STEVEN: on capturing and documenting culture, where the West begins

What is the role of government? In this episode I catch up with my old friend and bandmate Comma Joe. We talk about “sounds on the periphery of society” including his experience in International Development stemming from graduate studies at Utrecht University, where we first met. I hear about his time in Togo, Uganda, and Chad and learn about Water and Sanitation Health (WASH) issues in context

of the global pandemic. We talk some about research methods and then turn to vaccines and travel - along with inoculation passports; and security theatre observing concern about a rise in authoritarianism globally. Discussions are not limited to the frontier of Texas and gun regulation; comments on the effects of globalization and Steven’s personal story getting COVID-19 in Africa. See some of Steven’s photography from his travels.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

- Benjamin Franklin 

References  

• The Making Sense Podcast: ENGINEERING THE APOCALYPSE By Rob Reid and Sam Harris
• US Supreme Court backs Colorado baker's gay wedding cake snub
• A Journal of the Plague Year (in 1665) by Daniel Defoe
• The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
• Carter Center