About this episode

The episode explores the surreal nature of current news in the context of the Iran war, using a Charlie Brown analogy to highlight deeper societal issues.

This is a free preview of a subscribers-only episode. Click here to listen to the whole thing with a free 7 day trial. Since the Iran war began many weeks ago, it feels like we're living in some kind of surreal rhetorical purgatory. Surveying the wider news landscape, though, a wider pattern emerges, and a "Charlie Brown" analogy reveals something a bit darker hidden in our collective basement.

People in this episode

Host: David Parsons

Guest: Justin Rogers-Cooper

Topics covered

• Iran war
• news analysis
• political rhetoric
• Charlie Brown analogy
• surrealism
• collective consciousness

Keywords

• Iran war
• news
• politics
• Charlie Brown
• rhetoric
• surreal
• analogy
• collective basement

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