Special guest Forrest Palmer joins us to discuss a whole lotta collapse, collapse, collapse. In the first segment, we riff on Trump getting the 'rona and the recent presidential debates. In the second segment, we do a reading of Indi Samarajiva's essay I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There, and discuss the implications of the text, including the fact that we are currently living in a collapsed society in the United States.
Timeline:
00:00–02:05: Intro
02:05–28:03: Trump gets 'rona, Presidential Debates
28:03–1:39:26: I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There
Episode Notes:
The intro and transition features audio from Trump's Twitter, the song The Final Count by Europe, and audio from Rocky 4.
The outro features audio from Brent Terhune's video "Trump Got Covid."
We read Indi Samarajiva's essay I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There