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The New Enlightenment with Ashley
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Exploring paradigm shifts in economics, governance and knowledge systems. We are living through a moment of transition relating to digital technologies (AI, blockchain, etc), institutional distrust and general societal instability. This channel envisions hope for a rebirth of systems on the other side of the 2020's chaos. This is essentially a theory channel: game theory, systems theory, economic theory & evolutionary theory.
My name is Ashley Hodgson, and in my regular life I'm an economics professor. My other RUclips channel includes:
1) Donella Meadows' Thinking in Systems: ruclips.net/p/PLL6RiAl2WHXEU04zFYyWrUGV_fqGG4TuR
2) Institutional Economics: ruclips.net/p/PLL6RiAl2WHXEJIs7_jY-LWEznn1KxOQdk
3) Elinor Ostrom's book Governing the Commons: ruclips.net/p/PLL6RiAl2WHXGbta9qJgBpUmQVBXgrdkjw
All views expressed are my own; nothing I say on the channel or in the public square represents my employer.
My name is Ashley Hodgson, and in my regular life I'm an economics professor. My other RUclips channel includes:
1) Donella Meadows' Thinking in Systems: ruclips.net/p/PLL6RiAl2WHXEU04zFYyWrUGV_fqGG4TuR
2) Institutional Economics: ruclips.net/p/PLL6RiAl2WHXEJIs7_jY-LWEznn1KxOQdk
3) Elinor Ostrom's book Governing the Commons: ruclips.net/p/PLL6RiAl2WHXGbta9qJgBpUmQVBXgrdkjw
All views expressed are my own; nothing I say on the channel or in the public square represents my employer.
How “The Matter With Things” Can Transform the World | book by Iain McGilchrist
This video introduces you to one of the most profound and transformative books I’ve read in years: Iain McGilchrist’s book, The Matter With Things. The book delves into the left and right hemispheres of the brain. This is a myth that could transform both individuals and society.
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The Banality of Evil, Technocrats and Salience Frames | Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem”
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This video looks at Hannah Arendt’s book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, as an origin of the term “banality of evil”. It applies it to technocrats more broadly using a salience frame model. Image credits: Eichmann_at_trial: www.flickr.com/photos/huntingtontheatreco/6238852798 Attribution: Image by The Huntington on Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/huntingtontheatreco/6238852798 Hannah-Arendt_1:commons.wiki...
The Original Free Marketeers: Islamic Traders of the Middle Ages (David Graber, Debt, Part 3)
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This is the third video in a series on David Graeber’s book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. This video explores the Islamic traders of the seas of the Middle Ages, and what sustains their economy. Other videos in the series: Video 1 in the series: ruclips.net/video/e4AfVkBmo0A/видео.html (Debt by David Graeber: Our Historic Moment of Economic Transition) *I'll link to the rest in the series once I...
What Defeated the Military-Coinage-Slavery Complex? Axial Age Economic Transition | Debt by Graeber
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Part 2 of my series on David Graeber’s book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. This book explores the rise of the military-coinage-slavery complex in the Axial Age, and the defeat of this system that lead to the economic transition into the Middle Ages. Video 1 in the series: ruclips.net/video/e4AfVkBmo0A/видео.html (Debt by David Graeber: Our Historic Moment of Economic Transition) Video 3 in the se...
Debt by David Graeber: Our Historic Moment of Economic Transition
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This video introduces a series on David Graeber’s book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. I set up the frame for the book and the way I will interact with the series, including questions we will explore going through it. Video 2 in the series: ruclips.net/video/5IfVFkE4oHs/видео.html (What Defeated the Military-Coinage-Slavery Complex? Axial Age Economic Transition | Debt by Graeber) Video 3 in the ...
What is the Metacrisis? Why is it Hopeful?
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This video explains what people mean when they talk about the metacrisis, and why this is a hopeful approach to problem-solving.
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism? by Yanis Varoufakis | A book review
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This video goes through the story of capitalism’s demise, as laid out in Yanis Varoufakis’ book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism? My video on the technostructure (John Kenneth Galbraith’s book, The New Industrial State): ruclips.net/video/meQAKA8SD7w/видео.html If you’re planning to buy the book from Amazon anyway, you can support the channel by using this affiliate link: amzn.to/3VF70W...
