The Infrastructure of Immiseration (CIB #229)

What if much of the infrastructure of the modern world—or at least the technology and the roads and the food—has accidentally put into the hands of humans things that they know make them more miserable and that they absolutely cannot stop using, for an assortment of reasons? We discuss that and many other cheery topics on this week’s really quite fun episode! 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 — Abe delighting in the demise of the aged, once again8:32 — Trying to imagine the mind of the reality-denier27:07 — WGAS NewsBag! Trump calls Zelensky a dictator, and what it means when the US turns away from the world59:00 — DOGE wants to know what you did last week1:06:43 — Our Bogus Future: Study shows smartphones are bad for humans1:22:22 — Did CBS News’s Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:38:46 — Wrap-up! Cleaner; The Lex G Movie Podcast; Godzilla Minus OneRelevant 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.