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May 24, 2024
Episode 19: We fought the Law and the Law won
Special guest Olly Buxton (A.K.A. "The Jolly Contrarian") leads Mikey and Darrell through the ossified entrails of the Legal Establishment in our first outing into its echoing dusty halls. The Law is an edifice so vast, so powerful and so ancient tha...
Special guest Olly Buxton (A.K.A. "The Jolly Contrarian") leads Mikey and Darrell through the ossified entrails of the Legal Establishment in our first outing into its echoing dusty halls. The Law is an edifice so vast, so powerful and so ancient that waves of changes bounce ineffectually off its granite walls.
Even granite does not last forever.
Rest assured that despite the dark tones of formality, we remain steadfastly jolly throughout.
Olly is as well read as Darrell (i.e. off the scale) and is an excellent font of future enlightening tomes.
Refs:
https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Seeing_Like_a_State James C Scott's Seeing Like a State
https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Systemantics:_The_Systems_Bible John Gall’s Systemantics: the Systems Bible which is absolutely hilarious
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/ai-monkeys-paw/ Cory Doctorow on Generative AI and copyright
https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities Jane Jacobs on modernism
Rory Sutherland on Eurostar https://youtu.be/iueVZJVEmEs?t=373
Rory Sutherland's excellent book https://jollycontrarian.com/index.php?title=Alchemy:_The_Surprising_Power_of_Ideas_that_Don%E2%80%99t_Make_Sense
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