Realpolitik in an Unreal World
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There’s some weeks when you don’t know what to say, and others when you don’t know where to start. Today begins the latter sort. Happy Monday… I chose the episode title “Way Down We Go” because I like a song by that name, from a band called Kaleo. I’m not going to play it, because […]
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This Monday, April 3rd at 9:30pm US Eastern Time, we will begin a regular production schedule for SurrealPolitiks. These can be viewed on our Entropy Channel, or listened to through our live audio player. We will aim to do this every Monday going forward, though we encourage you to stay tuned to our newsletter and […]
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https://surrealpolitiks.com/podcast-player/762/members-only-chat-20230330.mp3Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 2:06:33 | Recorded on March 30, 2023One of the member perks here at SurrealPolitiks is a weekly video chat for members only. We did our first one last night, and I think it went really well. I originally said we’d go for at least an hour,...
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We would like to begin by thanking those of you who became members right away, even when there was not much in the way of benefits to this. Your support means the world to us, and as we have worked to produce content for the general public, we have also quietly been working on ways […]
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What is political power? One way to think about it, is as the capacity to alter the behavior of others. In this sense, the formal acquisition of such power, as in the assignment to a position within the government, or political party, is merely the acknowledgement of a previously existing state of affairs. One obtains […]
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Tonight at 8:00pm Eastern we will do our first live airing of the SurrealPolitiks Podcast! Stage One, Episode 2 (S01E002) is titled “Choice Architect” and the opening monologue will feature a short review of “Nudge” by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. (Ad Disclosure) You can watch live video on our Entropy Page, and chat with […]
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You might have heard, I didn’t have access to a computer for awhile. During that time, I kept hearing news stories about political bias in AI, most notably Chat GPT. They won’t promote fossil fuels, say anything bad about Democrats, etc… The libertarian in me said the same thing I used to say about social […]
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Not long after the SurrealPolitiks shop went live, we discovered a problem with our shipping calculator. Some shoppers were quoted shipping rates that ranged from overpriced to outrageous. This problem has been fixed, and below we’ll tell you what happened and how we will deal with this going forward. SurrealPolitiks does not mean to profit […]
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Welcome to this first episode of SurrealPolitiks. Per our episode title, and the branding throughout, the theme of this production is, “Realpolitik in an Unreal World”. It is the position of this show’s production team, that the politics of the United States have become bogged down in ideological nonsense. Nonsense ideologies, yes, to be sure, […]
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Not to be confused with “Surrealism”, SurrealPolitiks is “Realpolitik in an Unreal World”. The term Realpolitik is most often used in discussion of foreign policy, but it is equally applicable to domestic affairs. It can carry many connotations, from pragmatic policy decisions, to coercive exercises of raw political power. A more neutral definition can be […]
