Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Bonus episode: Tech Bros on Acid with Douglas Rushkoff
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Douglas Rushkoff revisits Crazy Town for an interview with Asher Miller. He and Asher discuss why so many billionaires, academic institutions, and "serious" people are drawn to longtermism - the view that our top priority should be ensuring that humanity can spread its wings throughout the physical and virtual universe. What's the suffering of a few billion people in the here and now, when there's quadrillions, no quintillions, of potential future people to worry about? Sure, the climate crisis is bad. But is it really an existential threat? Douglas explains why, when you take a tech bro to drink Ayahuasca in the Amazon, he still comes back a tech bro. And why, when you hear buzzwords like longtermism, effective altruism, and transhumanism, all you need to ask is: Does it perpetuate capitalism? Asher and Douglas riff on why longtermism is denialism – denial of death, denial of the body, and denial of responsibility – and why the antithesis is living in the here and now, with our neighbors.
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Transcript can be found here: postcarbon.org/crazytown/bonusdouglasrushkoff
The Team Human Podcast and book: https://www.teamhuman.fm/
The Clock of the Long Now: longnow.org/clock
“Understanding Long-Termism: Why This Suddenly Influential Philosophy is So Toxic" by Émile P. Torres: salon.com/2022/08/20/understanding-longtermism-why-this-suddenly-influential-philosophy-is-so
Crazy Town Episode 37 – Discounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or… the Story of the Dueling Economists: postcarbon.org/crazytown/episode-37
Jessica Gordon Nembhard’ book, Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice: psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06216-7.html
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Crazy Town podcast website: postcarbon.org/crazytown
Follow the Crazy Town podcast on Facebook: facebook.com/crazytownshow
Review Crazy Town on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crazy-town/id1454850590?uo=4
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#crazytownpodcast #PostCarbonInstitute #climatechange #inequality #douglasrushkoff #teamhuman #technology #longtermism #future #effectivealtruism #transhumanism #future #colonization #tech #space #singularity #capitalism #crazytown
Bonus episode: Tech Bros on Acid with Douglas Rushkoff
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Douglas Rushkoff revisits Crazy Town for an interview with Asher Miller. He and Asher discuss why so many billionaires, academic institutions, and "serious" people are drawn to longtermism - the view that our top priority should be ensuring that humanity can spread its wings throughout the physical and virtual universe. What's the suffering of a few billion people in the here and now, when there's quadrillions, no quintillions, of potential future people to worry about? Sure, the climate crisis is bad. But is it really an existential threat? Douglas explains why, when you take a tech bro to drink Ayahuasca in the Amazon, he still comes back a tech bro. And why, when you hear buzzwords like longtermism, effective altruism, and transhumanism, all you need to ask is: Does it perpetuate capitalism? Asher and Douglas riff on why longtermism is denialism – denial of death, denial of the body, and denial of responsibility – and why the antithesis is living in the here and now, with our neighbors.
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Transcript can be found here: postcarbon.org/crazytown/bonusdouglasrushkoff
The Team Human Podcast and book: https://www.teamhuman.fm/
The Clock of the Long Now: longnow.org/clock
“Understanding Long-Termism: Why This Suddenly Influential Philosophy is So Toxic" by Émile P. Torres: salon.com/2022/08/20/understanding-longtermism-why-this-suddenly-influential-philosophy-is-so
Crazy Town Episode 37 – Discounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or… the Story of the Dueling Economists: postcarbon.org/crazytown/episode-37
Jessica Gordon Nembhard’ book, Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice: psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06216-7.html
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Crazy Town podcast website: postcarbon.org/crazytown
Follow the Crazy Town podcast on Facebook: facebook.com/crazytownshow
Review Crazy Town on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crazy-town/id1454850590?uo=4
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#crazytownpodcast #PostCarbonInstitute #climatechange #inequality #douglasrushkoff #teamhuman #technology #longtermism #future #effectivealtruism #transhumanism #future #colonization #tech #space #singularity #capitalism #crazytown
