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Keith Preston of Attack The System
KMO welcomes Keith Preston back to the program to discuss the difference between absolute and relative poverty. There are a lot of people who make less than the national average, but most of the so-called poverty in the US is relative poverty. Even so, social stratification and wide disparities between rich and poor, even when the poor are not facing starvation, erodes the sense of shared national identity and makes democratic government difficult to maintain.
If you don't subscribe to the C-Realm Vault Podcast, it probably seems like KMO hasn't been putting out any new material for the past couple of months. Well, the C-Realm Big Room is now open with a new episode of C-Realm Radio. This episode has very little to do with the new film adaptation of Stephen King's It and everything to do with climate change, artificial intelligence, co-adapted meme complexes, Facebook, Donald Trump, political and social dysfunction, or, in a word, "consciousness." The guest is Douglas Lain, the publisher of 
This is a conversation recorded at the home of 
KMO is leaving Bellows Falls for the summer, so this will be the last episode of C-Realm Radio for a good long while. In the first hour, we hear from 
Hour 1: Both the Vermont House and Senate moved heaven and earth to get a marijuana legalization bill in front of Governor Phil Scott (R). He hasn't said he'd veto the bill, but the tired marijuana cliches he's been regurgitating don't inspire much confidence. KMO and Silas talk to 