016: Fascism, Signalgate, Populism, Comedy

Shawn vents about his attempts to listen to Trump voters during a week when ICE started snatching people off the street for thought crimes. Then we move on to “signalgate” which is somehow a lighter note? We dig into questions of right vs left populism and wonder about potential common ground for dissent. Finally, is there such a thing as comedy anymore?Mentioned in this episodeA More Perfect Union — (progressive worker-rights organization doing good work to engage working class conservatives)Moral Foundations Theory — Jonathan Haidt’s framework for thinking about how people make moral decisions, which suggests some interesting differences between leftists and conservatives.The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu, and the “dark forest hypothesis” it introduces as an answer to the Fermi Paradox. Maybe all intelligent life in the universe is hiding for the sake of its own survival.SETI@HomeThe “AFL-CIA” dark chapter of the AFL-CIO, mentioned in Whit Stilman’s film Barcelona This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com