Episode 196: The REALLY Big Necessity

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History has shown again and again that an incomplete or just mistaken understanding of how the world really works leads to most of the problems we suffer. To change our world, we must first change our minds; thus Episode 196: The REALLY Big Necessity.

In this episode, I read from four books: First, I recall a bit of Rose George's The Big Necessity: the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters; then, Steven Johnson's books, Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate and The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic——and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World; and finally, Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. I also quote Upton Sinclair's most quotable quote ever quoted, so quotable I call it The Sinclair Maxim (which was originally published, as far as I know, in I, Candidate for Governor and How I Got Licked).

Musically, Pietnastka did "Superator" near the end. I open with KMFDM backing Tristan Harris in the opening, and Julie and Rolf and the Campfire Gang take us out with "Over the Rainbow".