#110 - Why Did Someone Think This Was a Good Destination? Roy Casagranda on Modernity, Drug Dealer Empires, Neocolonialism, and the Cold War (4/4 Part Series)

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Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world.

-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:51 Part 1: The Grand Wealth Redistribution Scheme

01:57:01 Part 2: From Poland to Reagan

03:54:18 Part 3: The Promotion of Unfettered Greed

05:38:33 Part 4: Radiation and Madness

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