A woman in Canada chose assisted suicide because of medical bills, lack of treatment and a chronic condition. A Canadian company then takes this story, all this material and crafts an ad around it. Now, when the ad was released, this woman was already dead, but they had filmed her and recorded her talking about her death before she died. But then they came out later that she actually did not want to die. The ad is sort of, it's not psychedelic, but like Pacific Northwest hippie vibes with lots of trees and beaches and bubbles.
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Stagflation. Fuel Prices. Shortages. Political Turmoil. War in Europe. Roe V. Wade. Crypto Collapse. Counter-counter culture. Most years have one or two seminal, defining events that set the societal zeitgeist, but in 2022 so many events vied for attention that most people had to take time not only to revaluate what it means for the future, but also simply how to filter out the signal from the noise. Tonight we dive into the year, starting with the Ukrainian conflict, and ending with what might be emerging as an escalating one in Mexico, but in between cover the economic and cultural shakeups that continue to leave shockwaves into 2023.
