Fukuyama: capitalism is victorious and end of history
- discontent unease in culture, 30 years after the Fall of the Wall, unease and discontent, who will articulate it right-wing nationalists?
- V for Vendetta part 2, the day after the victory of the people
- I was never attended 100,000 on square of Athens and Istabul
- Thomas Piketty, proposes radicalized social democracy, not nationailze all wealth, but maintain capitalism and re-distribute wealth, progressive income tax, carbon tax
- What if the rich decides to emigrate, Piketty proposes and exit tax, a supra-national parliament.
- 2 extremes of radical left: Badiou and Piketty
- In order to do what Piketty wants, radical social change must happens.
- There is a 3rd dream, rejuvenated local democracy, relatively autonomous local communities, where does electricty/water come from, who do we turn for health care
- Enforcing the RIGHT KIND of alienation, how to ensure a smooth functioning of alienated
- I don’t have to help the poor myself, so I don’t have to confront the poor face to face, let the alienated autonomy government mechanisms do it for me
- Thatcher: hers is no longer the abstract state, poor are personalized, lazy and evil abusing our generosity.
- Why am I a communist in 21st Century
- specific enjoyment of living in end times and in shadow of catastrophe, fixation on catastrophe is way not to confront it
- Ecology and digital control of our lives
- Migration, Ecological Threats Digital Control: threaten our COMMONS, Transnational, can’t be controlled by nation-states
- New forms of Apartheid:
- I would like to point out that we should reject the simple MUTUAL TOLERANCE … an enemy is someone whose story you haven’t heard. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, she humanizes Frankenstein and lets him tell his own story ah… so Hitler was our enemy because we did not listen to him
- The experience that we have of our lives inside are fundamentally a lie, the truth lies outside in what we DO
- How we relate to refugees is how we relate to humanity as universality as such
- refugees are not proletaians, proletarians are exploited, their labour creates surplus value but Nomadic Refugees, are literally value-less, leftists and capitalists dream they will be integrated into the capitalists machine.
- Assange, Manning, Snowden: Ethical Act. readiness to sacrifice one’s life for one’s nation state.
- Ecology is one of major ideological battlefield
- Simple ignorance: Trump
- Science and Tech can save us
- Leave solution to the market
- The superego pressure on individual responsibility rather than large systemic change
- It makes you responsible and offers an easy way out
- Deep Ecology: We should renounce traditional life, arrogant life, become respectful children of Mother Nature
- What Mother Nature: imagine all catastrophes before humans, there is no natural balance
- Earth is indifferent to catastrophe of humans
- HOW TO ACT
- we are in a deep mess, no simple democratic solution
- What should we do?
- Admit there is no simple clear way out. Its a sad confused complex situation
- Admit the absurdity of our geo-political war games, and realize our earth is under threat
- Surveillance Capitalism: we lay ourselves bare to the big other, the activity that enslaves us – surfing the web- doing what is most free to us, we give up our data.
- Important as this surveillance capitalism is, it is NOT the game changer. It is rather Direct Brain Machine Interface. Billions of dollars invested in direct mind control. Our mind processes can directly interact with a machine. The distance between our inner life and external reality is the basis of our freedom as humans, we are free in our thoughts. This is now potentially under threat.
- Neither Market nor State apparatuses can do the job
- Voluntarism and TERROR.
- Large scale decisions, Walter Benjamin, today the task is not to be on the train of progress but pull the emergency break. History is not on our side, no objective tendencies, we must act in a voluntarist way.
- What if USA is right, to denounce Wikileaks as a terrorist organization. In a way they are, breaking laws etc. My figure of the terror is the informer who denounces, we need this type of traitor are the only AUTHENTIC heroes today.
- It is more utopian to think we can survive without radical measures. That is the true utopian thinking.
- I hate this obsession with good life happiness, I want drama and shock. What’s happening with sexuality today. Did you know passionate love with one person is considered out-dated, Be plastic, reconstruct yourself make experiments. Imagine yourself not being in love, you have your job, a one night stand here and there, and all of a sudden you passionately fall in love, same as writing, scientific discovery, your life is ruined, the peaceful time is over. I hope we are still ready to do it