Neoliberalism represents the nadir of global capitalism - the bottom of the barrel for all but the .01%. But communism doesn't sound so great either- certainly not in a large, diverse nation with so many conflicting interests. The problem with our system now is not necessarily capitalism itself but in how it has been applied as the Solution to Everything. Capitalism is great for business, for building a framework to support technological innovation, for building up a nation's industrial base...but not so great as the foundation of a culture. After all, who would you rather spend a night with, a banker or a philosopher? But who's collecting fat checks and who's barely scraping by? Our culture is doomed unless we put things in perspective. Capitalism is a dead end without a rich cultural tradition that values artists, imagination, innovation of all stripes. Neoliberalism makes a virtue out of greed because it is morally empty - not only are your fellow humans mere means to an end, but the value of everything is determined by what you can get someone else to pay for it. This is a race to the bottom. We have lost sight of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment - the philosophers who brought us out of the dark ages and who were at that time highly respected for their role in framing a new kind of society. Now, a student announcing he'd like to major in philosophy at university is laughed out of the room. Again, who would you rather have a drink with - John Stuart Mill or J.P. Morgan? Imagine if our politicians were philosophers - thinkers, problem solvers, people who dedicated their time to finding solutions to the complex issues facing modern humanity - instead of, well, politicians - greedy, venal, morally bankrupt, looking out for #1? Capitalism has its place - in the boardroom, in the stock exchange, in the shopping mall. But it's no foundation for a functional society. like/follow/subscribe/share/other subservient verbs: Helen of desTroy ... & now at dedicated channel Unsafe Space also on bitchute.com/helenofdestroy because we'll all be YouTube refugees soon get MOAR at helenofdestroy.com & voxnews.com & resist the Facebook Stasi with alternative social media like MINDS: @velocirapture @voxnews ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7dbaCFK78

Helen of desTroy talks to Tim Coles about the blossoming of the Thought Police as a multi-disciplinary ecosystem of control, from university censors to newsstand snoops who threaten civilians for daring to peek between the wrong covers. subject to a Kafkaesque cancellation campaign at Plymouth University, where he'd just finished his doctorate, Coles still doesn't know what he did "wrong" in the eyes of the school - which seems to be the point. More recently, his months-old article on the Christchurch mosque shooter written for the Australian magazine New Dawn was declared cause for banning the magazine entirely in New Zealand in one of the more bewildering attacks on the free press in recent memory. What do these things have in common? Quite a bit, it turns out... Coles' latest book, Biofascism: the Tech-Pharma Complex and the End of Democracy, is available here https://www.amazon.com/Biofascism-Tech-Pharma-Complex-End-Democracy/dp/B09S63H72M he does not use social media, which is probably why he has time to write books. follow me on Substack https://helenofdestroy.substack.com Twitter/Telegram: velocirapture23 Bitchute (when this channel inevitably gets the axe): helenofdestroy & soon a new Rokfin channel that i will probably update more than this one. like what you see & want me to make more videos instead of wasting time on overly long thought pieces that nobody reads? throw money at the problem: paypal.me/velocirapture Cashapp: $helenofdestroy Monero: 89nswdZrojL6VkZRmXnnxog9BTJdAtPFxVdz5jyEx5h1ZdbH4yBxhzs6FZWPrDqsPiaKdDQgVcChNAFwmgtCniPTTaFYc2A Bitcoin: bc1qydfs9m42v884zw8n3d3v3lzxew5ltfeeujprq8 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy99HTNE2X8