0:00.0	Welcome to this throwback Thursday edition of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast,
0:07.6	where we remember the past and choose to repeat it.
0:10.7	This episode was originally published on May 15th, 2015, and we've chosen it because
0:16.0	it's a good encapsulation of the impact of capitalism on culture, which is a topic that
0:21.5	never goes out of style, but doesn't necessarily get addressed all too often.
0:26.2	This includes the majority report, the Laura Flanders show, a TED Talk by Sean Acor,
0:31.7	DECode DC, and Economic Update.
0:40.2	I called about a year and a half ago, and I just got culture.
0:46.8	And I was listening to Philip McCousky, and you sort of touched upon how the profit motive
0:53.5	and money had sort of overtaken all other values and the society, which is sort of what
0:58.1	we were talking about a year and a half ago.
1:00.9	I remember that conversation.
1:01.9	Was that really a year and a half ago?
1:04.5	I know. It seems like yesterday, but I think it was, yeah, probably summer, last summer,
1:09.6	at some point.
1:10.6	Okay.
1:11.6	So anyway, I wanted to follow up, which is to say, I read some of the comments after you
1:18.2	had posted that conversation on YouTube.
1:22.2	And a lot of them were quite defensive.
1:26.0	Like who are you to say, what our culture should be?
1:29.8	And are you really, you know, demeaning or denigrating everybody and our culture?
1:37.8	And the answer to that is, yes.
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