In the 1990s Time Magazine referred to John Ralston Saul as a prophet. John Ralston Saul is an historian, journalist, writer and a Socratic philosopher and is one heck of a futurist. In 1995 he wrote the first edition of The End of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World and he is still here with us watching his prophecy fulfilled.
Michael Hudson simply affirms everything I have learned in 74 years.
I even remember Herman Kahn. I am autistic . Let's talk metaphysics. What makes us human. Let us talk about empathy. Eugenia Cheng the British philosopher has her xy graph with her four quadrants of empathy. What is normal human empathy? I do not share Aldous Huxley's understanding but I understood Bernard Marx and Brave New World is far from dystopia.
"sociopath neocons sacrifice Ukrainians" I don't know what other label you'd use, but saying it's "neocons" makes it sound like it's a small specific group, rather than something endemic to the entire government.
How can anyone see any serious political daylight between neolibs and neocons? There is none, b/c both are radical status quo conservile b-tard parties laundering taxes into manufacturing & further enriching billionaires. IOW, neither gives a single phart about anything remotely akin to civic decency, anywhere, anytime. They both merely manipulate mobs of ill-informed (by design & distraction) voters, many of whom are too busy caring for little/young ones to bother w/the poop festival political noise factories.
It is easy to see how a nation which didn't understand a word of what Orwell said could adopt Newspeak as the language of a society based solely on a consumer ethic. Why wasn't George Creel studied in history. When it came to propaganda Creel was a century of wisdom beyond the Boston Patriots who were professional propagandists.
In Quebec liberal and conservative are beyond the pale as political language.
Our Provincial government is committed to maintaining the status quo and that makes them conservative despite the fact they are GREEN, Social Democratic and way to the left of Bernie Sanders.
Creel was America's social and ethical 20th century architect.
Creel started out as a Kansas journalist. Our George Washington, Rene Levesque started out as a journalist in FDR's European command.
Where America's left ends Canada's mainstream right begins. My wife's PhD was sponsored by the far right wing government of Alberta that understood what 20th century expertise meant economically. Alberta is Canada's far right province. Their public education and colleges and universities are world class. Their medical care for all is first rate and their social safety net puts bluest America to shame.
In 1776 Edmund Burke was the classical liberal philosopher and Samuel Johnson was the classical conservative. Their importance to the American Revolution cannot be over estimated. Nothing says America is insane more than Burke being a conservative. Johnson created the language we use and today's conservative is decidedly radical.
Today’s conservative is radical? So, standing for things all sides agreed were common ground just a few years ago is radical? I’m sorry, but the left’s obsession with cutting dicks off, segregation, abolishing borders, racism, sexism, and collectivism is insanely radical and a departure from what anyone in the USA would have considered ok in any point in history.
Rigoberto, I am 74 I had a PhD vocabulary when I was 9 and watched the development of Orwell's Newspeak under Kirk and Buckley.
America became the world's greatest empire because it was the most liberal nation on the planet. Today's conservatives are centrist democrats who want an America that continued to evolve till 1965 when suddenly evolution was no longer acceptable human behaviour and we had to exterminate ourselves.
Listen to Reagan in 1964 when America was the greatest freest and most prosperous nation on the planet. That was the nightmare of 30 years of liberal democracy and the tyranny of the mob. It lifted America from just another nation where the great majority lived in poverty to the most prosperous place on Earth.
They say I am on a wide spectrum of something or other.
Every one occupies their own individual spot on a wide spectrum
I put Reagan on my Nazi Spectrum no where near the center but slightly to the sane part of nazi.
This is Reagan speaking about America when it was great.
Hate is such a great motivator. It wasn't liberals who ungreated America.
I started spending summers in Vermont 70 years ago. My father has the same accent as Bernie's parents and he knew Vermont was not a welcoming place. Now Vermont loves Bernie.
Here you have Reagan in 1964 spewing his hatred of liberal democracy and the Empirical evidence not only that it was snake oil but it contained carcinogens.
America chose badly and we are all paying a heavy price.
