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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, the podcast of the lot to seeters. I'm joined by Connor and Josh. |
0:13.3 | Hello. And today we're going to be talking about politics is beyond a parody. |
0:17.3 | Somehow Doctor Who gets even worse and the fact that it will never be enough. So, |
0:21.9 | it'll be a good day but we don't have any |
0:24.3 | announcements to make so that's nice and I'm well I'm ill so excuse me if I kind of |
0:28.0 | of shut up a bit because I don't feel great so we're just gonna get into the news. So what I'm going to be talking about today is something that I've noticed recently and of course |
0:38.1 | politics has always been a bit ridiculous at least as far as I can remember within my lifetime. But in the past few weeks maybe |
0:47.2 | past couple of bumps I've just noticed a ramp up in ridiculousness I wanted to focus on this and I don't know whether either of you have seen this |
0:54.9 | film one flew over the cookies nest but basically the premises Jack Nicholson's |
0:59.8 | character Randall Murphy Mc Murphy, almost got his name wrong, |
1:05.2 | Thain's insanity to avoid prison time and ends up in a psychiatric hospital. |
1:09.8 | And through the course of the film, through his contact with the people in the psychiatric hospital and the institution itself kind of dehumanizing him. |
1:18.0 | He slowly gets driven to the brink of insanity anyway. |
1:21.0 | And rather than it just being you know the insane |
1:24.5 | assignments if you will or psychiatric hospitals whatever you want to call them I think |
1:28.4 | there's a certain case to be made that are civil institutions as well are doing a similar thing and driving people a bit mental. |
1:36.0 | This is Chris Ruffo's idea of Cluster B personality, of where all of the avenues towards enriching yourself getting famous, it skews towards the |
1:45.7 | narcissistic and psychopathic. |
1:47.2 | So even normal people start adopting maladaptive traits to try and get ahead. |
1:51.5 | So it just amasses the amount of socially contagious |
1:55.2 | mental illnesses. Yeah and there's certainly an element of that going on. I think as |
1:59.9 | well just the fact that institutions in general like the government justice system and you know |
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