![EP# 18 ‘Human Nature‘ with Professor Jeff Cates, M.A.]()
November 11, 2021
In the final episode of the first season of Moneyless Society, we dig into the portentous subject of human nature. So often is this term used to justify the worst human behaviors and to dissuade any advancement toward a society that provides for all, as if it's in our nature to hoard resources, compete each other out of existence and destroy our own habitat for a made up social construct like money.
Tune in for an expansive in-depth conversation with professor of sociology Jeff Cates M.A, as we discuss these strange beings we call humans, the history of money, the effects of mass media, and his personal journey from a single father working construction to meeting Jacques Fresco and changing his life forever when he encountered the possibilities of a resource based economy to transform our environment and rehabilitate our debased human nature.
This will be our last episode...wink wink...for our first season. Thank you so much to our listeners, fans, and Partreon subscribers. We're just getting started.
Music – Vangelis and Loner
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![EP #17 ‘Automation: How Robots WILL Take Your Job (and why that‘s awesome)’]()
October 28, 2021
Imagine a dystopian future of flying autonomous death machines, where robots control everything in an alienating world with little opportunity to make a living...Now look out the window and realize: we're already there.
Automation is inevitable, and in this epic episode we talk to the owner of Gearwork Gaming, a sociologist and roboticist using automation to pay people to do nothing. Intrigued yet? Listen in as we break down this crucial issue and show how automation technology can be applied, changing our direction from a horrible nightmare future to a glorious reality where all of us are free to do what makes us happy, and work together to build the world we want to live in.
Music: Solarpunk Compilation by Global Pattern
Shop Gearwork Gaming and learn more about their groundbreaking employment model at https://gearworkgaming.com/
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![Ep #16 ‘General STRIKE‘ with Labormovementx.org Organizers]()
October 14, 2021
Ep #16 'General STRIKE' with Labormovementx.org Organizers
STRIKE! In this episode we talk with Labor Movement X organizers, ‘Rosie’ and ‘JJ’ about why a #generalstrike approach is perhaps THE most powerful move we can collectively make to tip the scales of the exploitative owner/laborer power structures we know, into the hands of the working class to start reshaping the landscape of labor in the United States and beyond. Listen in as we discuss the ways which this neo-labor movement varies from the always popular Marxist tactics and why this new approach presents monumental potential for aiding the people who are called essential but treated as disposables. Workers of the world unite!
Learn more at Labormovementx.org
Moneyless Society will be posting a companion set of demands during the #generalstrike. Visit www.moneylesssociety.com to learn more.
Music: Global Pattern Solarpunk Compilations
Old labor movement songs
Extinction Rebellion drummers
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![EP #15 “Breaking Our Attachment To Profit’]()
October 7, 2021
Civilization is caught in a deadly cycle of addictive attachment to take more than it gives - profit. We can all see the corruption in our world from politicians to corporations to the fossil fuel industries that put their material gains over people and planet. Profit is the prophet of our doom, and in this episode we talk to economist Nikhil Kulkarni about his Zero Profit business model, and the deeper spiritual motivation that drives him.
We discuss alternative business models, the problems with profit, and explore the spiritual side discussing the illusions of our world and the way out of this cycle through changing our values from profit to purpose.
You can learn more about Nihkil’s ‘Zero Profit Model’ here ---
https://zanynik.medium.com/blueprint-for-a-beautiful-world-2a7467b0102a
Music by Daniel Birch- Bodhi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lktsXC_y7Q4
Synapsis- Meditation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E_MF3oUf44
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![EP #14 ‘The Art of Revolution in The Covid Renaissance’ with Future Now Radio Hosts Troy Wiley and Robert Schram]()
September 30, 2021
If history shows us anything, it's that our core beliefs about how the world works can be totally wrong. An established order who grows up believing the earth is the center of the universe doesn't take too kindly to anyone who challenges their core beliefs. In this dark age of repressive ideology that asserts that money is the center of our universe, we're here to challenge that belief and bring on a new renaissance, a new world. In this episode we talk with Troy Wiley and Robert Schram of Future Now, and dive deep into the paradigm shifts that will turn the old world upside down, and the artistic revolution of reimagining and re-creating our entire cosmology around what is real and possible, liberating the individual and collective in the process.
