How I Know the World Is Leaving the U.S. Behind
In this episode, Carmen explores a quiet but unmistakable cultural shift — one you don’t see in headlines, but you feel in the stories we tell and the ones we’ve stopped telling. What begins with a Canadian TV show becomes a wider examination of how the U.S. lost its place as the world’s storytelling center, not because someone took it, but because we stopped protecting the craft that built it.
Through the lens of Wild Cards, the collapse of mid‑budget TV, the shock‑value era of American network decisions, and the rise of global storytelling ecosystems, Carmen traces the cracks in the U.S…
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