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Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Thursday Aug 14, 2025
Get Charles Derber Book here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003491798/bonfire-charles-derber
In his new book, eminent sociologist and prolific author, Charles Derber, argues that American capitalism is pushing us toward social death and authoritarianism
In BONFIRE: AMERICAN SOCIOCIDE, BROKEN RELATIONS, AND THE QUEST FOR DEMOCRACY (Routledge, June 6, 2025, paperback and hardcover), Charles Derber warns that American society may be in its death throes. The threat of what sociologists called “sociocide”—a society in which human connection has been largely severed and individuals are only concerned for themselves—looms larger than ever in this age of hyper-alienating neo-liberal capitalism. “A sociocidal society is one whose sociopathy is intensifying into new and more dangerous forms, with family, friendship, community, and broad civil society breaking down so widely and rapidly that the actual self-destruction of the society is possible,” writes Derber. When social connections unravel, strongmen politicians and demagogues find fertile ground. The success of Trump and his MAGA movement show how authoritarianism can take root in a society that no longer values the “we.” In the absence of the social connections that foster collective action, empathy, and a sense of belonging, economic shocks and anxieties can encourage citizens welcoming autocratic regimes and their empty promises of a bright future.
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://kasparian.substack.com/p/the-mob-rules-celebrity-culture-and
Read, "We're All Sellouts Now" here: https://benburgis.substack.com/.../all-we-ever-wanted-wa
Wednesday Aug 13, 2025
Wednesday Aug 13, 2025
Read Ryan's piece here: https://unherd.com/.../were-still-distracting-ourselves.../
It’s now almost a reflex: an election is held, and someone pushes the big red Death of Democracy panic button. When Trump won, liberals saw a gold-plated Hitler in a red baseball cap. Then Biden took over and conservatives warned of Stalin or Pol Pot reborn, where your kids would be forced to go to gay camp and pray to RuPaul before lunch (they’re doing it again with Zohran Mamdani in New York). The hysterias flip, but the impulse stays the same: to imagine top-down tyranny as the looming threat to our livelihoods.
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com
Read, "We're All Sellouts Now" here: https://benburgis.substack.com/.../all-we-ever-wanted-wa
Tuesday Aug 12, 2025
Tuesday Aug 12, 2025
Follow Movie Night Extravaganza Here: https://www.youtube.com/@MovieNightExtravaganza
Jason joins the Movie Night Extravaganza crew to discuss maybe one of the best movies in the Star Wars universe, Rogue One.
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
Read, "We're All Sellouts Now" here: https://benburgis.substack.com/.../all-we-ever-wanted-was..
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Death wish was just a movie, now it feels like a way of life..
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
Read, "We're All Sellouts Now" here: https://benburgis.substack.com/.../all-we-ever-wanted-was..
Sunday Aug 10, 2025
Sunday Aug 10, 2025
Listen to Will Haven: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6oHhpIAHJlyqi70DdfWeJX...
Coming out of Sacramento, California Will Haven has forged a path over decades with a brutal heaviness that has inspired many. We'll discuss their journey.
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Sunday Aug 10, 2025
Sunday Aug 10, 2025
After the main show, Jeff and Wayne from Will Haven went through their back catalog and listened to some influences as well. Good times.
Friday Aug 08, 2025
Friday Aug 08, 2025
The schedule is out, the top 25 rankings are up--will there be any surprises in the expanded college football playoff? We'll discuss
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
Read, "We're All Sellouts Now" here: https://benburgis.substack.com/.../all-we-ever-wanted-was...
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Jason sticks to his word and they go through the some of the videos that she picked for the Fun Raisin show.
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Thursday Aug 07, 2025
Follow Arun's Substack here: https://arunnews.substack.com/.../what-do-we-have-to-show...
Listen to Arun on NPR here: https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-june-30-2025/
Socialists are at a crossroads, facing the return of Donald Trump to the presidency of the American empire, concerned by planetary warming if previous commitments to phase out fossil fuels are dashed, and seeing neoliberalism’s inability to provide a humane framework for macroeconomic stability, ideological legitimacy or global political order. What can the left carry forward from recent strategies, tactics and organizations that, not so long ago, seemed so promising? Is the left starting over, or moving on?
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
Read, "We're All Sellouts Now" here: https://benburgis.substack.com/.../all-we-ever-wanted-was...
Wednesday Aug 06, 2025
Wednesday Aug 06, 2025
Jason and Ben Burgis talk about Hogan as racist and Ozzy and zionist.
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Read Jason Myles in Sublation Magazine https://www.sublationmag.com/writers/jason-myles
Read Jason Myles in Damage Magazine https://damagemag.com/2023/11/07/the-man-who-sold-the-world/
Read Jason in Unaligned here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-161586946...
Read, "We're All Sellouts Now" here: https://benburgis.substack.com/.../all-we-ever-wanted-was...