On Left and Right | George Galloway, Peter Hitchens, Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker

Spanning the left and right of politics, our top speakers tackle the biggest issues in politics today. We hear from George Galloway, Peter Hitchens, Noam Chomsky, and Steven Pinker.
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Trump's Foreign Policy | Full Debate | George Galloway, Mark Leonard
Could a beligerent approach to foreign policy make for a safer world? Many think Trump a buffoon and a threat to world peace. But with ISIS weakened, and signs of progress in North Korea, perhaps his supporters can point to some initial successes. Is the beat way of pursuing peace to prepare for war? Or has Trump in fact made the world more precarious than ever? Watch the full debate: • Trump's Foreign Policy...
Noam Chomsky Debate | Why is Authority Dangerous? | Mark Lilla, Deirdre McCloskey
‘Orders were the highest thing in my life and I had to obey them without question.’ So wrote Eichmann, organiser of the Holocaust. We know authority is dangerous, but we assume it is necessary for society to work. Should we dream of a free and flourishing world without leadership and rules? Or do we want and need leaders and authority to feed our hopes and dreams?
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The Left, the Right and the Righteous | Full Debate | Peter Hitchens, Sophie Walker, Chris Bryant
The left has traditionally seen itself as progressive, with history and morality on its side. But is history on anyone's side? And as for morality, don't all politicians think they're in the right? Should the left then give up its claim to the moral high ground and argue for policies on pragmatic grounds alone? Or would this be to undermine its very core and meaning?
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Why Things Get Better | Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker's global bestseller Enlightenment Now was hailed by Bill Gates as "the most inspiring book I've ever read" but dismissed by philosopher John Gray as "unenlightened and embarrassing". Channel 4 news presenter and LBC host Matt Frei engages Pinker in a frank discussion of his work and its critics, while Pinker lays out the case that now really is the best time to be alive.
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[@juliusc.8]

Galloway and Chomsky are great.

[@Claxiux]

George Galloway is the man!

[@lmadeira9826]

I agree, and here's something else George would be outspoken about kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpTPcpWNq6enbZI

[@magicbuns4868]

Being on the right he used to piss me off, but as times gone by and the cloaks been shredded off the democrats after the failed coup attempt - this man speaks some gospel and I can't deny that

[@kinky_Z]

George Galloway has to be THE WORLD'S BEST LIVING ORATOR! His rhetoric always melts me!

[@tesscot]

I like how she immediately labels him on the right and he corrects her immediately and says I don't speak for the right. I am so sick of people constantly labeling other people.

[@5p1tf1r33]

What happened to all the comments?

[@jonathonjubb6626]

Hitchens, surpringly, was spot on....Galloway, not surprisingly, was also spot on.

[@col.231]

George Galloway keep talking, keep professing the truth and hopefully they will HEAR you.

[@LA-kc7ev]

I just discovered a conservative after my heart (Peter Hitchens)! From USA.

[@dyschromotopia]

@John wayne like borat & bilo

[@camaples]

Noam is Pure Genius. Galloway is a lefty that any right wing anti-liberal respects whether they admit it or not. Pinker is, ehhh.... this guy needs to focus on linguistics.

[@jamesedwards.1069]

It may have been Mark Twain who said that it is easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled. If he didn't say it then I'm going to say it and take credit for it. Thank you.

[@lancejames9228]

Brilliant Thanks for the upload. Love Mr. Galloway.

[@blackmichael75]

It would've been more interesting to have all these people on the stage at the same time.

[@DocMartinPortWenn]

LOVE NOAM CHOMSKY, A LEGEND IN THE TRUTH. LOVE GEORGE GALLOWAY! Thank you all!

[@T.M.Warren-qp2gq]

🗣Hitchens & Galloway sanity personified! All the best from Tottenham, London,UK!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@kushsakhu]

You see it👀. Britain has propaganda machines. Called the news and debates shows, which these men can't get on👊🏿

[@barraqali336]

Well said, Peter!

[@toffee20]

George Galloway with the truth

[@vantahawk2834]

Yikes, the last thing we need is Pinker's neoliberal drivel of appeasement.

[@jenniferlawrence2701]

Was just thinking the same thing. Right or Left, I think we can agree we've heard quite enough from the Liberals for a few decades, at least.

[@The_Angry_BeEconomist]

damn Pinker stood out for all the wrong reasons

[@davidwilkie9551]

All good commentary.

