KMO welcomes Joh Rappoport of NoMoreFakeNews to the C-Realm Podcast to discuss the institution of medicine as the religion of the modern age. Jon has spent 30 years as an investigative journalist, and his investigations have prompted him to ask questions which few journalists [...]
KMO continues his conversation on technology, transhumanism, and the technological singularity with Nikki Olson and Nikola Danaylov of the Singularity Weblog. Does death help clear the board and relieve human civilization of the weight of outmoded ideological commitments, or is it an unmitigated evil which must be overcome? [...]
KMO welcomes Nikki Olson and Nikola Danaylov back to the C-Realm to talk about technology and rationality. Nikola responds to a C-Realm listener’s comments about the diminishing returns of technology, and Nikki explains why she thinks calling a technological development like the iPhone a [...]
KMO welcomes Liz Reitzig of Raw Milk Freedom Riders back to the program to talk about the FDA’s campaign against raw milk and families who trust their own judgment more than they trust that of federal agencies in state of regulatory [...]
KMO welcomes Nicole Foss (AKA Stoneleigh) of the Automatic Earth blog to the C-Realm to discuss the need for re-localization; something which central authorities will work to quash lest it interfere with the conveyance of wealth from the periphery to the center. Nicole explains what she means when [...]
KMO welcomes Mark Robinowitz of OilEmpire.us back to the C-Realm to discuss economics, protest, and the management of mainstream worlviews by the corporate media. Mark explains why he regards the presidential election as a form a theater and why he holds no enthusiasm for [...]
KMO talks with Bruce Damer and Galen Brandt about what it’s like to have crossed the threshold into 2012 after so many years of having our expectations built up listening to Terence McKenna talk about novelty and concrescence. Other topics of discussion include upgrading [...]
KMO welcomes C-Realm Podcast regular, Eric Boyd, back to the program to talk about the protest movements of 2011, the need for, and roadblocks to, a debt jubilee, and whether there is any meaningful distinction to be drawn between extreme libertarianism and anarchism. They [...]
KMO welcomes Doug Lain back to the program to discuss his novella, Wave of Mutilation, a tale of bizarro fiction in the fourth-wall-shattering tradition of VALIS. The discussion, of course, turns to Occupy Wall Street, and Doug suggests that the prevailing anarchist mentality of [...]
What does 2012 hold in store? KMO put that question to Steve Keen, Nicole Foss and Thomas H. Greco. In the second half of the program, KMO shares recordings from this year’s ASPO-USA conference and responds to questions from listeners. Music by Resist Not.
KMO welcomes KunstlerCast host, Duncan Crary, back to the C-Realm to talk about his four-year intellectual apprenticeship which has culiminated in his new book, The KunstlerCast: Conversations with James Howard Kunstler. Duncan extols the virtues of life in Troy, New York, which requires of [...]
KMO welcomes filmmaker and novelist Timothy Scott Bennett back to the C-Realm to discuss vision quests and the search for a new story by which to orient the human relationship to our world. For 10,000 years, humans have lived the story that the world was made for our use, and this programming has brought us [...]
This episode of the C-Realm Podcast features a conversation between KMO, Guy McPherson, Kurt Cobb, and Henry Warwick. Guy hopes for a crash of industrial civilization in the near term, Kurt warns that saying “collapse” in front of a general audience is like cursing [...]
KMO welcomes anti-economist Professor Steve Keen to the C-Realm to detail the limitations of neoclassical economics as well as popular misconceptions promulgated by advocates of alternative economics. Professor Keen disposes of the “moral hazard” argument against the inevitable debt jubilee and provides some advice for weathering the looming [...]
KMO travels to Washington DC for the annual ASPO conference and the NYC for Occupy This, a night of discussion on the topic of Occupy Wall Street. Featuring the voices of Dmitry Orlov, Aaron Wissner, Mark Robinowitz, and Dennis Meadows.