I've recently heard that group of sociopaths referred to as "neocons and Liberal-imperialists". That description more accurately includes the dingbats from both major political parties. Sorry, can't remember off-hand who said it.
There is a brilliant analyst here on substack, has very good analyses and mentioned all points Hudson talked about and more. There are so many intelligent people out there but everyone is busy watching MSM. Check her out: iranalysis.substack.com
Thank you so much for getting Mr Hudson onto the podcast. His perspective on current macroeconomic trends is invaluable for those of us trying to prepare for the future as best we can.
top quality "get" with this guest. Michael Hudson is simply the best. He should be a regular person's starting point, for trying to understand how the wider world works. Compared to his analysis, corporate media is an absolute JOKE. Like, embarrassingly stupid. I can't help feeling the same for their audience, sorry. Anyway, great one here. Thanks and keep it up.
I'm so sad about the peoples around the world that the United States is going to destroy...first we won't distribute vaccine recipes, now we've going to stop them from having food. I'm so ashamed of my country.
When Johnson wrote his 1755 Dictionary of the English Language a Cabal was a collection of the world's wisest of the wise.
Philosophy and politics do not mix. I never understood America's need for labels. In Canada John Ralston Saul is a Socratic philosopher in America and in the world Noam Chomsky enjoys a even higher reputation. They are not on the left right spectrum they are scientists. Chomsky is a linguist and Saul is an European historian.
I am "high functioning " autistic.
"They" ( our leaders) are just like you. Exactly like you, and that is just scary beyond description.
Chomsky hates the word neoliberal and Saul can't stop using it. Saul's last book The Comeback is about linguistics and Chomsky knows history.
Your Cabal is not the wisest of the wise they are the leaders we want and they are just like us.
Might we agree that positions of power, wealth and control tend to draw high functioning dark triad personalities (narcissists, machiavellian, psychopaths), those who tend to be more selfish, exploitative, and un-empathetic.
While it is very likely light triad types can rise to power and leadership, they are less likely to pursue it, and beyond this the “corrupting” nature of power, control and wealth may end up shifting many of these “good” people darker as well.
100% was an exaggeration, but what percent of people in power are more dark triad leaning?
We hold these truth to be self evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator...........
I don't believe in good and evil. I am with Yuval Noah Harari. Free choice is highly over rated. I grew up is a society that had been ghettoized for millennia culturally appropriate behaviour was sacrosanct. I am a repudiation of everything they were taught to believe . I am a genius who can't do school. I live in a world of logic. I understand empathy as a moral imperative not a religious truth for a social species we have arrogantly named homo sapiens.
I can't understand considering homosexuality anything but normal and sex a biological response to brain chemistry.
Whether they are good or evil God only knows and my God is not created in my image. A god created in my image would still be in the evening of the morning of the first day trying to get everything just perfect.
Even if the end justifies the means I have no idea of beginnings or ends in a universe of entropy.
Hannah Arendt called it banality I call it Darwinian. The opposite of entropic is designed.
I live in a universe of interconnections. I was in my late 60s when they labelled this a wide spectrum disorder. My wide spectrum is my universe.
In 1845 the potato blight destroyed the Irish potato crop. Ireland's economy was a landlord economy based on food export. In London Peel's Tory government fractured on whether to feed Ireland's potato eaters. Historical Marx was unknown and post genocide the Tories became liberals and conservatives and Whigism could not compete with Marxism which offered moral clarity.
The bottom quintile of Irish Society disappeared during the genocide even as Ireland's food export economy boomed during the "famine".
You can read the let them starve side of the debate in The Economist which was first class journalism in 1845 and in 2022.
It isn't my side of the debate but it is logical and reasoned.
America doesn't have a cultural divide it has a reality divide and neither side wants anything to do with the reality of reality.
Swift's Modest Proposal was written before the potato fed Irish peasants.
Love listening to and reading Michael Hudson but this is the first time I’ve seen him referred to as a futurist
In the 1990s Time Magazine referred to John Ralston Saul as a prophet. John Ralston Saul is an historian, journalist, writer and a Socratic philosopher and is one heck of a futurist. In 1995 he wrote the first edition of The End of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World and he is still here with us watching his prophecy fulfilled.
