This is the story of a podcast, how we are overwhelmed by the complexities of modern life, and how everyone came to believe

that autism was a form of superpower.

In Brooklyn, New York in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2016, three men set out to create a new technological fantasy. They called themselves Chappo Grey Wolves and what they set out to do was

create a new form of politics that would blend the dardiest comedic absurdity of weird Twitter

with the ideas of Islamist thinker Saeed Kutab through the medium of podcasting.

But while the Alt of Touch politicians slept, a powerful new ideology was beginning to form,

one in which irony was good, where family court was bad, and whose leaders promised triple digit

orgasms in a renewable fuel source and miracle cure in the form of the

sugar substitute Stevia. But a strange thing happened after these men began to

pretend to hate sex and masturbation. The more they joked about it, the more the

young technocrats realized that being voluntarily celibate was in fact not a joke. Their aim was to create a new world, one which pitted those voluntarily sell a bit against those who had no choice in their own abstinence.

But what the politicians didn't realize was that they had ceded control to a dark and dangerously

simplified version of humanity in which people could be classified and their futures determined simply by whether they were capable of having sex. Sex.

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A Meanwhile in Turkey, Turkey, President Erdogan had a different vision, one in which he could use this strange new utopia to get revenge on his former colleague, Tern Driver.

That was, uh, my little tribute to Adam Curtis,

to open up this new show,

Adam Curtis whose new movie Hyper Normalization

came out this week and I watched it all instantly.

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