#54: The John Quiñones Panopticon

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4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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The panel ponder the demise of anti-consumerist politics, debate a future with no cars, and reveal their weirdest hobby-horses. The panel this week was associate editor Vanessa A. Bee, legal editor Oren Nimni, finance editor Sparky Abraham, and podmaster-general Aisling McCrea. Your host is Pete Davis. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA. Music for 'Find the Cat' by Bensound.

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0:00.0	From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World headquarters, it's Current Affairs, your
0:06.6	ear's finest hour of politics and culture.
0:10.9	Tonight on the program, we re-examine the fight against consumerism.
0:16.6	Oren enters the Lefty Shark Tank to pitch a drastic reduction in cars, and we all share something
0:22.9	weird we are into that no one else seems to want to be into with us.
0:28.9	Our panel tonight, legal editor, Oren Nimney.
0:33.6	Hello, everyone.
0:35.0	Finance and Wires editor, Sparky Abraham.
0:37.7	Hello.
0:39.5	Podmaster General, Ashling McCray.
0:42.3	Hello.
0:43.5	And the associate editor herself, Vanessa A.B.
0:49.4	Hi.
0:50.3	I'm your host, Pete Davis.
0:51.6	We begin with segment one, Lost revolutions. On the recurring segment,
0:57.1	lost revolutions, we discuss revolutions that have appropriately been lost and discern whether
1:03.8	we should bring them back. Today's topic, what I'm referring to as the Gen X anti-consumerism revolution.
1:13.3	Here's why I wanted to do this topic to start us off today.
1:17.0	It hit me recently that let's say maybe 20 years, 25 years ago, definitely 30 years ago,
1:25.1	there was a real anti-consumerism push coming out of Gen X.
1:30.5	Just to give a few examples, to make my point.
1:33.1	The idea that, say, Jay Leno would appear in a Doritos commercial was something of scorn.
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