Less inequality or more? How to get around the inequality loggerheads
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This video explains a way to shift the frame of the question “Should we have less inequality?” to get around the usual loggerheads that keeps us stuck.
Creative Destruction of Institutions
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This video looks at Joseph Schumpeter’s idea of “creative destruction”, and considers whether it could be applied to institutions beyond businesses.
Straw Man Mythologies: Why Communities Resist Evidence
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This video explores the notion of a straw man mythology that is collectively constructed by a group of people to keep out evidence from the “other side”. I also briefly touch on the first step to getting through to people when encountering their straw man force field.
Why does the human superorganism have cancer?
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This video maps the analogy of the human superorganism onto the New Enlightenment. Nate Hagens talks about the human superorganism in his book (Reality Blind) and his other works, and I flesh that out and relate it to rent-seeking. Video on paradigm shifts in the knowledge realm: ruclips.net/video/tmlLlNKcSjw/видео.html Image credits: Wolves By TierparkPetersberg - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commo...
Paradigm Shifts in the Knowledge Realm | The New Scientific Revolution
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This video explains the version of the paradigm shift in knowledge systems that we need in the modern era. Video on Thomas Kuhn’s book the Structure of Scientific Revolutions: ruclips.net/video/tJD5RMpIw18/видео.html
Jane Austen Fans & Game Theorists as Collaborators in Modelling Institutional Social Dynamics
Просмотров 4808 месяцев назад
In this video, make the case that we need academic disciplines with different sub-specialties. Working together, Jane Austen fans and computer geeks could model the decision-making dynamic around important institutional groups.
Judo of Mass Frustration: The Anticorruption Campaign Allegory
Просмотров 8948 месяцев назад
This video tells a story about a dictator who runs an anticorruption campaign. The story is intended as an allegory to capture some of the game theory dynamics at play at a population level.
Human Nature: Egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest book review
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I review Christopher Boehm’s book which makes the case that human nature has tendencies toward both egalitarianism and despotism. The book asks the question: How might such a nature have evolved from a common ancestor with chimps?
Wall Street vs. Main Street: Idealized Finance in the Current System as a way to think beyond
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Wall Street vs. Main Street: Idealized Finance in the Current System as a way to think beyond
A Romp Through the Problems with the Finance Sector | Book Review of Makers & Takers
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A Romp Through the Problems with the Finance Sector | Book Review of Makers & Takers
New Economic Maps: The Economy’s Attunement to Problems
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New Economic Maps: The Economy’s Attunement to Problems
Why the Digital Economy is Fundamentally Different: Web 3.0 & Public Goods
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Why the Digital Economy is Fundamentally Different: Web 3.0 & Public Goods
Generations’ Roles in the 4th Turning Crisis & Rebirth: Boomer, Gen X, Millennials & Gen Z
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Generations’ Roles in the 4th Turning Crisis & Rebirth: Boomer, Gen X, Millennials & Gen Z
The 4th Turning Is Here book review | Boomers', Gen X's & Millennials' Role in the Crisis Turning
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The 4th Turning Is Here book review | Boomers', Gen X's & Millennials' Role in the Crisis Turning
Sociocracy: Could Corporate-Style Governance Work in Broader Society?
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Sociocracy: Could Corporate-Style Governance Work in Broader Society?
An Alternative to Universal Basic Income | Empowering Grassroot Leaders through 1-work-hour-1-vote
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An Alternative to Universal Basic Income | Empowering Grassroot Leaders through 1-work-hour-1-vote
The Grassroot Leaders’ Dilemma | Why Grassroot Movements Fail
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The Grassroot Leaders’ Dilemma | Why Grassroot Movements Fail
The New Scarce Resources | Not Goods & Services, but Attention and Governance for the New Economics
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The New Scarce Resources | Not Goods & Services, but Attention and Governance for the New Economics
Why Avoid Psychologizing “The Other”? | Ideas Tainted by the Pathologies of People Who Believe Them
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Why Avoid Psychologizing “The Other”? | Ideas Tainted by the Pathologies of People Who Believe Them
Paradigm Shift in Economic Systems
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Paradigm Shift in Economic Systems
The White Rabbit: Why we need goofy economic thinking
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The White Rabbit: Why we need goofy economic thinking
Book Review of Superhubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World by Sandra Navidi
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Book Review of Superhubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World by Sandra Navidi
I still believe this is just a subset of capitalism and market forces under regulated capitalism with monopoly formation.
