You guys's understanding of NASA, and science, and public vs. private solutions is woefully misguided. Remember the Challenger explosion? It wasn't a private corporation that decided it was okay to ignore massive safety flaws. I'm not trying to say one is better than the other—I think they both have areas of strength, NASA should be focused on data collecting, sending out rovers and such, let private enterprise worry about moving around human bodies—but this idea of NASA, and the Apollo program, as fundamentally wholesome or admirable, while SpaceX is somehow morally repugnant, makes me think you guys have not considered this with the kind of care you take with other topics.

A brief update from Adam, Erikk, and Nick on three very important fronts.

First, news on the upcoming conclusion to our CABIN series.
Second, on relentlesspicnic.com/store
Third, on the continued existence of patreon.com/relentlesspicnic, the live shows we've been doing for our Patreon supporters, and the show we've got coming up on Monday, December 6th, 2021. Register here: crowdcast.io/e/digupthehatchet

We're not gone. And we're thankful for you.

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"So I agree with the anarcho-primitivists that the advent of civilization was a great disaster and that the Industrial Revolution was an even greater one. I further agree that a revolution against modernity, and against civilization in general, is necessary. But you can’t build an effective revolutionary movement out of soft-headed dreamers, lazies, and charlatans. You have to have tough-minded, realistic, practical people, and people of that kind don’t need the anarcho-primitivists’ mushy utopian myth."

—T. Kaczynski, "The Truth About Primitive Life: A Critique of Anarcho-Primitivism," 2008.

Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content.

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SOURCES (Ep. 8):
 - Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, by Bruno Latour (1999): bit.ly/3qxCaxK ; 
 - The Unabomber In His Own Words (2018), dir. Mick Grogan, on Netflix: bit.ly/2DbHkuh ; 
 - Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. “The Unabomber”, ed. and introduction by David Skirbina, 2010: amzn.to/2STTFYH ; 
 - Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1954): amzn.to/3o2zdmy ; 
 - "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy, Wired (4/1/00): bit.ly/3hw5uQD ; 
 - "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber" by Alston Chase, Atlantic (June 2000): bit.ly/3mISjzh ; 
 - "Eco-terrorists set fire to Vail Mountain 20 years ago, and the response showed how mutual aid could benefit mountain communities" by Randy Wyrick, Denver Post (10/27/18): dpo.st/3EKRHzF ; 
 - season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.

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Cabin - Ep. 8

"It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brain and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador any greater wildness than in some recess in Concord, i.e., than I import into it."
—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1856

Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content.

Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com

SOURCES (Ep. 9):

- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (1954): amzn.to/3o2zdmy ; 
- An anonymous comment submitted to relentlesspicnic.com, Feb. 29, 2020 ; 
- Plato, Apology (40C-41C); 
- "The Last Frontier: Homesteaders on the margins of America" by Ted Conover (Harper's; Aug. 2019): bit.ly/3KyesLl ; 
- season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.

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Cabin - Ep. 9

"In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. But alone in the distant woods or fields, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day, I come to myself, I once more feel myself grandly related, and that cold and solitude are friends of mine. I wish to get the Concord, the Massachusetts, the America, out of my head and be sane a part of every day."
—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1855

This is the penultimate episode of CABIN, which will conclude with Ep. 11.

Cabin is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021.

Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content.

Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com

SOURCES (Ep. 10):

- "Deserter's Song" by Blackout Beach, 2011: spoti.fi/3IukcDJ ;
- season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.

Cabin - Ep. 10

"The eternity I detect in Nature I predicate of myself also. How many springs I have had this same experience! I am encouraged, for I recognize this steady persistency and recovery of Nature as a quality of myself."
—Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1856

CABIN is a series from The Relentless Picnic. It's one story told over 11 episodes. It's a story about solitude and isolation, community and loss, Henry David Thoreau and Ted Kaczynski—and it's told through audio recorded throughout 2019, 2020, and 2021.

This is the final episode of CABIN.

Support us at patreon.com/relentlesspicnic for access to a ton of bonus content.

Our web site is relentlesspicnic.com

SOURCES (Ep. 11):

 - Treat: Hotel Room Q&A pt. 3: More Q's, more A's, 8:09–11:26 (Aug. 2019), available to our Patreon supporters: bit.ly/3q1Jl24 ; 
 - The journals of Henry David Thoreau (1837-1861): bit.ly/36Lxavm ; 
 - "Anthony Bourdain on Vices, Humanity, and Foodies" by Khushbu Shah (Eater; Aug. 2014): bit.ly/3q4rtmY ; 
 - season photo: "Untitled #2214" by Todd Hido, 1998.

Cabin - Ep. 11: Finale

We report on some changes we're making to our Patreon page, make public some formerly-locked-up bonus content, and speak about the future of The Relentless Picnic — which is real, and is coming.

We've missed you, friends.

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The past is unlocked. There is a future.

the past is unlocked. there is a future.

Coming soon to https://patreon.com/relentlesspicnic, starting on Wednesday, January 31st.

Mad Men Project

Introducing the Mad Men Project

Lose yourself in the wild-eyed fearsome shadow of totality. Come see what hippies the Moon made of our steely-eyed missile men. Plus—Elon Musk trips over his own simulated shoelaces, and the Moon Matrix is fully decoded. Join us, but only if you've got the right glasses.

SOURCES:
Quora queries: https://www.quora.com/topic/Elon-Musk
Elon Musk speaks with Walter Isaacson at Vanity Fair's New Establishment Summit: https://youtu.be/fPsHN1KyRQ8 ;
"Elon Musk: The Chance We Are Not Living In a Computer Simulation is 'One in Billions'," by Andrew Griffin in The Independent (June 2016): http://ind.pn/1TXY3zF ;
On Elon Musk's mission to Mars: "Exodus," by Ross Anderson in Aeon (Sept. 2014): http://bit.ly/1N7gT0N ;
Lo and Behold (2016), dir. Werner Herzog. 
David Icke coming out as the son of God in 1991, https://youtu.be/NapHiWsoFXI & https://youtu.be/4q9ncm2jotI ;
David Icke's "Lion Sleeps No More" seminar, queued up to the moon part: https://youtu.be/VJorKZEbQsA?t=51m21s ;
"Total Eclipse," by Annie Dillard (first pub. 1982). Available here, till 8/22: http://theatln.tc/2upvpQt ;
For All Mankind (1989), dir. Al Reinert: https://youtu.be/FJiHAoAru54

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