What happens when reality TV becomes a haunted house?

This episode looks at The Shining and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City as the same structure repeating itself: endless luxury, frozen time, and personalities trapped inside a building that remembers everything.

Using Mark Fisher’s hauntology, this episode explores how reality TV functions as a cultural ghost — a looped performance of wealth, identity, and breakdown that can never resolve, only repeat.

Not horror.

Not satire.

A system that won’t stop replaying itself.

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Arguments about communism, socialism, and capitalism rarely fail because people disagree.

They fail because nobody is using the same definitions.

This episode looks at how political language turns into dinner-table theater — where words stand in for understanding, and certainty replaces curiosity.

Not a lesson.

Not a debate.

An observation from the bench.🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.

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🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.

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🌐 Website: http://gavinstephens.ca

🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized

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🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com

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Episode 2 of Park Bench Ontology looks at enframing — the idea that modern systems don’t just control what we do, but how the world shows up to us in the first place.

Using Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, we trace how empathy, humanity, and morality become measurable outputs inside a technological worldview — and what happens when people start treating themselves like machines.

This isn’t about robots. It’s about work, burnout, identity, and why being human now feels like a performance metric.

When everything becomes a resource — attention, emotion, relationships — the question isn’t “Are we free?”

It’s “Free to do what?”

Park Bench Ontology is a lo-fi philosophy series about ideology, culture, capitalism, and existential drift.

New episodes weekly.

🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.

🔗 Follow & Support:

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🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized

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🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com

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Also, Check out the Substack: Dispatch From The Simulation

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🎙 Park Bench Ontology — existential comedy for the end of the world.

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🌐 Website: http://gavinstephens.ca

🎧 Podcast: https://pod.link/uncolonized

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🐦 Bluesky: gavinstephens.substack.com

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📼 YouTube: http://youtube.com/@parkbenchontology

Also, Check out the Substack: Dispatch From The Simulation

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