1366: Individual freedom and collective disaster / Keir Milburn

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Writer Keir Milburn on conceptions of freedom in an unequal society, pandemic lockdowns and the climate crises to come, and his article "‘Freedom Day’ Won’t Set Us Free" for Novara. https://novaramedia.com/2021/07/19/freedom-day-wont-set-us-free/

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0:00.0	I'm going to see. making back. This is hell.
0:29.0	Jesus America. This is hell.
0:34.0	Jesus and Mary Chain, the 80s version of the Beach Boys.
0:39.0	Live from the United States where a capitalism is the virus.
0:42.0	This is hell. where capitalism is the virus.
0:42.8	This is hell.
0:45.4	Yesterday, Monday, July 19th, England celebrated Freedom Day
0:49.6	as announced by the Conservative Tory government
0:51.9	of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
0:54.9	You might be asking yourself exactly what was Britain declaring their freedom from on this
1:00.4	unprecedented first time ever Freedom Day because that's what I was also asking.
1:05.7	It's not like England just fended off some occupier, outside tyrant, or conqueror who is oppressing
1:12.2	the people and looting their nation.
1:14.0	I mean, other than the neo-liberal looting everyone is experiencing these days with
1:18.9	transnational corporations imposing their will all over the world through
1:21.9	globalization and
1:22.8	financialization because if the Brits somehow figured out how to be free of
1:27.8	that exploitation I could definitely get on board with celebrating that
1:31.2	freedom day. But England unfortunately isn't free from the free market like all of us.
1:38.8	Know the Freedom Day celebrated on Freedom Day was the nation's freedom from the virus, coronavirus,
1:44.7	COVID-19 the pandemic. Somehow, England is free of the pathogen that is
1:48.6	mutating around the world into a variety of variants that the vaccines may or may not protect us against.
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