Morris Berman: Welcome to Trumpland & the Post-American World
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 26 November 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Acclaimed cultural historian Dr. Morris Berman dissects the US elections, the crimes of Clinton and introduces us to Trumpland. He muses on the Post-American world and gives his prognosis for Mexico.
Website
http://morrisberman.blogspot.com
Books
http://www.amazon.com/Morris-Berman/e/B001HCWOWM
About Morris Berman
Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. During 1982-88 he was the Lansdowne Professor in the History of Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Berman won the Governor’s Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, the Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies in 1992, and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (from the Media Ecology Association) in 2013.
He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–-The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000)–and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. Dr. Berman relocated to Mexico in 2006, and during 2008-9 was a Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Morris Berman is an acclaimed author, academic, and cultural historian. |
| 0:04.8 | He has written numerous books of which I will link to. |
| 0:08.0 | You can find his commentary on his blog at morrisberman.blogspot.com. |
| 0:12.9 | It's great to hear from you again, Dr. Berman. |
| 0:15.1 | Thanks for the invitation. |
| 0:16.4 | I think this is the third interview we've done, which is great. |
| 0:19.5 | Yes, it is indeed. |
| 0:21.5 | Once when I visited you in Guanojato, the other time with my university class, and here we go. |
| 0:27.2 | Yeah, I remember that, right. |
| 0:29.0 | And today we'll continue our decline in this discussion or post-mortem of the United States, as you call it. |
| 0:35.7 | Both of us comfortably located on the outskirts of the empire. |
| 0:40.1 | So let's start by talking about both of the candidates. |
| 0:45.3 | You sent me a piece from La Jornada that said both Clinton and Trump were an expression |
| 0:50.5 | of the same oligarchic or imperialist power system in the United States. |
| 0:56.0 | Another academic, I respect, the Swiss historian Daniela Ganser said that both are a threat |
| 1:01.6 | to world peace and that the military industrial Wall Street complex would continue unabated. |
| 1:07.2 | How is this election not different from any other? |
| 1:11.5 | Well, it is the same in the sense that the regime that America pursues, |
| 1:21.9 | which is economic and technological expansion and domination of the globe and so on, that will continue. |
| 1:30.5 | I mean, it falls within the larger framework of socioeconomic arrangement known as capitalism, |
| 1:38.8 | and we are the cutting edge of it, and that will certainly continue. |
| 1:43.6 | There's no question about that. In that sense, |
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