Waking from the Ancient Madness of Ownership
Channel: leftymathprof
Date: 24/01/2020

(28 min) For thousands of years we’ve endured wars, poverty, and other cruelties, all unnecessary. And now the madness is about to kill all of us with a climate apocalypse, which is coming much bigger and faster than most people realize. These problems can all be traced to a practice that we have long accepted as normal: the practice of not sharing with our cousins. Trade increases inequality, making corruption and plutocracy inevitable. Competition makes us insane. To avoid extinction we'll need two revolutions. Transcript, with links to related materials, at https://leftymathprof.wordpress.com/transcripts/#madness

Starting times for contents
00:00 Part 1: INTRODUCTION
02:42 Part 2: CLIMATE
06:45 Part 3: HISTORY OF PROPERTY
10:53 Part 4: TRADE AND INEQUALITY
14:25 Part 5: EXTERNALITIES
16:12 Part 6: INSANITY
20:42 Part 7: PLUTOCRACY
24:05 Part 8: TWO REVOLUTIONS