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Great interview with Adam Curtis (HyperNormalisation's creator) on Chapo Trap House (a leftist comedy podcast which has been my primary source of sanity since November 8th):

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-65-no-future...

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I love Chapo and this interview had me buzzing for days after I heard it, it's one of the best calls to action for left politics I've ever heard. If anyone new to the show likes this, I recommend you start with episode 2 after this, since the show relies on a lot of running jokes (episode 1 is basically just a throwaway where they talk about how they want to organize the show). Highly recommend it though, one of the best podcasts I've listened to in a while.

I've been binging on the show as well, and much as I enjoyed Adam Curtis', I found especially the beginning of the interview extremely frustrating because he seemed to be repeating the same thing over and over again.

Other than that the episode about Dinesh D'Souza is one of the funniest things I've listened to in a while!

Binge-listening to their back catalog was my Christmas pleasure. Matt Christman's hyper-articulate rants are superb. But for newbies I always recommend episode 3. I will never not laugh at the image of impressionable young Harvard student Ross Douthat being lured onto William F Buckley's yacht for some midnight skinnydipping.

I've been recommending this to people who don't have time to dive in to Curtis' work. It's a great introduction to his thinking.

I wonder how many gray wolves there are on HN.

This thing of turning fan bases into named tribes weirds me out. Yet another sign most people just want a club to belong to, and actual principles don't matter.

For what it's worth, Chapo's use of "Gray Wolves" is dripping with irony, and was coined with conscious and deliberate awareness of exactly what you're accusing it of.

The "real" Gray Wolves are the paramilitary youth wing of a Turkish ethnic-nationalist party.

Having principles and enjoying a sense of belonging aren't mutually exclusive.

It's completely ironic, the tone of the show is extremely anti-authoritarian (a huge part of the show is eviscerating "washington consensus" liberals from a leftist perspective as well as pathological sycophants in various political orgs) and appropriating the nickname of fascists in Turkish AKP for their fans is a joke.

I MAY NOT BE DALE EARNHARDT...

I MAY not BE.... FRANK SINATRA.... BUT IM.... PART OF the pack.

EDIT: lol apparently not many others.

Downvoters probably prefer Dan Nainan jokes.

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