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🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Notes from the great impasse.... the boys are back to take you for a wild ride from supply chains, to the Great Resignation, to culture wars, to cryptocurrency, to NFTs to terminal crisis.
Why is nothing working and why does everything feel bad? It's the decadence of capitalism as a functioning social system and Sean and Matt explain why.
Be sure to listen to the end as Matt, like a similarly bearded guy before him, reaches into the misty depths of theology to try to analogize the impersonal domination of the value form. Ask yourself: is capital in fact the DEVIL? The answer might surprise you.
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| 0:00.0 | You and me have been banging on now for like I don't know three and a half years about |
| 0:05.9 | You know around anyways and about the 1970s and about the sort of like political economic bedrock for this era that we I guess called |
| 0:15.9 | neoliberalism now or whatever but we've also been I think we see now vindicated you and |
| 0:21.7 | I because looking at the 1970s was specifically for us an ability |
| 0:26.6 | to look at a turbulent point in American history not that long ago that the time of |
| 0:31.4 | our parents and our grandparents when something which is called like the |
| 0:36.0 | post-war economic order or you call it the New Deal consensus you could call it errone, but you could call it like Keynesianism, |
| 0:45.6 | whatever it is that you want to call it fell away and something new arose. |
| 0:49.0 | And we've been saying for years now, and I think that we're right, that we're in a very similar moment of economic |
| 0:53.7 | turmoil and political turmoil certainly and we've seen that fucking more and more this |
| 0:58.2 | inability this impasse of the system to be able to do anything about these severe crises that were in. |
| 1:04.4 | And yet, and yet, and this is where it gets interesting is that I got the feeling when we first |
| 1:08.8 | started talking about this shit years back that something was going to break, that something was going to break that something was going to give that this |
| 1:13.8 | like long this long slow decline of a certain type of political economy was going |
| 1:20.3 | to give rise to some sort of chaotic, |
| 1:23.7 | counter-systemic, social and political force |
| 1:27.6 | that was going to force an end to the way |
| 1:29.8 | that we've been living for the last 40 or 50 years, |
| 1:31.7 | but it hasn't happened which is |
| 1:33.2 | fascinating we sit here at this tumultuous moment in history at the end of a |
| 1:37.7 | systemic cycle of accumulation and yet there's no possible way past it we are are stuck right now. And I think that's the |
| 1:44.4 | fascinating thing about this moment in time is that everything has to change but |
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