Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.
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episode 102: Red, Black, and Blue
David and Tamler stumble their way through talking about the election results, how Trump got elected, the role of racism, sexism, the liberal bubble, complacency, economic anxiety - and find they're just as confused as everyone else. In the second segment, we lighten things up a little (really!) and discuss the Black Mirror episode "San Junipero" (available on Netflix). Spoiler talk so try to see the episode
before listening.
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Links:
- Wes Alwan's Facebook post about the election [facebook.com] — Telling the millions of uneducated white rust belt voters who put Obama in office in 2008 and 2012 that they are evil bigots is not a strategy for winning an election.
- Glenn Greenwald on Who’s to Blame for Trump’s Election
- What So Many People Don't Get About the US Working Class by Joan Williams [hbr.org]
- I Will Never Underestimate White People's Need to Preserve Whiteness Again [verysmartbrothas.com]
- Episode Break Music [soundcloud.com]
- Black Mirror - San Junipero [imdb.com]
- Heaven is a Place on Earth by Belinda Carlisle [youtube.com]
- Charlie Brooker Shares 'San Junipero' Playlist from Black Mirror [ew.com]
- Mr. Robot Virtual Reality Experience [youtube.com] — Step inside the world of Mr. Robot like never before and experience a pivotal moment from Elliot's past. Written and directed by Sam Esmail.