Disclaimer: Episode is NOT Appropriate for children!
Thomas Maier and a roundtable of guests: Aharon Dubovin, Connor Sayger, and Sam Davis discuss the differences between a utopia of no surprises and no alarms vs the “possibility of mass destruction” (by fire) presented in Hawthorne’s ‘Fire Worship’.
Sources:
‘No Surprises’ lyrics by Radiohead
‘Fire Worship’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne
‘The Machine Stops’ by E.M. Forester
‘The Time Machine’ by H.G. Wells