The Bootlickers

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 25 April 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Andrew Rubin opens up his Archives of Authority to tell us the story of how George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 became global phenomenons. Melissa Gira Grant tells us about her new book Playing the Whore and the complicated relationship between sex workers, Feminists, Journalists, and the Police. And your host turns to ToE correspondent Peter Choyce for advice on how to fight his bike ticket in traffic court. *********Click on the image for the whole story about this week’s installment**********

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1:27.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker Theory of Everything.
1:31.0	This installment is called the bootleakers.
1:35.0	Why do we always need to look to 1984 to describe the present?
1:41.0	Like we all seem to understand.
1:42.0	So as Snowden mentions George Orwell, we all seem to say, oh yes, we understand what he means. But the question I always have is, is that cultural reflex empowering? Is it an enlightening in some way or is it just is kind of a
1:55.3	cliche? George Orwell's 1984. It's getting referenced all the time these days.
2:02.3	Edward Snowden, Justice Scalia It's getting referenced all the time these days.
2:03.1	Edward Snowden, Justice Scalia, even podcasters now regularly name check
2:08.2	Big Brother.
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