It's fresh to see economists discussing these issues, very interesting!
I want to watch again. I recall your doing a nice job nuancing the groupings or labels. I know many 1%ers with no political or social power or connections-network. E.g., cancer surgeons who make $2.5 million yearly but just work. When I think of elites, I think more of power and less of money. I know so many people with money but no power. Recall the managing partner of an old prestigious NY law firm who probably made about $6 million a year. He allegedly paid an Ivy League admin or facilitator or conduit $500k to get his daughter into school. Kissinger, Hunter, Mitch, Obama, Dalio, Comey, Bush, Gates, McKinsey, Goldman, Davos, they make a phone call, they don’t pay off a crew coach or SAT advisor.
This video was terrific. You do some job.
Capitalism is over.
Can you please review the book ‘Plurality’ about Taiwan’s direct digital democracy system?
I wish the whole world would listen to this content
The book ‘sex at dawn’ examines bonobo behaviour compared to chimps and suggests that like how locusts and grasshoppers are actually different expressions of the same species depending on environmental stressors, we can be more chimp like or bonobo like. The follow up book ‘civilised to death’ is also worth checking out.
What's "salience frame"? ^^
Not an easy read ...one slight weakness, in my view, is a lack of references to the idea of personhood ....but a great read .
Thank you!! That was a very interesting perspective on the subject! I'm glad you decided to do this video :)! Personally, I think the whole internet should watch it and take note. Especially some content creators, hehe!
This is happening with Snapshot. Very exciting!
Great points!
I think financialization provides value to real people on an abstract level. Mortgage backed securities mean lower interest rates for borrowers and higher ones for investors. People have mortgages and invest into bonds.
47:00 Isn't this just capital income vs. labour income? I didn't get this. You say as more profits are created by influencers, the economy is more about what they want rather than what the people want? But they do what makes them money, so they do what people want.
Servers should be terrestrial capital. They behave like machines. No network effect, no marginal costs going to zero.
25:05 vertical integration
lingering human dependencies
As always, a very insightful presentation. I've been trying to understand McGilchrist's thesis without having to read so much ! Thanks for your help with that. I would really like to hear from other neuroscientists about his left/right hemisphere distinction. Every current researcher i've met tells me this distinction is obsolete. But i'm curious to understand whether his premises are true or at least can be reasonably taken as true.
I have a genuine question. And I never comment or weigh in on anything online, so please don’t destroy me just for asking… Anger and disgust. Is there a healthy place for these emotions? (I’m not talking about one who allows these emotions to “possess” him/her) But I feel like it’s a visceral, honest and healthy thing to experience disgust or anger against trespass of boundaries or threat to one’s body, children, family, etc. I heard once that “A man who does not allow himself to feel, is not a true or complete man. But a man who allows himself to be possessed and lose himself to emotion is also not a man.”
Ashley, you’ve articulated your point so well; I commend you and will share ❤
Thanks Ashley, i love your insights into the book.
So true!!! Great presentation. 🙏🙏🙏
The US government is responsible for identifying those who are disobedient and do not follow US principles, designating them as enemies as targets bombing. Social governance is the responsibility of corporate consortiums and civil society. Such a country is not humanized at all/
I'm curious, which major industries are NOT like this? And how are they different? Other than the disparate in working conditions, but that could also be argued.
Hi Ashley, great explanation of some complex economic and sociological concepts that describe the techtonic shifts in the global economy. More so how these paradigm shifts change how we organise our social a political world. Yanis Varoufakis's book seems more approachable with your review and explaination of his key observations. As to the astonishment you expressed regarding the nursing home example. I too was surprised that you were unaware of the microeconomic process of vertical integration of a parts of a company's supply chain. My exposure to the concept was in my Sociology major at university. It was one of the features of how corporations have organis d themselves across nation boundaries. To the extent that the legitimacy and jurisdiction of Nation States are undermined.
