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The single biggest obstacle to anarchism is that humans pine for dear leader; for big brother. Politicians know this. tavi.

Another angry commie whining because he cant have his revolution? Haha. This nostalgia isnt subversive enough? Too much complacency? Why cant we escape from the greatest system ever created? 😫😂

What exactly is meant by capitalism ? Marx's strawman of freemarket economies ? ( Which was just anti-jewish faith hate....he called non-jewish capitalists Internally circumcised people, capitalism was the jewish faith according to him). Actual free market economies ? I don't think we have either. All "free" market operations are carried out with currency required to be used by government force. And that only to easily be able to operate .gov wealth extraction schemes and hide them in the margins of perception. ( inflationary games and interest rate games). Both are destructively distorting to free markets and rational allocation of production according to wants and needs. At it's core The free market is just a distributed computational scheme to resolve resource scarcity without the application of direct naked force. It's very unlikely that any small group of "experts" can gather enough data and brainpower to enable even a fraction of the information gathering, processing and execution power of economic reality done under a free market economy. Even the USSR with it's vast array of burocrats was hopelessly out of phase with it's economic reality. It even had to resort to importing price levels from Capitalist countries, however out of date or non applicable those prices were to the soviet economy. Many millions of prices had to be set. All the work done on the economic plans of idealists, intellectuals and burocrats pale in comparison to planning that is done collectively by the Free Market. I find that highly ironic. Statists, despite their claimed socialistic goals of elevating the common man are forever locked out of (economic ) reality and thus cannot ever realistically deal with scarcity beyond the usage of state force, for a time.

Convince everyone they are a victim and turn them into activists for the revolution. Yawn..... how many iterations of this bs will there be?

Here we go again... overthrow capitalism through constant criticism and promote perpetual revolution as the alternative "solution."

After youre done promoting this childish garbage, maybe you could do a series revolving around the sane counter arguments to this cultural marxist bs

I remember the past. You could just ask me.

Failed attempt at a defense of neo Marxism. Not even sure why you're trying.....

New to this channel. I am so thankful for your work.

This is all st up id. Our society was in the recent past fully capable of dealing with human problems. That is before social institutions that were thousands of years old were systematically dismantled by a radicalized elite that had empowered itself to reinvent humanity.

Anything more than teaching children reading, writing and arithmetic will inevitably be state propaganda.

Thank you for 2 really thought provoking episodes. Only just come across your channel and it is some feat to talk solo on philosophical ideas for 40 mins without eliciting a single yawn! As a child of the late 50's this critique makes a lot of sense and I would have to confess to feeling like a post-modernist although I would never have considered myself so even if I had understood the term previously. Having read and listened to a lot of viewpoints over the last couple of years in particular I have concluded that there are some basic values that are non-negotiable for any society to function on a long term basis. I am tolerant of other views as trying to bludgeon, reason or just cajole others to your own point of view rarely works. I probably always had an idea of what I thought was a 'decent' human being so perhaps I was never really a post-modernist. Even in my ignorance I never liked the term! Mark Fisher's view as you explain it is quite compelling but I don't see it as stable state. The dynamics of neoliberalism mean that at some point it will no longer be possible to maintain the realism as more and more people are excluded from 'getting by.' There are ideas of how to restructure society and I am particularly drawn to those which recognise the complexity of human interaction (Hayek got that right!) and make space for that complexity within a framework of agreed values. Sadly, I suspect it will be conflict rather psychedelics that bring about change which will militate against a more consensual outcome.

I think capitalism going to end the same way like like how comerse died in mideval china by government regulations

The future was canceled in 1997 These bastards

"Why we can't think beyond capitalism". Man, I hate that title so much. I have little trouble thinking beyond capitalism, and none whatsoever when I confine myself to the dystopian side of the fence. It's incredibly easy to do worse, and if you attempt to do better linking arms with people who don't understand this, it's almost a _certainty_ that you will do worse. From this perspective, denigrating capitalism is the least productive move away from capitalism. Beauty is truth and truth is beauty, and that's all you need to know-so long as you _also_ understand that ugliness is often just truth you don't fully understand yet. Capitalism is not so ugly that any damn thing that sounds good is an obvious improvement.

Bro HUGE [citation needed] on “music hasn’t changed much in the last 24 years”!!! That was a hilariously obvious oversight for such a usually rigorous scholar, I laughed out loud. Fun fact: basically everyone is way more emotionally involved (and laudatory of the innovation within) the music that they listened to as a teenager. E: omg and then you use Eminem’s comeback as an example?? That’s like using don quixote to point out how metatextual novels are - nah, that’s just the literal theme of that specific work!

