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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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This is a small snippet from a full episode currently up on patreon in which Breht discusses a crucial dimension of a well-lived, meaningful existence, and explicates the transformative power of meditation practice,when done sincerley and consistently over time within an established philosophical and religious framework (as opposed to the stripped down, commodified, bastardized version of it often offered in western capitalist societies).
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0:00.0 | We clarified some ideas about the Hagellian conception of freedom. We've disseminated some lies at the |
0:06.9 | heart of liberalism. We've launched some scathing, deep, structural critiques of capitalism. And we've |
0:13.8 | shown why Marxism in particular is a crucially important philosophy and essential to our current historical moment, as well as |
0:22.4 | providing a vision for the sort of world we want to build that actually solves the problems, |
0:28.5 | which liberals cannot do. What is the liberal vision of the future? I guess you could go read the |
0:34.4 | book Abundance by Ezra Klein and get the best shot at that you're going to get. |
0:38.1 | Something like that. |
0:39.9 | It's basically a patchwork of techno-silicon valley utopianism where then maybe if we get AI to work just right, we can fucking build a utopian. |
0:49.4 | I mean, it's no vision at all. |
0:51.5 | What's the vision of conservatives for the future? |
0:55.0 | Just endless cruelty forever? |
0:58.2 | What's the vision of libertarianism? |
1:00.6 | Oh, let's unleash corporations even more, guys. |
1:04.9 | Let's let corporations run everything even more with even less regulation and less democracy, guys. |
1:11.5 | Then it'll really work. |
1:12.6 | If the free market is just fully unleashed, then we'll produce a good society. |
1:19.6 | And then what's the fascist vision of the future? |
1:22.2 | The Fourth Reich? |
1:24.4 | Well, the U.S. and Israel already are the Fourth Reich. |
1:26.7 | The Fifth Reich? |
1:29.2 | There is no positive vision. |
1:31.7 | There is no present, meaningful analysis. |
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