[@romulanspy3861]

peter the legend hitchens

[@rickbonamassa3045]

Christopher but legend is close enough

[@perperson199]

Peter "the Moral Man" Hitchens

[@merseybeat1963]

@mjt1658 He has had a kick up the arse that is why he is for the most part settled into reality

[@gulugul78]

Well done Hitchens

[@2tearsinabucket521]

What is this!?galloway, Hitchens and Chomsky in one sketch.. this can't be true lol

[@appluverapk]

GEORGE GALLOWAY Was CORRECT About the UNITED NATIONS!!!

[@andromeda5641]

"Populism" IS Democracy!!

[@psfielding]

I’m beginning to like George Galloway......

[@anomanderrake3593]

Barak Osama, hope and change! Are you sure? I thought it's "drone strikes and corporate bailouts".

[@dishalemans5727]

Chomsky is a brilliant dude.

[@kushsakhu]

Great points Peter as per.

[@chinhau8702]

Anyone who cares about truth and loves truth-that means things that really make sense-then will always love-trust-pay a good ear for these lovable creatures .These become rare....

[@hastrom]

A pretty shallow analysis by Pinker here, not impressed.

[@anthonylemkendorf3114]

Listen to Hitchens and the rest is just reaction.

[@MaxArturo]

React is all the left does now. Their vision of progress is just confusing at this point .

[@stuartwray6175]

A Conservative at odds with a market driven policy agenda. What is Peter Hitchens' economic position?

[@boxer12350]

Maynard Keynes

[@aaaaaaaaaaghghghg]

Hes an old school conservative. I cant describe his economic policy but its not purely derived from the Buckleyite Neoconservatism most famously championed by Thatcher and Reagan

[@stevencoardvenice]

Stuart Wray Would you really call this neoliberal corporate hellscape at permanent war a "market driven" economy?

[@dickhamilton3517]

he thinks of himself as a one-nation Tory in the mould of Harold Macmillan or Ted Heath. But he supported Thatcher, who was the person who dismantled the elements of the post-war settlement that enabled all the things he complains of the effects of the loss of, on the working class. Croc tears - he has adopted a position that, when it comes to a choice between the middle class businessman and his struggling employee, he doesn't actually support.

[@houndnobleman876]

He condemns Thatcher privatising the railways. He seems staunchly socially conservative, but isn’t a supporter lazze faire economics.

[@donpierce3996]

chomsky at 14:35

[@davidowens2067]

Chomsky, accurate per usual.

[@apacur]

I LOVE George Galloway---- He's so objective and real.

[@leftyleft101]

11:57 Dr. Pinker said "since none of us is"... That's very inlinguistic of him...

[@trevortaylor3774]

I have to agree the pore have been ignored working for wages that are impossible to live on food banks are now appearing on every corner there is a price to pay and it's just around the corner

[@jenniferanderson9060]

Where's the rest of Galloway's speech ?

[@johnsmith-jv3ry]

the problem with peter hitchens is how he defines the left, as if the left is in bed with big business. he's talking about neoliberals, in other words, economic right wingers.

[@jenniferlawrence2701]

Big business and the banks demand mass-immigration (to keep downward pressure on wages, upward pressure on housing costs, and increased borrowing/private debt) and the Left shouts down and attacks anybody who objects as racist. The two are working together, even if not entirely knowingly (in the Left's case). Although the Liberals defintely are aware of the symbiotic relationship, and encourage it. Have a read of the (neo-liberal) papers like the Economist's arguments for open borders, and realize they use the same "anti-racism" pro-diversity arguments the Left does.

[@dreamindreamoutnow9151]

Establishment of Sustainable Superiority is deplorable. Peace is Rice. Peace is Water. Thanks to Noam Chomsky and George Galloway.

[@wordscontrolminds]

I’m finally agreeing with peter Hitchens for once

[@pierrepa8372]

1:04 around this time I think I can hear someone screaming in the background

[@rafaelmelo2576]

if there is no state, there is no law, no law leads to caos and crime. Just look at Libia, Congo or Somalia to see this kind of shit happening

[@livondiramerian6999]

We have a natural order which we have ignored. Ideas constitute everything even arts.

[@billjackson8357]

So many well informed minds yet so much disagreement between them on the major issues of the day

[@4cornernan]

Those that can--do Those that can not---teach

[@cliffordhatton4444]

What a shame that an otherwise excellent series of talks was spoilt by the inclusion of Matt Frei.

