C-Realm Podcast

In this 300th C-Realm Podcast episode, KMO welcomes Dmitry Orlov back to the program to check in on the collapse narrative and to compare the actual unfolding of events with Dmitry's perspective of five years ago. Later Lorenzo Hagerty of the Psychedelic Salon Podcast and the Dopefiend of the Dopefiend.co.uk Podcast Network drop by to talk about the process of creating 300 podcast episodes. Finally KMO checks in with Black Beauty, the Australian with the velvety voice who provides the C-Realm Podcast with its bumpers, and Justin and Seth of the Extraenvironmentalist Podcast share a poem by Wendell Berry. Music by Yuki Tanaguchi and Inspired Flight. TED Filter Bubble

KMO welcomes Jitendra Darling of Occupy Cafe to the C-Realm Podcast to talk about the tension in the Occupy movement between people who advocate direct action in resisting the status quo and those who insist on a strictly non-violent approach to social transformation. Just before the musical interlude, Jitendra briefly summarizes why he thinks the Ego gets a bad rap. In the second half of the conversation, the topic turns to Foster Gamble's movie, Thrive, and Jitendra responds to criticisms of the film from Rob Hopkins, John Michael Greer, and Charles Eisenstein. Music by Kimi Lundie.

KMO welcomes visionary and solution architect, Philip Horvath, back to the C-Realm Podcast to talk about the role of the artist, value creation versus value conversion, and the possibilities for personal and cultural transformation in 2012. Philip talks about why he'd rather face uncertain times in L.A. than in the comfort of his native Germany, and KMO explains his Doomer Bodhisattva Vow.   Music by Mane Rok.

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 dare to ask. He challenges the methodology by which pathogens are identified as the causes of supposedly discrete diseases. The conversation turns to the slander of citizen journalists in Steven Soderberg's film Contagion, and KMO concludes with a reading to the essay "Introducing the Cultural Psychopomp" by Bodhi Paul Chefurka. Music by Dan Bull.

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? Nikola talks about hard and soft takeoff singularity scenarios and Nikki muses over whether a hard takeoff might seem smooth to sufficiently augmented human minds. KMO voices skepticism at the idea that nanotechnology, even if it really does deliver us into an age of post-scarcity, will eliminate exploitation of the Third World by economic elites. Music by Hobo Kings (Jon Margulies and Sub Swara) re-mixed by April White.

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 "mini singularity" is like calling a gentle breeze a "mini hurricane." In the second half of the program, the conversation turns to the normality bias. Nikola says that we're all lazy by nature and that in a constantly changing environment we must remain adaptable or perish. KMO ends the episode with a rant about how NPR presents vicious propaganda and pseudoscience under the genteel aegis of informed medical opinion. Music by The Transpersonals. Gerard  Sanacora, PhD, MD Professor of Psychiatry; Director, Yale Depression Research Program can be reached via email at gerard.sanacora@yale.edu  

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 capture by giant agribusiness corporations. KMO plays devil's advocate and mounts a strong challenge to his own libertarian ideals as they discuss the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul. KMO brings in the voices of Joel Salitin, Sheriff Richard Mack, and Mike Daisy to put the raw milk question into a larger context. Music by Dan Bull. Read Nicole Foss's essay The Storm Surge of Decentralization. Join Albert Bates and Cliff Davis for the 7th Annual Maya Mountain Research Farm Permaculture Design Course.

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 she describes cash as "a pile of unmade choices" and why she cannot offer her uncomplicated support for political movements like the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street. She does voice her strong support for permaculture and for restoring soil fertility. Music by Andrew Woods. Click here to learn more about the 7th Annual Permaculture Design Course at Maya Mountain Research Farm.

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 the candidacy of Ron Paul. Music by Kurt Liebezeit.

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 our personal and societal operating systems, the complexity of our world made by nerds, and the reality of the situation on the ground in Pakistan and how it differs from the worldview propagated by the screaming media. Music by Mawwal.

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 both stick their necks out and make predictions for 2012.   Music by Garret Wayseer.

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 the protest movement could learn something from Marxist Communism, even though Doug admits that he doesn't know enough about Marxism to call himself a Marxist. KMO concludes with readings from David Brin and David Graeber. Music by Tiny Machines.

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 him neither cell phone nor automobile. The conversation turns to the Occupy movement, the Ecovillage Training Center, and, of course, podcasting. KMO concludes the podcast with praise for David Graeber's new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Music by Deertick.

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 to the edge of ecological ruin. In the second half of the conversation Tim reads from his new novel, All of the Above, and Tim explains why he mixed concerns about peak oil and environmental degradation with aliens, UFOs, and other seemingly frivolous and fanciful elements. Monologist, Martin Dockery describes how the police could brutalize protesters without having to live with the consequences of having their actions captured on video. Music by Kyrstyn Pixton.