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The demise of the American Enterprise, the US Empire, has been ballyhooed since the very first ballys in stars & stripes were freshly hooed. The signs were there, are there... and thanks to non-stop, custom-made media content flushing out our ocular and aural units on a near continual basis, the signs have never been louder in our collective subjective reckoning. But is that sensible or just submission to the repetition of sensory overload? Is the US Empire collapsing before our eyes or are our very eyes collapsing?

This week on Totally Classic, Andy & Brendan further explore the phenomenon of the revolutionary proposal of topsy-turvy semantics that undergirds many of the dominant cultural theorems of the left. When did the inflection point happen - culturally? Individually? Is the proposal malevolent or beneficial? Why is no one talking about this ALL THE TIME? 

This week on Totally Classic, Andy & Brendan wrangle with the novel semantic system progressives may have somewhat silently proposed. From topsy-turydom of classic semantics (first is typically primary) to embracing novel definitions of "racism" and "gender" and "person," much of the modern progressive philosophical set is based on these proposals. Is new always better? Is ancient wisdom always the best? Is language always evolving or can it devolve? Are these polar opposite approaches a key part of the communication difficulties between the left and right? 
Andy & Brendan try to define terms, define how they define terms and define how they make their way through the modern miasma of "one tongue, two languages!" 

This week, Andy & Brendan inquire as to the conclusions about Google's all time boondoggle of a launch of their AI platform, Gemini. Gemini was swiftly revealed to be racist, intensely politically biased and, perhaps strangest of all, heavily subjective in its output. Many germane questions resound: does AI, like children, require someone to teach them to be racist? Is this a failure of technology or ideology? Is this the summit of DEI failures or the failure to properly understand DEI? Or is this all just a mirror back to humanity itself? As always, one of the most important lessons here is that talking to people who you disagree with remains one of the most relevant tools at our - and AIs - cognitive disposal! 

This week, Andy & Brendan play cultural critics (with a side of armchair psychoanalysts), attempting to ascertain whether the popular online diagnosis of TDS is a genuine phenomenon... and maybe a genuine mental illness, to boot?
We consider it highly likely you've encountered someone with TDS in your life. And maybe didn't even know it!
TDS was popularly coined as a term to describe folks who cannot seem to have a rational conversation about Donald Trump, who seem to find just about everything our former president does to be repugnant (even if its something someone they like also does). And while not being a fan of Trump or even in opposition to him much of theme has roots in reason, those with TDS go quite bit further.Our question is... do they go so far they leave the reservation of reality itself? 

This week, with the removal of Dr. Gay as President having finally transpired (after a month plus of extensive pressure), Andy & Brendan ask whether the theory offered by many that racism was vital in her loss of position. Specifically, they skip through the presentation of such a thesis by DEI advocate & Northwestern University (where Andy & Brendan met) Professor Alvin B. Tillery to guide their examination of how to answer this weeks' question.