Bigger than Revolution (a primer) (July 2021 version)
Channel: leftymathprof
Date: 2021-07-09

(5½ min) We urgently need huge changes. Sections:

00:06 BEGINNERS: We need to replace our most fundamental ideas.

00:25 TRUTH: The plutocrats lie about everything.

00:57 Our NATURE: We shared as equals for 200,000 years; our recent hoarding and inequality can still be undone.

01:25 HIERARCHY concentrates power, which corrupts.

01:51 MARKETS concentrate power too: Trade increases inequality and the ecosystem gets trashed.

02:23 Global WARMING is about to explode; there may be no survivors. Plutocrats are incapable of the big changes we need.

03:01 DEMOCRACY would not be enough, and we don’t have one anyway, and never did.

04:08 ALIENATION: We’re all terribly alienated from each other.

04:48 AWAKENING is our only hope. We need a culture of caring and sharing. The first step is to get more people talking about it.

Transcript and related links at https://leftymathprof.wordpress.com/primer/