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Episode 241 Promo - Propaganda for the Planet (w/ Timothy Morton)

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Bad Faith

News, Comedy, Politics

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This week, a philosophical conversation about the environmental movement with eco-philosopher Timothy Morton. We discuss the Stop Oil soup/Van Gogh protest, the value of political performance, Don't Look Up, meaninglessness as an attribute, & more. (Some Glass Onion spoilers!)

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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)

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0:00.0

Why do you think that the nonsense aspect of it is an actual attribute?

0:04.8

First of all, they're talking about it.

0:07.2

And so when we say the soup, it's about, I don't know, what, five, six months later,

0:11.0

everyone knows what we're talking about.

0:12.6

Whether you like it or hate it, that's a thing that happened.

0:16.0

Again, rainbow warrior stopped away, Lingfessel, you're not going to remember that even a few weeks later.

0:20.6

Yeah. So this is a thing.

0:22.4

It's whether you like it or not.

0:23.8

It's a thing.

0:24.7

Something has arrived in social space, right?

0:27.4

Whether you like it or not, an even Clevver clogs Professor Morton, who thought that this was straight out of the Professor Morton

0:33.7

playbook for various reasons, was dumbfounded when it first, I've got, wait a minute, what, uh, what's soup?

0:39.9

What did they do?

0:41.1

And then I realized about two days later, oh, that was part of it.

0:44.8

Part of it was the confusion, which is, but you know, like to draw attention to yourself.

0:49.5

First of all, that you have an aggressor coming towards you in the shape of basically incipient fascism.

0:55.2

Hopefully the last gossip of white supremacy and patriarchy on the planet and angloves around the world of

1:00.9

effing up big time, you know, so here's this truck coming towards you.

1:05.1

First thing you got to do, you got to pop the tires out.

1:07.6

Then they're paying attention.

1:08.9

Then you can say the message.

1:10.7

Second of all, Van Gogh might as well have been painting with soup.

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