Superhuman - From Engineered Desire to Engineered Consent
A father’s search for answers and the century-long con that sold corporate freedom as our own. When my son died, I started asking questions. The answers led me to places I never expected: a dinner party in Vienna, a railroad case nobody remembers, our constitutional rights hijacked as an excuse to look away while children die. Superhuman is my search for what happened. Not just to my son, but to all of us.
Episodes
The episode opens by introducing the Superhuman series—how corporations became entities with more legal rights than humans but none of the accountability. This isn't just about technology or social media—it's about power, who wields it, and how we built a system where companies can harm children at scale and face no consequences.
Then Laura Marquez-Garrett of the Social Media Victims Law Center, who represents over 4,000 ...
This Episode explores how a century of manipulation techniques became smartphone features, through conversations with Jean Cavendish, a clinical psychiatrist who spent decades helping people escape cult programming. Jean died on November 17, 2025, a month after recording. This episode is a dedication to her life and work.
The episode features testimony from Lori Schott about how Meta targets children's insecurities, and Taj Je...
How did corporations get more constitutional rights than your children?
When a bookshelf tips over and harms one child, there's an immediate recall. When platform algorithms push suicide content to depressed teens, they claim First Amendment protection.
To understand how we got here, Aaron traces the path from Jefferson's worst fears to today's reality. In 1886, a court reporter's unauthorized footnote gave corpor...
Twenty-six words written in 1996 gave platforms legal immunity. One court decision in 1997 turned that immunity into a business model.
Attorney Carrie Goldberg shares what it's like representing hundreds of victims, from sextortion to cyberbullying to suicide, and watching nearly every case slam into the same wall. Brett Allred and Kristin Bride reveal what the absence of "good faith" looks like when platforms know th...
I wasn’t planning to write or record this week, but the one-year angelversary and a lonely holiday got under my skin, and I couldn’t help myself. What follows is a bit of a spiral: a walk through the same spiral logic so many of us get pulled into, where fear and outrage compound, the feed “finishes” the story for us, and the loudest narratives start to feel like reality.
This is a companion episode to the main arc of the season, pa...
In “Muted Cases,” Aaron recounts the days after Avery’s death—the evidence scramble, and the slow, brutal realization that what the community most needs to understand can be narrowed, negotiated, and effectively erased from the official record.
The episode expands beyond one family’s loss into a repeatable pattern: teen networks, platform mechanics, and legal structures that struggle to name what’s happening in plain language. Thro...
A bill can say “child safety” on the front and still protect the companies causing the harm. In Wolves and Children, Aaron traces how lobbying, legal misdirection, and manufactured public pressure shape the laws parents are told to trust. Featuring Brody Mullins, Julia Duncan, Sarah Gardner, and Lennon Torres.
Links and Resources
Brody Mullins
The Wolves of K Street Podcast
A companion podcast exploring lobbying, corporate influence, a...
In the season finale of Superhuman, Aaron brings on four guests for a closer look at the cracks in the system, at the incentives that put them there, and why remembering is the first step to fixing them.
Click here to watch a collection of video clips of Avery set to the music from Koyaanisqatsi.
Guests
Danica Noble www.electdanica.com
Brian Boland www.delta-fund.org
Julianna Arnold https://parentsrise.org/
Reiko Callner
Music
Joachim Cood...
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