Elucidate No. 39 - Mitchell Knight

Mitchell is interested in society, politics, arts, philosophy, good books, technology, and media. At the time of this podcast he works as a server at a Thai restaurant. - We talk about politics, read-only and read/write technology, social media, and some about books.

Direct link to video: https://youtu.be/bN6X6sCYC8s

Audio of this podcast can be downloaded here: http://off.li/Zrssn

Show notes: 

- Mitchell Knights facebook page: facebook.com/mitchellcoreyknight

Things we talked about:

- Media consolidation: http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart

- Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-blueprint-for-armageddon-i/
- Dog Whistle Politics: http://billmoyers.com/episode/ian-haney-lopez-on-the-dog-whistle-politics-of-race/

- What Social Media Is Doing To Our Brains: http://www.cnet.com/news/this-is-what-social-media-is-doing-to-your-brain/

- Facebook's trust engineers: http://www.radiolab.org/story/trust-engineers/

- Why social media makes us unhappy: http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/04/08/new-study-links-facebook-to-depression-but-now-we-actually-understand-why/

- Blood Meridian book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian

- Ismael book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel)