Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and ManipulationNaomi Klein & Astra Taylor, Part 2 - Billionaires, Big Tech, and the Power of Collective Action
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
Trust Me is a weekly interview podcast about cults, extreme belief, and the fine line between devotion and delusion—told through firsthand accounts fr…This week is part two with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, authors of End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. They discuss Peter Thiel’s billionaire gathering called the Apocalypse Ball, how Silicon Valley’s AI arms race borrows from religious promises of salvation and fears of the end of the world, and how cozy billionaires and tech companies are getting with the Trump administration.
They also get into the rapid acceleration of AI data centers, the dystopian growing relationship between Big Tech and the military, and who pays the price for billionaires’ visions of the future. Plus, Naomi and Astra explain how communities are fighting back, and how collective action can turn apocalyptic dread into something more useful than waiting for the world to end.
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