Collette Shade, a grad student and a writer focusing on the intersection of mental health, politics, and capitalism, joins Ben Burgis on the show. She discusses her recent article for “The New Republic,” “Self-Help Hacks at the End of the World.” Collette discusses her focus on the fact that there are no quick hacks to solve mental health issues that have recently been created or exacerbated by the public health and financial crisis in the U.S. Shade delves into public policy failures that have recently caused a massive national crisis in employment, financial and housing security, access to medical care, etc., that have lead to enormous upticks in mental health issues for Americans. She pushes back on the media narrative that Covid-19 is at the root of this crisis by pointing to the failure of our government to introduce policy that would prevent these different types of stress and insecurity. Independent creators rely on your support to create the content you want! Support Give Them An Argument on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis. Patrons get early access to every episode as well as a weekly bonus episode and regularly scheduled "Discord Office Hours" group voice chats. Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis Like, subscribe, and get notifications on Ben’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/BenBurgisGTAA Visit benburgis.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmXcdAahMMY

Writer Micah Uetricht and producer Forrest Miller join Ben for a discussion about documentary film “Hearts of Darkness,” which covered the ultimately very dramatic, production-problem filled, and drawn out making of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” Coppola’s wife Eleanor started the “Hearts of Darkness” project, but gave her unfinished material to George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr in 1990. New interviews with cast and crew reinvigorated the project, and the Coppola, Hickenlooper, and Bahr debuted the film at Cannes in 1991 to widespread acclaim. Ben, Micah, and Forrest discuss the how socialism would deal with jobs like filmmaking — often described as “dictatorial” scenarios, with the director having first, second, and final say in what goes on during a production; and unpredictable working scenarios (long hours due to bad weather, long hours because of bad weather, rampant illness because of the ideal filming conditions for the specific film). A film like “Apocalypse Now” is a good example of extreme conditions like this, and why decision making by committee would be particularly challenging for the jobs in these scenarios. Most careers in an industry like film are tied to money, and without that (flawed) value-signifier, we would need to think up new ways to allow for participation in similar industries. Independent creators rely on your support to create the content you want! Support Give Them An Argument on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis. Patrons get early access to every episode as well as a weekly bonus episode and regularly scheduled "Discord Office Hours" group voice chats. Follow Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis Like, subscribe, and get notifications on Ben’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/BenBurgisGTAA Visit benburgis.com Image Credit, sunset: Keven Law https://www.flickr.com/people/66164549@N00 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode Image has been cropped and color has been altered. Image Credit, Francis Ford Coppola: Greg 2600 https://www.flickr.com/people/46117775@N04 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode Image has been cropped and color has been altered. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzf4qW0lpjE