WHAT POLITICS TAUGHT ME | Yanis Varoufakis - Podcast Episode 1

The podcast is released alongside the acclaimed new docuseries 'In The Eye Of The Storm - The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis'. Watch it here: www.eyeofthestorm.info
'Eye Of The Storm Podcast' will release new episodes each week with renowned guests from the world of politics and the arts. Our first episode, however, kicks off with an in-depth interview with Yanis Varoufakis. Please like and subscribe.
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, politician, author and the former finance minister of Greece. To find out more, go to: www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/
Raoul Martinez is a philosopher, author and filmmaker. To find out more, go to: www.creatingfreedom.info
PRODUCED BY DAVIDE CASTRO AND FRANCESCA MARTINEZ.

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[@alexchurn8181]

"How is it that we're collectively building a future that none of us seem to want?" is definitely a question that more people should ask more often.

[@treefrog3349]

"Most" of us do not want. The sad reality is those with the most money and power want something completely different. Democracy IS dead.

[@tag5104]

I think the more accurate question, "...a future that [the majority] of us seem to want." I don't think there's a question of whether this model benefits a small sliver of society...

[@Faus4us_Official]

Nice touch of realism, fellow human.

[@RandomNooby]

Yanis is picking a fight with a VERY powerful system, populated by powerful people who excel at deception. Good luck Yanis.

[@j.pfeiffer8068]

Socialists of the World unite...to abolish freedom

[@mariettestabel275]

💯

[@augustusomega4708]

he should be supported by the many

[@mariettestabel275]

​@@augustusomega4708 Really MANY

[@Faus4us_Official]

It's our fight. All of us.

[@user-df9bn9qq4z]

Great interviewer. Yanis varoufakis is very intelligent ethical man who is not giving in to the elites he is a European icon.protect this man at any cost

[@tinaoffice9274]

Indeed. We are proud of you for being generous with the knowledge you have. Thank you, Mr. Varoufakis.

[@user-di7ww6pm3c]

In Greece when he was part of Syriza party...he was part of the socialist elites. The left in Greece have very very deep pockets. They are so disconnected with the working class and the problems people have.

[@SpoPix]

This is the best company I have found on the web this past 3 weeks. With a 9 to 5 job, I feel socially isolated and alienated, these conversations may allow me to build a bridge of hope and knowledge until a day when I can change my situation. Thank you

[@orangetara4268]

Yanis is a real man, authentic and sovereign. His qualities align with me and I am astounded that everything he says resonates with me 💯 %. Infinite love and gratitude 🙏

[@fourarmshiverjoel]

I was just saying we need more Yanis in the world.. thanks for starting this!

[@swojnowski453]

we have millions of them, but most have got corrupted when touched by the power of power and the power of money ... Humans, if the noblest ones are weak in the face of uncertainty the future brings, power and money make the future less uncertain for them, so they take the opportunity to survive for the price of losing their beliefs. Opportunism is nothing new, it is a survival strategy. Opportunities usually do not knock on your door twice, most of us know it deep inside ...

[@dariosilva85]

We need Yanis like we need a hole in the head. Maybe you are too young or too ignorant to remember or understand how the left had bankrupted the Greece economy a decade ago. You should study history before you open your mouth.

[@j.pfeiffer8068]

Come to Germany, we got heaps of These crooks

[@falconheavy595]

Germany has nothing but crooks like Ursula

[@j.pfeiffer8068]

@@falconheavy595 true.

[@DerekSpeareDSD]

lesser evil is still evil...we deserve the greatest good

[@Beatriz-pz1lt]

Very well spoken, i love it.

[@katieandnick4113]

If we deserved it, we would have it. Look at what humanity has allowed to happen(or rather, made happen) to the planet, including all of its inhabitants. If we deserve anything, it’s exactly what is happening right now.

[@BryanChance]

Narcissism - that's the underlying cause of what we are seeing in our societies, communities and institutions.

[@kp6215]

I learned I had no cell of narcism when at 10 unable to look into a mirror except to see if I had combed hair without dirt never putting makeup that most females were taught as I played with the boys not girls.

