Australian chaos magician nails US politics

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Thought this was worth sharing, in part you might see why I like listening to him and on the other - he's just nailing topic after topic on this solo show.

Commenting on some of his clips of Donna Haraway around 20 minutes in - I think what she's talking about in the intelligencia and academia, in an odd way, sort of circles back to something Molyneux said about institutions - that the longer they last the more narcissists and sociopaths pack their walls until they crumble, that companies in the business world (at least those which aren't 'too big to fail') go under when they reach their narcissist quota but other institutions that we've invested more in - and particularly governmental and quasi-governmental - have a certain 'zombie' shelf-life where they can go over quota and still remain for quite some time and even keep the public's trust longer than they should without any good alternatives coming up. Where Stefan's batisht crazy of course is that he's an anarcho-capitalist (anarcho-anything seems to completely ignore how power works) but I think the critique at least hits some of the weak points accurately.

Lol, 64 views and my response. I think this one's clearly getting filed in the 'genius and madness go hand in hand' bin (and I should have the right to call that out when I see it ).

I’m too lazy to watch it, but was looking forward to discussion of it in order to learn more.

well... it is almost an hour-long podcast. but the combination of Giordano Bruno and Donna Haraway peeked my interest... and yes, he's good. But there's little to discuss. ... it feels quite common sense.

And she's good (as always. I started to read some of Haraway's writings a while ago, and it shifts from somewhat obvious (staying with the trouble) to a bit too complicated, language-wise (the cyborg manifesto)- at least for someone who's native language english is not. But she's always enlightening.

Heh. Try starting a conversation about international trade theory.

TBH I might have passed on her if I hadn't caught his exegesis on her work, hearing her go over it verbally sounds like what I might imagine Suzanne Blackmore sounding like before she has her coffee in the morning.

Yep, that can definitely be up in the nosebleed section too.