We need another New Deal.
Given my salience frame as a punk rock musician, I couldn’t help but think about how people nowadays approach or perceive music solely (or almost) in terms music theory. Extremely left brain driven. It’s especially obvious if you watch video essays/tutorials by musicians. To my ears, it gives this overly mechanical/engineered sheen to almost all modern music. I mean, to me, that’s the whole point of great art: getting a hint of something indescribable with words that’s profound for whatever reason… Seems we could use a bit more appreciation for the indescribable in the arts nowadays.
Dr Iain McGilchrist 🙏🏻
What if it's sometimes a cycle? A community that survived a despot, and carries the trauma from that, becomes hyper vigilant against authoritarian individuals; to the extent that even mildly eccentric traits are condemned as despot red flags and results in shunning, even bullying; atypical individuals that survived being ostracised use their unpredictable/out of box capacities to gain power and ultimately establish despotism over the community, thereby continuing the cycle of trauma. I think maybe it's not that between egalitarianism and hierarchism, one is better, but rather we must seek to bring about the most enlightened forms of either. If i was an indigenous in Chiapas, id want to coop with the Zapatistas to safeguard my rights. But if my king was the King of Bhutan, I'd gladly praise the monarchy.. If there's to be a King let it be a truly noble and self sacrificing one, not a tyrant. If there is to be egalitarianism, let it be a Kropotkin utopia not a lynching mob..
It seems to me the same way the brain has these two types , the collective of humans do too, and the constant ebb and flow between the sides acting according to their type. Youd say obviously so, as these humans all have a left and right brain. So if the brain works this way, should we allow the world to work this way too?
Thanks much. But some confusion and questions remain. Does the author address _what reality is_. Is there a world out there? Direct realism? If he jumps directly to the brain and "perception" then the assumption is that there is a real world out there?
I had a teacher at University that was reading EVERYTHING ON THE BOARD without answer to student question's. I heard that an other teacher was answering student with whatever was written on the PowerPoint, the same PowerPoint they used for years. An other teacher simply has recorded her course. She was there at least to answer questions.
I appreciate your voice and viewpoint on so many topics. Thank you for this channel.
He seems very Hegelian if i'm not mistaken based on what you presented. It seems that he suggests a "dialectic" between the right and the left side of the brain. In that light I don't believe that we could always keep one of the halves as the master. Also after each cycle both right and left must transend what they are into a new level of consciousness. In that regard, I personally see the duality limited. I believe we have "many voices" in our heads and we have a dialectic with every object we have a representing of.
4:18 - If it's a mind it's a mound of small tumors (or a pile of tribbles). Almost everything's here to eat everything, which I've heard is what happens with bodily tissue that goes cancerous - it starts treating the body like a landscape and resources to exploit rather than being part of the body. I don't think Nate Hagans's idea of the superorganism is that bad but it seems very unconscious, like there's a bit of stirring here and there. IMHO it's hard to believe in any kind of deity past vast superorganisms unless it's something like the de Chardin or Whitehead idea of process philosophy where the whole universe eventually becomes its own kind of Solaris.
Immediately after I encountered this video, I went over to Amazon, read about this book, and bought it. (It wasn't available at my local library.) I suspect that this book dovetails with my studies of . . . here's a big word . . . "phenomenology". Phenomenology is the philosophical study of the way that things really are, so to speak, that is, the way that things fundamentally manifest or "show up." Maybe a more rigorously accurate word than "fundamentally" is "primordially." This leads directly into a "different" interpretation of "what is real", or "what it is 'to be'." We're trained from birth to deal with reality in a "conceptual" way, and we become so accustomed to this that we operate as if it is the only way--we get lost in it, boxed in, confined. This takes us away from our actual experience, and this results in a severely degraded quality of life. Martin Heidegger--a controversial figure, to be sure--was the most famous person when it comes to phenomenology, but he built his work on that of Edmund Husserl. But this is beside the point. The big point is that when you access who and what you are when you are operating directly with your experience (which itself is an enormous topic), then you gain access to your own fundamental operations--your "way of being", so to speak--and this gives a person overwhelming empowerment over their quality of life. There's much more to say, of course. But it is apparent that this McGilchrist fellow spent his life looking at these issues, and his magnum opus is "The Matter With Things." Thanks for recommending it. I look forward to reading it.
