How Humanity Needs To Be Rescued From Capitalism / Clara E. Mattei
This Is Hell!
This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Biggie Jack! |
| 0:02.0 | Biggie Jack! |
| 0:16.0 | Are you guys? Mickey! This is hell. This is hell. And we're back. |
| 0:39.4 | Doing the best to understand is hell. And we're back. |
| 0:39.5 | Doing the best to understand what capitalism depends on us not understanding since 1996. |
| 0:46.2 | This is hell. |
| 0:49.1 | In the U.S. Declaration of Independence, it states, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are |
| 0:56.3 | created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, |
| 1:01.2 | that among those are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The preamble of the U.S. |
| 1:07.2 | Constitution begins with we the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, |
| 1:15.9 | promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our |
| 1:21.2 | prosperity. Posterity, it would be more interesting. Posterity is more accurate. |
| 1:26.6 | With the first three words of the Constitution being we the people in the declaration, declaring we are all created equal, although saying all men are created equal, should have been a red flag, so to speak, it would seem, it would seem that what the authors were suggesting as a government for the people by the people, which is also |
| 1:45.7 | known as democracy. Of course, enshrining slavery, misogyny, and the genocide of indigenous |
| 1:52.0 | in the founding documents in the United States would appear to contradict those democratic notions. |
| 1:58.8 | However, you will rarely hear public debate here in the United States over those |
| 2:03.6 | rather undemocratic parts of the framers' writings, because they are revered on a biblical level, |
| 2:09.2 | and questioning them is blasphemous. In this American faith built on myths and lies, the only |
| 2:16.0 | more sacrilegious suggestion would be that |
| 2:18.8 | democracy's greatest threat may be capitalism, that the free market may enslave us more than |
| 2:26.6 | providing any form of liberation, that capitalism in general, but also specifically the brand |
| 2:33.2 | made here in the U.S. of A, are anti-democratic, |
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