Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-12-14
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Garrison Davis discussed Government Gangsters by Kash Pramod Patel and The Plot Against the King by Kash Patel. Robert Evans discussed Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore J. Kaczynski. Mia Wong recommended Capital as Power by Jonathan Nitzan and others, and discussed The Moral Economy of the Peasant by James C. Scott.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Government Gangsters
Government Gangsters by Kash Pramod Patel is a political book detailing the author's allegations regarding the deep state and proposing major structural changes to the FBI, including relocating its headquarters out of Washington, D.C.
Discussed“But last year, Patel published a book titled Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy, where he also proposed relocating the FBI headquarters out of Washington DC”
Where to get it
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The Plot Against the King
The Plot Against the King is a children's book trilogy written by Kash Patel that allegorically portrays political events surrounding Donald Trump.
Discussed“So, over the course of the past 3 years, Patel has written and published a children's book trilogy titled The Plot Against the King, where Patel himself appears as a wizard to defend King Donald from enemy plots.”
Where to get it
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is a classic anti-war novel that follows the life of Billy Pilgrim as he becomes unstuck in time and experiences the devastating Allied firebombing of Dresden during World War II.
Discussed“He expressed admiration for a quote from Kurt Vonagget Slaughterhouse 5 about criminalization of poverty in the United States. Quote, "America is the wealthiest nation in the world, but its people are mainly poor and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves."”
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Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future, widely known as the Unabomber manifesto by Theodore J.
Discussed“Much has been made of the four-star review he gave industrial society and its future, the manifesto of Ted Kazinski. But as with the rest of his media diet, he did not view TED through the simple lens of hero worship.”
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The Moral Economy of the Peasant
Discussed“And what's important about you know price and the reaction to inflation is that it's an outrage based on a sense of justice right this rage is not a measure of direct exploitation necessarily I think it was the political scientist James C Scott who wrote his own book called the moral economy of the peasant”
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Capital as Power
Capital as Power by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler is an influential heterodox economic text that reimagines capitalism as a system driven by power rather than purely material production.
Recommended“If you want to know more about this, read their book capitalist power. It's quite good. I am mentioning them because I am about to misuse their argument completely”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, [music] Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, [music] Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“You know Rald Doll, [music] the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
“You know Rald Doll, [music] the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”