Episode 272: Solar Eclipses And The Politics of Fear feat. Arthur Goldwag

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Americans sure love being paranoid. And they’re not always paranoid for sensible reasons, like ever-expanding corporate and governmental surveillance systems. Sometimes they’re paranoid about natural and predictable astronomical events. For this episode we discuss why the conspiracist world is fretting about the solar eclipse that will be seen across the United States on April 8th. We also chat with Arthur Goldwag, author of the recently published book The Politics of Fear: The Peculiar Persistence of American Paranoia. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696775/the-politics-of-fear-by-arthur-goldwag/ Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Music by Pontus Berghe and Jake Rockatansky. Editing by Corey Klotz. qanonanonymous.com

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0:00.0	What's up QAA listeners?
0:05.0	The fun games have begun.
0:09.0	I found a way to connect to the internet.
0:12.0	I'm sorry boy.
0:16.3	Welcome listener to the 270 second chapter of the QAA podcast, The Solar Eclipse
0:21.8	and the Politics of Fear episode.
0:24.4	As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatanski, and Travis View.
0:28.6	We're living in a paranoid age.
0:30.9	Sometimes that paranoia is justified. Other times people are paranoid about
0:35.3	natural astronomical phenomena. Today to explore the many flavors of
0:40.0	paranoia we're going to start by talking about the upcoming solar eclipse and how the internet's
0:45.3	paranoid are reacting to it. After that, we're going to talk to author Arthur Goldwag. He recently published a book called The Politics of Fear, that peculiar persistence
0:55.7	of American paranoia.
0:56.7	And he has a lot of interesting things to say about why this kind of conspiracies
1:01.6	paranoia is just so popular in every age. So I'm going to kick it off to
1:06.8	Jake because he's been diving into, well, how people are reacting to the very terrifying prospect of the sun being
1:14.3	blacked out possibly forever. Yeah, speaking of paranoia, let's talk about total
1:21.0	solar eclipses. We're about to have one on April about total
1:25.0	on April 8th of next month.
1:27.0	Now the path of totality or where you can stand to see the moon totally block out the sun
1:32.0	is a pretty narrow line stretching all the way
1:34.8	from Mexico to Maine and into Canada passing over Texas, Illinois, and other states
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