Ep 123 - Trillbilly Elegy w/ Tarence Ray
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In order to discuss the appalling ways that poor white people are portrayed in the United States, we had to have on Tarence (@tarenceray) from the Trillbilly Workers Party. We all watched JD Vance's execrable 'Hillbilly Elegy' so you don't have to.
Out of this came a great discussion about deindustrialization, rural poverty, the opioid epidemic and media portrayals of that figure of derision and fear, 'the white working class'. What changes to US political economy caused widespread immiseration over the last 50 years in places like Appalachia? How have politics failed the workers in these communities? And what dark visions do the Charles Murrays and JD Vances of the world have for a solution to the rural poverty problem?
Outro song: Total Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Heart - Bonnie Dauvé
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Antipada where forever's going to start tonight. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.0 | Little reference to our twitch stream the other night. |
| 0:20.0 | If you didn't watch it, you still can believe but you know we got to abolish capitalist |
| 0:25.6 | time obviously so that's where that bottle comes from. Because we'll never be wrong together. |
| 0:32.8 | We can take it to the end. |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah, if you missed the formation of some new antiphata lore, |
| 0:39.6 | you can find that lore on the Twitch stream |
| 0:41.8 | where we decided that Bonnie Taylor's epic, epic pop tune, |
| 0:46.0 | total eclipse of the heart is actually, |
| 0:49.0 | in case you didn't know, a time abolition anthem. |
| 0:52.0 | She is doing for, she did for a time abolition anthem. She is doing for, she did for the 1980s what |
| 0:56.2 | Bertol Brecht did for communism in the 20s and 30s. Did you know that, Terrence? |
| 1:00.8 | I was unaware, but I see it it I see what you're saying yeah yeah |
| 1:06.2 | total eclipse I'm I really am I'm looking up the lyrics now. No, you're gonna... |
| 1:13.0 | Turn around. |
| 1:15.0 | You're gonna hear it in a whole new way. |
| 1:17.0 | I really like it. |
| 1:20.0 | Every now and then I fall apart |
| 1:22.0 | and I need you more than ever. |
| 1:25.0 | I think he knows what the song is. |
| 1:28.0 | Very popular karaoke song. |
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