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00:00 – INTRO
01:47 – Friction
02:48 – McDonalds Digital Kiosks
03:59 – Digital Decadence Defined
04:49 – Introducing Historical Decadence
06:32 – Doordash Part One
08:25 – How to Blitzscale
09:01 – Doordash Part Two
13:55 – Free Labor Era?
16:45 – Grounded
18:02 – Heian Era Japan
20:50 – Oswald Spengler
23:35 – Spengler’s Seasons of Civilisation
25:15 – The Evil Economics of OF
31:40 – Simulation and Simulacra
32:34 – Reality/Image Meltdown
36:38 – Weird London Interlude
37:40 – Musk, Ani & Hyper-Reality
40:34 – The Simulation & You
43:07 – The Qing Dynasty, for some reason
46:03 – Digital Decadence & You