How Complex Civilizations Collapse

After discussing how the military intelligence community is hijacking AI through social engineering of social media, Dimes and Judas segue into a discussion of the book “The Collapse of Complex Societies” by Joseph Tainter. Accounting several histories of civilizations that have fallen across history, they explore how the nature of complexity itself is the problem […]

Political Violence Never Negotiates

After recounting the recent sweep of Far-Right parties in the recent EU elections and dissect its implications, they connect this to a review of the book “Reflections on Violence” by Georges Sorel. The famous French syndicalist builds a strong case that revolutions without violence as their goal are eventually co-opted and even commoditized by their […]

#281 – Limp Bizkit Doing Rollin To Waluigi Blowing Up Mount Rushmore

Dimes and Judas discuss Daniel Penny being acquitted on choking a crazed Black man to death for praxis reasons, the spread of takes regarding Luigi Mangione’s assassination of a health insurance CEO, and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. After briefly exploring the recent failed attempt at martial law to save democracy in […]