You vs Global Capitalism: Late Capitalism a Survival Guide

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We're all exiles now. So, after falling on the episode on contempt and scarcity, which h even thinking about that like that's not that much fun, right? Contempt and scarcity. Let's not do that.

Okay. Uh this is going to be an unfun one as well. I apologize for that. But there you are.

Here's here's where we are. So um in the ancient world, particularly if you look at the Greek world, Roman world, other ancient cultures, native many Native American cultures, United States, the basically one of the worst punishments you could suffer was called exile. This is where you were sent away from your society, from your community, from your culture, and you were not allowed to return. Sometimes for a period of time, but sometimes it was permanent.

Uh, and Cynica was exiled, and he referred to this as becoming a living ghost, right? You you you are in the world, but you can't really participate in it. You can see things happening, but you aren't a member of society anymore. And therefore, you can no longer influence things, interact with people.

It's all around you, but you can't get there. So, you're this living ghost concept, which is not very pleasant, right? And why do I say we're all exiles now? Well, if you look at the emphasis and the patterns of our lives that have developed over the last two or 30 hundred years and and basically I talked a lot about this in primates in space series where I talked about how our basic needs are being uh damaged or not met or undermined by the structure of our current society.

And this is the other side of that because that structure is like capitalism and this is what it's doing to us. is making us permanent exiles. Very unhappy, very isolated, very lonely feeling because the entire functional structure of our culture now is to do that. It's not a mistake.

It's not an incidental byproduct. It's a necessary like the contempt thing like scarcity. It is a necessary element of this entire worldview. So what's happened over the ...