Episode 258: Superman during The Purge

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather discuss fictional dystopian surveillance states, recourse to works of fiction in political discourse, PRISM, and The Purge.

Spoilers for George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Further Reading

• Big Brother is Hugging You
• Hedley Lamarr from Blazing Saddles vs. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr](Hedy Lamarr)
• The Purge

Alternative Titltes for This Episode

• It’s Watchmen All The Way Down
• TCP/IP Werewolf Communications
• The Surveillance State that Makes Us Buy Cereal
• Big Wrather is Watching
• In The 24th Century, Nobody Hates Each Other Because Everybody Hates Each Other
• I Just Purged All Over Myself