“Despair is a failure of imagination.” Spot on

@accuratealloys

4 жыл бұрын

Josh Cote say that to the 22 veterans that commit suicide each day. They just lack imagination right?

@ryanRS250

4 жыл бұрын

@@accuratealloys he means societal despair. God bless our veterans.

@privateauthor7037

4 жыл бұрын

Or a consequence of ruthlessness

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

@@accuratealloys There are probably many reasons that 22 veterans commit suicide each day. Lack of imagination probably does have a part in this tragedy...at least for some of these Individuals.

@jageo48

4 жыл бұрын

@@accuratealloys& Josh Cote: If you think the returning vets are despondent, take another look at what is coming down the pike, for those still enamoured by business as usual, in the face of this looming climate catastrophe, brother.

the new story isn't profitable to the tellers of the old story

@thomass5169

4 жыл бұрын

This new version is not new. Comrade.

@ryanRS250

4 жыл бұрын

@@thomass5169 from one conservative to another. i think you're missing the point, brother.

@missusbarkdog

4 жыл бұрын

...like Georgie.

@krisnamurti9242

4 жыл бұрын

The new story should be the old story: a government of the people, by the people, for the people. For all aspect of life. We do that in school with school board and PTA. We do that in our government with the democratic process. It works (well, it used to work before the age of the social media, but I digress). Why left the biggest part of our life, the part that gives us life (the economy is our lifeblood, without it, most of us in the modern world can't even say we're living, hence terms like livable wages etc.) to a feudal authoritarian system? Where the executive (CEO and upper management) and the legislative (investors with voting shares) can unilaterally act in a way that would affect the whole company with employee numbering more than population of some large cities. Time to kick the old feudalism. It has been proven broken long ago.

@mcara17

4 жыл бұрын

It never does, dear.

Props to this guy for keeping his energy up the whole time!

@ChrisDragotta

4 жыл бұрын

Sarah L Probably a theater major.

@xaviermahele03

4 жыл бұрын

Chris Dragotta George studied zoology at Oxford

The commons of Humanity, is the story of Sharing .

I believe this truth, we need a new story. Living in this pyramid system for way to long and we all see again and again. When I think about the movement in the sixties, it seemed like a false reality, (I say that because many of them are now the psychopaths). Their is way too much selfishness and greed. We are at another important juncture where people are waking up to the deception, let's hope we can do right by all this time. Thank you for the upload

@willjsoden

4 жыл бұрын

weird to me how kids of the sixties became the adults of the 80s

@gammaraygem

4 жыл бұрын

what story did the lizard have when floods and predators made it grow wings? things arent bad enough yet. a story is just another lame excuse for not mastering YOURSELF and nobody else.

@VincentGill3

4 жыл бұрын

I have known this for a long time, The rabbit hole of deception goes very deep into our human history. I used to get depressed when thinking of the future - then I got some good news after watching a video on KZread. The KZread video was called "One Small Town" (can change the world). It contains a plan for small town communities to transition out of the banking system. Best wishes to all.

@johngage5391

4 жыл бұрын

Read "Falter" by Bill McKibben, then join CitizensClimateLobby.org/.

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

@@gammaraygem "Mastering Yourself", in some way that makes you more useful and beneficial to Others, is an important part of the "Best" stories.

This speech far from a like deserves an admired appreciation and hope it doesn’t stay in a momentous inspiration for mankind, but rather a kick start for general action! 🙌🏼

I loved this, before seeing this I told someone the outline for the story to bring us all together is already there , we just need the courage to tell it. Resonate with deep needs and desires - grounded in reality, I love this guy!

Great talk. His book is great, too: HOW DID WE GET INTO THIS MESS? Glad he's taking his story public.

@RaxLakhani

4 жыл бұрын

Gonna get myself a copy of the book based in this talk and your recommendation.

@Broomehall

4 жыл бұрын

Sure ..... after the book, the tour, the merchandise, the interactive game, the film, the MONEY ..... get a life people, just another " I've got the answer, no really i have" Guru, who's so full of himself his skin is stretching.

@SchgurmTewehr

Жыл бұрын

Very important question to ask.

