Biff Tannen Reality, AoT#494

About this episode

The episode discusses the characteristics of dystopian governance and the influence of conspiracy culture in modern society.

We are living under Biff Tannen style governance. We should pay close attention when our reality starts taking on the characteristics of dystopian popular fiction. Topics include: Lyft ride truth evangelism, Conspiracy Culture, more people exposed to and in agreement with fringe ideas than ever, social media as broadcast mechanism of conspiracy ideas, analytics tools driving content, ubiquity of gambling, legalization of online gambling, dopamine response, prediction markets, new kinds of insider trading, more and more corruption, Biff Tannen style governance, Onion takeover of Infowars, satire of Conspiracy Culture long overdue, tecnocratic new world order, tech oligarchs, propaganda and Culture War distraction, crypto scams, new ASMR content pivot

People in this episode

Host: Aaron Franz

Topics covered

• Biff Tannen style governance
• Conspiracy Culture
• social media and conspiracy
• gambling and corruption
• technocratic new world order
• propaganda and Culture War

Keywords

• Biff Tannen
• dystopia
• Lyft
• gambling
• conspiracy
• social media
• propaganda
• tech oligarchs
• crypto scams

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lyft, Infowars, Onion, Conspiracy Culture, tech oligarchs, crypto scams

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