We're with Anthony Banua-Simon, director of the documentary Cane Fire, to talk about the colonization and exploitation of the Hawai'ian people first by corporations, then by the US military, followed by Hollywood, and finally by tourism.
Few places hold as large a place in the American imagination as Hawaiʻi. For many people, Hawai'i represents paradise. It is the exotic. But maybe above all the other ideas about Hawaiʻi, it’s at the center of so many fantasies of escape.
In order to sustain any fantasy, we have to perfect it in our minds and turn it into a curated object. Part of doing that is learning to ignore any complications or contradictions that could break the spell. In the case of Hawai'i, those complications are the people—those pesky people, always getting in the way when capitalism is trying to have a good time.
Watch Cane Fire:
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/cane-fire/umc.cmc.77a7aja56b4olltstnkm3ts21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zI6-HX8P9k
https://means.tv/programs/cane-fire
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/cane-fire?frontend=kui
Learn about Anthony's other projects:
https://anthonysimon.net/
https://anthonysimon.net/The-Experiment-Station
We're also excited to announce that our long promised merch is here!!
We know it's tough sometimes to express your leftist feelings in public. Your ratty Che Guevara and CCCP t-shirts are better left at home. Now you can fly your crypto-leftist flag and still be completely under the radar with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized.
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Music:
Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY)
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We're with Anthony Banua-Simon, director of the documentary Cane Fire, to talk about the colonization and exploitation of the Hawai'ian people first by corporations, then by the US military, followed by Hollywood, and finally by tourism.
Few places hold as large a place in the American imagination as Hawaiʻi. For many people, Hawai'i represents paradise. It is the exotic. But maybe above all the other ideas about Hawaiʻi, it’s at the center of so many fantasies of escape.
In order to sustain any fantasy, we have to perfect it in our minds and turn it into a curated object. Part of doing that is learning to ignore any complications or contradictions that could break the spell. In the case of Hawai'i, those complications are the people—those pesky people, always getting in the way when capitalism is trying to have a good time.
Watch Cane Fire:
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/cane-fire/umc.cmc.77a7aja56b4olltstnkm3ts21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zI6-HX8P9k
https://means.tv/programs/cane-fire
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/cane-fire?frontend=kui
Learn about Anthony's other projects:
https://anthonysimon.net/
https://anthonysimon.net/The-Experiment-Station
We're also excited to announce that our long promised merch is here!!
We know it's tough sometimes to express your leftist feelings in public. Your ratty Che Guevara and CCCP t-shirts are better left at home. Now you can fly your crypto-leftist flag and still be completely under the radar with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized.
wetwired.printful.me/
Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog.
patreon.com/wetwired
Music:
Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY)
Premium Episode 20: Growing Up in the Children of God Cult feat Daniella Mestyanek Young (Unlocked)
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Premium Episode 20: Growing Up in the Children of God Cult feat Daniella Mestyanek Young (Unlocked)
We’re joined by Daniella Mestyanek Young, the author of Uncultured. She was born a third generation member of an influential family, within The Family International, better known as the Children of God cult. She escaped at fifteen, put herself through school, and graduated from college as valedictorian.
Daniella joined the Army, became Captain, and she received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award. She was an Intelligence Officer in one of the Army’s first Female Engagement Teams. In two tours and six years, she saw patterns in the military that were just like her experiences in the Children of God.
Here are Daniella's 10 characteristics of a cult that we talk about:
1. Has a charismatic leader (and a skinny white woman)
2. A sacred assumption
3. The transcendental mission
4. Self-sacrifice of members
5. Limits access to the outside world
6. Distinguishable vernacular
7. Us versus them mentality
8. Exploits members' labor
9. High exit costs
10. Ends justify the means mentality
Find Daniella online:
https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung
https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_
https://www.tiktok.com/@daniellamestyanekyoung
By Daniella's book UnCULTured
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250280114
We're also excited to announce that our long promised merch is here!!
We know it's tough sometimes to express your leftist feelings in public. Your ratty Che Guevara and CCCP t-shirts seem better left at home. Now you can fly your crypto-leftist flag and still be completely under the radar with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized.
wetwired.printful.me/
Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog.
patreon.com/wetwired
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We're with Anthony Banua-Simon, director of the documentary Cane Fire, to talk about the colonization and exploitation of the Hawai'ian people first by corporations, then by the US military, followed by Hollywood, and finally by tourism.
Few places hold as large a place in the American imagination as Hawaiʻi. For many people, Hawai'i represents paradise. It is the exotic. But maybe above all the other ideas about Hawaiʻi, it’s at the center of so many fantasies of escape.
In order to sustain any fantasy, we have to perfect it in our minds and turn it into a curated object. Part of doing that is learning to ignore any complications or contradictions that could break the spell. In the case of Hawai'i, those complications are the people—those pesky people, always getting in the way when capitalism is trying to have a good time.
Watch Cane Fire:
https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/cane-fire/umc.cmc.77a7aja56b4olltstnkm3ts21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zI6-HX8P9k
https://means.tv/programs/cane-fire
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/cane-fire?frontend=kui
Learn about Anthony's other projects:
https://anthonysimon.net/
https://anthonysimon.net/The-Experiment-Station
We're also excited to announce that our long promised merch is here!!
We know it's tough sometimes to express your leftist feelings in public. Your ratty Che Guevara and CCCP t-shirts are better left at home. Now you can fly your crypto-leftist flag and still be completely under the radar with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized.
wetwired.printful.me/
Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog.
patreon.com/wetwired
Music:
Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY)
