Brooke joins us this week to talk about the state of activism, and how it has become harder to determine what is performative and which is genuine. We entertain what it may take to create a revolution and how power can corrupt a movement.

AP058 video version: http://hyperurl.co/theataraxypodcast

REFERENCES:

• NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: https://bit.ly/3uuDJ0v

• "Sorry to Bother You" (2018) Trailer: https://bit.ly/3o1xsaa

• Black Lives Matter Opens Up About Finances: https://bit.ly/3xSn8Wm

• Where the Haiti Earthquake Fund Went: https://bit.ly/3tveWYw

• "Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself" by Joe Dispenza: https://amzn.to/3nWpsXG

• Military Soldiers on LSD: https://bit.ly/3evIe5n

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 — begin

02:05 — sperm donor baby

07:55 — thoughts on recent lockdown

13:57 — being skeptical of governing bodies

18:10 — not getting sucked into politics

21:51 — social media activism

27:05 — scattered activism

38:00 — the commodification of revolution

42:29 — power corrupts

45:34 — becoming a slave to your beliefs

55:05 — the "maybe" story

58:30 — synchronicity

59:50 — psychedelics (again lmao when do we not talk about psychs)

1:01:07 — states of being

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