@SchgurmTewehr

Жыл бұрын

@@Broomehall no. You couldn’t know at the time, but he broke down and cried on Good Morning Britain. Every other participant in the conversation were sorry for him. He completely refused this and once again put their attention to the actual people suffering. Not him, the global south. He has devoted his life to environmentalism. He actually cares. If he was so selfish, he would promote himself more. But he doesn’t. He talks and writes in various different places, yet newer refers to his books or his KZread channel. In all his talks combined, he could have reached millions about his books. He could have made millions on the promotion of his work. But I’ve only heard him even talk about his book once, which is the newest, Regenesis. I can send you two videos which further prove my point and should convince you, unless you’re someone without any empathy or respect for other humans. The one video is that from Good Morning Britain, the other one is him sincerely having a talk with someone like-minded and which he has only uploaded on his small channel.

@SchgurmTewehr

Жыл бұрын

@@Broomehall 14:35 you don’t have to agree with him, he never suggested he is the only one who knows the right answer.

An amazing message, really well presented! You, sir, gave me back hope, after a decade of depression and anxiety. You made me cry, you gave me back hope for mankind and you restored my sense of purpose as a human being. I am not exaggerating. You've given us a lot to consider, in a much needed humorous way. Thank you sooo very much!!

@VincentGill3

4 жыл бұрын

I have known this for a long time, The rabbit hole of deception goes very deep into our human history. I used to get depressed when thinking of the future - then I got some good news after watching a video on KZread. The KZread video was called "One Small Town" (can change the world). It contains a plan for small town communities to transition out of the banking system. Best wishes to all.

@robinb.3840

4 жыл бұрын

@@VincentGill3 Thank you for your kind answer. I watched the video you speak of, and it may be a good idea to try. I hope it works.

@VincentGill3

4 жыл бұрын

@@robinb.3840 It has been going since 2003. It has been implemented in thousands of small towns and villages in every country. If you visit the UbuntuPlanet.org website you can view more videos and read about how Contributionism can be implemented.

Bravo! Thank You SO much George Monbiot, for helping us to consider the old story needs replaced by a new one ... I agree it does. Your brief version of a new story is a place to start. Your are totally correct that we need to speak the truth about what has happened and what is happening in order to tell the story correctly and to resolve problems ... And we need to keep working at resolving the problems UNTIL they are resolved. My, "new story," In the past people survived by exploiting and cheating those who could be exploited and cheated. Only those willing to exploit and cheat could rise above the barely surviving situation that was most peoples life. Those that were being exploited and cheated, even if they knew they were, were offered enough to make it seem an acceptable way to live. Eventually, those who were exploited and cheated noticed the pattern that made living extremely unequal for most and that trend was causing many people to feel that only people with money had power and that the people being exploited and cheated had relatively little, had to work longer and had no seat at the table or voice in important actions ... this was left to exploiters and cheats and those who worked within their realm who did get more than most but even they could rarely rise up into the realms of those who came from the truly wealthy (OLD money). THEN, one day, everyone started realizing The Truth could be told and those who worked for the exploiters and cheats could stop working for them and start working for the betterment of All. They realized We All needed to stop making anything that could cause us harm ... and that Our focus needed to shift from thinking about "better" ways to kill those who did not agree and instead learn how to get along. We begin to understand that we are all in this together and together we can create a world that Respects All Life. Love & Peace to All

Down with the oligarchy. Down with the two party system.

@garwvalley6946

4 жыл бұрын

The One Party ;)

@moabt.frican7163

4 жыл бұрын

Up with the 69 party system

@alexmac8000

4 жыл бұрын

Finn MacCool still insulting everyone who disagrees with you, I see.

@mistercohaagen

4 жыл бұрын

@Finn MacCool Can you define what you mean by "liberal" for me? Do they have horns? Where do they live, what do they eat? What makes them a threat?

@luisvanden2053

4 жыл бұрын

@Finn MacCool yikes, can see your projections on the moon mate.

I have known this for a long time, The rabbit hole of deception goes very deep into our human history. I used to get depressed when thinking of the future - then I got some good news after watching a video on KZread. The KZread video was called "One Small Town" (can change the world). It contains a plan for small town communities to transition out of the banking system. Best wishes to all.

