david on heroes kings & movements

david graeber 32 min video – Prof. David Graeber: Heroes, Kings and Movements – 2019 – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEWwSgYAiMI]

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notes/quotes:

3 min – even voting was not considered democratic..

4 min – corbyn reps a movement that tries to replace personality based politics with a movement based idea.. entire apparatus based on personalities.. very convenient for journalists.. issues hard work.. but personalities easy.. so political/media react violently to moving to movement by attacking corbyn’s personality

6 min – rj: a corbyn analog to sanders.. never expected to be president.. just want to move ideas – corbyn/sanders violating cultural norms

7 min – yeah.. they’re violating the political class.. media has a lot of power as referees.. if say want to switch game that’s a real threat

9 min – this has spread.. creates diff ideology.. trick you into thinking system is fair.. but nobody thinks it’s fair.. but rather everybody thinks everybody else thinks it’s fair

10 min – i call it the financialization of politics.. fin markets like beauty contests.. where everyone asked why they think everyone else is so beautiful.. goes on forever.. that’s what doing to candidates now.. ‘he’s unellectable’.. no point in throwing my vote away to someone no one else is going to vote for

any form of democratic admin.. cancerous distraction

12 min – rj: ie: medicare for all not possible

15 min – clever: 1\ way of attacking democratization of society .. because it allows people to say offensive stuff .. 2\ can’t respond to it .. if do.. they say.. as a conspiracy

19 min – id politics plays totally into hands of right

22 min – rj: book on kings, et al.. to what extent can we get away from them and super heroes

seems to be super heroes are coming back

23 min – struck me.. superheroes are an imaginary genre.. but ultimate message is suspicion against imagination.. because only imaginative characters are bad guys.. ie: superman can do anything and yet best thing he can do is fight crime? least imaginative character ever.. can only be imaginative about cars, clothes.. t

25 min – politics all about role of imagination.. left for it, conservatives suspicious, fascists agree w conservatives but want to do it anyway.. ie: dark night as opposition to occupy wall street

27 min – on ‘you’re all like that (trump lies et al).. he’s just honest about it’

29 min – rj: saying why not let our imaginations open up and think about what future ought to look like.. w new tech – micro chip.. social forms..

30 min – absolutely.. *generations have been robbed of their right to dream of things of fundamentally diff world and they’re in rebellion against that..t **people tools at their fingertips that they know how to use that could completely reimagine world/kingdoms/nations/planets.. they could put together anything.. yet being told at same time not allowed to fundamentally challenge anything in existing social order that everybody hates..t which is essentially there to condemn them to permanent serfdom.. death servitude.. i think ***people are just fed up with this.. a complete disparity between means at their disposal and what they’re allowed to do with it.. t

*need: oikos (the economy our souls crave).. ‘i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – gaston bachelard, the poetics of space

**there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do

***graeber make it diff law; graeber rethink law.. need: sabbatical ish transition

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