#1269 Following the thread of the global Great Transition
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 May 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 5/3/2019
Today we take a look at several topics that, at first glance, may seem to be unrelated but that I think are all tied together with a thread that runs through all of them and points the way toward The Great Transition we are currently in the middle of.
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SHOW NOTES
Cultural critic Henry Giroux examines the slow, steady rise of cruelty in American culture - as the logic of neoliberalism strips our politics of anything besides self-regard, and the right capitalizes on the anger caused by its own policies
An extended conversation with Johann Hari, author of a controversial new book, “Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions.”
Ch. 3: Roots of Extremism with Deeyah Khan - The Ezra Klein Show - Air Date 3-11-19
Deeyah Khan is a British documentary filmmaker and human rights activist. She’s the creator of two extraordinary films airing on Netflix right now, White Right: Meeting the Enemy and Jihad: A Story of the Others.
Ch. 4: The Cure To Loneliness - Sustainable Human - Air Date 2-3-18
Loneliness is almost baked into the cake as far as a modern society with the kind of social setup and infrastructure and economic system that we have today.
Laura talks with author/activist Gar Alperovitz. From the gloom of today, he sees the principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth emerging.
Ch. 6: Gar Alperovitz on the economic movement already underway - @RalphNader Radio Hour - Air Date 6-24-17
It’s time to build new economic institutions that are democratic but also–critically–give us a new power base as well in the communities around the country.
Ch. 7: Utopias in history and the need to rekindle utopian thinking - History Extra - Air Date 3-16-17
Rutger Bregman discusses some of his ideas that recently caused a global sensation and the role of a historian in the modern world
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 8: Progressives have always had to drag liberals along - V from Central New York
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on the need to spread the word about our failing institutions to bolster support for fundamental reform
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- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors, so huge thanks to everyone who |
| 0:07.3 | contributes on Patreon to support the show. |
| 0:10.3 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:14.9 | learn about what I'm calling the Great Transition that many people think we're in the middle |
| 0:20.0 | of right now. |
| 0:21.7 | We'll hear several topics that at first glance may seem to be unrelated, but that I think |
| 0:26.4 | are all tied together with a thread that runs through all of them and points the way toward |
| 0:31.6 | the Great Transition. |
| 0:33.0 | Clips today come from This Is Hell, Democracy Now, The Ezra Client Show, Sustainable Human, |
| 0:39.8 | The Laura Flanders Show, The Ralph Nader Radio Hour, and History Extra. |
| 0:44.3 | There are polls in the last year showing that Americans aren't happy with Trump, they're |
| 0:54.3 | unhappy with Congress, they're unhappy with both parties, they're unhappy with their own |
| 0:57.7 | party, they're unhappy with their jobs, there was even an article a year ago this month |
| 1:02.4 | that had the headline, American voters are unhappy about everything polls show. |
| 1:07.9 | How much do you think our collective unhappiness here in the U.S.? |
| 1:11.6 | I mean, there was just another poll in the last couple of weeks about how unhappy Americans |
| 1:15.5 | are, and not only with our politicians, our governments, our jobs, but everything, how |
| 1:20.0 | much is our unhappiness caused by a culture of cruelty, whether we acknowledge it or not? |
| 1:24.9 | I can't tell you how central that question now is to my work, because I think that what |
| 1:32.6 | we have to face up to is that isolation, isolating people is an act of terrorism. |
| 1:40.4 | It's basically a formal terrorism, and I think that the inequality that we see in the |
| 1:46.2 | United States, the need for people to, the way in which people embrace time as a deprivation |
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