Staff Picks: Myth of Whitness and Western Civilization / Ben Ehrenreich

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Producer Sebastian muses on origin and utility of racial categories and introduces a 2019 interview with writer Ben Ehrenreich explains how Enlightenment-era ideas of progress and Western civilization collapsed time and space around the bumbling, destructive European ideology of early capitalism, and why those ideas still mis-guide the bumbling, destructive European ideology of late capitalism on a dying planet. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/after-the-storm-ehrenreich

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0:00.0	Shine this on the son out the Nazis
0:03.0	and the beginning to this niche. I'm going to see Shrima We're in common,
0:14.0	to be a sh-a-sh This is hell.
0:35.0	live from a dark dank tunnel where we were just hanging with the mole people who are actually much friendlier than the corporate media makes them out to be.
0:45.3	I mean they're people after all and you know you can just hang with them and just chill with them and just you know just
0:56.4	nah and if I just chill with them and just you know just yeah and eventually you will come back out of the tunnel because well this is limbo I am obviously still not Chuck nor do I wish I was I am just producer Sebastian
1:06.5	producing and monologging again this week a duty that soon will come to an end, or rather that comes to an end after today.
1:16.8	We are overjoyed to announce our beloved host Chuck Mertz's imminent return to This Is Hell on a regular basis.
1:25.8	Tomorrow he will stream and record another Patreon podcast and next Monday on May 23rd,
1:31.9	10 a.m. Central Daylight Time. We will exit limbo mode for good. Well, knock on wood as usual and return to regular programming. We will start our regular programming with the interview I foolishly
1:46.4	promised everyone last week. Chuck will really now interviewing writer Adrian Shirk on her recent book, Heaven is a Place on Earth, searching for an American utopia. Chuck will also have updates on the formerly annually this is Hellas an appreciation party that's now taking place on
2:05.8	September 17 and on whatever else he will be doing in the immediate future on this year God's favorite radio program.
2:15.0	And as usually, if you disagree with that notion, take it up with Chuck,
2:19.0	or just prove him wrong.
2:22.0	I just, I'm just the messenger here. This is not an insurrection.
2:26.2	This is not a revolt. This is just simply limbo and as is the nature of all things the end my dear friends is indeed nigh
2:35.5	producing today's show is again me Sebastian
2:39.5	And what's new with me well just the usual trouble when you're waiting for a green card and just realize again and again that without it,
2:48.0	you're just basically a third-rate citizen in this country.
2:51.0	I mean, you're not really a citizen at all, you're just a person who exists here.
2:57.6	Yeah, but I don't want to bore the people with too many details on that. Bureaucracy is indeed hell.
3:04.0	While we are patiently waiting for Chuck's return,
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