I shared this on my socials. I think that you aren't taking into account how AI as a technology will force the hand of the populace. I work in the technology industry as an engineer and have personally seen how automation can wipe out entire small economies and I think it will become even bigger as time goes on and as AI tools become more trusted throughout the technology space. In the initial wave, it will lead to a lot of job loss and quite a bit of hate towards the technology sphere. Capital is already spreading a lot of luddite rage on the social medias because they know that a populace mad at a technology won't come after them...the holders of the jobs. But I think it'll be their undoing. The hyper efficiency drive of capitalism will essentially run them out of business. They will create so many machines that nobody will be needed to run the world and everyone can essentially reap the benefits of the technology and automation that was created. As scarcity becomes less and less, there won't be any market and therefore no need for capitalism to be the driving force of our society. It will certainly exist as maybe a smaller aspect of our lives, but I think that over time we will see it disappear. My hope is that there won't be conflict, but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a big possibility. Current conservative estimates put 50% of jobs being automated by AI in the next 7-10 years with the other side of the spectrum (the optimists) saying it'll be more like 3-5 years. As a person who works in the automation space...I'm thinking it'll be somewhere in the middle. Thanks for your podcast. You really opened my eyes up to the classics by providing an easy to understand synopsis prior to this new AI age.

There are no solutions, only trade-offs.

Capitalism is a economical and psycological issue, not a political-philosofic one. That's why this converation isn't going anywere. You constatly try to blame "capitalism" for corruptin human nature when it's the most forward expression of that nature. All social problems and illnesses are found in every pre capitalist society and they all have to do with power. If anything capitalism tries to level the plaiying fild by diluting power amongst an ever increasing number of players instead of concentrating it amongst a few nucleus of self apointed "wise man". Envy, jealosy, betrail, selfishness, greed, etc... Are emotions that inspired drama since ancient greeks, they are not a product of capitalism, they are psycological traits that will never be adressed properly as problems in society if you obsess with defining them as a consequence of an economical activity. The problemes that arise within capitalism are due to those traits and not the other way around. That's why you strugle to see beyond capitalism, because you're looking at the wrong place, you're staring at the wrong direction.

More Latour, Timothy Morton, Fredric Jameson please!

Haha, sam harris. A non intelligence trying to explain an artificial intelligence. Funny

Fantastic commentary ! Thank you for mentioning mental illness, 2008 crash, and productivity at work as consequences of neoliberalism

Brutal raw Capitalism for the poor.... Soft cushy Socialism for the rich. Basic income is a revolution that does not need a revolution. It will be a bloodless revolution #UBI. If everybody on Maui had an unconditional #UBI, far fewer lives would have been lost in this fire. The kicker is that enacting an unconditional #UBI would also save trillions of dollars and only cost hundreds of billions. This is literally one of the problems that #UBI solves. People can't even get housing without an income. With a reliable income, every person has a base level of credit worthiness, especially for housing.

Was the word 'energy' mentioned once? I didn't hear it spoken. So we have a monologue concerned with the future of organized human society in which there is no reference whatsoever to the master resource upon which that society depends. This episode serves as a perfect exemplar of "energy blindness". Are YOU energy blind?? ---> ua-cam.com/video/-xr9rIQxwj4/v-deo.html

And Ludvig von Mises is not pronounced 'Mice-ies'! It's Meeces! 🐁🐁🐁

9 minutes in.. When are you going to start?? Waffling... classic sign of Leftism. Laissez-faire is not pronounced "Lawzay faire"! It should be 'Less-zay faire'. Neo-liberalism is the Left's most modern slur on Classical Liberalism, on freedom itself, of freedom from tyranny. Everything after that is apologism for Big State re-inclusion and re-imposition into the lives of ex-free people. The Left are Tyranny apologists. Progressives are Socialists. Progressives are neo-Feudalists. You want us on your plantation like the serfs you think we are.

Very enjoyable

Just like in other genres of the humanities, when criticism became more prevalent than creative works, the downward slide began. A copy of a copy of a copy is so much easier to produce than anything original.

I'm of the firm belief that the major problem with society is this black and white view of the world - that somehow capitalism is good and socialism is bad. I think it is a matter of choosing the correct system to align with your goals. For example: Is the goal to make money and advance industry? Capitalism is a good choice. Is your goal to increase a population's health? Capitalism is probably the wrong way to go, as the financial incentive increases with the number of sick people. Absolute idealism is narrow sighted

Dont worry, the "elite" will eventually push for putting our governance in the hands of AI i.e. complete technocracy. But will this result in a brave new world or 2084?

Thr point about not being able to easily distinguish the truth from propaganda is extremely poignant these days. Fire podcast 🔥🔥

that question is bullshit. Every era had a system or a context whose subjects couldn't see beyond. To see beyond the current system is the exception not the rule.

