#56: The People's Xbox

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The panel discusses "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" by Jo Freeman, taking over politicians' houses, and how political movements become appealing. The print magazine is real, and it's good. Subscribe at https://www.currentaffairs.org/subscribe or, if you're already a Patreon subscriber, you can upgrade to the $10 tier for access to the print magazine, the digital magazine AND the podcast bonus episodes. "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" can be read here: https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA. Music: Acid Trumpet by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3340-acid-trumpet License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Wind Of The Rainforest by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5729-wind-of-the-rainforest-preview License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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0:00.0	From Studio H3 in the Current Affairs World Headquarters, it's Current Affairs, your ears.
0:07.3	Greatest Hour of Politics and Culture.
0:10.7	Tonight on the program, we discuss the rights allure and what the left can do to break it.
0:17.9	Laida steps into the lefty shark tank to pitch voters controlling everything politicians
0:23.8	do. And we revisit on its 50th anniversary, Joe Freeman's insightful essay, The Tyranny of Structurlessness.
0:33.2	Our panel tonight, newsletter editor, Nick Slater.
0:37.2	Hoy, hi, ho. Poet at large, Nick Slater. O'oy, ho.
0:38.0	Poet at Large, Kate Root.
0:40.1	Hi, everybody.
0:41.7	Amusements and managing editor, Leida Gold.
0:44.8	Hi.
0:45.9	And the editor-in-chief himself.
0:49.5	Nathan J. Robinson.
0:51.9	Hello.
0:52.8	Panel, are you ready to jump into the episode shoot?
0:57.4	Yes.
0:58.1	Let's jump into the shoot.
0:59.2	Let's jump.
1:00.0	Yeah, get in there.
1:02.3	Okay, we begin with segment one.
1:09.2	What's the allure?
1:10.7	In the recurring segment, what's the
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