Socialism & Liberalism: Mortal Enemies or Embittered Kin?
Added 2021-10-22 12:00:06 +0000 UTCThe Pill Pod gets academic as our new edited volume is out, edited by Matt and featuring contributions Victor, Erik and our episode guest Ben (@benburgis) of Give Them an Argument. We argue that the antagonism between socialism and liberalism has largely been fabricated by internet creatures who want to piss off their dads.
The exorbitantly expensive volume, meant to siphon money out of university library budgets, can be found here: https://amzn.to/3GjWJ8e
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I could be wrong, but I think non-Western countries are bigger contributors to climate change than Western ones. In a production sense at least, though I’m pretty sure a lot of the product is imported by Western countries. I wonder if we can even do anything about climate change. Aren’t the UN projections pretty bleak regarding the probability of getting to net zero carbon emissions? I haven’t reviewed the issue in depth in a long time, so take this with a grain of salt.
Walker Goff
2021-10-27 17:07:07 +0000 UTCOn planned economies. On December 7th 1941 the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbour. On December 8th they entered World War II. On January 30 1942 the “Emergency Price Control Act” passed into law and the biggest economy in the world at that time became a planned economy and remained so until 1943. On climate change and environmentalism. Amitav Ghosh in “The Great Derangement” pointed out that as a novelist he, and other novelist friends of his, were unable to include stories of climate collapse and global warming in the novel form because freakish storms, tornadoes, fires, heat domes feel too improbable for the form. This was so even when they had experienced such events. (Ghosh was caught in a tornado in Mumbai that he was unable to use in his novels whilst his friends in New York were unable to include Hurricane Sandy) Scorsese famously attacked Marvel as not being cinema. “It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being” guardian oct 4, 2019. Could it be that humanism, whether liberal or socialist, like cinematography and the novel, is incapable of dealing with an unstable environment that refuses to remain ‘other’?
Peter Haggar
2021-10-23 03:08:48 +0000 UTC
