(195) How Alchemy & Hermeticism Revolutionized Medicine | Introduction to Paracelsus pt II - YouTube
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New Extractivism
"New Extractivism
An assemblage of concepts and allegories.
Vladan Joler (2020)"
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Gen Z Just Might Save The World - by Caitlin Johnstone
"Kids are taking over university campuses around the world for the noblest possible reason anyone could do such a thing in 2024. There are so many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z’s fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future.
I talk all the time here about the need for a collective awakening and revolution in order to turn this disaster of a civilization around, but it could turn out that what ends up saving humankind is as mundane as a superior generation of humans emerging out of the information age and replacing inferior generations who’ve been far more indoctrinated by mass media propaganda."
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(1) The Case for UK Democracy - by John Nugent - Real Left
" representative democracy is always authoritarian. This is regardless of whether the Government is left wing or right wing, authoritarian or libertarian. Why? Because we concede all our decision-making power to politicians who exercise absolute authority over us. At no point since the fall of Cromwell’s commonwealth, 364 years ago, have British citizens ever formally agreed to this.
The fallacy is thinking that libertarianism, in the sense of freedom, will cure this authoritarian problem. Why? Because libertarianism is a philosophy in need of a governance system - it’s a snail without a shell. Authoritarianism is more slug-like - its governance system is inherent to its philosophy.
The governance system that libertarians – left, right or other - need to embrace is democracy. They can’t impose libertarianism, of course, but they can help citizens to enact constitutional civil liberties and pay heed to those when making democratic political decisions.
Authoritarians on the other hand, can help citizens to enact temporary or constitutional power delegation - to the extent that citizens choose to do so. Authoritarians may also find solace in the fact that people will still suffer under some democratic decisions that they personally disagree with. This is the ‘tyranny of the majority’ or ‘populism’ that our representatives like to scare us with... as opposed to their much more sensible ‘tyranny of the minority’.
Partisan intellectuals Milton Friedman (right wing) and Noam Chomsky (left wing) agree that to be more effective and to prevent corruption, we must move from centralised representative democracy to decentralised democracy."
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(1) Episode 2046: David Faris on why American kids are all left these days
"In November of this year, two particularly out of touch eighty-year old men will contest the US Presidential election. America, in other words, has an age problem. According to David Faris, author of THE KIDS ARE ALL LEFT, the country might be on the brink of a generational war between young and old. But there’s nothing apocalyptic about this imminent conflict, Faris believes. The majority of American kids, he argues, are politically on the left and their progressive activism will unite rather than divide the country. So the American future, Faris predicts, will be a civil peace rather than war. "
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