Hello everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this. So I want to begin today with a question the late Mark Fisher had been asking people for decades by the end of his life.

Do you ever look at the world around you, see the problems that are going on. Here are people like

Giesheck we've been talking about lately who bring an anti-capitalist sort of energy

to this whole conversation. And do you ever feel like, okay, yeah, there's certainly

problems with capitalism, I can agree with that. But I'm

to be honest with you. I don't see the obvious, amazing revolutionary way out of this situation

that seems to be required for any of this stuff to work.

In fact, sometimes the way I think about it,

and this is a quote attributed to Gijek and Frederick Jameson,

but something that describes the way I feel sometimes

is that it's easier for me to imagine the end of the world than it is to

imagine the end of capitalism. I mean that's just a true statement for a lot of

people. I can't think of ten different ways the world may end tomorrow. It's not even

hard to. But you asked me for one single way that we can go from

capitalism to anything, whatever it is on the other side of it. It just seems much more likely to me that

what's going to end up ending global capitalism are the flaws in

setting things up this way that are already producing bad results that are just

going to get so out of hand one day that we run civilization off a cliff.

I mean is that the fate that all this is headed for because things will just never change?

Because from where I sit, this person may say, where my life has always seemed to be as an adult

is in this constant place where I'm choosing between the lesser of two evils.

So many things already feel that way to me.

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