Watching this lecture three years on, I think what I've learned is that those who seek to conserve power as a status quo will use crises not to resolve, but to force polemic forces to fight one another. We are sitting on the back of another bank crash, world war three looming...we've not learned, we're simply repeating. Its as if, because the scale is expanded to such a point that we're discussing on the terms of centuries, they think we won't notice. Turns out, sadly, they're right.
Watching this lecture three years on, I think what I've learned is that those who seek to conserve power as a status quo will use crises not to resolve, but to force polemic forces to fight one another. We are sitting on the back of another bank crash, world war three looming...we've not learned, we're simply repeating. Its as if, because the scale is expanded to such a point that we're discussing on the terms of centuries, they think we won't notice. Turns out, sadly, they're right.