[@johnedwards9942]

What? We have been constantly told the young wanted to stay in the EU, sounds like they didn't care

[@davidhutchinson5233]

Professor Chomsky is f'in Gandalf.

[@halestorm123]

So God blesses some people's life's but not others...

[@adiposerex5150]

Jane Hall no, god is a superstition.

[@JEiowan]

I’m tired of listen to people who are angry and intense while offering solutions for peace.... we still don’t get it.

[@109joiner]

Political tribalism has a lot to answer for.

[@allanhall4210]

The word suez is zeus backwards

[@redbeard0311]

Why is it edited this way?

[@merseybeat1963]

Love that Peter Hitchens

[@oo88oo]

Good cut of Galloway. 5:50 MAGA :)

[@paulhmull]

Not sure I get the anti Pinker brigade, seems fine

[@rODIUMuk]

The mics are terrible

[@Vulcan-zt7ob]

The Labour Party has never had any useful policies to help the workers of the UK. How about creating some brand new cities. How about zero percent interest rates on your first home. Make sure everyone is housed and owns their own home if they want to. This should be the first objective.

[@emmmmmmma92]

Pinker is such a joke

[@WarrenCromartie2]

All great speakers, but with respect to Mr Galloway, the NK thing is going to shit once again. We all had hopes for the success of Trump's 'firm line' but ultimately I think we'll be able to say it has failed.

[@bebeezra]

12:23 Totally hilarious.

[@outsideleftgal8991]

Bad sound quality for Chomsky's contribution --couldn't catch everything he said.

[@chrismill9896]

Pinker goes in for what he thinks is the philosopher's look with that long hair; rather like AC Grayling and the ex-Archbishop of Canterbury(what's his name?). If you want sense and authenticity, don't go for blokes so concerned for their image.

[@stevebrindle1724]

I used to think that Mr Hitchens was a right-wing nutter. After listening to what he has been saying on several occasions my views have changed somewhat. As a 66 yr old Englishman, I am and have been for 50yrs a man of the left and have to say his positions on many issues are much more nuanced than I once thought. I still disagree with lots of what he says but he has gained my respect as an intellectual who obviously has passion. We need more principled people in this world, of left or right and less of the self-serving types that politics seems to be swimming in!

[@Namsomnia]

Hitchins,pub talk specialist...

[@abetrasken]

"Could we ask you to lay out the moral position of the Right?" ... "This is what idealist politics is about, it presents hard commercial and political interests as a moral case and people are fooled by it." This is the point where she wishes she had phrased the question in a way that didn't give him an opening to opine indiscriminately. Seriously though, what is Peter Hitchins doing on this list?

[@109joiner]

I don’t accept Peter Hitchens argument.

[@Intedujag]

how surprising not allowing galloway to own these fossils lol

[@911ruinedbrendanfraserscar5]

Pinker is nothing but a cultural tid-bit anesthesia

[@TomorrowWeLive]

So three leftists (two outright Communists) and one idiosyncratic conservative constitutes 'spanning left and right'?

[@bluegold21]

The left has been marched upon. But it's been planned from day one circa1970. Ever since Exon discovered fossil fuel was going to end in tears. So the (dumb) right was tapped to keep the oil dream alive. But still, the (smart) right tries to blame the left. So much for morality!

[@raducuslav]

False left/right paradigm. Both positions avoid the truth.

[@mongolike513]

Pinker is a waste of space from fairyland.

[@tonysnark1530]

#NotMyHitchens

[@ianlonergan6585]

Noam Chomsky is no longer a young man he is aged and more than that he is treasure and should be regarded as such ...when he is invited to speak out of respect to his aged self those who record his image must make an effort that his words are intelligible to all people and sadly the sound to my ear was that it was difficult to hear what he had to say ...I’m speaking of communication if people not exposed to Noam Chomsky before on watching this video would switch off and that is not the respect he is due ..understand his voice wavers and adjust your recordings so that his voice distortions do not distract from what he has to say ...and my experience of what he has to say is he is a truly remarkable human being of which I am continually amazed and moved on both intellectual and spiritual levels as he speaks with clarity , conviction, honesty , and compassion.. It is a disgrace but understandable that the corporate media refuses to acknowledge him given his broader insights that enable him to cut to the chase ...so please out of respect please check the sound quality before recording ...this man is worthy of that respect otherwise what he has to say will run the risk of not being heard by those who may benefit greatly from hearing...

