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How can the economy be reorganized to serve human needs and preserve the environment while maintaining growth and technological advancement?

What future technologies promise a better future?

Jeremy Rifkin is a path-breaking and heretical economist with a vision of a future in which the economy is re-conceived from the ground-up to ensure that everyone has what they need in order to flourish.

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Credit for the episode art:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VaporwaveAesthetics/comments/5lf1qz/hokusai_vaporwave/

It's election season and Professor Roy would like to tell you how unreal the Presidency is and give you some political science pointers while he's at it.

"I am suing the cigarette company - I have been smoking nothing but Pall Malls since I was 11. Right there on the package it says 'this stuff will kill you' - and I'm still alive, god damn it!"

-Kurt Vonnegut, 81 years, old, Case Western Reserve University, 2004.

David Bentley Hart is an American theologian that works at the intersection of faith, philosophy, aesthetics, and Eastern religion. In this talk, he discusses the convergences of thought between (so-called) Eastern and Western mystics and outlines his critique of New Atheism.

Original video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt9HSQZMQYM

Enjoy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bentley_Hart

How would a Marxist economy function without a state that backs property rights? How could a corporation operate without a board of directors? How could wealth be redistributed in an orderly, rational, and humane way?

These questions and more answered in Professor Richard Wolff's seminar on the fundamentals of practical Marxist economics.

Enjoy.

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Original video:

https://youtu.be/T9Whccunka4?si=BJSo2f64p5TTPDUv

The Russian painter and synesthete Wassily Kandinsky developed a vision of art as a spiritual pursuit and elaborated that vision in his book "Concerning the Spiritual in Art".

Digitized on Librivox, edited by yours truly.

Enjoy.

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https://librivox.org/concerning-the-spiritual-in-art-by-wassily-kandinsky/

Do you ever feel guilty? You probably should.

Especially if you're an American.