It's our pumpkin spice episode! Ok, no it's not but we needed a placeholder until we can get the show notes up. They will be chock chonk full. Believe that. In the meantime - enjoy this episode where we talk about the radical book about mass collaboration. Binding Chaos: society and disassociation and how we aren't living in a society but an unsociety.

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Season Two Recorded at Bob's Basement Studios, Michigan

Produced and edited by Sara Kaye Larson

Intro/Outro Music: ‘Shifting pt. 2 (instrumental)’ by Rie Daisies

Executive Producer Kate ML Rogers

Season One Recorded at Troubadour Studios in Lansing, MI (now in Traverse City, MI!)

Audio Engineer Corey DeRushia

Edited by Rie Daisies at Nighttime Girlfriend Studio

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We're back after already being back and then gone again. The fall has brought us many adventures and one gnarly head cold. But SK & JV made it to the microphones to talk about insane campaign ads, the Mackinaw Bridge, and a few chapters in Binding Chaos.

Last episode we discussed the first sections of Binding Chaos that covered the problem with democracy. In this edition we cover the dangers of group affiliation and natural and negotiated rights. It will give you so much to think about it won't matter if we don't get another episode out next week. But we will. We really will.

Here's a link to Binding Chaos: https://samim.io/dl/Binding-Chaos-Mass-Collaboration-on-a-Global-Scale-by-Heather-Marsh.pdf

And here's an auto-generated list of what's in this episode:
• living through major historical shifts and noticing how fast the social baseline changes
• using Marx as a lens for how economies shape relationships and identity
• why democracy drifts toward oligarchy when groups speak louder than individuals
• how campaign ads weaponize othering and sell “difference” as threat
• why group affiliation can drive bigotry and make moral people commit atrocities
• swapping nouns for verbs as a practical culture shift
• “the greater good” as a pathway to mob rule and rights violations
• Patriot Act logic and how surveillance expands under child safety rhetoric
• natural rights, negotiated rights, and the social contract built on individual dignity
• basic needs as rights, not privileges, and what happens when society blocks them
• the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, what it says, and how caveats hollow it out
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And here are some links for things related to this episode:

KARL MARX: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
Genius of the Modern World - Episode 1 - Karl Marx (BBC Documentary, 2016)
https://youtu.be/V45wESzJ9xc?si=8GOXPNRsZQLYGygj

NAFTA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement
How NAFTA affected the US: https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/naftas-impact-u-s-economy-facts/

Onion Article "Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be"
https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149/

The Verve Pipe
Freshman: https://youtu.be/1umEXpGHc0E?si=Gt947PATi1yloJ12

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LISTENING! LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF BINDING CHAOS! email us at bitingalltheapples AT gmail DOT com

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Credits

Season Two Recorded at Bob's Basement Studios, Michigan

Produced and edited by Sara Kaye Larson

Intro/Outro Music: ‘Shifting pt. 2 (instrumental)’ by Rie Daisies

Executive Producer Kate ML Rogers

Season One Recorded at Troubadour Studios in Lansing, MI (now in Traverse City, MI!)

Audio Engineer Corey DeRushia

Edited by Rie Daisies at Nighttime Girlfriend Studio

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Hello we are BACK! Back with our book pick: Binding Chaos by Heather Marsh ---- plus our own special Michigan flavored tie-in.

Just a few weeks after the Michigan Primary Election, Joanna spills the tea about the Michigan Democratic Convention and how the Michigan Dems came to spend 81 million dollars on a losing candidate that they all knew darn well was not supported by the people. The people, as we all now know, elected Abdul El-Sayed. And yes, Joanna has met him. They are BFFs. Ok, maybe not BFFs - just checking to see who reads the show notes.

It makes sense when we look at the system through the lens of Heather Marsh's Binding Chaos. This two party election stuff is only meant to serve those in control of the system. She tells us democracy always ends in oligarchy. We do try to be objective/curious readers but we have a hard time finding proof that she is wrong about that. Representative democracy isn’t just messy, it’s structurally incapable of representing individuals and constantly screws over vulnerable minorities. Can you feel it? Are you awake? You will be if you make it through this awesome episode.

Maybe you'll start to imagine your own ideas about what structures we the people need to create in the new world.

Give a listen and hear the inside tale of the convention, sample our latest haikus (amateur poetry warning!), and join in our discussion of the first section of Binding Chaos. We'll be talking about the book for a few more episodes and we really want to know what you think so be sure to leave a comment or send us a text or voicemail.

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Credits

Season Two Recorded at Bob's Basement Studios, Michigan

Produced and edited by Sara Kaye Larson

Intro/Outro Music: ‘Shifting pt. 2 (instrumental)’ by Rie Daisies

Executive Producer Kate ML Rogers

Season One Recorded at Troubadour Studios in Lansing, MI (now in Traverse City, MI!)

Audio Engineer Corey DeRushia

Edited by Rie Daisies at Nighttime Girlfriend Studio

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