Lancer Kind

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Fascism portrayed in Science Fiction and Reality

Meet Jim—a digital age prophet who cut his teeth on Kubrick’s monoliths and Microsoft’s code. Born at the crossroads of generations, raised on the raw fuel of classic sci-fi, and forged in the fires of Silicon Valley’s greatest empires.

This is a man who watched “2001: A Space Odyssey” three times before his fourth birthday—not because his parents were film buffs, but because something in that cold, calculating vision of the future spoke to him. While other kids were playing with toys, Jim was already studying the dark arts of propaganda and advertising, developing the kind of bone-deep skepticism that would serve him well in an age of digital manipulation.

His bloodline runs through the military-industrial complex itself: a father who guided space probes through the void at Goldstone and maintained the nuclear submarine simulators that could end civilization with the flip of a switch. Jim inherited that technical precision, that understanding of how power operates through systems and code.

From MIT’s halls to Boeing’s assembly lines to Microsoft’s digital empire, he’s lived inside the machine—writing the software, seeing the gears turn, watching as technology becomes the new frontier for authoritarian control. He’s spent decades in the belly of the beast, and now he’s ready to tell you exactly what he saw there.

In a world where fascism wears a friendly user interface and comes with terms and conditions, Jim is our guide through the intersection of science fiction prophecy and political nightmare. He’s seen the future, and he’s here to warn us—it’s already arrived.

Listen to the series via these episodes:

Many episodes are 15 minutes, though in this series we have some large ones due to the expansive nature of the topic.