SOLVED! FROM THE ARCHIVES - "Transgressive Thoughts in a Villain Era" (Original Air Date: 1-6-25)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Re-Air Date: 11–6-25
Unless you were a member in January of 2025, this episode of SOLVED! will be brand new to you! We're slowing down production for a little bit to reorganize our production processes, so enjoy this episode from our archives (and B.Y: before YouTube) where Jay!, Amanda, Deon, and Erin discuss:
- Ch. 1 - Why people love villains
- Ch. 2 - How plutocracy kills
- Ch. 3 - Why the path forward is through membership organizations
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REFERENCES
The Year Villainy Won - Wired
https://www.wired.com/story/the-year-villainy-won/
Plutocracy Kills - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/2024/12/26/2024-12-26-tkacik-best-of-2024/
Democracy Is Not a Customer Loyalty Program - Jacobin
https://jacobin.com/2024/11/political-parties-schumpeter-democracy-liberalism
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of Solved, plucked from deep in our archives. You may not realize we've actually been doing this show since way before it was called Solved and started being posted to YouTube. So this is good stuff. I also wanted to let you know that we're temporarily slowing down the pace of production for new episodes of Solved while we reorganize our processes here on the back end to get ourselves on better footing |
| 0:21.6 | so that we can come back stronger than ever. You can help support us in this process as we |
| 0:27.0 | hire additional help by becoming a member. Members get an extended version of solved before |
| 0:33.3 | YouTube as well as ad-free versions of the Best of Left podcast, available wherever you get your |
| 0:39.1 | podcasts. So sign up at bestof-the-left.com slash support. And now, enjoy this throwback edition |
| 0:46.2 | of Solved. Welcome, everyone. Thanks for listening and supporting the show, as always. As is often the case, the whole crew is with me. That's Amanda, Dion, and Aaron offer the first greeting of the new year. |
| 1:04.4 | Happy Ewee year. |
| 1:08.8 | Just sticking with hello. |
| 1:11.7 | Yeah, welcome to 2025. |
| 1:14.1 | You're here. |
| 1:15.9 | You did it. |
| 1:17.1 | You did it. |
| 1:19.8 | It's going to be great. |
| 1:23.5 | Welcome, welcome back, Aaron. |
| 1:25.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:26.5 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:28.2 | Good to have you. |
| 1:36.1 | So we are starting the year doing a little bit of a look back, but like in our own style. |
| 1:41.9 | We've chosen a few articles to pick a part that look in interesting directions. |
| 1:49.1 | The first, we accidentally pre-debated this one before we hit record. This is from Wired titled The Year Villainee One, and we might mostly disagree with |
| 1:58.4 | it, but it's okay anyway. It says, A new cultural mood took hold in 2024, |
| 2:05.0 | the steady climate of a disordered age. |
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