@dulynoted2427

4 жыл бұрын

Vincent Gill Pull your money out of the banks that contribute to candidates and that helped the 2008 recession AND put it into your local Credit Union.

The Politics of Belonging ...a new mythology for the 21st Century. Brilliant ...compelling

As a Yang supporter, I resonate with this video

@RobertHildebrandt

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, this video could be used as an ad for Andrew Yang.

@BlackandPoly

4 жыл бұрын

#yanggang2020

@rioboe1

4 жыл бұрын

Yang needs a Ying!!!

Based on some in-depth polls, including in the USA, I think a critical mass of people share the model and values summarized by Monbiot here, BUT our mass media, with hired demagogues, are excessively neoliberal; practically religious neoliberalism. Our universities also, across the world, teach classical/neoclassic/neoliberal economics ; again they are taught like those theories are unmovable divine pillars of reality. Therefore, while most people see we need a more reasonable and democratic version of our current extreme capitalism, the dominant discourse insist the story not be changed at all. There is a disconnect between mass (commercial) media, even political science in universities, and common sense or popular wisdom. This is changing (not so much in the USA), but I am not very optimistic I admit.

the easiest, simplest conclusion to come to, is that we are doomed. When faced with truly existential crisis, we simply carried on the old narratives of competition and division. But because there is no second act on this one, we have to do better. Our rulers are not up to the job, our media is mostly in their thrall. People like George Monbiot give me hope.

Simply brilliant. People need to believe in something, and a story is a great way as we can see.

@nmarbletoe8210

4 жыл бұрын

it even can be like software for society

@antikokalis

4 жыл бұрын

Problem is he thinks with feelings instead of facts. There has never been less poverty on the planet (google extreme poverty on the planet). The guy is a fanatical commie

@nmarbletoe8210

4 жыл бұрын

@@antikokalis Yes about poverty -- huge progress and it may be less than ever! But you don't have to be a fan commie to not know that. Everyone does not know that. Fucking news doesn't report on good news because that sells less shampoo, i guess.

@gammaraygem

4 жыл бұрын

what story did the lizard have when floods and predators made it grow wings? things arent bad enough yet. a story is just another lame excuse for not mastering YOURSELF and nobody else.

@hydernoori146

4 жыл бұрын

Hedging bets over "people" as opposed to market laws in just hysterical. Besides making you feel good, it doesn't do much more. Actually it's dangerous.

A much needed message, thank you sir!

That is the best speech describing the human condition I have ever heard. Gives me hope. A true leader whom I would vote for. 👍

@foxledbyheart7752

Ай бұрын

Because you are brainwashed😂

Political you say? Me: Takes popcorn and watches the comment section.

@Super-qr7wm

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

?

@procdalsinazev

4 жыл бұрын

The comment section is full of some Yins and Yangs so far :-)

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

@@procdalsinazev I'm thinking that it is where the "Yin and Yang" touch, that the best work of Humanity will occur. The "Yin" and the "Yang" are both important, but it will be in the vast gray area between them that the Evolutionary Harmonization could occur.

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

I've had a chance to think about this and I get it now. Yes. This is a fragment of Real Life unfolding before Our popcorn filled faces.

#Yanggang #andrewyang is telling exactly this story - the reason of his succes too. #Yang2020

Joe Rogan appears: Yes but have you ever tried DMT?

@cmd2tuts

4 жыл бұрын

"You've never done any drugs? Ever? You should at-least try some DMT..." -Joe Rogan

@Berdymadafakas

4 жыл бұрын

@@cmd2tuts *taps lockbox sitting innocently next to me*

@shiitakestick

4 жыл бұрын

Flip More 🚓🚓🚓

@shiitakestick

4 жыл бұрын

I did thc on the bmt in nyc and then on the ind and irt .

@pleaseforgivemyinsanity2801

4 жыл бұрын

Lol Joe is gonna wind up getting it legalized.

Thank you so much !! That's what I'm talking about ! Glad to see someone else say it too !!!!

You’re so right George. I was feeling despair following the election result last week. I hate the idea of competing with our fellow men. A society of altruists governed by psychopaths. Spot on.

Man I hope he is right, I doubt I will see it in my lifetime. Those with the most power will not be giving up this fight.

@dhh488

3 жыл бұрын

No, because they have the money and the bombs.

