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end talk – the latest!

I’ve got some recent new content to share from END TALK – podcast and media newsletter!

Listen:

“How Obama Killed Indie Music” (on the shifting terrain in indie music from 2000 to the present, including the particularities of the indie sound as the genre developed and mutated post-2010)

“Ciao Bella!” (on Cuomo, the non-hero of New York AKA Emmy-award winning disgraced ex-Governor, Andrew Cuomo)

These episodes are also available on podcast streaming apps by searching “end talk.”

Read:

Welcome to END TALK, and welcome to summer 2021, possibly the hottest summer yet experienced during mankind’s existence on planet Earth, but hardly the hottest we will experience for the remainder of our species’ tenure here. Welcome BACK TO NORMAL—today is Friday, July 16, 2021.

Back to normal… this concept was the selling point for the Biden electoral coalition, as well as the theoretical promise to be realized by ending the pandemic. Well, the pandemic has not ended, and while the administration did not achieve its goal of vaccinating 70% of Americans by the 4th of July, that’s ok!—because we have collectively decided to pretend they did.

It seems that normalcy is more a collectively-agreed-upon state of acceptance than any objective metric for measuring external reality.”

Read on.

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READ ME: Star Trek, socialism, and the final frontier

Very excited to share this essay I wrote with Will Solomon for Blood Knife about Star Trek: The Original Series. “New Life and New Civilizations: Socialism, Progress, and the Final Frontier” – read here or click below!

 
 
“There is a difference between one and another hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect. Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.”

                                      -Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Over-Soul”
 
 
(The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson, Modern Library, 2000)