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We got the sci-fi dystopia...without the cyborg killer cops!

Today me and my guest Granite Mountain Movie Club, found here on youtube, discuss several science fiction classics and cult classics: Robocop, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, Back to the Future 2,  Demolition Man, and Judge Dredd.

Is America in 2024 better or worse than the future depicted in these films?

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Charles Haywood joins me once again, this time to discuss Elon Musk and the future of American politics. This episode was based on his review of a recent biography of Elon Musk, published on his blog The Worthy House. I highly recommend everyone go read through this blog, it's an education in history and political philosophy in and of itself.

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I discuss Freud with Garfieldbot, writer at "The Egg Report" on substack. He's writing a long series of articles reconsidering many of Freuds ideas, which he thinks are embedded in the framework of the modern individuals understanding of themselves, their relation to the world, and the primary mode of describing human interactions for all of the 20th century.

Perhaps now its time for people like us to dispel these ideas, and you can do so without reading a now out of print book, The Ordeal of Civility, by John Murray Cuddihy. This book goes a long way to undermine the veneer of science and professionalism that Freud tried to cloak his rather petty ideas in.

Today, we go into detail about some of Cuddihy's critiques of Freud. Follow me on substack and twitter, and please become a paid subscriber to my substack to help support me continue to bring this show to you, and gain access to content not otherwise available.

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I make the case that American Psycho is a failed feminist critique of toxic masculinity, but succeeds as a film, with Bateman as the hero, despite the directors best efforts.

I then veer off wildly and give a details breakdown of the difference in narrative structure between film vs digital storytelling, and explain the characteristics of post-modern film, of which American Psycho is one of the last.

This episode was recorded live on twitter last year, follow me @astralflite and listen live and join the conversation. There's another hour of discussion available now on astralflight.substack.com, along with much more content than you'll get on iTunes or Spotify.

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Giles Hoffman of Asylum Magazine joins me to discuss his experiences visiting the southern border and Iraq. Giles is also the nonfiction judge for Passage Prize, the dealine for which is March 1st, so get working!

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UK based painter and Passage Prize 3 judge  for visual arts, Matthew the Stoat joins me to discuss the state of art today, and we ask how can the work of art help get us out of the morass of post-modernity? We also careen off topic and discuss black metal and one of our favorite bands, Agalloch.

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