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Fantasy Culture and the Flight from Reality
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Fantasy Culture and the Flight from Reality

Author Jonathan Taplin on how technocrats are influencing pop culture by capitalizing on economic instability
(Courtesy of Jonathan Taplin)

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Sonny Bunch is a contributing columnist at the Washington Post, The Bulwark culture editor, and member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association.

This week I’m rejoined by Jonathan Taplin, author of The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto, to discuss the ways in which popular culture may be leading the public down a dark road. Mr. Taplin has previously been on the show to talk about his career in the entertainment business, from tour manager for Bob Dylan to producer of early Martin Scorsese classics Means Streets and The Last Waltz to his early efforts to introduce video streaming, so he knows a thing or two about the ways in which politics are downstream from culture.

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