Reorientation: Late Capitalsim a Survival Guide

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So, I've talked through the whole series about how disorienting Lake Capitalism is, and we'll talk about that a little more now. But what I want to focus on following on the last two episodes where we talked about the notion of the unaskable question is where does your wealth come from? What is the nature of your wealth? Asking that question is is a part of the process of reorienting looking at health and saying you know what is healthy?

What makes me healthy as part of the question of what makes me wealthy? Because those obviously closely allied concepts. So I want to continue on this and say okay how do we [clears throat] reorient ourselves in a world which is increasingly disorienting and as I've mentioned necessarily disorienting. So just to repeat it is not that you feel weirdly that for some reason the world is disorienting.

No [clears throat] it's not you and it's not your friends. The world is disorienting and it's purposefully and aggressively disorienting because this is this is the how late capitalism functions as we've been exploring. It has to disrupt your sense of history. Has to interfere with your community.

Tries to isolate you. Tries to interfere when you try to buy things, [clears throat] right? Tries to create change. Tries to create monopolies.

Right? in this continuous process of trying to put itself in in the way of between the things that you would normally have or normally want or normally do in your day-to-day life. We're just talking as we've been mentioning, you know, food, housing, clothing, friends, communication, talking to people, having a neighborhood, being in your community, [clears throat] all these things that are just normal. I mean, they've been part of human civilization for thousands of years.

And you now have this systematic uh technologically advanced uh lots of smart people working on this to at every possible moment interfere in that. And by interfering in that of course extract some sort of profit that uh potentially or actually that they can get. So that things that were simple and straightforward ...