Movies

Bird Box, Vegan Millennial Diets & The Hidden Story of Blade Runner – Jay & Primal Edge


Jay and Tristan return to cover the announcement that 2019 is the year of the vegan diet in the Economist, the Guardian and many other publications. We discuss previous debates with Vegan Gains, atheism and relativism and the impact on millennials. From there we dive into movies and pop culture, looking at Blade Runner, PKD, Bird Box, Under the Silver Lake, social engineering, and the rise of the AI smart city though Jacques Attali.

Capitalist Society Under the One Party of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

The delay of the socialist revolution engenders the indubitable phenomena of barbarism — chronic unemployment, pauperization of the petty bourgeoisie, fascism, finally wars of extermination which do not open up any new road.
— Leon Trotsky, In Defense of Marxism
While the citizens of the rich world are protected from harm, the poor, the vulnerable and the hungry are exposed to the harsh reality of climate change in their everyday lives…. We are drifting into a world of ‘adaptation apartheid.

The Thing, Prince of Darkness & Mouth of Madness: Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy Wed 5Pm EST


I’ve wanted to cover the Apocalypse trilogy for a long time now, three classics from legendary director John Carpenter. The Thing has a Cold War setting, while Prince of Darkness appears to predict the arrival of the era of Antichrist. In the Mouth of Madness is a meta=level fourth wall-breaking narrative about the Antichrist’s rule, with Hades coming through the portal. Other esoteric elements also come to the fore, as well shall see…Wednesday evening at 5PM EST!