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So we've been talking a lot lately about some of the problems we're dealing with in the modern world.

The ways that different philosophers are diagnosing what they think the problems are, the ways they think we could be moving beyond them.

And one of the culprits of all these problems, a name that keeps coming up in these conversations,

is our good old friend, Dr. Benjamin J. capitalism.

These philosophers just can't seem to get that name out of their mouth.

They can't stop bringing up the fact that the problems we're dealing with might have something

to do with the economic, political, religious organization of people's lives that we often just politely call

capitalism as complex of a thing as that's proven to be sometimes. It seems like it may be

something more than that at other times. But one perspective that hasn't been

covered yet that seems very necessary to be mentioned as part of these conversations

Is what if we aren't even living in a capitalist system anymore? What if we're focused on the wrong things because of that?

Or as it was put by the philosopher economist Janus Verfacus recently, we know things have changed when it comes to technology and the economy in the last couple

decades, but what do things have transformed so much that if you look around you and you pay attention to the way politics and the economy is actually structured?

Capitalism is dead. It's been dead. And what is actually going on is we've entered into a brand new age that's

structured entirely different than before an age of what he calls techno feudalism.

I mean if that were true, then again it just needs to be said seems like

something that's necessary to talk about here.

We know the world's always changing into something new.

We know it never stays completely still in terms of dialectics.

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