This episode looks at bipartisanship as a compromise between two confusions. We examine critical thinking and how itâs been bred out, generation by generation, defeating us through our own unexamined contradictions. We also look at that strange hybrid of capitalism and socialism, the consumer democracy. And we explore how Republicans and Democrats differ on a survey of happiness.
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Songs: âUp All Nightâ by the Grails, Peter Gabriel covers of âBoy in the Bubbleâ and âListening Wind.â
Reads the poems âBeginâ by Rumi, âHalf-Lifeâ by Stephen Levine, âLove Lettersâ by Ikkyu, and âAct Seriousâ by Tukaram. Discusses Obamaâs first-strike nuclear option towards Iran as a âspare the nuclear rod and spoil the colonyâ policy, and quotes IPS and Diane Rehm on the topic. Puzzles over the assassination order of the US-born Muslim cleric in Yemen. Compares the capitalist creed cited by pilot Joseph Stack to the socialist creed, which is then critiqued by Ivan Illich. Ends with Bruce Gagnon on where both parties agree.
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