We’re Not Saying It’s Aliens But… Did Next Week Cause This Week?

We’re Not Saying It’s Aliens But… Did Next Week Cause This Week?Mahmood Mamdani, one of the most respected voices in post-colonial scholarship, is suddenly being discussed alongside Zack Polanski, the new leader of the Green Party. We look at how these two completely different figures ended up in the same conversation and explore what it says about the moment we are living through.We also talk about what a realistic future for the Greens might look like and whether the United Kingdom could ever see a Green Prime Minister under the current political system.From there we move to outer space. An interstellar comet, 3I ATLAS, has arrived from beyond our solar system at the same time Mercury is in retrograde. The combination has set off a wave of speculation about alien probes, government cover-ups and unusually bad timing. We break down what the comet actually is, what scientists are saying about it and why people keep connecting astronomical events with existential questions.Retrocausality also enters the conversation this week. New research suggests that future choices might influence earlier outcomes at the quantum level. We explore what the science actually means and why the idea has captured so much public attention. It raises some surprisingly entertaining questions about how time might work and how much control any of us really have over anything.Finally, we touch on the vote in the United States to release the Epstein files and what the political consequences might be. We look at the scale of the vote, what documents may be released and whether any of this could shift public opinion or affect the current administration.It is a big week for politics, physics and deep-space visitors, and somehow all of it ends up feeling connected.PLEASE LEAVE A RATING AND SUBSCRIBE TO THIS SHOW FOR FREE EPISODES WEEKLYFOLLOW US ON TIK TOK:https://www.tiktok.com/@thesocialmeltdownALL OUR LINKS:https://linktr.ee/TheSocialMeltdown Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.