The Epoch of Incredulity

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It's going to be a quick one this week on the Epoch. It's our 6th month anniversary and we have low energy and plenty of audio issues. LE open's things with a correction from a previous episode. In the news we talk about the non-action of Baker's COVID response, the Bankers association  lobbying the CDC to move Wall Street traders and bank tellers up the line for the vaccine, and the still te...

Comrade Jesse continues to read from Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution . Background music:  Andy Leech - "Dawn". This episode was released to our patrons on 11/29/20. You can sign up for our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/join/epicincredulity

Welcome to the weirdest episode of the Epoch yet! Content Warning, we really let our hair down this episode. We discussion Neera Tanden's nomination as Biden's director of the Office of Management and Budget, who will be the first to receive COVID vaccine, and the new possibility of World War 3 - this time with Iran. Jesse mentions the work of Rosa Luxemburg, which you can listen to on this podcas...

Comrade Jesse reads Che Guevara's "Notes for the Study for the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution". Background music:  BgH Beats - "Society". This episode was released to patrons on 11/20/20. For exclusive content, early releases, and an invite to our Discord server, please join our Patreon: www.patreon.com/join/epicincredulity

Comrade Jesse continues to read from Rosa Luxemburg's "Reform or Revolution?". Background music:  Kori - "Bloom".

Comrade Jesse narrates the introduction to Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution. Background music: Kevin MacLeod - "Sovereign".

Happy Thanksgiving , or, National Day of Mourning; if you're enjoying Turkey or protesting colonialism, you can spend some time with your Epoch. This week of silliness we are joined by cheeseboy ( @symmetry_hater ) as we discuss the horrible picks for Biden's cabinet, the vaccine roll out, the quality of Amazon's delivery, and Dianne Feinstein setting down from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Jess...

BABY SHARK/doo doo doo doo doo doo! It's your Epoch/doo doo doo doo doo doo! This week we explore the cave of broken dreams that is the shitlib wing of the Democratic Party. We continue to call, and call out, Charlie Baker for his terrible COVID response, the destruction of the MBTA, allowing ICE to operate in Boston, and his really ugly house. We affirm that sex work is work. We also ask if we be...

Comrade Jesse reads a bittersweet essay from Uncle Ho, published in Pravda in 1924. Background music by Freek van Workum [ www.freekvanworkum.net ].

This week on the Epoch, we're back to the grind! The election's over (most likely) and we still have down-ballot races to discuss, and the absurd amount of money spent on cycle. What will a Biden administration mean for future UK/EU trade deals, and how does the UN feel about USA's human rights record? At last, the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict has come to a close, hopefully. We end the episode shar...

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On Tuesday, November 3, 2020, Election Night, The Epoch of Incredulity, with some friends, recorded for over 5 hours. This episode is full of the highlights and best moments from the night. Please enjoy. For Scott's list of movie recommendations, go here: https://letterboxd.com/deathmullet/list/comrade-scotts-compulsory-viewings/ Check out our Patreon for bonus content and access to our Discord: h...

It's a somewhat contentious Epoch! We got drama baby! This week is another full deck, as all six of your enlightened hosts stop by for some fun. With many perspectives, comes disagreement. In this episode, we mostly debate the validity and effectiveness of electoral politics, harm reduction, voting for Biden or voting third party, rank-choice-voting, #resistence, the privilege of living in a Blue...

Or, Dick-To-Pig Connection. It's an extra stuffed Epoch as are joined by Comrade Will (Scott's brother) from South Shore DSA for an extensive, rather broad, and often humorous discussion on the ways we talk to normies and non-leftist about politics. What is the average person's major concerns? With what ideas are they most eager to agree? What to they outright reject? How can we move them to our s...

It's a looser Epoch this week. We continue to track the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict, Trump's COVID diagnosis, Amy Coney Barrett and the supreme court confirmation hearings, the end of the Massachusetts eviction moratorium, and birds. We also cover the foiled kidnapping plot against Ralph Northam, A Pinkerton shooting a Nazi (win-win), and the demise of movie going. At the end of the episode there...

It all hands on deck for this week's Epoch as the full crew explores the many aspects and nuances of gender. In this awaited discussion we reflect on what gender means to us personally, how we express ourselves because or in spite of how we identify, the way we engage with the assumed normatives of gender, how society treats individuals based on gender assumptions and normatives, and impact left o...

With the first presidential debate between Trump and Biden on in the background, we open on a light note with a brief discussion of the possibilities the world is sleepwalking into World War 3. Things pick up from there as we cover Trump's taxes, Amy Coney Barrett, NA's services, the awful labor practices of the Disney corporation, topless legislators, and Tulsi's continued slide into full-on fash...

We return to the days of Ol' (the first five episodes) as The Epoch this week is a bit of a rambler. We cover the death of RBG, debate the likelihood the Trump administration tries to fill the seat before the next president is inaugurated, and what, if any, impact, an Amy McGrath Senate would have on the proceedings. We cover the electoral landscape, and highlight a few more leftist victories. We...

We continue our journey through the perils of capitalism and the ravages left on our mental health. This week we discuss the effect capitalism has on our perception of time and personal achievement. The alienation and indifference that develops towards our own accomplishments. The emptiness of working your finger to the bone simply just to get by. Plus, bullet journals, rise and grind culture, the...

In what ways does living under a system of exploitation and hyper individualism affect our mental health? How does it augment our self image, and self worth? How does it shape the ways we value others, and what we all do with our time? What direction can our lives take when we're just struggling to survive? Can we even reach a state of self actualization and fulfillment without succumbing to the w...

At age 33, Marxist–Leninist, Pan-Africanist, and Communist Revolutionary Thomas Sankara became the President of Republic of Upper Volta. After immediately launching vital social, ecological, and economic programs, he shed Upper Volta's French Colonial past and renamed the country, Burkina Faso ("Land of Incorruptible People"), where he rules from 1983 to 1987. A charismatic yet humble leader, Sank...

When Bill Clinton was elected president, it was seen as Neoliberalism's final victory against Reaganism and promised, "The End of History." In reality, many of the domestic policies of his administration were not only just soft continuations of what had come before, they also set the precedent for the conditions of inequality and degradation we see in the economic and social spheres today. On this...

Accelerationism. How do we define it? Can it be controlled? Is it the inevitable result of the compounding effects of Neoliberal capitalism, and is there any hope for the left to harness its forces for change? Or is humanity just along for the ride? Where will it end, and where does it lead us? This, the state of the Biden/Harris campaign, the DNC, Joe Kennedy, and more, this week on The Epoch of...

Welcome back, you enlightened motherf//kers. This week's special episode will serve as your comprehensive introduction to The Electoral Epoch, a recurring segment in which Comrade Joe deconstructs the American Left's battle for elected representation against the corporate, PAC-funded, neoliberal establishment. We glimpse into the yawning chasm of unspeakable horrors that is electoralism. Amongst t...