The Ninth Disquisition: The Addictive Nature of the Meaningless Click

Topics Discussed:

• Zombie Apocalypse
• Zombies in Fiction
• Prometheus
• Fermi paradox
• Xenoarchaeology
• Star Trek
• The "Meaningless" Click in Social Media
• Digital Dualism and The Matrix
• Riots and Protests
• The Evolution of Occupy Wall Street
• US Citizenship and Immigration
• Population Density
• 4chan Culture and Reddit Culture
• Papa Doc's Army of Zombies
• Voodoo Zombies
• 4chan Culture and Reddit Culture

Recommended Reading:

• Total Eclipse by John Brunner
• The Comedians by Graham Greene
• Cell by Stephen King
• The Engines Of God by Jack McDevitt
• Protector by Larry Niven
• Alone Together by Sherry Turkle

Recommended Viewing:

• The Signal directed by David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry
• The Serpent and the Rainbow directed by Wes Craven
• Blue Sunshine directed by Jeff Lieberman

Recommended Podcast Episodes:

• Social Blend 202: Operation #Zombie

Recommended Links:

• The Economist: Prometheus Review
• The New Yorker: Leaving Facebookistan
• Giant Freakin Robot: Michael Dorn Is Pitching A Star Trek Movie About Worf
• Wikipedia: Fermi paradox
• Wikipedia: List of sovereign states and dependent territories by population density
• Wikipedia: Methylenedioxypyrovalerone
• Wikipedia: Xenoarchaeology

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Disquisition is a podcast documenting the meandering tangents and discursive ramblings within ongoing conversations between Greg Davies aka cGt2099 and Lee Garnett aka ncomment. The show goes in depth into a variety of thoughts ranging from socio-cultural elements and political elements within social media; to history and philosophy, and a variety of book and film recommendations.

Music used in the Disquisition Intro and Closing Theme was performed and written by Terr Ciavarra aka Media Nox

Catch Greg Davies online at the Social Blend Podcast and on Twitter @cGt2099

Catch Lee Garnett online at his ncomment comics blog and on Twitter @ncomment

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