Interpreting 'Firefly': Libertarianism Vs. Anarchism w/ Dr. James Rocha
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Breht O'Shea
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🗓️ 26 June 2017
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Summary
Dr. James Rocha is a professor of philosophy at Fresno State University. He wrote a paper entitled "The Black Reaching Out: An Anarchist Analysis of Firefly" in which he argues for an anarchist interpretation of the show over the more prevalent libertarian interpretation on the show. Him and Brett discuss the paper and the arguments therein.
Topics include: Anarchism, Libertarianism, morality, feminism, the genre of Sci Fi, analysis of the State, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | We're educated, we've been given a certain set of tools, but then we're going to throw |
| 0:03.4 | on right back into the working class. |
| 0:04.8 | Well, good luck with that because more and more of us are waking the fuck up. |
| 0:08.0 | So we have a tendency to what we have, we have earned, right? |
| 0:14.4 | And what we don't have, we are going to earn. |
| 0:18.5 | We unintentionally, I think, oftentimes kind of frame our lives as though we are the |
| 0:25.6 | predestined. |
| 0:27.2 | People want to be guilt-free. |
| 0:28.2 | Like, I didn't do it. |
| 0:29.2 | Like, this is not my fault. |
| 0:30.2 | And I think that's part of the distancing from, like, if you don't want to admit that |
| 0:35.2 | there's privilege. |
| 0:37.3 | When the main function of a protect and serve, supposedly, group is actually revenue generation, |
| 0:45.3 | they don't protect and serve. |
| 0:47.2 | Simply illogical to say that the things that affect all of us that can result in us losing |
| 0:52.0 | our house, that can result in us not having clean drinking water, why should those be |
| 0:56.1 | in anybody else's hands? |
| 0:57.8 | They should be in the people's hands who are affected by those institutions. |
| 1:01.2 | People engage in to overcome oppression, to fight back, and to identify those systems |
| 1:07.7 | of structures that are oppressing them. |
| 1:10.4 | God, those communists are amazing. |
| 1:14.2 | Welcome to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
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