The show discusses some of the great issues facing the US: poverty, climate change, on-going war, a loss of morality at all levels of society. etc, and examines the issues of why we seem unable to address these. Among the causes cited are distraction and overstimulation in contemporary MSM creating a climate of fear, envy, and materialism. Rushkoff’s book, Present Shock, is discussed in this context.
The inability of Americans to work through the psychic and cultural damage of slavery is examined in a article by Dimitri Minin.
The problem of courage in facing great wrongs is discussed in the context of the Germans in the Nazi period and draws on an essay by M.G. Piety which raises Aristotle’s observations in the Nichomachean Ethics.
The problems associated with a media of illusions and simulations as outlined by Guy Debord explores the dangers of living in an illusion while believing it true, and this problem is examined in Gen. Hayden’s beliefs that he has to power to unilaterally redefine the US Constitution.
The problems of pessimism and resignation are explored in the context of increasingly grim news from the climate scientists.
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