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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.

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