[@inakale]

I would argue those people are pure psychopaths

[@user-di7ww6pm3c]

You just summed up the party he used to represent. Syriza. Socialists with deep pockets who spat in the face of the poor and working class.

[@hanifahal-amin3583]

​@@inakaleexactly!!!

[@katieandnick4113]

A narcissist is supposedly someone who looks out only for themselves and their own interests, but because we are a collective, whether or not we can see that or want to believe that, our objective interests are always in alignment. The only truly selfish thing a human can do is to kill themself when others are dependent upon them, as this ensures they will not experience any of the consequences of their action. If I do something as seemingly innocuous as eating the last piece of my daughter’s birthday cake, without even asking her if she wants it, that act may seem selfish, on the surface, but I have just done something that will slightly alter the way my daughter perceives me for the rest of her life. She has lost a bit of trust in me, which will absolutely impact the quality of my life. A billionaire who behaves in ways to indicate they care only about money, and nothing at all about other humans, will never be able to trust or be trusted, and when you are part of a collective, not being trusted is the worst position to be in. So yeah, humans can’t be genuinely selfish, again, unless they kill themselves, but then they are dead and no longer human.

[@Placebo4FutureHealthCare]

Amazing documentary! It’s so timely for our world! I watched it twice and will watch with my high school children again! Thank you for making this masterpiece!

[@EyeOfTheStorm.Podcast]

Thank you!

[@stanleykubrick8786]

I love listening to Yanus, what a wonderful world it would be if his idealistic views could be realized.

[@anderssand7539]

As always,.. A pleasure lisrening to mr VaroufakisQ

[@dinicuclaudiu7750]

Respect and support for Mr. Yanis Varoufakis!

[@marsaeolus9248]

Extremely important holistic analysis of our present. Thank you Yanis!

[@sirdouglas2010]

Thank you for the documentary and podcast. Just purchased it on Vimeo after watching the podcast w Naomi Klein. As Americans, we learned so much. We need solidarity among workers internationally. Free Palestine.

[@orchidbloom6966]

May God bless you and protects you from evils.!🙏🏻❤️ What wonders me is the middle class and the poorest people hate socialism for themselves, but supports socialism for rich class. It amazed me how 99% of people who are struggling to survive how deep dawn hypnotized by anti- socialism. No wonders how capitalist became capitalist with out working, because they have powerful mind to to play the game.

[@siamakgarmroudi4779]

Yanis is amazing and wish we had more people like him to speak the truth about the Rigged System.

[@imadsbai1213]

Yanis varofakis such a wise man

[@farinshore8900]

Great coversation guys. Thank for taking the time to share your work.

[@LokiBeckonswow]

so happy to get more info around this doco series - I want to buy it to watch it ASAP, maybe next month if I have some spare cash - many thx to all involved, soooo damn happy to see more content on this topic !

[@clivebroadhead4381]

Great interview, I can't wait for the following episodes.

[@Skylark_Jones]

I really love and admire Yanis Varoufakis. He is honest, passionate, moral and sincere, brave and charismatic, thoughtful, eloquent and compassionate. He has gravitas. I have listened to him - his speeches, lectures interviews etc over the years: I cannot remember a time when I haven't agreed with what he says. Had he been a candidate for the UK premiership I would honestly and wholeheartedly and without hesitation vote for him. Alas, he is not eligible and that is our loss. Instead we have so-called leaders that have no integrity, accountability and professionalism. We in Britain ache for a robust politician like him.

[@flxjay8985]

I do not understand this kind of idolatry. Our dissatisfaction on our politicians make us try to find people with better ideeas, and we may easily fall for an eloquent discourse. Pictures is bigger than that, and simply to think that first economist that put things in some different perspective could be a better PM is ... naive. You do not know much about what he has done in his own country when he was finance minister. He simply blamed EU for the failure of Greece. Is not that simple. Why some former communist countries accepted in EU, has done better than Greece?

[@anne-sophielanier2731]

@Skylark_Jones you had Jeremy Corbyn for God’s sake.