[@cammro]

i remember seeing a twitter post from the UK government account it had 4 economic stats and one of them was "more women in work than ever before" is probably my confirmation bias, but why is that a stat something to be proud of. why is working for 50-60yrs to retire and be free from work a good thing but also having more women working than Ever a good thing too, surely you've damaged something to have that, and what's the positive result of that for those normal working people, austerity? and you say spanning the left and right, but 3 of them are critics of the neo-lib era, in separate areas that they'll all agree on, i dont know what pinker is

[@nikolademitri731]

Camero56 Pinker is basically a crusader for neoliberal policy being the path to prosperity, quite opposite from the other men featured here. Now, as far as welfare programs, I think he would say that social safety nets are a good thing for the most part, *specifically to the extent that the data shows any given welfare program to be effective, and to the extent that any program could be shown to be in effective, it should be replaced with something backed by evidence.* On the surface, what Pinker has to say often comes off as quite reasonable, rational, well researched, and objective, but if you know what to look for, you see the bits of ideology beneath this veneer, both in his writing and his speeches/interviews/lectures. Frankly, I don’t actually see any inherent problem with ideology (as long as it’s “good” and it’s tempered by critical thinking), so that’s not my issue, but when you really believe that your position is non-ideological, and/or, “just going where the facts take us”, I tend to immediately suspect that said persons might be so blatantly ideological that they don’t even see it, and to a certain extent, I think that describes Pinker in many ways, particularly when taking his more recent, political works into consideration (ie, “The Better Angels of Our Nature” and “Enlightenment Now!”). To paraphrase the way Chomsky has talked about Pinker’s work, “Pinker did a lot of really good, serious work earlier on in his career, particularly work on psycho-linguistics and cognitive psychology, and we were colleagues and are friends, but as far as his more recent/popular work is concerned, I don’t think too much of it, and there’s a good deal of evidence that problematizes or contradicts his more popular work”. Imo, this practically perfectly sums it up, and frankly, I really wish more people on the left would have this more nuanced view of Pinker’s work, but unfortunately, I think most leftists are only concerned with (or aware of) his popular political works (which he, and his ilk would never define as political), though I’ve seen his other work get overgeneralized as “evo psych bullshit” by many of his left critics, who seem to assume that, bc so much of his work over the last decade has been so apologetic for neoliberalism, therefore his earlier more scientific work must be as equally biased against the left”, or something like that... For one thing, I think the left needs to stop overgeneralizing on “evolutionary psychology”, as if it’s just total bs with absolutely nothing to offer and zero value, but that’s a whole other can of worms I’m not diving into. It’s just that this perspective, and the way it’s projected onto Pinker to the point where I’ve heard him talked about as nothing but a fraud or charlatan just isn’t helpful at all, and is in fact probably hurtful to the left case against his work. It’d be nice if we could just point out that, “The Better Angels of Our Nature” and “Enlightenment Now!”, are Bill Gates’ favorite books (or so Bill has said), and to point to the types of folks who think he’s some crusader for truth and rational approaches to governance, and I think there’s some value to pointing these things out, but Pinker is a very intelligent guy who’s rhetoric is really compelling to folks who just don’t know much about the types of things he talks about, and it takes some actual work to engage with his data, explain why it’s flawed, why he’s not as objective as he seems, etc... Anyway, I digress. Hopefully this is somewhat useful to ya, and/or others. There’s a good deal more I could say about the guy, bc I used to be a MASSIVE fan of Pinker’s work (would still recommend some of the early books tbh), and I know a lot of it quite well, and have some more specific critiques, but this is already long enough as it is.. ✌️❤️

[@SuperSpeedMonkey]

Dear Mr. Chomsky: How many US bombs does it take to make women wear burkas? Here's a hint buddy... The answer is Zero.

[@LowellBDennyIII]

Chomsky, Galloway, and Hitchens, yes ... but where are the women's voices? Angeles Maestro of Spain, for example. Naomi Klein, another example. Lucid, thoughtful women's voices. Where are they?