A great episode! Thank you!

Stephen West: Consider adding a "Thanks" button to your videos so we can put a couple of bucks in the tip jar. There are kids scooping ice cream with a tip jar on the counter. I think you're adding much more value. You should have a tip jar, too. Figure out how to monetize and get that "Thanks" button up there!

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That assertion about Capitalism and the antagonism inherent in its class struggle is, at worst, a stupid definition (a capitalist society can be composed entirely of entrepreneurs) and at best an empirical observation that takes accidents as essentials. Perhaps he was never an entrepreneur... but after owning a small business in my 20s (with friends lining up to work for me), I was thrilled to quit and be 'exploited' for a wage that removed the difficulties and stress of self-reliance. And that was in the dying gasps of the industrial age, not quite into the information age, where the work the overlords ask their exploited wage slaves to perform are things like data entry, phone work, coding, computer support, and other lazy monkey tasks. No... the only way to sell people on the communist picture of class struggle and oppression is to suggest self-reliance is out of reach, and to also teach them envy toward the successful and or lucky isn't a moral failing, but rather righteous indignation (envy being the preference that if you don't have something, I shouldn't have it either).

IMO, the interesting thing about the evolution of popular music is the trends in harmonic structure over the past 100 years.

Looking forward to ideas for next steps because ultimately individuals with power will have to be accountable for their actions as judged by the greater community. When has that worked out well? Beyond never……

The speaker needs to appreciate the process of *financialization* of the economy , concommitant with many factors, but perhaps fundamentally with Peak Energy. The trouble with philosophers might seem to be that they tend to regard research outside of the humanities with excessive aloofness. (The result is rather superficial ontologies/rather superficial conceptualizations of the given)

interestingly, Mark Fisher stated categorically that 'sex IS abuse' (his capitals). I wish we could have talked about the various misconceptions under which he was labouring

Capitalism was replaced by corporatism in the 19th Century. Start out with a sound premise. In addition socialism, corportism, and capitalism are all economic models philosophers have come up with.

I think a lot of people believe certain beliefs that lean towards conspiracy is for the tendency of those that have everything and the only thing left is to toy with people's lives I guess maybe that's why they act like they do? I don't know, I'm not omniscient.

'capitalism' is an inadequate concept - handicappingly inadequate (ironically, Marx never even used the word)

These points are so internally inconsistent. What am I missing? So we dont have a unified culture of art because its constantly new stuff, but we also cant break away from the old culture because we keep rebooting old stuff? To think that references to earlier culture being dominant is exclusive to our time? How many hundreds of years have we been playing Bach's Toccota and Fugue? How many references to classical music were being used in the 1970 rock (hint: a lot). What era was the western movie big? What, they couldnt move past the 1890s culture? Laurence of Arabia was a book before it was a movie! What stagnation that they had to rehash the same story! The Anead is just a copy of the Illiad! Why are there so many greek and roman subjects in Romantic Era paintings? The culture had obviously stagnated! The mulsims philosophers were all just remixing Aristotilian and Platonist philosophy, which was just a response to the Eliatics, Miletians, and Pythagoreans. Why was Shelly writing Prometheus Unbound, a fanfic-sequal to an Ancient Greek play? This isn't an aspect of culture under capitalism. This is an aspect of CULTURE. Having a quote from hamlet show up in Star Trek is no more or less cultural recycling than a rap artist today referencing RUN DMC. IN FACT, if anything, the modern artistic culture is DISTICNTLY un-capitalist with the introduction of sharing art via the internet. Now noone needs an art degree and connections at a famous gallery to become an artist. No one needs the mega media corporations to agree to play their songs on the radio. No one needs a Hollywood Studio to make a film. You just need Instagram, Spotify, and UA-cam respectively. The disunity you talk about is people being free to explore whatever they want outside of the corporate stranglehold on culture.

The bomb, the bubble, and the boom; the spectacle and the pill; the causes and the coup; the bursting of the bubble and the hall of mirrors. Such, it seems to me, are the crucial things that have shaped the lives of my generation (b.1948).

The party animal is in a rat race to vote for more surplus enjoyments so he can ask God later to forgive him. .

Ideals are like seeds. They need time and tending to mature. The fact that our worldviews have shifted from 'tiny marble' to 'raisin filled dough' to 'atom with electrons' to tiny tiny TINY little mass with an electron cloud surrounding it shows the natural progression of our models. Just like the creatures on our planet, our models evolve as we learn more, as time progresses. Ideals are the same.

Imagine the nostalgia that gen alpha will feel in 10, 20 years. _"Remember that weird toilet head thing that everyone was raving about? Good times!"_ When brain rot becomes nostalgia, our species will be doomed.

This was an amazing episode.

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