[@xaz7088]

@@flxjay8985 get yourself informed about his history. No idolatry here but we have to learn his attitude to fight for our rights

[@flxjay8985]

@@xaz7088 I lived my first thirty somenting years in an ex-comunist country, twenty of them under direct comunist government. Not very far from Greece. Ask yourself how exactly a socialist economist will defend your rights? Which rights, by the way? And more important, for how long? This guy is not norwegian, and Greece is not Norway.

[@xaz7088]

@@flxjay8985 nothing grows from diamonds, flowers grow from manure

[@emmanuelnicolaou8773]

Great thinker. A Greek thinker set aside by his own people to start with. I would like to read his book. Ευχαριστώ κύριε Βαρουφάκη

[@user-di7ww6pm3c]

Πλάκα κάνεις;

[@PeppermintPatties]

Wonderfully wise conversation. Thank you, Yanis and Raoul. ✊

[@luciaspaetgens1366]

PEACE AND.☀️..FREEDOM TO EVERYONE🌿🕊☀️🩷

[@truthseeker1278]

The parable with the festival is simply fantastic! 🎪

[@bryansmith9231]

Thank you for the content you have created and share freely.

[@clive-live]

What a great introduction to everyday life Clive Burgess ❤️

[@pamelajoy6037]

Thank-you! Looking forward to more.

[@FloraDoehler]

Thank you both for this.❤

[@conniekaler]

One of the best interviews ive heard with Yanis, thank you

[@sammavaca5714]

A great interview. I have been missing this kind of conversation for many years.

[@mariettestabel275]

💯

[@user-zk6bv4ys8l]

He delivered a perfect analysis, which matches perfectly what I independently discovered myself, but I was not ready yet to formulate so pregnantly. I am also an graduated economist and i also studied international relations both 20 years ago and I rememver very clearly the moment at the University when I refused to continue with my PhD. (Doctoral) studies) because I knew it would cripple me forever. The faculty offered global management studies, but in fact it was a propagandist cell, sponsored massively by int. corporations like Procter and Gamble and others and its only aim was to educate either golbal companies CEOs, or oligarchic ideology apologets who would spread their ideology in debates broadcasted by TV studios, by writing articles to newspapers, or by indoctrinating students at the bachelor and masters programs. I immediately had that strong feeling, that economic liberalism leads to monopolism and cartels, plutocracy snd therefore to the end of liberalism itself and to the end of democracy. I told them: look, i believe that the natural substance of economy and human society will at the end of the day anyway lead to an inevitable end of those monopols and cartels, because they will start to degradate. But I was refused to study it/to make a research in tgat field - which was logical, and I expected it, as noone would ever sponsore such deviation at such conservative institution as the University of Economics, moreover the Iniversity could not show off with something like that anywhere... but I also knew, that it would be completely impossible for me to get any data, because such data nobody produces, because everybody present only his success and, more importantly not only my doctoral years, but also my life time would be too short to witness either to collapse ornthe transformation of the system. But now, when I see Mr. Varoufakis, I regret that I did not try. Because there is one thing that is particularly appealing: we have freat analysis but our ways out of it are still in their embryonal stage. And they need to be elaborated. Sharing profits, sharing ownership, sharing decision making process and mainly the interactions between the stakeholders, the companiesy the rules and regulations. Nothing has been done so far in this field and I am afraid that we did not move much since Popper or Schumpeter (I think one of them was Schumpeter) started to theoritalize about it. I only know that very few entrerpreneurs in the USA started with this concept, but they are just few and we can not watch it how it would work as a completele system of the society. Sorry for being long.

[@gatoquisquilloso]

Yanis and Michael Hudson are the two most indispensable economists we have in the world right now absolute Superstars

[@kp6215]

Carpe Diem

[@analellycastaneda4899]

Thank you for this, both of you. ❤

[@grainnefallon7713]

The leaders like Yanis already exist and the world we want is so achievable, once we get the freedom from this system by replacing it with the better one as always happens. Create the new story and give people hope. The new system thar meets everyones needs, within the limits of the livibg world has already been written. Doughnut economics could be the blueprint that we run with and we need to be ready now. Right now.

