58 - Doom is the Business of Humanity

Kris took a road trip to see Patti Smith perform at the Henry Miller library. We have a discussion about both the importance of a set of rules, and the imperative to break them. Is cancel culture on its last legs? What is "doomer optimism"? At the end of the day, if we're ever going to move past some of this stuff, we have to get tired of ourselves.

Brother (1997)

Patti Smith

The Henry Miller Library

The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller

D.H. Lawrence

Walt Whitman

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Kate Millett

“Rock and Roll N*****”

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

Panopticon

Erica Jong