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Why do you listen to this podcast?

It may be because it's a strange comfort to naming the thing that's breathing down on X.

Today I want to archive this past year of systemic collapse,

a pile up of small and large failures we can start to make sense of in retrospect.

If we don't look back at our past and the patterns within it,

if we don't keep these moments and events in our memory, it's very, very easy to get

stuck into a perpetually overwhelming present. Welcome to Kutappan here. I'm Andrew Sage, the guy

behind Andrewism on YouTube, and I'm here with James Stout, the guy you hear all the time on this podcast.

Welcome to your podcast.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's nice to do one with you.

Are you ready to take a look at some of the stories that shape 225?

Yes, it's been a hell of a year, so this should be fun.

Yeah, I mean, I don't expect to be exhaustive, but we can talk about some of the incidents

in climate, in politics, in technology, in geopolitics.

And through all that, I want to ask what these stories are teaching us as anarchists, activists, and just people trying to live

in a society.

Yeah.

So I suppose first we could talk about the climate and infrastructural situations, some of them

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