[@kp6215]

Either we move beyond Capitalism or we die was my thought at 18 having mother of bookkeeping and father that taught passion for reading "all" history because he told me I was privileged to have books to self educate that no amount of funds were provided that I consumed during every minute I was not sleeping or eating. I have always been content with solitude with endless books of knowledge to read. Please bring the old women into DIEM 25 as our wisdom passed for thousands of years not written in the books that men created in the monastery or mosques.

[@celt456]

fascinating conversation; many thanks!

[@sarachiba6012]

THANK YOU 🌺🌺🌺

[@user-ce6vg8rr3l]

I didn't have to work 10 hours a day so i had time to think-

[@sunny1again]

And they don't kill you because they're sadists. AND, they use you as a shell for their financial exploitation, and a scapegoat for their atrocities.

[@jonathanbethune9075]

I think we're going to be alright. ( As a species) There's wisdom in high places and I think there numbers are higher than those that would do us harm, and growing. I'm sorry Mr Varoufakis was treated that way...

[@joeldwest]

We need something very different. Yanis for World President.

[@longw01]

Yanis 👍🏽👊🏽👋🏽🙏🏽

[@paulafletcher5331]

Who is this insightful Interviewer?

[@kp6215]

Yanis's new book that common sense was my brain in 1995 having been top 10% of Systems Analyst class in 1983. Yanis wrote my book on Feudel Technology as I watched occuring but women don't receive equal time on any media or platforms.

[@japiro14]

What?

[@user-ze8zo5uv2s]

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

[@rezrunnercl]

Yes...may you be protected. Your virtues make you dangerous to the corrupt and sinister.

[@mariettestabel275]

💯

[@mariakrumova5640]

Thanks

[@totonow6955]

❤

[@voulafisentzidis8830]

Yani, in his brief time in politics, probably learned how NOT to be in the world. This is wonderful. Thank you.

[@flyingsnow311]

That moment when Mr Varoufakis he's accounts werer frozen, was that in the time were he still was a minister?? Thats horrific, scary and ar the same time it makes angry, how come some people abuse their power playing such a dirty game. More People like him in Governments would be delightfull and would give hope for brighter future for the masses. We should fight for it.

[@merfymac]

Why would my comment have been deleted? It was a perfectly innocuous compliment! Did I use a verboten word or phrase? It’s like the security services and Yanis’s bank account all over again!

[@EyeOfTheStorm.Podcast]

No idea! It wasn't deleted by us. What did it say?

[@kimeldiin1930]

Yanis , my friend , Bell Helmets had an advert as their helmets were on the expensive side ; "Boy ,(very pre woke that ..) if u have a 4 dolla' head , you go get yerself one of those 5 dolla' helmets !! " , Your head particular head is worth much ore than that , TO ALL OF US ...SO-----fellow two wheel enthusiast .....

[@Mary-il6zz]

How lucky you had the time to think and were supported financially in your formal education.

[@brooketohimself]

It's funny you all mentioned happy families. I think many of the proponents of equitable and autonomous systems do have a kinder background and many detractors come from a more authoritarian upbringing (often religious in nature.) My imaginational framework for a decent political and economic system IS actually a happy family, although some would argue it isn't scalable. Why not though? As you rightly pointed out, something gets lost when face-to-face interactions no longer happen. I look at the flower of life as a top-down example of circles within circles attempting to come to a consensus and then interacting with larger consensus circular systems. In this way we can preserve the human-to-human element. Re: family. Good parents want the children to grow into strong decision-makers, allow them to participate in family choices, do not allow them to starve for their suppers but do encourage them to participate in chores when needed, monitor behavior and choices to the limits of privacy, but apply authority/veto power when necessary to keep them safe. Of course when they grow up a fully democratic system is the ideal and is appropriate for a society of philosopher kings or 'adults in the room', but another revelation I had is that not all systems are applicable to all demographics. I knew two married teachers, one with an unruly urban classroom and the other in a rural private school. I visited the rural school and she was able to walk us around on a tour for 15 minutes because she knew she could trust her own students not to misbehave. The other teacher did not have such luxuries, but it was not because of the classroom management styles, it was the students themselves that determined that.

