Crazy Town Archives

Crazy Town: Episode 75. How to Lose Friends and Demoralize People: The Science (sic!) of Near-Term Extinction

May 31, 2023May 31, 2023 by Asher Miller

Meet Guy McPherson, the extinction enthusiast who undermines legitimate climate concerns by predicting we’re all going to die yesterday. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Crazy Town: Episode 74. Prepping for the Apocalypse: Elites’ Foolish Fantasies for Surviving a Collapse of Their Own Creation

February 6, 2024May 24, 2023 by Asher Miller

Meet Barrett Moore, the bunker-building bullshit artist who helps capitalists survive the apocalypse with beans, bullets, and bravado. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Crazy Town: Episode 73. How Longtermism Became the Most Dangerous Philosophy You’ve Never Heard of

May 17, 2023 by Asher Miller

Meet William MacAskill, the puerile professor who helps crypto capitalists justify sociopathy today for a universe of transhuman colonization tomorrow. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Crazy Town: Episode 72. Sucking CO2 and Electrifying Everything: The Climate Movement’s Desperate Dependence on Tenuous Technologies

May 10, 2023 by Asher Miller

Meet Mark Jacobson and David Keith, the leading techno-fixologists who overpromise overhyped “solutions” to the climate conundrum. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Crazy Town: Episode 71. How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex

May 3, 2023 by Asher Miller

Meet Stewart Brand and his band of merry dematerialists, the Silicon Valley salesmen who undermined environmentalism with planet-saving fantasies that reek of technofetishism. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Crazy Town: Episode 70. Kinder, Gentler Colonialism: Bungling Billionaires and Their Arrogant Adventures in “Saving the World”

May 3, 2023April 26, 2023 by Asher Miller

Meet Bill Gates, the philandering philanthropist who attempts to remake the world’s operating system in his own image. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Crazy Town: Episode 69. Hot, Flat, and Totally Phucking Wrong: The Perilous Platitudes of a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Propagandist

April 21, 2023April 19, 2023 by Asher Miller

Meet Tom Friedman, the mustachioed metaphor maven who thinks we can have our cake and listen to it too. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Crazy Town: Episode 68. How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class

April 12, 2023 by Asher Miller

Meet Bill Clinton, who converted the Democratic Party into slightly less loathsome neoliberals. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.

Crazy Town: Episode 67. How to Become the Winningest Winner Who Wins: The Twisted Logic of the World’s Greatest CEO

April 7, 2023April 5, 2023 by Asher Miller

Meet Jack Welch, celebrated wrecker of real jobs and leading light of Wall Street wankers. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.