179: The Conspiracy of…Cities? (w/Doug Gordon)

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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ButcherBox is offering our listeners turkey FREE in your first box plus $20 off your first order. Sign up at butcherbox.com/conspirituality and use code CONSPIRITUALITY. Support the pod and listen ad-free Close your eyes and imagine exiting your front door. Within moments, everything necessary for your life is a few blocks away, except perhaps your job. Groceries, coffee, toiletries, your bank—if you’re still a physical bank-type person—auto shop, all within walking distance. You never have to commute too far to live your life. Sounds like quite a dystopian hellscape, doesn’t it? Believe it or not, that’s yet another conspiracy theory that emerged earlier this year, because the ability to access things you need is apparently a Deep State plot. Derek is joined by “The War on Cars” co-host, Doug Gordon, to discuss how this conspiracy started and why smart urban planning is a boon for society. First, we discuss Jane Jacobs, the Scranton, Pennsylvania-born journalist and theorist who brought her civic activism to Toronto in 1968, with Matthew coloring in how her legacy has fared during the rise of the Ford family. Show Notes The Woman Who Saved New York City from Superhighway Hell | Vanity Fair Beneath the Pavement, the Beach: Paris in 1968 | Department of History ‘The streets belong to the people’: Why a premier killed the Spadina Expressway | TVO Today Ford family is building a political dynasty Video shows Councillor Doug Ford handing out $20 bills at TCHC building Where the Spadina Expressway Didn't Stop | The Local Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Blast Box Media Podcast. Hey I'm
0:18.0	everyone welcome to conspiratoriality where we investigate the
0:21.1	intersection of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults,
0:25.9	pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism.
0:28.8	And this week we should add how the idea of walkable cities make some people so terrified
0:36.5	that they will lose the psychological armoring of their cars.
0:39.6	They'll make up global conspiracy theories about it instead of going to therapy.
0:42.8	I'm Derek Barris.
0:44.0	I'm Matthew Remsky.
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1:18.4	Please pick it up. Enjoy it. please review it. Conspiratoriality 179, the conspiracy of cities with Doug Gordon.
1:34.0	Close your eyes and imagine exiting your front door.
1:38.0	Within moments, everything necessary for your life is just a few blocks away except perhaps your job.
1:45.2	Groceries, coffee, toiletries, your bank, if you're still a physical bank type person,
1:50.7	your auto shop, they're all within walking distance you never have to commute too
1:56.0	far to live your life sounds like a quite a dystopian hellscape doesn't it
2:00.7	believe it or not that's yet another conspiracy theory that emerged
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