Am I the only one relating this to ANDREW YANG's stories? Not right, not left, but forward. No matter it's the UBI or climate change plan, he kills it. He should be the one brings us THE NEW STORY where humanity comes the first.

@dulynoted2427

4 жыл бұрын

IvyDev0 D Yang dipped his foot into the shill pool. Bernie has much more integrity and has lead his whole life by example.

@jonodonozym

4 жыл бұрын

@@dulynoted2427 If you're talking about JPMorgan paying him 2k per speech, that's actually below market price for a published author to come speak. Andrew, as a published author, was giving a speech on his book, 'The War on Normal People,' and did not actively solicit campaign support during it apart from having a small campaign watermark on his slides. He was even cleared by an ex-adviser for the FEC.

@tenchichrono

4 жыл бұрын

@@dulynoted2427 Oh hey found the angry BernieBro.

@yi-gangjeremytai9326

4 жыл бұрын

@@dulynoted2427 "If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too." said Bernie. I'm quite OK with that.

@yi-gangjeremytai9326

4 жыл бұрын

@@jonodonozym I actually wonder whether Yang's speech played a role in Jamie Dimon saying shareholder value is no longer their main objective.

The difference between bonding communities and bridging communities is important. We need to look after those who get left behind, or won't or can't participate for whatever reason. Often when groups are formed to work for some sort of social good, they tend to comprise the most privileged members of a society, and often benefit those same privileged people. We need to include everyone, and work to benefit everyone. Like the concept of belonging, the tendency to exclude crosses political lines, and we need to find a way of overcoming it.

super ! in my opinion democracy needs culture and good quality school... I think that my students are going to learn this speech by heart... THANK YOU SO MUCH !!

@andrewworth7574

4 жыл бұрын

I pity your students.

@stefaniasmanio859

4 жыл бұрын

andrew worth why? I have excellent students. You are not a student of mine... I pity you....

@kirylkalbasnikau4709

4 жыл бұрын

Learning by heart never means knowing, understanding and feeling the subject

@kirylkalbasnikau4709

4 жыл бұрын

But it's a nice way to reincarnate fascism

@johngage5391

4 жыл бұрын

You may also like to consider letting your students know about Citizens Climate Lobby, a grassroots, nonpartisan group on a mission to use Democracy to address climate change by representing our common interests: citizensclimatelobby.org

Ted talks are so addicting!!!!

@Je.rone_

4 жыл бұрын

Yup

@bitsiebubblebee7129

4 жыл бұрын

not even close - Ted talks only presents one point of view - they are no better than the people they sneer at.

@ayhamshakfah1096

4 жыл бұрын

@@bitsiebubblebee7129 true but still its still atleas a point of view

@skav_real

4 жыл бұрын

I start trying learn english, at this point learning ideas!

People who are lucky enough to be doing okay still think everybody else either is, or can too, if they'd only just do what they did; confirmation bias. Sorry, but things are not going well for a significant number of people... and we need this kind of narrative, and a change in direction to get the boot of competition off of people's necks. We need our neighbors free and upright, to stand with us, so that we can cope with what's coming.

@revspikejonez

4 жыл бұрын

@@NeightrixPrime I guess you can't read, because that was not said. Reactionary kneejerk idiocy. You're showing your own confirmation bias.

@mistercohaagen

4 жыл бұрын

@@NeightrixPrime Please don't address me with "You're saying"... putting words in my mouth or trying to skew my meaning with sly re-wording isn't polite conversation. But your non sequitur seems valid to me; why wouldn't we want to do the things you mentioned, purely as humanity trying to help pull itself towards a more moral outcome for all?

Thank you for this. This TED talk should be broadcast on the building at Westminster known as the Houses of Parliament (the building is crumbling l think) Can we do it? Long live George Monbiot!

Good to see Monbiot on TED! He needs more attention.

@Zurvan101

4 жыл бұрын

The utter failure of Socialism to achieve its goals needs more attention.

@ExoEarth

4 жыл бұрын

General Public what if this isn’t about socialism

Bravo, Excellent!!!

To those who found this talk interesting, you may find the societal design specification published for free by the auravana project very interesting and addative (or just complementary), as it specifies and explains more fully a community-type socity.