[@paulatkins5815]

Britain is in a state of political turmoil. The government and the main opposition party have both lost their way and, together, they have completely lost the trust of the people. In the last few weeks we have witnessed a landslide exodus from both the Tory and Labour parties to the slightly more rational, principled and patriotic alternatives: the truly conservative wandered to the Brexit Party and the remainers, who previously voted Labour, migrated to the more humane Liberal Democrats. Brits are critically divided over Brexit. It is fair to say that most do not fully grasp what Brexit is anymore. They were deliberately not informed of the political discussion over Brexit and what it would mean for the future. Brits feel betrayed by the political class and in truth, they have been subjected to gross and treacherous treatment by their politicians and media. Brits are not aware of the centrality of Israel and its interests that is at the core of the Brexit debate. Though it is clear to most Brits that Brexit exposes a clear rift between an emerging nationalist ideology and progressive philosophy: not many realise that both contemporary nationalism and progressive philosophy are deeply inspired by two rival Jewish political schools of thought. For Right-wing agitators, the Alt Right, anti-Muslims and anti-immigration activists, Israel and its current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, have become a major source of inspiration. Similarly, it is Jewish progressive ideology that arouses pro-immigration campaigners, open-borders enthusiasts and multi culturalists globally and especially in the UK and USA. It is the pervasiveness of Jewish ideologies within both Right-wing nationalist and New Left discourses that sustains the dominance of the Israel lobby and Jewish pressure groups within British political parties, media and academia. My study of Jewish ID politics suggests that as in America, Britain isn’t just influenced by one Jewish lobby or another, rather the entire British political, cultural and spiritual spectrum has been reduced into an internal Jewish debate. Brits struggle to see it because their media and academia work tirelessly to conceal this development. I guess that some must believe that it is safer (for reason to do with public safety and community relations) to keep nations in the dark. Tommy Robinson, who managed to excite and mobilise thousands of Brits in the run-up to the European Parliament election by spreading an anti-Islam message, is an ardent Zionist who supports Israel and is openly supported by pro-Israel right-wing elements and members of the British Jewish community. The British media is hostile to Robinson and never misses any opportunity to paint him as a vile racist, but his connections with the Jewish State are kept hidden from the public. However, Robinson is just an example. The many Brits who support a hard Brexit are inspired by the desire to reinstate rootedness, to close borders, to revive past British glory. It is inspired by Netanyahu’s policies. Like Donald Trump’s unoriginal promise to erect a wall on the Mexican border, many Brits would like to see their kingdom protected by an Israeli-style anti-migrant barrier. www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2019/5/26/brexit-is-all-about-making-israel-greater

[@bjarnesegaard5701]

Wrong Hitchens brother that died.

[@johnellis7614]

Even though government is nothing more than the organized morality of society, no one in the video said a word about the root cause of things, the conscience from which all our decisions spring. For even thought society has a fake morality that motivates everyone to enrich themselves upon the misery of those with less education, less wealth or less whiteness of skin, even though since the beginning of civilization the more intelligent upper-half of society has hoarded all the land, wealth and political power, all attention is focused on the greedy at the top, completely ignoring the ingrate pride at the bottom and heaven forbit that we should harm the feels of the middle-class who are totally indifferent to it all.

[@waindayoungthain2147]

What’s your the great the best of the world meant? If’s there’re no friendship besides yourself. It’s no meaningful if’s without friends and your people families living together with you 😮. How’s loneliness by your anger. Please don’t leave us alone without no morality sharing togetherness please the USA 🇺🇸.

[@JohnnyCanuck32]

Here's an IDEA for the panel 2 address: "There is no LEFT or RIGHT. There is only either TYRANNY or FREEDOM."

[@AndyAnaya]

There's a 0% chance history will look back kindly on Pinker's social commentary

[@109joiner]

Why would Obama have not met with whoever.

[@adelchidipalma9857]

I have undeniable unequivocal evidence that if we don't get rid of fraudulent loans, interest charges, laws prohibiting cocaine, and other drugs, and if we don't get rid of automobiles, and the stock market, mankind days are numbered. Because the banking and interest charges stock trading is the root cause of all misery, ward, social degradation, high crime rate. suffered by mankind,

[@mickeyhay3990]

Mi

[@design7054]

Pinker and interviewer, you're showing your bias. Trump's message was also about hope and change for those who voted for him.

