Thursday, August 10, 2017

Podcast of the Week #18 - BOTL #1123 - Preparing for the end of the world, or at least capitalism

I've been feeling re-activated recently.  Through conversations with respected friends and thinkers, I'm urged out of my comfort zone of job and complacency.  And when I hear podcasts like this I want to drive off into the world and discover what people are actually doing to subvert, sabotage, and substitute our poisonous culture.

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Some of these segments are dense but may provide support for those thoughts that are scary to share.  I hope we are all finding the courage to discuss this in polite company.  I'm less and less tolerant of apologists these days.

If you don't do podcasts (why did you come here?), or if you only have 15 minutes to spare, one segment is a must-hear (or see below).  Last February, Casey Gerald delivered the greatest TED talk of all time in Vancouver.  That this video has less than 90,000 views (of which I'm three) isn't surprising.  It's in the same vein as talks TED has banned in the past and I'm sure they've received pressure to suppress this message.  The audio is one segment of the podcast but please watch the video if you can.  This video should have millions of views.


What ideas do you think are actually helping undo the damage we've done?  What systems can we build ourselves, in parallel to the existing one?  What does the world look like on the day we wake not needing the state, the patriarchy, or the Abrahamic religions?