Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-03-16
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 122
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Garrison Davis discussed The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Futility by Morgan Robertson. Andrew Sage discussed How Everything Can Collapse by Pablo Servigne and others, From What Is to What If by Rob Hopkins, and The Transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a bestselling young adult dystopian novel set in a ruined futuristic nation where children are forced to compete in a televised death match.
Discussed“Suzanne Collins, the author of The Hunger Games, which leads us to our next topic, The Hunger Games. I found this amazing blog called Through Ancient Eyes by this British guy named Neil who's obsessed with the occult and is like a David Ike fanboy.”
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Futility
Futility by Morgan Robertson is an 1898 novel about a fictional, seemingly unsinkable ship named the Titan that tragically strikes an iceberg and sinks.
Discussed“One of the oldest examples that conspiracy theorists will point to as an example of predictive programming is this book from the late 1800s called Futility that talks about a fictional ship called the Titan which was thought to be completely unsinkable which eventually crashed on an iceberg and sank.”
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How Everything Can Collapse
Discussed“In the book, How Everything Can Collapse, which I referenced in uh the previous episode, Pablo Seven and Raphael Stevens talk about the paradox of collapse. And I'll leave it in their words because I think it was really well put.”
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From What Is to What If
Discussed“The transition movement is vitally rooted in imagination. I've spoken about the vitality of imagination in the past. Uh in fact, my video on the subject was partially inspired by Rob Hopkins book from what is to what if. You imagine, you sketch out the details and you roll up your sleeves and you make it real.”
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The Transition Handbook
Discussed“During the development of the transition networks project, Rob Hopkins along with others published the transition handbook which is structured in three parts. The first is the head which are the facts of the situation. Then you have the heart which are the emotional consequences and desired futures.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Katniss is the woman clothed in fire sun in the book of Revelation. And the EU, the United Nations, and the Security Council replicate this symbolism.”
“I saw a Hunger Game the first Hunger Games movie and I tried to read the books and I was like nah I can't read these you know they're not they were not written for me like it's it's it's just I was not interested in them”