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The Folly of Endless Growth / Dominic Boyer

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Chuck interviews, Dominic Boyer, professor of anthropology at Rice University and Berggruen Institute fellow, who wrote the Noema Magazine article "Why We Have To Give Up On Endless Economic Growth." Jeff Dorchen is doing some deep brooding in a brand new Moment of Truth. A winner is declared for the weekly Question from Hell!

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0:00.0

Oh, This is hell.

0:20.0

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is hell.

0:32.0

Lindsey how do you feel about the flickering lights in here today? is hell.

0:33.0

Lindsay, how do you feel about the flickering lights in here today?

0:35.2

Are you enjoying those?

0:36.8

Yeah, I do.

0:38.1

It's a nice ambience.

0:39.6

It's never too bright, never too dark. It gives it a real party feel doesn't it?

0:44.5

Yeah. Can't afford a disco ball you gotta go with the flickering lights.

0:48.8

Exactly. Liberalism causes climate change. I know, don't worry Democrats who call yourselves liberals.

0:56.4

This is not about only you. Okay, it is about you,

1:04.0

Republicans out there who think this is a chance to own the Libs on climate change?

1:08.0

Well, guess again.

1:10.0

This is about you causing climate change, too.

1:12.0

The liberalism that causes climate change is the kind of

1:16.1

liberalism that Democrats and Republicans show bipartisan support. Yes, this can be a bit confusing when political literacy is so dumbed down here in the United States.

1:29.0

The establishment media, supposedly free press, does such a bad job explaining basic political concepts

1:35.4

that their audience does not know what liberalism actually means. It's not surprising

1:40.4

when that same media never dares to utter the word neoliberalism, the new and word,

1:46.6

the dominant system that controls all of our lives, avoiding it as if it is a profanity. Sure in many respects neoliberalism is profane and it does

1:56.8

deserve our disrespect and derision because it puts profits before people, the market above democracy while prioritizing money

2:05.3

over human lives like our lives as our guest will explain in a few minutes the

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