A Crisis of Rowdy Roddy Piper (CIB #284)

Is there actually more of a “crisis of meaning” in the smartphone AI age? Is it more likely the case that the vast majority of humans always been perfectly happy to accept whatever meager meaning happens to come their way, with a small, hand-wringing set of elites always freaking out that the latest thing is bad? If everyone is content to watch individualized content on their solipsism machines, is it just kinda rude of Rowdy Roddy Piper to come barging in trying to wake everybody up? Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!Show RundownOpen — Last Out the Door, Like a Hero16:03 — Cat arsonists in Italy20:51 — AI content taking over1:03:10 — Psychos are travelling the world with giant television mugs1:11:46 — Did Mark Strassmann, CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent, Get off A Good One?1:18:26 — Wrap-up! Hadestown; The Hunger Games; Airport; The TommyknockersRelevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.