Contempt and Scarcity: Late Capitalism a Survival Guide

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However, now I want to turn to the broader more philosophical implications of this for our culture, for our thinking, for our self-perception, for our society in general and sort of start moving away from that sort of telescopic view or micros microscopic view, not telescopic view, microscopic view of all the inner workings. I think we can all hopefully agree that we understand on how this is working out in our day-to-day lives already. Um, pardon if I'm a little congested sounding because I'm a little congested. [laughter] got that flu that everyone has that's been going around.

So, um I want to turn now to contempt and scarcity. And this is two poisons. I would say just to be clear, two poisons that are being poured continuously into our lives by our culture. And these are necessary byproducts of the late capitalist worldview.

You cannot not do this. You can't have late capitalism without a shocking amount of contempt for individuals, for ourselves, unfortunately, for our society, for our values in general. And you have to have scarcity. You have to be continuously creating scarcity.

So, I'll divide these into two, but I I almost I mean, I apologized a little bit for doing all the gory details in the dissection, but I really enjoyed that part, I have to say. So, it wasn't much of an apology. I I guess it's sort of a mink apology. However, in this case, I really do not like to meditate on these because I find them so destructive, but they are so omnipresent in our culture.

I think it is necessary to stop and go, look, this right here is poison and it's killing us. And that's I I I don't I know that sounds kind of dramatic, but I actually fundamentally I believe this I believe is true that ...