[@jonathanbethune9075]

Despite all things in view , all my instincts tell me that its all going to calm to peace in our time. The prisoners dilemma will be reshaped to give better choices in numbers not experienced before in history. I think ignorance is a root cause of self interest and the wise gravitate to the middle way. They walk between... You know all the tech about to hit...the collective consciousness has an effect of shaming the self interested and promotes the egalitarian. It's to be integrated into our lives.

[@junaidmuhammed5740]

Sii libero. Sii libero.

[@geniemarie7977]

It's deliberate you are the msny would you ever cop on

[@xTD-ld1vh]

ahh re GiaNara prothipourgos pou aksizame all pote den eixame✌

[@tomkarnes69]

Its not the Cadillac, its the Tesla that consumes three times the hydrocarbons to operate, all that electricity rides on an ocean of oil, its a looser

[@MrDelord39]

You should make the podcast available on lbry

[@laurenfok7119]

Hello. Purchasing the series asks for a billing code. It doesn't recognize South African codes, where i live. This means my payment was rejected 😢. Help please!

[@kp6215]

A child learns what they need by 8 from their parents which my parents understood that gives you moral strength your entire life as I made hard choices to maintain my freedom including homeless because my soul is more important because KARMA. I never feared death thus kept my independence.

[@tag5104]

🎉

[@NavM23]

👍👍👍

[@treefrog3349]

In a grotesquely over-populated world with ever-diminishing resources, it makes "tragically-logical" sense that those who are at the top of the socio-economic spectrum are frenetically striving to maintain their dominance. I am afraid that that cultural metabolism will be the wave of the future and the source of our civilizational demise. The Earth cannot sustain 8 billion people. The winnowing process has already begun.

[@vasileiosh]

Our disastrous state of affairs relies on a much deeper malaise of our civilization. Varoufakis touches briefly upon it. If as human beings try to "self actualize" without any alignment to some external North Start, then society as a system is bound to collapse. Think of air molecules in a box moving randomly around. Entropy only goes one way. Money is a means and we use it as an end. 34:53

[@bernardheathaway9146]

🎉🎉

[@mariasantaluccirodriguez791]

👍👏

[@starchiiiiild]

Economics. Capitalism. Politics. Podcast. Yanis Varoufakis.

[@Skylark_Jones]

Where can I watch this documentary?

[@EyeOfTheStorm.Podcast]

All the info is here: eyeofthestorm.info

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

I understand Varoufakis' argument about Technofeudalism. But I must say here that he made a huge flaw in his argument, probably because he limited himself to evaluating the economic characteristics of Big Techs to compare them and the new form of power they give rise to feudalism. The problem is actually legal, because in the Middle Ages a human being could be free, semi-free or a servant, with each person's status being more or less related to the legal regime applicable to the territory in which the person was born and worked. This status of the land and the man who lived on it were protected by customary law, something that at that time had more legal validity than the law dictated by a prince. Nowadays, Big Techs have completely colonized the internet and everyone is reduced to the status of data producing servants. Another legal problem ignored by Varoufakis: internet users own the data they produce, but cannot obtain any economic advantage from this property. Data and metadata explored by internet controllers and operators have little or no value for each user, as to explore them algorithms are needed that filter and segment information based on criteria previously defined by IT engineers. Internet users do not control these algorithms and the overwhelming majority of people have no idea how they work behind the screens they see when using their computers and smartphones. Here there is an evident distinction between feudalism and techno-feudalism. In the first case, anyone who worked the land to transform it over time under the regime of partionaria, contract ad partionem, plantation-complantación or complant could acquire ownership over a part of the land. In the second, the context in which we live, people own the data they produce but this right does not (and cannot) transform into an economic value for those who created it. In short, Technofeudalism is not as similar to Feudalism as Varoufakis imagines. Even so, the hypothesis he formulated has the merit of making us think about the reality that has been imposed on us. Here I just summarized my point. Medieval and current legal issues were better exposed and substantiated in a text that I recently published on the Internet criticizing the flaws in Varoufakis' new book.

