289 In the System We Trust

About this episode

The episode discusses the paradox of having more information yet less ability to verify its meaning, exploring themes of war, narratives, and accountability.

You can feel a weird shift happening: people have more information than ever, but less ability to verify what any of it means. We start with war talk and the religious language used to sell escalation, then pull the thread into something bigger: how slogans, prophecy narratives, and “patriotic tradition” can replace reading, evidence, and accountability. When the story is powerful enough, it doesn’t matter if it’s coherent, it just has to be repeatable. From there we get into psychedel...

People in this episode

Hosts: Mitchell Snyder, Cameron Cope, Drake Pearson

Topics covered

• information verification
• war talk
• religious language
• slogans
• narratives
• accountability
• psychedelics

Keywords

• information
• war
• religion
• slogans
• narratives
• accountability
• psychedelics

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