Episode 17: The Unabomber and OK Computer

Jake and Phil talk with Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front (https://www.popularfront.co/ (https://www.popularfront.co/)) about Ted Kaczynski’s Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future and Radiohead’s OK Computer.

The Manifesto:

Ted Kaczynski, “Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and It’s Future”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm)

The Art:

Radiohead, OK Computer

Works Referenced:

Matt Taibbi, “The American Left’s Silly Victim Complex”

http://theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/6352-The-American-Lefts-Silly-Victim-Complex.html (http://theneweditor.com/index.php?/archives/6352-The-American-Lefts-Silly-Victim-Complex.html)

Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology”

https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf (https://monoskop.org/images/4/44/Heidegger_Martin_The_Question_Concerning_Technology_and_Other_Essays.pdf)

Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674026766&content=reviews (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674026766&content=reviews)

Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel (https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel)

Omeros, Derek Walcott

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466880405 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466880405)

Don Carpenter, Hard Rain Falling

https://www.nyrb.com/products/hard-rain-falling?variant=1094929809 (https://www.nyrb.com/products/hard-rain-falling?variant=1094929809)

Sam Harris with Jordan Peterson, What Is True?

https://samharris.org/podcasts/what-is-true/ (https://samharris.org/podcasts/what-is-true/)

Tim Kreider, "Cycle of Fear"

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/fear-and-cycling/ (https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/fear-and-cycling/)

The Georgia Guidestones

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-guidestones (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-guidestones)

Popular Front's Indigogo campaign

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/popular-front-10k#/ (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/popular-front-10k#/)

Audio Clips:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw)

Putney Swope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgId7RgQ2E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgId7RgQ2E)

Bill Burr on Chain Restaurants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCINJ8uvIc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCINJ8uvIc)

Radiohead, Karma Police

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU)

Marshall McLuhan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeMM-NXvus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeMM-NXvus)