[@jf2176]

You kids caused this, with your avocado toast. You know they are going to blame all of us and make us fight each other, right?

[@LokiBeckonswow]

it's a great time in 21st century history where someone as famous as yanis can speak on philosophical values like this 32:59 are we not currently in a renaissance period? where our souls and values have become so sick and twisted from all of the depressive philosophies of emptiness etc etc ... a post 2008 gfc period where younger generations have been forced to redefine our value systems through historical study??? I see a massive growth and inclination towards online communities thirsting after philosophical/historical ideas... I hope this renaissance of value analysis continues and deepens... I hope yanis' fame continues to grow, and I hope he is able to remain as humble and aware as he is - it's a great time in history when someone discussing core ideas around our value systems... is this famous, influential, and radical

[@Johnconno]

I predict a continuing rise in stupidity, passivity and cowardice from 20-30 year olds.

[@danielyemane4355]

Iron curtain of Europe is functioning

[@vinozarazzi5633]

Yanis said just before this podcast that he "...does NOT care about "Freedom!" ! " For himself or humanity...

[@geekerella7296]

Ive never cried listening to this song before. She gave it a whole different depth.

[@Steve1734]

An enightened population installs politicians to ensure that the services delivered to us by government are fulfilled. In Australia, we are brutal about this. The moment a politician gets an idea that only he and his party know what good for us, they always get the PM sacked and the party loses the next election. We have an activist voter cohort and very few voters vote for the party of their dads. They vote on two things. 1) policy we insist on and 2) whether they have carried out that policy. We have a three year election cycle and that gives us a short timeframe to wait to boot them out. There is an old saying in Australian politics. Voters always have the baseball bat ready at the front door for the next time to vote.

[@jlb8696]

[@stephenwilson9872]

To the hurt of there pride

[@stephenwilson9872]

And refusal of killers to accept the task

[@Owl350]

TRUE IT'S FASCISM INSTEAD OF A GOVERNMENT ,BY USING A UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT ON ((WE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORKING CLASS)) !!!

[@johnnopeyy4129]

Working class people weren't allowed to even vote until decades after the foundation of the United States.... So 😂

[@vernahutchinson9710]

We as a collective as humanity must have a committed sense of right and wrong as humans , people of the dark triad give them all they want separate them at birth , we have the technology now to check in on the brain of a baby red alert , red flags , one we recognize , great surgeons etc do well with this brain type but we must separate these children and pour all are resources into them ,, as we understand. Viruses we must understand and learn about predators early

[@Retroalimentador1]

A representative of Kantian values or third state of Kholberg moral development phases at the side of Julian Assange. He should be the light at the end of the tunnel as Slavoj Zizek would have said but not to smash you as another train coming, on the contrary smash the Monopoly.

[@jonathanbethune9075]

They stole all my money to.

[@boorhaave5880]

It's a good interview but doesn't really address the logic of the lesser evil

[@frusia123]

The problem with socialism is that most people are not intelligent enough for it. You don't have to be intelligent to believe in capitalism, because greed and the need to feel superior to others don't require intelligence. Socialism calls for higher ethical values, and that makes it difficult to sell so to speak.

[@obaidulhaque7687]

❤🫡

[@atypicaltexan3834]

This comment is for Al.

[@stephenwilson9872]

They have wished me dead. For years

[@enawikena]

A good spirit, Yanis. What is striking is his blind eye onto the results of mass migration. To oversee that right-wing people are absolutely right with their resistance to becoming outnumbered by foreigners is utterly naive.

[@thomaswikstrand8397]

Our fertility numbers would lead us to rapid implosion without substantial immigration. Is it completely without challenges? No, but it's vital.

[@user-gc8pc3ol6l]

@@thomaswikstrand8397 One can create a model globally of engineered depopulation, rewilding especially with the rise of AI. You also seem to forget the lessons of history with regard to peoples coming in who hold vastly different cultural values.

