This week Chris is temporarily replaced by a special guest that long time listeners will remember from the early days of the pod, Jenny.
The gang talks about the loneliness of social distancing, the long term effects of pandemic based hyper-alienation, and what the political prospects moving forward look like.
Society of the Spectacle (sections 28, 172, 221)
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
The pandemic has unleashed the age of individualism
22 percent of millennials say they have “no friends”
Pandemic shaming: is it helping us keep our distance?
Isolation, Stress, and Poverty: Capitalism and Our Declining Mental Health
Music: Joy Divison- Isolation