Why do powerful men keep fantasizing about public punishment? Lloyd Dobler riffs on “The Guillotine” by The Coup, written by Boots Riley, using the song’s provocation to examine how structural violence gets normalized under capitalism. In Chapter 18 of the Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu suggests that when a society forgets the Great Tao, fear hardens into spectacle—and power starts mistaking cruelty for strength. This episode was sparked by comments from Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, who recen...
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Why do powerful men keep fantasizing about public punishment? Lloyd Dobler riffs on “The Guillotine” by The Coup, written by Boots Riley, using the song’s provocation to examine how structural violence gets normalized under capitalism. In Chapter 18 of the Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu suggests that when a society forgets the Great Tao, fear hardens into spectacle—and power starts mistaking cruelty for strength. This episode was sparked by comments from Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, who recen...
What does it actually mean to refuse an unlawful order—when no one’s watching, and no one’s officially in charge? In Chapter 17 of The Tao of Lloyd, Lloyd Dobler moves from a humiliating road-rage incident in a Whole Foods parking lot to a chilling national moment: U.S. lawmakers reminding the military of a long-settled legal truth—that service members are required to refuse unlawful orders, only to be accused of sedition punishable by death. Drawing on Chapter 17 of the Tao Te Ching, Lloyd e...
The Tao of Lloyd
Why do powerful men keep fantasizing about public punishment? Lloyd Dobler riffs on “The Guillotine” by The Coup, written by Boots Riley, using the song’s provocation to examine how structural violence gets normalized under capitalism. In Chapter 18 of the Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu suggests that when a society forgets the Great Tao, fear hardens into spectacle—and power starts mistaking cruelty for strength. This episode was sparked by comments from Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, who recen...
