Red Hot Take: Our Simmering Present and Our Boiling Future
Rev Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Breht was awoken early this morning by a sickening feeling of anxious dread and existential despair brought on by his ever-deepening realization of the full implications of climate chaos... Instead of curling up in the fetal position and vomiting out his anxiety on his tiny bathroom floor, he went over to Producer Dave's house to record this episode. So... enjoy, I guess? Idk.
Outro Music: "How the World Works" by Bo Burnham
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| 0:00.0 | I was jarred awake this morning by a nauseous dread in my stomach. |
| 0:07.6 | A molten lead ball of anxious despair in the pit of my being. |
| 0:13.0 | This system is murdering our futures. |
| 0:16.2 | It is mass occurring the biosphere of our planet. |
| 0:20.4 | We are in a war for everything. |
| 0:23.5 | And we are losing. |
| 0:26.2 | People who say calm down, a few degrees isn't that bad. |
| 0:31.1 | We will adapt like always. |
| 0:33.9 | Our delusional gaslighting freaks. |
| 0:38.8 | Our shitty jobs. |
| 0:40.8 | Our petty personal dramas. |
| 0:43.8 | Our quaint little plans for the future. |
| 0:47.4 | Our all whistles passed the graveyard. |
| 0:50.8 | We are in a fight for the fate of humanity. |
| 0:56.0 | This phenomenon tells us, quote, each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray |
| 1:02.8 | it in relative opacity. |
| 1:06.9 | Only now to betray it means to end human civilization as we know it, to drown our children in blood. |
| 1:17.2 | Everything else matters but this, and the time has already run out. |
| 1:30.8 | Coming in today to record this episode, I had to drive around fallen trees and stop |
| 1:38.7 | at intersections in which the stoplights had gone completely out and were replaced with |
| 1:45.2 | impromptu stop signs. |
| 1:48.4 | There was a storm in Omaha last night that I haven't seen for a long time, perhaps since |
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