[@Ab-wx1jr]

Christopher hitchens is truly better than Peter

[@hakantopkaya3150]

Although Chomsky is very good on geo-politics, he is is a closet-marxist who knows very little about economics, history, philosophy and law. He first supported the Venezuelan socialist experiment and now distances himself (no wonder, after millions of percent inflation rates in the country.) The only reason Chomsky is well known is because he could speak his mind in a relatively free market. I used to be a fan of Chomsky in my late teens, twenties and thirties; but after learning law and economics for the last 10 years, I became an Austro-libertarian (a voluntarist); because I discovered where anarcho-socialists like Chomsky make observational mistakes. Galloway is another closet marxist. Hitchens and Pinker, on the other hand, are centre-right thinkers who have SOME correct recipes; but some incorrect ones, too; as they're more in touch with reality than their counterparts, in most areas. But none of these intellectuals can think as deep and far as most libertarian thinkers like Hans Hermann Hoppe, Walter Block, Tom D Lorenzo, Bob Murphy, Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Joseph T Salerno, Tom Woods etc. Particularly on Pinker, here is the Hoppean thought: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIWpenWOqdZ2nbM

[@FreekinEkin2]

Peter Hitchens: Big business and commerce use their inordinate wealth to pull the levers of politics and control things. Also Peter Hitchens: Capitalism is not the problem. Any attempt to change things is tantamount to Bolshevism, since that was my mediocre understanding of communism back when I was a carefree idling poorly read student.

[@lsobrien]

Pangloss was a professor of Voltaire’s invention, who, despite living in a world where rape, destitution, war and weaponised stupidity were all commonplace, insisted that this was the “best of all possible worlds”. Certainly living between the ivory tower and the highest courts of the land helped in maintaining the delusion. But even when he was forced face-to-face with just some of the horrors produced by his species, his insufferable brand of Optimism, that had made him a star in salons across Europe, prevented him from registering them. So it is with Pinker. His grand thesis goes: as capitalism went global, so did Liberalism, and they, together, became the source of all good things. Passed over is the brutal institution of capitalism, of which Marx (capitalism’s greatest surveyor yet) was only too aware. The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of … capitalist production.⁵ Blankly ignored is the forceful imposition of state-backed capital in the “Third World,” an invention of that those Victorian decades. An overlooked and tragic episode excellently explored by Mike Davis,⁶ where perhaps 60 million perished. It was Locke, Hobbes, Malthus and the race scientists⁷ which carried the day. The horror of the industrial revolution in Europe is only mentioned in the context of how better it is for the majority of the population now compared with then. It is often said that “capitalism lifted millions out of poverty,” without considering what it is was that dispossessed them to begin with. Morons on message boards may be excused, a “leading public intellectual” can not. But even if you could disregard the explosion of those dark, satanic mills, and our vast “underclass” of slaves, on which the whole beast - from its very inception⁸ - depends, you’re still left with the looming cliff edge. Capitalism, and its insidious cult of growth, is not sustainable. Liberal Capitalism saw off feudalism, Fascism, Communism and countless threats from the Third World; it can’t, it seems, survive hegemonic domination. Building upon Karl Polanyi’s concerns about disembedded markets, Wolfgang Streeck has written: “…Having no opposition may actually be more of a liability for capitalism than an asset. Social systems thrive on internal heterogenity, on a pluralism of organising principles protecting them from dedicating themselves entirely to a single purpose, crowding out other goals that must also be attended to if the system is to be sustainable.”⁹ Without the counterforces of trade unionism and socialism, capital accumulation - that “mad quest for singularity”¹⁰ - has made Progress synonymous with suicide: the telos, fittingly, of Professor Pangloss’s logos. medium.com/@lsob/the-new-charlatans-73bc6d198491

[@charsback]

You cant talk about Banks..Without talking about the Jews...

[@Spartacus_Clips]

All whites?! 🤣

[@richardlaversuch9460]

"Intellectual" is becoming a tiresome word. It implies that the intellect is the only route to understanding and truth. Spirituality is often more important an understanding.

[@cabingrub1244]

did curly gray haired guy actually speak english?? omg that was literally so pretentious that i turned UP the water while rinsing my dishes while he spoke. I appreciate flowery english(love Chris Hitchens and Chris Hedges) but omg dude...you could literally use at least one out of every 20 words you speak in it's "simplified" form instead of constantly scanning your thesaurus brain for another synonym. jayzus! Valiant effort but maybe leave the medieval speak back at the fair.

[@briannxx]

Trump 2020

[@gulugul78]

Galloway is so ignorant when it comes to the United Nations, either that or he is a criminal himself. Free West Papua, free Julian Assange