Episode #193 ...The chief export of the western world is trash. - Anarchism pt. 2 (Bookchin, Social Ecology)

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Today we talk about some of the work of Murray Bookchin. We talk about anarchism as a historical trend in human thought that keeps recurring. Then we talk about the superficiality of typical approaches to being environmentally conscious. We talk about Futurism and the hope of colonizing other planets. We talk about Artificial Intelligence and why people sometimes don't feel like celebrating its arrival. Sponsors: Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS NordVPN: https://www.NordVPN.com/philothis Get more: Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Philosophize This! Clips: https://www.youtube.com/@philosophizethisclips Be social: X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@philosophizethispodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow Thank you for making the show possible. 🙂

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this.
0:04.0	Philosophize this.org is the website.
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0:11.0	Hope you love the show today.
0:13.0	So last episode was a bit of a challenge to be able to write.
0:16.0	There was a lot of stuff that needed to get talked about, a lot of core ideas from anarchist thought that needed to be explained,
0:22.0	to be respectful to the people who came to
0:23.9	the episode not knowing anything about anarchism yet, but it was a challenge
0:27.2	because we had to talk about all these core ideas without saying too much
0:30.4	about anarchism in general. Because look it's a fact of the universe. You say anything about anarchism in general. Because look, it's a fact of the universe.
0:34.0	You say anything about anarchism.
0:36.0	A beacon goes up into the sky.
0:38.0	Anarchists start crawling out of the trees all over the world.
0:41.0	Raah!
0:42.0	And no matter what it is, there's going to be some anarchist somewhere in the world
0:45.0	that doesn't agree with what's being said,
0:47.0	because it doesn't correspond with their version of anarchism, of which there are many.
0:51.0	Now lucky for me, I can start talking about individual thinkers today.
0:54.9	Also kind of lucky for me, I guess, is that the philosopher we're talking about today didn't
0:58.4	get too caught up in labels like anarchism.
1:01.3	Seemed a bit silly to him to be doing that. What he cared about is whether the substance of the ideas were there.
1:06.0	But as though I learned nothing in my life, as though I really am, you know, top five dumbest people on planet Earth.
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