Cheerios! Conclusion part I: Late Capitalism a Survival Guide

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That's a threat, I guess. Um, and the first part I want to address is sort of the global financial side of things that we've been talking about. And then [clears throat] the second part will be the personal more philosophical uh communal interaction part. So kind of break that into two.

So tonight is the big global world one which is a very interesting moment to do this because we just had the attacks on Iran over the weekend and tomorrow uh this is Sunday and tomorrow on March the second when the markets open there's going to be a massive dislocation caused by the disruption of the global oil markets which will lead to a dislocation of the global financial markets which of course is what all this is about in some ways. So this is [clears throat] very topical and I will return to this as you will see in uh not too long here. Now we've talked already about the unaskable question which is where does wealth come from? And I want to add two more to that tonight.

Um the unanswerable questions and the unspeakable word. And what I want to do is create a very contained little model I guess you can carry in your mind to understand what's going on in the world. And it's confusing and complicated. And again, late capitalism is functionally continually trying to disorient us.

So it's not just um passively. It's not something that happens by the by. It's an active aggression act against us to prevent us from thinking clearly and responding well to the kinds of challenges that we face. And [clears throat] so the one word you need, the one word that will allow you to understand this is Cheerios as in the breakfast cereal.

If you can keep Cheerios with you, then all of this stuff that's so confusing and disorienting in our world will come a little bit more, I hopefully a lot more, but at least a little bit more into focus. So ...