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![EP #13/ Part 2 ‘Ecology and Technology’ with Helena Norberg-Hodge]()
September 27, 2021
In part two of our talk with founder of Local Futures, Helena Norberg Hodge, we move past the larger topic of localization to discuss the role and sustainability of technology in creating an ecological society. We get into a stirring debate about whether technology can be sustainably used and developed and whether it is the root of industrial decay. We posit that the system governing it, not the technology, is the real problem and discuss how technology must play a crucial role in transitioning our society.
Music from Global Pattern's Solarpunk compilation
Learn more about Local Futures here @helenanorberghodge or @localfutures and
https://www.localfutures.org/
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![EP #13: ‘Think Global, Act Local‘, with Helena Norberg-Hodge (Part1)]()
September 22, 2021
Humankind has never been more connected, yet fractured. In Part 1 of our talk with with Helena Norberg-Hodge, bestselling author, filmmaker, activist and founder of the organization Local Futures, we discuss the destabilizing phenomenon of globalization which destroys culture and community and the subsequent reduction of biodiversity to monocultures for the profits of transnational corporations. We explore the solution: localization, as Helena describes it "an economy of happiness", which is a key transition step in the broader movement toward a sustainable and ideally, moneyless society.
*Music: Crane Song - Tenzin Choegyal Loner- Bioluminescent
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![Ep #12 ‘Beyond Trade: An Economy of Sharing’ with Colin Turner of Sharebay]()
September 15, 2021
"Every war of trade becomes a war of blood" -Eugene Debbs
The establishment offers you a trade: you give up your life to generate it’s profit, and in exchange you get a ruined & unlivable biosphere. Sound fair? In this episode we enlist the help of moneyless icon, Colin Turner, founder of Sharebay.org, to dig into the roots of competitive advantage and profit seeking within the mechanics of trade-- how it is no longer necessary or beneficial, and how millions of transactions that leverage advantage over time in constant accumulation have created the massive monopolies that control the world today. We discuss alternatives to trade in systems of sharing, open access, cooperatives, and the sense of meaning and purpose that comes from a voluntary and socially connected way of life beyond transactional advantage. We ask and answers some very big questions in this episode, going deep into the structure of our modes of exchange, the ways that inequality and collapse are built right into capitalism, and why money's got to go.
![EP #11 ‘Reconnecting With Nature’ with Wild Quetzal]()
September 10, 2021
The rat race we all run on a daily basis has driven a wedge between humanity and the natural world. All the evidence we need is found in the destructive and exploitative relationships we've formed with the earth in the name of production and profit. Ecologically, we're committing species-wide suicide by denying the fact that we *are* the nature we've come to view as a spectacle. While we can put vast distances between our paved cities and the wilderness, we cannot ever be separate from that which we are part of. Hence why the world suffers when the Earth shows symptoms of her distress. And why we struggle as a whole - because we're fighting our very own nature by insisting on living a life of unnatural motives and outcomes. Joining us on this episode is Wild Quetzal, an indigenous citizen of Hawaii, here to talk about the vitalness and resulting rewards of repairing humanity's connection with ...itself. a.k.a. Nature. No primitive return to caveman days, required! Just ecological consciousness for the sake of humanity, the planet and our future.
You can hear more from Wild Quetzal on his YouTube Channel at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aqGQuPUl_s
Instagram https://instagram.com/wildquetzal?utm_medium=copy_link
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August 24, 2021
It's easy to get swallowed up in the complexity of our ever-changing chaotic world. When trying to fix our problems all too often we end up hurting more than helping. This is because we fail to see each element of our world as a part of a larger system. Our guest, bestselling author and pioneering systems thinker David Stroh, lends his expertise to this issue and discusses his book, Systems Thinking for Social Change and the overall importance of thinking, and feeling, in an interconnected way. for-purpose world is possible if we can synthesize all the elements of social structure to intentionally design a world that values fulfillment and well-being over profit at all cost at the expense of human wellbeing and planetary sustainability.
Artist/Music Creds - Antonio Sannino/Solar Punk: A Brighter Perspective
