I just listened to the Twunkhole Capital episode and nearly got killed by the Eurofinance Debauchery bit. What are some other great Trashfuture episodes? I already have all the Felix guest episodes bookmarked after listening to the Malcolm Gladwell one
I kinda think they were expecting a bigger rupture before too long (eg, all the jokes about having run off a cliff and not falling until you look down), and got a bit lost waiting for it. I would absolutely say that the US and UK have, by and large, simply not looked down.
At least that’s been my perspective. Obviously a big rupture hasn’t come, and there’s only so long you can stare at the dark sky in the distance and say “yep, storms comin” before it gets old. But I really liked the “storms comin” vibes when covid etc put so many contradictions on full display. Those contradictions haven’t been resolved in the slightest, but their latest manifestations have been normalized to a much larger degree, compared to early 2020
So I dunno. I found the last couple months to be a little less interesting than when shit first hit the fan. Still good, just not quite the same
not looking down also involved huge amounts of "quantitative easing" i.e. printing money
Every podcast completely overlooks the capitalist system's ability to persevere and ideologies hold on people. Basically nothing improved.