Michael Hudson simply affirms everything I have learned in 74 years.
I even remember Herman Kahn. I am autistic . Let's talk metaphysics. What makes us human. Let us talk about empathy. Eugenia Cheng the British philosopher has her xy graph with her four quadrants of empathy. What is normal human empathy? I do not share Aldous Huxley's understanding but I understood Bernard Marx and Brave New World is far from dystopia.
Honestly he seems like a smooth brain from the quote they used in this post.
"sociopath neocons sacrifice Ukrainians" I don't know what other label you'd use, but saying it's "neocons" makes it sound like it's a small specific group, rather than something endemic to the entire government.
How can anyone see any serious political daylight between neolibs and neocons? There is none, b/c both are radical status quo conservile b-tard parties laundering taxes into manufacturing & further enriching billionaires. IOW, neither gives a single phart about anything remotely akin to civic decency, anywhere, anytime. They both merely manipulate mobs of ill-informed (by design & distraction) voters, many of whom are too busy caring for little/young ones to bother w/the poop festival political noise factories.
It is easy to see how a nation which didn't understand a word of what Orwell said could adopt Newspeak as the language of a society based solely on a consumer ethic. Why wasn't George Creel studied in history. When it came to propaganda Creel was a century of wisdom beyond the Boston Patriots who were professional propagandists.
In Quebec liberal and conservative are beyond the pale as political language.
Our Provincial government is committed to maintaining the status quo and that makes them conservative despite the fact they are GREEN, Social Democratic and way to the left of Bernie Sanders.
Creel was America's social and ethical 20th century architect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Creel
Creel started out as a Kansas journalist. Our George Washington, Rene Levesque started out as a journalist in FDR's European command.
Where America's left ends Canada's mainstream right begins. My wife's PhD was sponsored by the far right wing government of Alberta that understood what 20th century expertise meant economically. Alberta is Canada's far right province. Their public education and colleges and universities are world class. Their medical care for all is first rate and their social safety net puts bluest America to shame.
In 1776 Edmund Burke was the classical liberal philosopher and Samuel Johnson was the classical conservative. Their importance to the American Revolution cannot be over estimated. Nothing says America is insane more than Burke being a conservative. Johnson created the language we use and today's conservative is decidedly radical.
Today’s conservative is radical? So, standing for things all sides agreed were common ground just a few years ago is radical? I’m sorry, but the left’s obsession with cutting dicks off, segregation, abolishing borders, racism, sexism, and collectivism is insanely radical and a departure from what anyone in the USA would have considered ok in any point in history.
Rigoberto, I am 74 I had a PhD vocabulary when I was 9 and watched the development of Orwell's Newspeak under Kirk and Buckley.
America became the world's greatest empire because it was the most liberal nation on the planet. Today's conservatives are centrist democrats who want an America that continued to evolve till 1965 when suddenly evolution was no longer acceptable human behaviour and we had to exterminate ourselves.
Listen to Reagan in 1964 when America was the greatest freest and most prosperous nation on the planet. That was the nightmare of 30 years of liberal democracy and the tyranny of the mob. It lifted America from just another nation where the great majority lived in poverty to the most prosperous place on Earth.
They say I am on a wide spectrum of something or other.
Every one occupies their own individual spot on a wide spectrum
I put Reagan on my Nazi Spectrum no where near the center but slightly to the sane part of nazi.
Snake Oil for the Masses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY&t=713s
This is Reagan speaking about America when it was great.
Hate is such a great motivator. It wasn't liberals who ungreated America.
I started spending summers in Vermont 70 years ago. My father has the same accent as Bernie's parents and he knew Vermont was not a welcoming place. Now Vermont loves Bernie.
Here you have Reagan in 1964 spewing his hatred of liberal democracy and the Empirical evidence not only that it was snake oil but it contained carcinogens.
America chose badly and we are all paying a heavy price.
