiberalism, racism, revanchist politics, and runaway anti-intellectualism where not giving a shit about the world beyond one’s own cold beer, pickup truck, old lady is not only acceptable, but actively encouraged and flaunted. 

On this episode, we examine how the genre of country music has been wielded as a tool of reactionary politicking in the US, from the machinations of Henry Ford in the 1920s to the Nixon administration’s Southern Strategy in the 1960s and ‘70s to the heady Shock and Y’all days of the Bush years, and how a once working-class tradition became a cultural cul de sac of worn-out tropes and middle-class, white grievance politics.  

Our guest is writer, editor and artist Alexander Billet.

Episode 119: How the Right Shaped Pop Country Music

Finally back for another episode of the podcast, this time talking about Adorno and Horkheimer's analysis of the how irrationality within the enlightenment leads to fascism, its connection to new age astrology, and how this perfectly combines into an analysis of QAnon in the contemporary period.

A big thank you to @ArifHasanNFL for helping me with some of the Adorno and Horkheimer "Dialectics of Enlightenment" stuff, as well as @QanonAnonymous for providing me with the new age example of "Krystal Tini" in their 94th episode: https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-94-the-new-age-to-qanon-pipeline

"The Storm Down to Earth," Fascism, QAnon, and Astrology

Premium part of this out soon. Will be released for 2$ a month on Patreon.com/livposting

The 2020 Election Did Not Take Place

A CNN headline from this past summer read: “Mental health during coronavirus: Tips for processing your feelings.” Psychology Today gave us an article on “Coping With Loneliness During a Pandemic,” while the Washington Post presents, “A guide to taking care of yourself during the pandemic.” Everywhere we’ve turned over the past 9 months, American media has been covering the mental health downside of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown and economic crash on one of these two settings: Awareness Mode or Self-Help Mode.

The first setting — “Awareness Mode” — is merely witnessing mass suffering; that is, reporting on the topic with no prescriptions offered. Second is “Self-Help Mode,” which is, to the extent these articles do put forth prescriptions for wellness and mental health, it is entirely individualistic in nature. Your well-being during this once-in-a-century pandemic is up to you — but don’t fret, here are some “guides,” ”plans,” “hacks,” and “tricks” to help you out.

Missing from the vast bulk of coverage is the glaringly obvious third option: actionable, proven, political solutions to mental health crises that operate under the radical assumption that  social problems may require social solutions. Nowhere in any of these articles is the idea that socialized medicine, guaranteed income, free childcare, student debt relief or rent and mortgage cancellations may be the best and most rational “hacks” or “tricks” to actually improve mental health of people at scale.

Obviously, a robust social safety net wouldn’t solve all mental health problems — after all, countries with universal healthcare and generous unemployment and childcare benefits still have depression and suicides — but we have decades of data showing basic social welfare clearly improves mental welfare. But because mental health crises are seen as moral failings rather than diseases thrust upon innocent people, we are conditioned to view those suffering from their effects as inevitable, losses simply factored into the moral framework of the world.

It basically goes like this: If a giant blood-sucking monster were ravaging the country killing thousands of people and terrorizing millions more, the media would never provide us “hacks” or “plans” or “tricks” to cope with the giant blood-sucking monster. It would ask the obvious question: What are those in power doing to stop the monster from killing and terrorizing in the first place?

Unfortunately, such an approach is sacrilege in U.S. media when it comes to mental health. The solution is never to lobby for a specific candidate or policy that would provide immediate relief to the masses because neoliberal hyper-atomization, unlike appeals to social solutions, is not seen as political. It’s simply the objective reporter voice mode of journalism U.S. media has uncritically adopted. But collectivist solutions, marked by the political choice to redistribute resources to the less well-off, is a proven technique to help those suffering mental health issues, doubly so during a pandemic that has cut people off from socialization, radially increased substance abuse, and has left millions unemployed.

Our guest is writer Colette Shade.

Ep124 - Mental Health & Covid: How US Media Spins Societal Failures Into Personal Self-Help Journeys

We are joined by Breht from Rev Left Radio and Brynn Nieboer from Beep Beep Lettuce to discuss Vladmir Lenin's 1901 pamphlet, What Is To Be Done?, and how it relates to how we currently need to do things.

BREHT
@RevLeftRadio
@Red_Menace_Pod
https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/

BRYNN NIEBOER
@WeedPod
@GenLossPod

THAT INTERSTITIAL MUSIC WAS
STAY DEAD
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DOG MAN PIZZA PARTY
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NYC DRIVER'S CO-OP FUND
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What Is To Be Done? Do We Need To Do Things? Let's Find Out! w/ Rev Left Radio & Brynn Nieboer

Zero Books publishing manager Doug Lain talks to us about getting censored by the Youtube algorithm bot and how we grapple with free speech as leftists on the internet. We go on to talk about how this plays into the overall ideological movement of socialism, the end of history/end of ideology, and then someone brings up a twitter account that it is illegal to type out loud and we start yappin' about free speech and comics and crap. Enjoy

DOUG LAIN/ZERO BOOKS
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyoQK-mZXr2ws4C0nXGCH1w
https://douglaslain.substack.com/p/why-did-youtube-censor-us
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Howdy I'm the Sherrif of Youtube w/ Doug Lain

With deposed President Donald Jonald Trump pardoning the Biden 4, we take a walk down memory lane to discuss the Nisour Square massacre, the history of Blackwater, private military contracting, and the Iraq war.

Episode 129: Blood Men Pt. 1

Trying something different with the music. Let me know if you prefer it or not. Premium episode on Patreon.com/livagar

Ideology is good, actually: Zizek and the Capitol Hill incident

Solo philosophy podcast for Liv Agar which generally covers current political events through a continental philosophical lens. 
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