[@thomaswikstrand8397]

@@user-gc8pc3ol6l yes, will you be the first to sacrifice yourself on the altar of engineered depopulation? Please. Lead by example.

[@jaysphilosophy1951]

I wish we could get rid of elections all together. Then we could get on with it.....

[@user-di7ww6pm3c]

I think that's what communists did in the past. Our socialist leaders are on the same path shutting down healthy debates and freedom of press😊

[@jaysphilosophy1951]

What socialist leaders?

[@user-di7ww6pm3c]

@@jaysphilosophy1951talking more about our European Union and EU goverments that schill for them. Different opinion your a fascist or right winger. Report on news from another perspective. Fascist. When you shut down debate, journism and political parties then your un big trouble.

[@kapljica1st]

I have appreciated Varoufakis' ideas since I first heard about him during the Greek crisis. But why on earth do you cite Gabor Mate as a reference for the quality of the movie about Yannis? Varoufakis may be controversial, but because of his political aims, not because of his expertise. Gabor Mate, on the other hand, is controversial because he has no expertise in the field he preaches - a doctor who claims to be an expert in human psychology. And besides, you equate Naomi Klein and Žižek , who are both experts in their fields, with Gabor Mate! Why?

[@anjaseidl4003]

Yanis has kind of a difficult stand. He voices out publicly, what others do not dare. He was beaten up by a political opponent. Then.. he is a person in the centre of attention. People listen to him. He says himself, that he has a million followers. At the same time, he criticizes the tecno monopoles through which he eaerns his money.

[@rubadubsoldier1419]

The collapse of civilization?. No. The collapse of Western civilization yes. And this is not something 88% of the rest of the world would mourn. On the contrary it is something to be joyful about as Western 'civilizaation' has set the world back hundreds of years. Gaza is a definitive summary of Western rule and civilization.

[@user-gc8pc3ol6l]

What twaddle. Islamic countries of course are a beacon of progress for all. After all 1400 years of oppression and violence is all essential to growing societies. Destroying civilizations in the process. Take your nonsense elsewhere.

[@aslkdjfzxcv9779]

this works well if you have a shallow under! taning of humanity.

[@pmapires]

Never understood what is the pleasure in oppressing someone else nor can I understand any joy in social power other than minimal & soft hierarchical relation in organizations. Varoufakis as some of us is in the pursuit of a better socio economic model but Socialism is not a proper model for homo sapiens as it suppresses individual liberties. I have yet to find empirically an economic model better than Capitalism, negatively mentioned by left wing intellectuals, under certain circumstances (competition, rule of law, regulation, with a strict hard currency (e.g. CHF) and in a social democrat regime). Capitalism is way better for free will and individual liberties, and promotes people based on merit (including entrepreneurship). Socialism is good for ants, capitalism for homo sapiens.

[@benoitguillou3146]

Capitalism starts with free unadulterated competition ....And ends up EVERY SINGLE TIME nepotism and kakistrocracy ....Because once you gain power the one thing you fear the most is loosing it so you end up tweaking the system to your own advantage to shut competition down , by legislation you buy out , or simply freezing the assets accumulated that never reenter the economic cycle .....That's why in the most arguably "once" capitalistic countries of all USA you now have monopolies , shitty quality products , and dictatorial means of power overused , EVERYWHERE ....According to the principles of the competition you so love , the "system" that wins is the "best" , turns out maybe capitalism is a NOT the best( not even implying socialism is better ) , because it's failing miserably since 30 years or so ( if it was just me I'd say 50 years since 71's monetary debasement but some clowns like nixonimics and reaganomics so much they forget it hinged constant wars to create destitute lands full of cheap labor , which is not only immoral but all around not sustainable )

[@inakale]

and still they can't cut out putin's oligarchs or rather choose not to 🤦

[@michaelmullenfiddler]

Yanis's arguments about the "theory if the lesser evil"--wherein he uses British politics as his example--this problem of the "logic of the lesser evil" applies equally in America: the Democrats are terrible, but y'know, they ain't as bad as the Republicans...