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Do Things Feel Crazy To You Right

now? Do you feel that our whole culture is in an existential crisis that’s because it is we are at a point in history where we absolutely must change the world. It will not happen within the boundaries of the system. It will require a confrontation hopefully a peaceful non–violent confrontation. I spoke to existential analysis. Luke Kemp, who’s a researcher at Cambridge University, who talked to me about the nature of this existential crisis.

How Corruption Is Only Going To Get

worse how inequality will increase unless there is an intervention and how the system will never allow those interventions stay to the end of this video, so that I can get your comments and feedback on how we can develop this conversation that began on my luminary podcast under the skin, but will end perhaps with global change what I feel. experienced it in given the title of your job or area of research At least like you know it feels like what we’re experiencing is an existential crisis that for me feels like a detachment from our um mo and from our Raisin detroit like that we don’t know what we are who we are or what we’re supposed to be doing anymore that we’re like sort of bleached blinkered broken atomized people don’t like that people like you know like Mark Fisher of whom I’m a great fan like ro you know he perhaps didn’t coin the phrase it’s easier to envisage the end of you know the world than the end of capitalism. But certainly it’s sort of a theme that he wrote around a lot and you know when like sometimes when you say you know people aren’t even doing anything about it you sort of cite. that kind of lethargy but which Mark Fisher would have said it’s not lethargy So kind of people have understood Oh you can’t do anything there’s nothing you can actually do so um what do we do you as a younger person than me and me as a kind of a very slightly older. Still handsome vocal supporter of her like agitation opposition activism and and the kind of optimism what do what would we do? What ideas do you want to do you want to promote and in terms of activism protest confrontation and constructing arguments to oppose the kind of ongoing tyranny Just one example or two examples being you know the surveillance state and the emergency laws that we’ve spoken about already what should we do and and what do you think are good fronts to fight this on issues that will galvanize people and bring people.

Together, So First And Foremost, I Think We

should know you are deeply handsome and your facial hair is certainly superior to my own um heart jumped when you said that secondly, if we are going to turn the tide on these very strong robust trends and that’s not just simply the use of emergency powers and the kind of expansion of state capacity, but also deeper trends like inequality. One of my colleagues, Walter Scheidel at Stanford University had this excellent book called the great leveler where he tries to do an empirical exploration of how wealth inequality has changed over time and his key and very compelling finding is that wealth inequality increases inextricably over time until you have a great leveler, which is a state collapse mass mobilization warfare, a bloody revolution or a pandemic and there’s only two cases where that doesn’t seem to be the. case where you actually had a reversal of inequality of the very least assad nation of it and it didn’t require these kind of you know quite violent ruptures and those were both Athenian democracy and also I think Sweden during the antebellum period. I’ll have to check that when you had unions start to get represented within the parliament in short. I think these are very deep and difficult trends and so they’re not going to be fixed just by you know signing a petition online nor by you know changing who you vote for okay from every four years they do I think require very direct confrontational power and I think this is why for instance in the Uk, you’ve seen this really strong response since having things like extinction rebellion to actually try to curtail the ability to protest the crime sentencing Policing bill is in many.

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state fears so? I do think that protest and confrontation is probably the most necessary ingredient for trying to actually stop these trends and one of the things I argue for in the article is that we need to try to pursue emergency emancipation so when it comes to emergencies when it comes to crises rather than trying to give the government kind of more leeway and practicing this kind of politics of well. You can’t criticize the government during an emergency because you can’t politicize the emergency. We should do exactly that we should actually demand more government oversight when these crises occur and we should demand more involvement on behalf of citizens, and I think ultimately, the key goal here should be to try to reform a democracy towards what’s frequently referred as referred to as deliberative democracy, so rather than having a representative who’s picked every four years. You have a sortition or lottery across the entire citizenry you have them picked they can have either an assembly or a jury in which they’re briefed by experts and they make the policy decisions and that both helps to control any corruption because you know if you’re basically only in office for a very short period of time and you’re anonymized. There’s really no one to lobby per se and we also know that when you get citizens together and you give them good evidence and you give them the chance to deliberate.

They Actually Come To Remarkably Good Decisions.

their political judgment is actually very very good. The problem is whenever we do this we frequently just discard what they say because they tend to actually say things and recommend things which are going to be effective in terms of addressing problems but are not going to be politically palatable. This exact would happen with the Climate Change assembly in France, where Macron in response to the Yellow vest revolutionaries essentially said Okay we’re going to have this big Democratic assembly. I’m going to allow for deliberate democracy to flourish.

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Were Going To Have This Experiment

and I’m going to take on any recommendations they give and so had. This over year-long assembly they gave I think over like recommendations. You know These were very broad ranging and the eyes are no sex, but it’s very effective and very kind of well crafted. And Macron I think accepts like just a handful of them and that’s quite clearly because he knows they’re going to be effective and unfortunately, usually it comes to addressing big global catastrophes effective means challenging power so in short, I think we really need two things. We need to have much more direct protests and confrontation struggle, but on top of that we also need to know the leverage points and this case is not trying to address things by an issue by issue basis.

Its Really Trying To Get Towards Changing How

democracy is conducted and I think the two big things which can actually unify people rather than divide them a deliberate democracy. saying look as citizens, you should have a direct say in how policies are crafted you shouldn’t just simply hand over the keys to a representative four years who have you know very limited options for in the first place and B wealth inequality, you know pretty much everyone across the spectrum agrees that tax education is abhorrent and that tax havens should be shut down most people when you actually even on the far right when you actually ask them what would be the kind of like ideal distribution of wealth income. They tend to suggest something that’s radically more egalitarian what’s currently in place in places like the us or across the world. So I really do think those two key leverage points wealth inequality and delivery democracy. Those are things which can really change things.

Theyre Actually About Leveling Power, Leveling,

economic and political power and the things that can unify rather than divide people. Did you enjoy that from Luke Kemp would you like to see more videos from him. Do you think he looks a bit like Superman and he’s a bit of a hunky guy. I certainly do let me know what you want to see more of in the comments below and if you believe in the possibility of real and radical change new ideas emerging from all of us to create if not utopia something surely better than this hit me up in the comments below give us a like give us a subscribe.

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