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Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

(2015/05/15) A crisis of culture (Capitalism)

Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy

Jay Tomlinson

Politics, News Commentary, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Edition #922

Today we take a hard look at modern-day civilization and culture and ponder what we could do to make things better
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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: The Death of Culture at the Hands of the Profit Motive - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-20-15

Ch. 3: Song 1: My Conversation - The Uniques


00:13:04 Ch. 4: Act 2: Visionary Sci Fi for an Age of Acquiescence - The F Word with @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 4-20-15

Ch. 5: Song 2: Design - Fiction Company


00:15:58 Ch. 6: Act 3: .@ShawnAchor - The happy secret to better work - @TEDTalks - Air Date: 2-1-12

Ch. 7: Song 3: Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (iTunes Originals Version) - Tears for Fears


00:29:08 Ch. 8: Act 4: A Brief History of Humankind - @DecodeDC - Air Date: 4-30-15

Ch. 9: Song 4: "Going Sane" - Two Cheers


00:40:39 Ch. 10: Act 5: Lacking liberty from slavery to feudalism to capitalism - Economic Update with @profwolff - Air Date: 2-1-15

Ch. 11: Song 5: Revolution - Grandaddy


00:55:40 Ch. 12: Act 6: .@TheNextSystem Project- National Launch Webinar - Best of the Left Activism


Voicemails

00:58:10 Ch. 14: What I took away from the Baltimore episode - Ryan from Pheonix

01:02:54 Ch. 15: Thanks for Baltimore episode - Isaiah from New York

01:03:35 Ch. 16: Nonviolence doesn't work when society is callous to suffering - Diane from Houston

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics


01:06:01 Ch. 17: Final comments on capitalism, culture and The Next System Project

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone


Activism: @TheNextSystem Project: National Launch Webinar

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WATCH The Next System Project National Launch Webinar moderated by Laura Flanders of GritTV

Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich


Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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0:00.0

This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show.

0:05.6

For details, visit the Contribute tab at BestOfTheLifetime.com.

0:09.0

Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLifetime Podcast with clips today from the majority

0:12.9

report, Laura Flaunders, Ted Talk from Ashahn Acor, DECOED DC, Economic Update with Professor

0:19.2

Richard Wolfe, and an active segment from the next system project.

0:30.0

I called about a year and a half ago and I discussed culture.

0:36.5

And I was listening to Philip Mikowsky and you sort of touched upon how the profit motive

0:43.1

and money had sort of overtaken all other values in the society, which is sort of what we

0:47.9

were talking about a year and a half ago.

0:50.4

I remember that conversation.

0:51.4

Is that really a year and a half ago?

0:54.1

I know.

0:55.1

It seems like yesterday, but I think it was, yeah, probably a summer, you know, last summer

0:59.2

at some point.

1:00.2

Okay.

1:01.2

So anyway, I wanted to follow up, which is to say, I read some of the comments after you

1:07.8

had posted that conversation on YouTube and a lot of them were quite defensive.

1:14.6

Like, who are you to say, you know, what our culture should be and are you really, you

1:21.3

know, demeaning or denigrating, you know, everybody and our culture?

1:27.4

And the answer to that is?

1:29.0

Yes.

1:30.0

I mean, yes.

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