The Unabomber and OK Computer

Episode 17 · September 5th, 2019 · 1 hr 33 mins

About this Episode

Jake and Phil talk with Jake Hanrahan of Popular Front (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

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

Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology”
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

Jacob Siegel, Send Anarchists, Guns and Money
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel

Omeros, Derek Walcott
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781466880405

Don Carpenter, Hard Rain Falling
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/

Tim Kreider, "Cycle of Fear"
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/fear-and-cycling/

The Georgia Guidestones
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/georgia-guidestones

Popular Front's Indigogo campaign
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/popular-front-10k#/

Audio Clips:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw

Putney Swope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgId7RgQ2E

Bill Burr on Chain Restaurants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWCINJ8uvIc

Radiohead, Karma Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU

Marshall McLuhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeMM-NXvus