Terror & Memes

This week we talk about terrorism, acronyms, and Doge.

We also discuss memetics, mass surveillance, and the Irish Republican Army.

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Show Notes

• Intro
• Genes & memes
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Memetics
• Concept
• Semiotics
• Know Your Meme
• I Can Haz Cheezburger & Trump Trucker & Doge

• Unspooling
• Londoners share images of unity and strength after Westminster attack via BBC
• London attack: British-born attacker ‘known to MI5’
• Keep Calm and Carry On
• Stiff upper lip
• Westminster attack: Artists around the world share powerful cartoons in response to London attack
• 2016 Nice, France attack
• 2015 Paris, France attacks
• States of emergency in France
• USA PATRIOT Act
• Charleston, South Carolina church shooting
• Asymmetric warfare
• The TSA’s Selective Laptop Ban
• Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom
• UK surveillance law marks a ‘worse than scary’ shift
• Investigatory Powers Act 2016
• Snowden’s comments on the Snooper’s Charter
• ‘Extreme surveillance’ becomes UK law with barely a whimper
• Understanding terrorism
• “In times of great stress, the thinking, neocortical brain, our “smartest self,” relinquishes its authority to the extremes of the primitive, reptilian brain.”
• Domestic violence stats
• The Causes of Terrorism
• Irish Republican Army
• As pointed out by a listener, Gaelic football is different from ‘football’ or ‘soccer,’ and it was a Gaelic football match that was the target of the shooting on Bloody Sunday
• The moral justification of colonialism
• Past episode: Privilege

• Outro
• My new book: Becoming Who We Need To Be
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