The Moneyless Society Podcast

POST-DOOM: RIP The High Priest of Collapse Michael Dowd

Michael Dowd, the high priest of collapse, the prophet of (post) doom, and a good friend, passed away in his sleep last night. The world just lost one of its most vital human resources for navigating the unfolding & accelerating collapse that has really just begun. Michael was an amazing human being, the kindest doomer on earth, one of the most intelligent and knowledgeable people exploring the horrifying REALITY of ecological collapse, system failure, and the destructiveness of civilization itself--always with warmth, humor, and compassion. He was a beautiful soul, a good friend. People have said they're sorry for my loss-- I say it is humanity's loss, we lost our best guidance counselor helping us navigate through the complex emotional and societal landscape of a society in freefall, of inevitable, unstoppable, and perhaps sudden collapse. This is a conversation we recorded last summer, I was so nervous and intimidated approaching him, but he was so damn nice, an instant friend. I reached out to him to counter the hopelessness that we can't DO anything about all this, that's where I still hope he's wrong. I challenge every one of you to keep his spirit of compassionate awareness alive. Be kind, shit's going down--it could all end in a moment.

Postcapitalist Computing & Currency ft. Blockchain Socialist

WTF do BLOCKCHAIN and SOCIALISM have to do with each other? More than you might think! Filmed live at a radical gathering of extremist nerds at the Commons Hub in the Austrian Alps, Marlow and Joshua Davila of the Blockchain Socialist podcast and writer of "Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It" explore the postcapitalist side of crypto, web3, decentralized computing, the future of currency, and life without money.

 

Stumbling onto this community was radical, eye opening and an exciting dive into one of the most achievable frontiers of design science revolution: the web. Leave your preconceived notions of all these concepts at the door and let's reprogram a better world!

Why Aren’t There More Black Anti-capitalists? (ft. Blackleftis)

A simple question with a profound answer that cuts into the exploitation, propaganda, and militant resistance to any change to the status quo: WHY aren't there more black anticapitalists? This is the question that prompted our guest Lawrence of @blackleftis to become an activist and soldier on the front lines of the meme wars, and to find the others in radical spaces that are all too often dominated by white voices. This question digs into the heart of exploitation, repression, propaganda, the cognitive dissonance that keeps people defending systems that oppress them.

Global Poverty is Preventable Genocide with Thomas Pogge

Is global poverty improving, or getting worse? In this episode we explore the true reality of the horror of deprivation and mass death from a lack of the basic necessities or generic drugs to cure medieval diseases-- from a lack of money. Capitalist apologists claim poverty is decreasing, while the line is set at a measly $2 a day-- increase it by even 2 more and the number of people in extreme poverty explodes. 18 million people die every year, 20,000 CHILDREN every day, and 1 in 2 people lives on less than $5.50 a day. To explore this topic we brought on one of if not THE greatest expert on global poverty, professor Thomas Pogge to counter the establishment narrative that everything is getting better, and work to eradicate poverty as we know it through systemic change.

AI is Changing Consciousness (and Everything Else) with Simon Q (Pt 1)

AI may not have taken over the world yet, but it's taken over the news and our feeds, as its tendrils work their way into every aspect of life as we know it, multiplying risk and reward and driving us into a new future none of us can imagine. This is the first part of an epically wild and expansive series with the AI Wizard Simon, using AI to turn our world inside out. We explore what LLMs really are, what IS intelligence, use chat GPT to explore global problems, existential risk, and push this technology to mind expanding levels, writing poetry and even taking it on a psychedelic mushroom trip.

Simon's twitter: QBfrank

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The Life Economy vs.The Death Economy with Economic Hitman John Perkins

MONEY has been the greatest weapon ever devised by humanity, the cause of more death than anything else. DEBT has been weaponized to conquer nations and bring peoples to their knees. Nobody understands this better than former ECONOMIC HITMAN John Perkins, who personally worked for the state and corporate establishment cajoling poor nations with resources coveted by western companies into accepting loans they could never repay, as a means to control their whole economy and make them subservient to the empire. We talk about his riveting history, how he came to a change of heart, and about the current global battle between the LIFE ECONOMY and the DEATH ECONOMY, and how we can work to build new systems and transitions to change the world.

The Past and Future of THE LEFT ft. 1Dime

THE RADICAL LEFT is the topic of this episode with the great Tony of the excellent youtube channel 1Dime. We have a wide ranging conversation about the history and future of the radical left--is there even a left, were experiments like the Soviet Union and communist China really communist, and what's next, how do we create a modern revolutionary movement that goes further than a movement that is largely stuck in the past, into the FUTURE.

The ORCA POD: a Deep Dive into the Whale Uprising with Pessimistic Environmentalist

THAR SHE BLOWS! The best news swimming around the internet is the apparent orca whale uprising sinking human ships as an act of ORCANIZED resistance to the industrial system that's destroying life as we know it. We're joined by radical wildlife biologist and climate activist, scientist rebel, antifa supersoldier Allan Chornak to dive deep into a profound conversation about what we are doing to the oceans to provoke such peaceful creatures to fight back. We talk about animal intelligence, ocean warming and the effects of climate change and human activity on the seas, biology and evolution, the history of whale oil and its connection to fossil fuels, seeing human history from the perspective of our more than human relations, ultimately asking huge questions about consciousness itself and cultivating a deeper natural intelligence and expanding our identification to the natural world that IS us.

Labor Strikes Back (Part 2) How We Organize ft The General Strike U.S.

STRIKE! As the capitalist system ramps up its attacks on working class people around the world, workers of the world are joining together to STRIKE BACK! We're joined by the great professor Richard Wolff and organizers from General Strike U.S. to talk about the state of organized labor, the strikes and protests raging across France, and the future of the labor movement as we sow the seeds of a general strike in the U.S.

 

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Labor Strikes BACK (Part 1) ft Richard Wolff and The General Strike US

STRIKE! As the capitalist system ramps up its attacks on working class people around the world, workers of the world are joining together to STRIKE BACK! We're joined by the great professor Richard Wolff and organizers from General Strike US to talk about the state of organized labor, the strikes and protests raging across France, and the future of the labor movement as we sew the seeds of a general strike in the US. 

Part 1 of 2, tune in for our extended conversation with the activists from General Strike US or get early access by subscribing to our patreon.
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