Mandatory Redistribution Party

I want to be free to pursue my happiness - what a shame I don’t know what happiness is, how it’s achieved, or whether it’s ultimately a desirable aim to build my life around. Boo hoo :)  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created b...

Jain Edwards joins Sean and Jack to talk about crime, simps and crime simps. What would you rather voyeuristically observe? A catgirl speedrunning tetris online or an unsolved series of crossbow murders? This episode is about our parasocial obsession with parasocial obsessions.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Part...

It’s the first episode of 2022 and we’re so glad things are back to normal. Unless, normal is bad - in which case it’s back to the drawing board. Sean and Jack talk about the plasticity of political possibilities and the myth of progress.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morl...

In the last gasps of another record-breakingly bad year, the ever-warring Mandos executive board attempt to stabilise their fragile regime by allowing a cherry-picked selection of peasant petitioners through the portcullis.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewi...

What if you had a different kind of brain? Is yours neuro typical or diverged? Is that Bad? Are you ok??? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

What is an NFT? What is the promise of an NFT? How are those promises unfulfilled? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Featuring Chris Cantrill as "NFT Direct Message Bozo". Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis E...

What was World War One and, why??? Sean & Jack talk war, blimps and Clifford The Big Red Dog.   --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans.

If human beings are actually irrational animals, to what extent can they be blamed for their behaviour under capitalism? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Sean Morley.

Is escapism good? Or should we exclusively look at and think about human suffering? Should I feel bad when I go down the big drop on Nemesis? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Sean Mor...

What does it mean to earn something? Do you deserve your stuff? And would you deserve it was all given to you by a random person? --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans.

Sean and Jack discuss transport, psycho-social geography and rail guns. Could trains be more left wing? Could we imagine a “nice” Snowpiercer (2013)?  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by...

Sean and Jack discuss free choice in a deterministic universe, the fetishisation of the individual and whether Mr Bean is an alien.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

Sean and Jack discuss the existential nightmare of clones to shed light on falling birthrates globally. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music Capel Bond’s Trumpet Concerto in D Major.   Our e...

Sean and Jack discuss hustle culture, social surveillance and the construction of “adulthood”. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. Also featuring Victor Eijkhout’s ‘Gloop’.

Sean and Jack discuss Jonathan Creek, police and the philosophical arguments for repression. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Lewis Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean with additional music by Jack Lewis Evans and Sean Morley.

How can we overcome despair, doomerism and The Fear to face the challenges of ecological disaster? Jack interviews Mathew Lawrence, founder and Director of Common Wealth think tank tand co-author of Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown. --- Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown is published by Verso. --- Support us on Patreon, only if you...

Sean and Jack talk about the politics of sleep and how the 9-to-5 model limits our health and learning. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

How does the ideology of big tech insulate and sustain itself despite serious mounting criticisms? Sean interviews Wendy Liu, software developer, writer and author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism. --- Wendy's book Abolish Silicon Valley was published by Repeater Books in 2020. She can be found on twitter here: https://twitter.com/dellsystem --- Support us on P...

Sean and Jack discuss KFC Weddings, the dangers of swans and the discursive value of The Dunk. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

When Preston was abandoned by both government and big business, they community found ways to create and democratising wealth at a local level. Jack interviews author Rhian Jones about the Preston Model and community wealth building. --- Rhian’s book is “Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too” and is published by Repeater Books. Follow her here: https://twitter.com...

Sean and Jack talk about huge currency, economic myths, the cognitive dissonance surrounding political violence and the benefits of using a cherrypicker to hide from the EDL.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean. 

Sean and Jack talk about how mindfulness and meditation practices are used to control workforces, hypnotism’s role in crime and law enforcement and the New Age to Q-Anon pipeline.  --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was created by Ella Jean.

Sean and Jack talk democracy, takeaways, and the benefits of a randomly selected house of lords with a maximum term of six minutes. Sean does a deep dive on how democracy has been weakened over time. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.com/mandatoryredistributionparty --- Mandatory Redistribution Party was created and produced by Sean Morley and Jack Evans. Our title theme was cr...

Sean and Jack explore how our relationship with food is shaped - some might say damaged - by market forces. How has Stressbrain Moneytown distorted our relationship with acquiring, eating and paying for our beloved heaps of slop? Special thanks to listeners who shared their food service tales: Karen Finch, @finchypoos Duncan, @FortunesForFun Ashley Booth, @gwhizz52 Tom King, @ItsTomKing Clementine...

Sean and Jack consider whether they have nostalgia for The Old Internet because they are part of an aging generation of millenials hurtling toward irrelancy, or whether its because the internet is now controlled by a handful of corporate oligarchs. It might be both! Natalie Ashton joins us to explore the concept of epistemic friction online. --- Support us on Patreon (only if you can!): patreon.co...