Some people have hemisphere that are switched.
...hmm... I'm definitely joining the group who are getting ever more concerned by the excess value people are investing in McGilchrist. There is no doubt there are things of value here, and observations he makes (which have been made by many others over the years) do hold some value, but his framing of the subject matter pretty much completely ignores AN ENTIRE PHILISOPHICAL BRANCH as if it doesn't exist at all, and so in part, he ends up trying to reinvent the wheel again and again, whilst making statements about science and philosophy which are likely convincing within one tradition, but do not hold true from the perspective of the other. As I see it, the value in McGilchrist's work comes in highlighting how society has abandoned ways of thinking leading to the world we are in now, and how education has been manipulated/framed to (quite deliberately) not explain the differences properly. As always, the proof (i.e. the hard bit) comes from the real world practical application (praxis), and in that, McGilchrist is sadly overwhelmingly lacking.
Iain has taken many of my ideas without attribution, it seems. Whatever, as long as the wisdom spreads. I get what he's trying to save, though it harms more. My ego aside, the Golden Ratio is symmetrical, as I show in my "dome frame" Zora mathart.
I'd really like sources stating that schizophrenics are hyper-logical cause I think you just made that up.
I see it more as a mind that is experiencing visionary, mythic, archetypal content. Jung said it was the dream overlapping waking consciousness. Then if the right hemisphere is atrophied and the left hemisphere is dominant, then the left hemisphere revs up and goes into overdrive trying to co pretend the visionary content coming through. If the right hemisphere had been properly habilitated and wasn’t deficient, it would be much more capable of coping and exploring the visionary content. It doesn’t have language centres. It is made for the symbolic instead of the explanation in words. The left hemisphere is just not capable of coping and becomes confused and disorientated because all of it’s overdrive has a just spinning it’s wheels and not getting any traction.
Well said Asley. I also was thinking that this is the message that is needed to open the eyes of so many who have apparently stopped seeing the forest around them.
You’ve inspired me to read this now. Thank you
I respect your content a lot, and I got really excited by this video of yours. And this video led me to the rabbit hole of the author. I watched his documentary- "The divided brain" as well. He suffers from many expert/guru of our times. He was making sense when he was talking about left/right bifurcation which is well agreed upon phenomenon discovered and agreed upon by scientists. And then he inauthentically extrapolates to things like art, love and society and the usual fear-mongering of these "westernized world". I am from India and recently shifted to the west, and the number of people I have met who are enamoured with mystical philosophies and the native people without understanding the nuances and importance of both kind of philosophy is mind-numbing. But I digress. All I am suggesting is he is a great academic in his field but tread with suspicion while putting your weight behind someone like him. (I am adding this just for fun and not a concrete criticism- his documentary was paywalled for 10$ IIRC and his book is 137€ here. Interesting pricing for someone talking about mechanized, hyper-consumerized, unstable financial pin-ball machine the world that it has become)
Referring to plants as having will and desire is a lovely expression. I view action and intent, no matter the source, as synonymous, so you can imagine I instantly get the world view being painted here. I love your artistry, thank you for all of it. 🙏
That was a really good presentation. I read the book in about three to four months a year ago. It's the sort of book you can go back to and read parts of again. As you were talking about what was left out, the human relationships, I recalled that he did emphasize organic relations as being more important that "things" that are related. I really liked his argument that living beings are not made of parts. The organs are not parts. Remember where he described the heart chambers of a human embryo being formed around a blood flow that begins before the organ forms and around which it develops. The blood flow is first, and then the muscle to give it power afterwards. I would very much like to hear a conversation between Iain and yourself. I'm sure he would be interested to hear your views on his ideas and he'd have good responses in turn.
Called into the never-ending story as coauthors. Caretakers at the end of time. Minding the garden.
realizing Iain charges $180 for a book that long forms Tools' album Ænima; still love the review and look forward to reading the book when its affordable for the common man
$130 for both hardcover volumes On Amazon. About 700 pages per vol. Around $80 for paperback bundle. Not unreasonably priced at all.