
Episode 133: Silicon Valley vs. Science Fiction: Ayn Rand
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
There's a sort of sly reference to the Hila cells, which are actual cell culture in our real world. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks points out that these were cells that were taken without permission from a black woman who was dying of cancer. So this entire separatist white male civilization only exists because they're using the cells from a blackWoman. It feels very much like an inverse of Atlas Shrugged. And what I also love is that in this sort of utopian future, they say, Hey man, go for it. We don't mind. You do you.
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