The Great Awakening
Channel: leftymathprof
Date: 2021-06-29

(16¼ min) We must see the world in a new way and change our way of life, because the old way is killing millions and is about to kill us all. Transcript and some related links at https://leftymathprof.wordpress.com/wake/. This is a revised version of the video.

(My use of the phrase “the great awakening” is entirely different from the use of that phrase by Q-anon and other right-wing organizations.)

00:04 Part 1. INTRODUCTION (see above).
02:17 Part 2. OUR EARLY HISTORY. For 200,000 years we cared and shared as equals. Then 12000 years ago we replaced that with hierarchy and private property; that was a big mistake.
03:21 Part 3. CONCENTRATED POWER. Hierarchy and private property both concentrate power. Power corrupts.
06:27 Part 4. NOT DEMOCRACY. We have rule by the rich, disguised as democracy; it has been that way for a long time.
08:26 Part 5. GREAT EVILS. War and alienation.
11:19 Part 6. EVILS ENLARGED. We're heading toward extinction, by global warming or nuclear war.
14:17 Part 7. WORKING WITHIN THE SYSTEM. Neither plutocrats nor reformists can bring the changes we really need.
15:53 Part 8. CONCLUSION. We must replace hierarchy and property with horizontalism and sharing.