All Power To The Imagination #8 - C. Derick Varn (NOT on Chapo Trap House)

Marxist, teacher, and professional podcast guest, C. Derick Varn comes on the show to have a sprawling conversation about various societies, 21st-century politics, the history of American political movements, the impact of technology on politics and culture, the legacy of the Cold War, emergent dynamics, philosophy of science, string theory, anthropology, New Atheism, free will and more. --- Show Notes --- -Neoreaction (for dummies), Nick Land https://web.archive.org/web/20170720102354/http://www.xenosystems.net/neoreaction-for-dummies/ -The Density Divide, Will Wilkson -What share of people are online?, Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/internet#what-share-of-people-are-online -Could an iPhone fly me to the moon?, Graham Kendall https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/apollo-11-moon-landing-mobile-phones-smartphone-iphone-a8988351.html -Helen Viola Jackson, last known Civil War widow, dead at 101, Elizabeth Elizalde https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/helen-viola-jackson-last-known-civil-war-widow-dead-at-101/ -The End of History, Francis Fukuyama -Francis Fukuyama interview: "Socialism ought to come back", George Eaton https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2018/10/francis-fukuyama-interview-socialism-ought-come-back We Stand on Guard, Brian K. Vaughn https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/we-stand-on-guard Reality Check: Being Nonreligious in America, Secular Survey https://www.secularsurvey.org/ The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death Terror Management Theory, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory The Rise of Post-modern Conservatism, Matt McManus https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-24682-2 Reactionary Modernism, Jeffery Herf Self-domestication: In Humans, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication#In_humans Frans de Waal, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_de_Waal Humans, not climate, have rapidly driven rising mammal extinction rate, Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200909100244.htm Governing the Commons, Elinor Ostrom https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/governing-the-commons/A8BB63BC4A1433A50A3FB92EDBBB97D5 Collapse of Complex Societies, Joseph Tainter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/477.Collapse_of_Complex_Societies -Mortal Science Podcast https://soundcloud.com/mortalscience -In the Enemy Camp, Swampside Chats https://soundcloud.com/swampsidechats/sets/in-the-enemy-camp Pop the Left YouTube Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFad02vA5AOH8vV8rUp6mwkACCa77u2UM C. Derick Varn reads five poems https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnteApw_4DU