No Easy Answers

GoFundMe for Relocating Kristen's Family to Virginia

WKRN - Mom of trans teen moving out of Tennessee after new law banning gender-affirming care

Jules speaks with writer, artist, performer, and storyteller Kristen Chapman Gibbons about her journey from preacher's daughter to community cultivator.

Kristen Chapman Gibbons on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube

Kristen Chapman Gibbons' Website

Art by Kristen

• Madison on my Mind
• True Stories Let Loose on Soundcloud

Performances by Kristen

• Performance at the Tennessee Women's Theater Festival

Other stories by Kristen

• https://youtu.be/hrDjfiTVeEA
• https://youtu.be/3b7xOcLbJdo
• https://youtu.be/6xewdFiWmsY
• https://youtu.be/Jal7Ry6OX4E
• https://youtu.be/Habm2XPsjVs

Things we mentioned during the conversation

• Wikipedia page for Nellie Bly
• National Women's History Museum Nellie Bly
• Max Alvarez's Podcast: https://bit.ly/workingpod

Outro Music: Kestra - 'Better World'

--- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon

--- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast

--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

--- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers

--- Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5

--- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic

--- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: [email protected]

--- Music provided by: Self-Taut

--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/noeasyanswers/support

Dr. Richard Barbrook is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Media Freedom (Pluto, 1995) and Imaginary Futures (Pluto, 2007). His other important writings include The Hi-Tech Gift Economy, Cyber-communism, The Regulation of Liberty and The Class of the New, and today with Jules he is discussing his prophetic 1995 essay "The Californian Ideology".

In the essay, Dr. Barbrook and Andy Cameron argue that the rise of networking technologies in Silicon Valley in the 90s was linked to American neoliberalism and a paradoxical hybridization of beliefs from the political left and right in the form of hopeful technological determinism. This new amalgamated ideology combined the ideas of Marshall McLuhan with elements of radical individualism, libertarianism, and neoliberal economics, using publications like Wired Magazine to promulgate their ideas. This ideology mixed New Left and New Right beliefs together based on their shared interest in anti-statism, the counterculture of the 1960s, and techno-utopianism.

The original promise of the Californian Ideology was that computers would liberate us from all the old forms of political control, and we would become Randian heroes, in control of our own destinies. Instead, today, we feel the opposite—that we are helpless components in a global system—a system that is controlled by a rigid logic that we are powerless to challenge or change.

Additional Info/Links Below...

• The Californian Ideology pdf
• Dr. Richard Barbrook - Twitter, Website, GoodReads
• Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village, by Richard Barbrook
• The Internet Revolution by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron
• The Class of the New by Richard Barbrook
• The Hi-Tech Gift Economy by Richard Barbrook

Support this podcast and unlock bonus content: www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers

In today's episode, Jules speaks with Michelle Acciavatti. Michelle is a funeral director and an End of Life Specialist working in Vermont. She is a board member of the National Funeral Home Alliance, president, and co-founder of Vermont Natural Burial, she is president of Green Burial Vermont, and she is a founding member of the Collective for Radial Death Studies.

She and I spoke about her role as a death doula, her role as a funeral director, and the general labor of death. As you'll hear in our conversation, we talk about death from many angles, from the arranging of a funeral to guiding people through their end of life transition, and there's even some radical politics thrown in there.

For Further Reading

• Thinking About Having a 'Green' Funeral? Here's What to Know
• Helping Vermonters Prepare For 'Their Own Good Death'
• The National Home Funeral Alliance

Michelle's Links

• Michelle's website | Ending-Well
• Green Burial Vermont
• Collective for Radical Death Studies
• Vermont Natural Burial Incorporated
• Follow Ending-Well on Twitter, and Follow Green Burial Vermont on Twitter

--- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon

--- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast

--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

--- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers

--- Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5

--- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic

--- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: [email protected]

--- Music provided by: Self-Taut

Jules speaks with Professor Ronald Beiner about his book Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right. Ronald Beiner is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Contemporary far-right and neofascist movements continue to be inspired by these philosophers, and intellectually conscious fascists still hold them in high regard. Do these philosophers have anything useful for the political left, and if so, what can we find in philosophers who outright reject egalitarianism?

Additional links and articles below...

• Ronald Beiner Website, Twitter
• Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right
• Ronald Beiner's article discussing Benjamin Teitelbaum's book War for Eternity
• Domenico Losurdo - Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet
• Outro Music: Jules Taylor, "Long Way to Abilene"

Permanent Links Below...

--- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon

--- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast

--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message

--- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers

--- Hang out with us on Discord: https://discord.gg/4RHEEhdxy5

--- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic

--- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: [email protected]

--- Music provided by: Self-Taut

Jules takes a broader look at death from a social perspective by comparing the plague of 14th century Europe and the American Civil War. These time periods are seemingly incommensurate, but they're worth comparing to gain a perspective on the social effects of mass death.

Links for further reading

Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th century

Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret, Covid-19: The Great Reset

Ars Moriendi Translation (the shorter version)

Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering

Drew Gilpin Faust, The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying

Transcription of a letter by James Robert Montgomery

Videos

Death & the Civil War | Library of Congress

Brad Harris – Context: Reflections from A Distant Mirror

Lerone Bennett Jr. C-Span Interview (~snippit taken from around the 24 min mark)

--- Follow us on Social Media: Twitter Facebook Medium Patreon

--- Join the discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/noeasyanswerspodcast <-- NEW!

--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/message

--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noeasyanswers/support

--- Visit our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/noeasyanswers

--- One-off Contribution: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/julestaylormusic

--- Comments, concerns, criticisms, and vitriol: [email protected]