341 Beliefs, Media bias, and the Tension between Society and Individual
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Concurrent news: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Mentioned in this episode: The Fine Art of Propaganda (out of print): https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/EzVMAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjms7j0lO6SAxULlWoFHSDqKYwQ7_IDegQICxAC Sources of the above: https://www.abebooks.com//servlet/SearchResults?tn=The+Fine+Art+of+Propaganda:+A+Study+of+Father+Coughlin%27s+Speeches About the same topic of the above: Chicago Nazi propagandizer: https://www.amazon.com/Radio-Priest-Charles-Coughlin-Father/dp/0684824035 Adfontes Media bias chart: https://adfontesmedia.com/gallery/ Overton Window: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
340 Fascism of the USA versus Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, and The Man in the High Castle
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The audio player is at the bottom of this webpage so scroll to the bottom to listen to the show.Concurrent news: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Working definitions: About Fascism: Websites that rate how our nation-states are doing: Website that evaluates your political biases https://www.politicalcompass.org Science Fiction and Fascism SciFi Thoughts Fascism Model The following table is a model […]
Concurrent news: Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis : https://x.com/mariashriver/status/2016618469740204114?s=61 https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Working definitions: With a framework of Retrospective, Contemporary, and Speculative, we can identify examples of works that portray fascism. Retrospective is science fiction that looks back at past fascist events, generally WW2. Contemporary is science fiction that was written to look at what’s happening in […]
Concurrent news: Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis : https://x.com/mariashriver/status/2016618469740204114?s=61 https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Working definitions: With a framework of Retrospective, Contemporary, and Speculative, we can identify examples of works that portray fascism. Retrospective is science fiction that looks back at past fascist events, generally WW2. Contemporary is science fiction that was written to look at what’s happening in […]
1/30/2026 events: Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis : https://x.com/mariashriver/status/2016618469740204114?s=61 Streets of Minneapolis hits #1: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/bruce-springsteens-streets-minneapolis-anti-ice-protest-song-hits-no-1-rcna256711 Working definitions: Political theorist Roger Griffin proposes that a myth of palingenesis, or national rebirth, is a minimum requirement for any “true fascism”, in combination with populism and ultranationalism. Umberto Eco, in his famous essay, “Ur-Fascism”, counts fourteen common features […]