I've recently heard that group of sociopaths referred to as "neocons and Liberal-imperialists". That description more accurately includes the dingbats from both major political parties. Sorry, can't remember off-hand who said it.
There is a brilliant analyst here on substack, has very good analyses and mentioned all points Hudson talked about and more. There are so many intelligent people out there but everyone is busy watching MSM. Check her out: iranalysis.substack.com
Thank you so much for getting Mr Hudson onto the podcast. His perspective on current macroeconomic trends is invaluable for those of us trying to prepare for the future as best we can.
top quality "get" with this guest. Michael Hudson is simply the best. He should be a regular person's starting point, for trying to understand how the wider world works. Compared to his analysis, corporate media is an absolute JOKE. Like, embarrassingly stupid. I can't help feeling the same for their audience, sorry. Anyway, great one here. Thanks and keep it up.
I'm so sad about the peoples around the world that the United States is going to destroy...first we won't distribute vaccine recipes, now we've going to stop them from having food. I'm so ashamed of my country.
They are 100% dark triad (high functioning sociopaths), they represent the right/left sides of the liberal fascist globalist coin.
The error WE THE PEOPLE make is in thinking that “they” are just like us; “they” are not.
We The People (66% supermajority) represent differing shades of the Light-Triad.
When Johnson wrote his 1755 Dictionary of the English Language a Cabal was a collection of the world's wisest of the wise.
Philosophy and politics do not mix. I never understood America's need for labels. In Canada John Ralston Saul is a Socratic philosopher in America and in the world Noam Chomsky enjoys a even higher reputation. They are not on the left right spectrum they are scientists. Chomsky is a linguist and Saul is an European historian.
I am "high functioning " autistic.
"They" ( our leaders) are just like you. Exactly like you, and that is just scary beyond description.
Chomsky hates the word neoliberal and Saul can't stop using it. Saul's last book The Comeback is about linguistics and Chomsky knows history.
Your Cabal is not the wisest of the wise they are the leaders we want and they are just like us.
Might we agree that positions of power, wealth and control tend to draw high functioning dark triad personalities (narcissists, machiavellian, psychopaths), those who tend to be more selfish, exploitative, and un-empathetic.
While it is very likely light triad types can rise to power and leadership, they are less likely to pursue it, and beyond this the “corrupting” nature of power, control and wealth may end up shifting many of these “good” people darker as well.
100% was an exaggeration, but what percent of people in power are more dark triad leaning?
We hold these truth to be self evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator...........
I don't believe in good and evil. I am with Yuval Noah Harari. Free choice is highly over rated. I grew up is a society that had been ghettoized for millennia culturally appropriate behaviour was sacrosanct. I am a repudiation of everything they were taught to believe . I am a genius who can't do school. I live in a world of logic. I understand empathy as a moral imperative not a religious truth for a social species we have arrogantly named homo sapiens.
I can't understand considering homosexuality anything but normal and sex a biological response to brain chemistry.
Whether they are good or evil God only knows and my God is not created in my image. A god created in my image would still be in the evening of the morning of the first day trying to get everything just perfect.
Even if the end justifies the means I have no idea of beginnings or ends in a universe of entropy.
Hannah Arendt called it banality I call it Darwinian. The opposite of entropic is designed.
I live in a universe of interconnections. I was in my late 60s when they labelled this a wide spectrum disorder. My wide spectrum is my universe.
In 1845 the potato blight destroyed the Irish potato crop. Ireland's economy was a landlord economy based on food export. In London Peel's Tory government fractured on whether to feed Ireland's potato eaters. Historical Marx was unknown and post genocide the Tories became liberals and conservatives and Whigism could not compete with Marxism which offered moral clarity.
The bottom quintile of Irish Society disappeared during the genocide even as Ireland's food export economy boomed during the "famine".
You can read the let them starve side of the debate in The Economist which was first class journalism in 1845 and in 2022.
It isn't my side of the debate but it is logical and reasoned.
America doesn't have a cultural divide it has a reality divide and neither side wants anything to do with the reality of reality.
Swift's Modest Proposal was written before the potato fed Irish peasants.