SurrealPolitiks S01E005 – Artificially Credulous

There has been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence lately in the news, and I’ve been struggling to get caught up with how dramatically technology has changed in the last three years.  One might expect the pace of change to only increase from here, and as much as I share the concerns of Elon […]

SurrealPolitiks S01E004 – Spies, Gone Wild

There’s an old saying that two men can keep a secret, if one of them is dead. Which means Washington is going to have a lot of very morbid work to do, if it wants to clean up its intelligence messes. Over a million people in the United States have “Top Secret” security clearances. While […]

SurrealPolitiks S01E003 – Way Down We Go

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 […]

SurrealPolitiks S01E002 – Choice Architect

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 […]

SurrealPolitiks S01E001 – Realpolitik in an Unreal World

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, […]