278: This Podcast is Illegal

In 'The Minority Report', Philip K. Dick delves into a future society where the Precrime Division uses precognitive mutants to foresee and prevent crimes. The story follows John Anderton, the head of Precrime, who becomes embroiled in a conspiracy when he is predicted to commit a murder. As Anderton navigates this complex situation, he uncovers the concept of a 'minority report', which challenges the infallibility of the Precrime system and raises questions about free will and the nature of justice.

In this book Dr. Allred discusses how early Latter-day Saints were uniquely open to visions and visual experience, and how we ourselves can practice seeing beyond the surface to the divine potential in everything. The book is about how modern visual technologies can challenge but also enhance our spiritual sight. It also explores the connection between the visionary nature of Joseph Smith's prophetic calling and the way we as Latter-day Saints can hone our spiritual sight in an age of smartphones and screens. The book helps to understand how seeing can become a pathway to deeper discipleship. It focuses on how to engage with everything in much more charitable and open and loving ways

In this novel, José Saramago narrates the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of 'white blindness' that suddenly and inexplicably afflicts nearly everyone in an unnamed city. The government responds by quarantining the blind in an abandoned mental asylum, where social order quickly deteriorates. The narrative follows a small group of characters, including the 'doctor's wife,' who is the only person to retain her sight. She guides her group through the harrowing conditions within the asylum and later in the city, as they struggle to survive and maintain some semblance of humanity. The novel explores themes of social decay, morality, and the resilience of human spirit in the face of catastrophic adversity.