Episode 3396: The Goon Squad

Daniel Kolitz’s super-viral Harper’s article about Gooning was the talk of the internet last week. Today Daniel joins us to talk about the gooning subculture and what its growth can tell us about the way our culture is evolving.

What are the gooners doing? Are they really so extreme, or just a little way further down the same road we all seem to be on? Is cultural decline real, and if so is this what it looks like? What would it mean to be a blinking node incorporated into a global electronic nervous system owned by Elon Musk?

Read Daniel’s article here

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