On: Stubborn Attachment.

Episode: 84

Date: December 2019

Background: Philosopher.

Key Subjects:

• Liberal democratic capitalism is ill equipped to handle major complex challenges.
  • Ecology (climate change), immigration, digital control (mass surveillance, etc.)
  • Unlikely things will be fixed through marginal improvements of current systems.
• “Something” will have to happen, something more radical is needed.
  • Unclear what that is (return to zero and try again?)
• Communism helps to name the problem, but doesn’t provide solutions.
  • Similarly, the Left can only name problems, but doesn’t a have general vision for the future.
• Society held together by unwritten rules, customs.
  • Humanity is based on empty manners.
  • Political correctness tries to legalize these customs (rather than address underlying issues).
• A broad ranging, at times farcical and scatter-shot discussion.
  • Mostly interesting to an in-crowd that can fill in the blanks of the numerous “and so on, and so on.”
• 7/10