Influencers Aren't Essential (76)

If the last seventeen months are any indication, not all goes according to plan. Sebastian and Ryan salvage this episode with a Bob Dylan-esque stream of consciousness starting on the frivolities of influencers and why they ought to not combine their acts with restaurants, followed by how absolutism in politics outweighs two decades of debating and moralizing that's resulted in stagnation and societal decay. Those failures result in the over-saturation of podcasting, a consequence of the myth of prosperity to emerge out of Manifest Destiny – hear us out, with credit to Matt Christman – and also produces a failure to create art through culture.

Finally Ryan delivers his coda on the vaccine denialism of those he knows and how, despite awareness of what his mother has gone through for 218 days (all of 2021 up until this point), their understanding lacks empathy and leaves their loved ones in a world of suffering were those deniers to die from COVID-19; at this point Delta, Lambda and a third variant from Florida all pose a combined risk to our collective slouch out of the pandemic.

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