Great speech. Needs to viral.

Elinor Ostrom, 1990, Governing the Commons. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for this in 2009. It was a work which disturbed many of today's modern "liberals." My takeaway from it is that there is a difference between GOVERNMENT and GOVERNANCE. It's a subtle difference-- but her studies demonstrate how we can be self governed without kings or presidents or legislators or --- politicians. All any of these sociopaths achieve is their own power and their own preservation by sending our sons to fight wars that benefit only the elite-- whether that elite is Krupp Steel or Alexander the Great or Pol Pot makes no substantive difference. What we "normals" want is GOVERNANCE. We can do without GOVERNMENT. I am happy to have stumbled into this. I'll listen to more from Mr. Monbiot before I decide if he is really on the right path.

You are awesome...

Amazing how many people in the comments are just adding further proof to the talk. People utterly consumed by identity politics.

@gammaraygem

4 жыл бұрын

what story did the lizard have when floods and predators made it grow wings? things arent bad enough yet. a story is just another lame excuse for not mastering YOURSELF and nobody else.

@bfk1970

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, when there is one side of a two sided system that rejects science, because it doesn't like facts, we are only left with a single option. The imminent looming disaster of climate change is more important than any political persuasion or person.

@BuddyLee23

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t have an stake in any identity politics myself, but this guy is a starry-eyed dreamer if there ever is one. His panacea comes from a modernist “grand narrative” storytelling, implies that stories are more important than factual knowledge, and that we’ve been led astray by those big bad psychopaths. If only we could get “us” reasonable people in to lead us, and drive all those psychos out of power... What he fails to mention is that WE are the psychopaths. Evil is banal, and power corrupts all humans alike. It’s all too human. He needs to go back to ivory-tower and continue his myopic study of naval-gazing.

@ronaldlogan3525

4 жыл бұрын

@@BuddyLee23 You may have think of it differently if you ever read "The Power Of Myth" by Joseph Campbell. In it he gives some very good reasons and explanations of how the human species is psychologically anchored to the over-arching narratives that are embedded in our mythologies. It is true for all cultures in the present and in history. It is a similar concept to Dr. Jung's idea of the collective conscious and how human emotions, instincts, and human psychology is tethered to the concept of narrative. If you read much about psychological bias, the different types of bias, you come up with very good evidence that refutes the idea that humans behave logically based on factual knowledge. It turns out that we are not at all like Mr. Spock.

@BuddyLee23

4 жыл бұрын

@@ronaldlogan3525 no one is arguing that story, mythos, and overarching narratives haven't served us well and perhaps even occupy some familiar, dispositional ground in our both our collective and individual psyches, but your basic assertion is far more reasonable than the speaker in this vid, and his wild claims of storytelling salvation. Few would contend that we are not passionate, irrational, fallible creatures, but the last thing we need is to encourage, is for any more of us to give ourselves over to even further emotion. Our world would do well to have a few more Mr. Spocks within it!

You sir... Are a GENIUS!

@foxledbyheart7752

Ай бұрын

Controlled Opposition- wake up!

thanks , I really needed to hear the new story ,sounds like the green new deal !

*We are a society of altruists, but we're governed by psychopaths* Get involved, vote locally, vote every time & encourage your neighbors to do the same!

@jamespier7801

4 жыл бұрын

greatboniwanker Hey, where did you get the Kool-Aid?

@accuratealloys

4 жыл бұрын

Voting gave us Trump.

@ianclose123

4 жыл бұрын

Don't kid yourself. We are a society of psychopaths who are occasionally (when someone is watching) altruistic. I dunno where you come from, but if I leave my front door unlocked when I am out I won't come home to a house full of gifts, I'll come home to a house thats been robbed, vandalised and probably has defecation smeared all over the place. I know far more people who would avoid paying tax if they were able to, than I do know people who would pay extra tax out of the kindness of their own hearts. If we're going to embark on a brave new endeavor in politics, let's at least do it on one not rooted in well meaning naivity.

China: Hold my beer. I mean my story,

@mbs0710

3 жыл бұрын

you mean tha covid

Simply fantastic...

George is such an energetic dude. Loved this.

