Bonus Episode: Progress, Dreams of Utopia, and Reality

"Eventually, that ends with us probably leaving the planet and colonizing the stars, or living forever, or downloading our brains onto silicon chips. It’s a kind of technological rapture that sees time in a linear fashion rather than in a cyclical fashion." -Paul Kingsnorth to Emergence Magazine

Key topics:

✔️Refusing to have conversations about economic slavery only benefits the fat cats and their politicos. It does nothing to help the disenfranchised. 
✔️ Is progress merely a story we tell ourselves and then cling to?
✔️Is quiet quitting a reflection of the serfs feeling fed up? If so, do we believe this will spark a revolution against Crony Capitalism? 
✔️How many people will last in a giant walkout if they are hungry and facing eviction? This is all the more reason to me why we NEED to have these conversations rather than shoving them in the corner on the grounds of "Well, someone somewhere might get offended." Is this system not offensive itself?

Links:

 https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/the-myth-of-progress/

https://www.amazon.com/Metahistory-Historical-Imagination-Nineteenth-Century-Europe/dp/0801817617

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metahistory:_The_Historical_Imagination_in_Nineteenth-century_Europe

https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Scientific-Revolutions-Thomas-Kuhn/dp/0226458083

https://www.weforum.org/videos/davos-am23-ready-for-brain-transparency-english

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

https://cherokeehistorical.org/trail-of-tears/

https://glenhendrix50.medium.com/modern-corporate-wage-slavery-is-so-instilled-in-our-culture-we-dont-recognize-it-for-what-it-is-39aa9fb7b529

https://www.yahoo.com/now/back-broke-americans-racking-debt-100000378.html

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly-twice-much-wealth-rest-world-put-together-over-past-two-years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T501LHx0R_Q

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