Tim and Max Learnt Everything They Know About Life From Popular Culture Episode 7 – Politics, or “Deliciously Orwellian”

Tim and Max Learnt Everything They Know About Life From Popular Culture Episode 7 – Politics, or “Deliciously Orwellian”

 

 

Thanks to Geek Syndicate for being our host when we were more purely geek-focused. You can hear the old episodes here: http://geeksyndicate.co.uk/?s=solve+popular&x=0&y=0

Preamble:

Our respective appearances on Dissecting Worlds:

http://geeksyndicate.co.uk/podcasts/dissecting-worlds/dissecting-worlds-series-6-episode-3-romans/

http://geeksyndicate.co.uk/podcasts/dissecting-worlds-olympic-special-2-sports-comics/

http://geeksyndicate.co.uk/podcasts/dissecting-worlds/dissecting-worlds-series-5-episode-4-aslan-and-other-gods/

And this very podcast’s crossover with that one:

http://geeksyndicate.co.uk/podcasts/scrolls/gsn-podcast-dissecting-scrolls-solves-christmas/

James’s podcasts with Nick:

http://www.2grownmen.net/

http://othertenpercent.net/category/podcasts/

Vader Down:

We Learnt This Week/Fortnight/Month:

That Max is tuned into Queen Bey’s Formation:

(also http://twitter.com/hashtag/sexysocialism )

 

 

That Tim isn’t sure if Still Alice is a really good approach to a film about dementia or a really bad one:

That James was inspired to listen to the audiobook of The Force Awakens:

And both started and stopped watching Mr Robot:

( Also My Little Pony and Plato: http://www.overthinkingit.com/2012/11/08/my-little-pony-plato/ )

Life Lessons:

Star Wars has many political lessons. None of them are about this guy, Ekelarc Yong:

 

Politics may not work because people do not know that what they believe differs from what they think they believe: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/britain-could-be-more-left-wing-than-people-assume-study-finds-a6813801.html

 

The most conservative band of all?

 

Rage Against The Machine and the Zapatista’s catchphrase, Everything for Everyone, and Nothing for Ourselves:

https://youtu.be/fDEkVTwL7fg?t=3m10s

Subcomandante Marcos:

 

Political Awakenings:

 

Here is the person who is suffering whose suffering matters:

People buy an album whose cover has a woman with a gun in her mouth and think the music is jolly?

Tim and Max were both right according to Wikipedia – both Mini-Correct and 36D led to Briana Corrigan leaving the band:

 

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