“This is a wonderful podcast that holds nothing back from the listener about the complexity of the situation of it’s subjects. Truly, landmark reporting for the modern age of in-depth journalism. Nihilism and meaningfulness collide effortlessly to the audience.
I am, however, disappointed in how the Midwest is portrayed as a backward, backwater stuck in a sort of bygone-era-cultural-stasis. I realize this is reporting the view of the subjects perception of their social environment, but it’s seems under contextualized by the reporters, and that renders the listener with a distorted view of the region, as if the culturally problematic issues in the Midwest are some how more sever that they are in the country as a whole, which they aren’t. Those problems loom everywhere and no region is immune to such cultural inertia. The Midwest is a complex place. As complex as anywhere else. We all need to reflect on where we live, the surrounding areas and how change we want to see in the world is and isn’t happening there.”
SQD->INC. via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/11/18