Caro & Katie discuss your questions about:
Whether the “financial independence, retire early” movement is an effective way to Cordyceps-bug (visual below) capitalism for your own freedom or a gateway drug to the life-diminishing tendency to obsess about money
Why Katie would accept Fox News’s radical Marxist label
Caro’s Yesteryear experience and why success sometimes feels like failure
The creative process and whether creating from a place of defensiveness makes for shittier art
The future of Diabolical Lies if you people continue to tolerate us
Politically agnostic friends and the expectation that every element of your personal life conforms to your political ideals
Whether Christianity and feminism are compatible, and if feminism can really be “compatible” with any belief system that evolved under thousands of years of patriarchy
Conspiracy theories we believe in1
How to feel generally better about your career under capitalism
The difficulty of “killing the (misogynist, capitalist, etc.) cop in your head” and choosing more fulfilling work that may earn less or no money2
Whether we use PowerPoints to present our outlines to one another3 and how our research process has evolved from our glorified voice notes
Neutralizing the male gaze and self-objectification theory
We’ll see paid subscribers again in October for a topical episode that will (probably) be about the never-ending breastfeeding vs. formula culture war.