Andrew Yang is THAT new story. 🌟📚🌟 #Yang2020 🇺🇸 🦅 🇺🇸

Amazing 😃😃

Brilliant. Extremely important.

Utterly inspirational! I’m in!

Fantastic Ted Talk. Thank you for the gift!

@HighDefinitionVideo

4 жыл бұрын

Bruce Burns huh? This guy is a commie pig.

I'm thinking how Detroit and Chicago turned out when they exercised their fundamental capacity for altruism and cooperation and the joint ownership of lands and production. This brings me to the latest thoughts of insects and humans as food ... for humans. The ultimate altruism and cooperation.

GM 4 PM!!!! Please help us save ourselves from ourselves, George!

I'm going to take a subscription out to Double Down News today. Well said. Love the bit in the end that celebrates our humanity.

The word story means picture; and every picture tells a story. And, every story draws a picture.

@shiitakestick

4 жыл бұрын

Gzpo don’t it !!??

Yes

Excellent idea!

Why on Earth has this not gone viral?!! “Strange answers to the psychopath test” has 16M views 😢

@DannyIsEverywhere

4 жыл бұрын

MummyTries Reneé Davis I’m trying my best to share this everywhere on twitter ... @MENTALIS7

@fermentedtruths

4 жыл бұрын

Danny Garcia seriously thought provoking stuff and could lead to the society of dreams 💚

Three cheers we need a new story

If there's a new way... I'll be the first in line... But it better work this time!

A strong, wonderful and Common Sense presentation, this! It is so Good to see these sorts of Ideas about Us and Cooperation emerge here in "You Tube". Thank you, very much, George Monbiot, for sharing these Truths of Yours with Us. You and Your Energy, have lifted me Up with Hope this day. Uh...is there a written transcript of this presentation? I would study such...and share it when ever I could.

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

Ooops! My apologies. I left out "TED" in my appreciation. I am so glad that You have become and do the vital new idea Work You do.

Great speech!

Actually he's got some points. Why do we need national government to do most of what they current do? The best government is local government. The more local, the more representative. Far easier to go to our courthouse than to Washington DC (in USA). Iowa doesn't need to be California (and California doesn't need to be Iowa).

@ethanr9080

4 жыл бұрын

But doesn't that ultermately break down things like national identity compartmentalizing groups of people and naturally build division? Won't that undo national cooperation / unity / consistency if everyone has their own little subset of rules and regulations for their area? And therefore reduce international cooperation because decisions that need to be made for the entire country will be difficult to agree on?

@BYROXI5000

4 жыл бұрын

En France... on fait le contraire... on est passés de pleins de départements regroupés en 5 grandes régions... c'est triste... juste pour "faire de l'argent" (besoin de moins d'emploi pour diriger)

@raharu000

4 жыл бұрын

You're not considering foreign affairs. It's a global market now. China can basically make unilateral adjustments to their own policy with very little democracy. The US needs central power to be able to compete with that.

@jayg4003

4 жыл бұрын

@@ethanr9080 Great questions. Actually, no it doesn't break up national identity. We don't live in a world of absolutes. We can have both local and national identities. The point is how much of national oversight do we really need so we can follow the "pursuit of happiness". We should celebrate different cultures and their differences. Part of that celebration and maintenance of the community is the right to self determination (again better served locally). Even with the best intent, a centralized (and distant) government, can't serve the community as well as local. If that centralized government was located in Utah, they really wouldn't know how their rules/policies affect the Oneida Indian Nation in New York. it's but a drop of water in an ocean of a country.

@jayg4003

4 жыл бұрын

@@raharu000 It's not a matter of removing all power of the USA central government. it's a matter of limiting the intrusion to things that protect and promote us all (like international trade, common defense, etc.).

Go George!

The new economic story needs to prioritize restoring ecosystems, instead of destroying them.

Why isn't this more mainstream?

Brilliant 😍✌

Thanks George, you’re a voice of sanity in an insane world. Nice to see you being a little more light hearted, your columns can sometimes be a little negative...

Brilliantly logical, achievable and essential strategy .... Cohesion without adhesian !!

very well done

So when this eventually fails, and we get the opposite, will that mean fascism will return?

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

It is interesting that the operating story does fail. Maybe We should be Better at making corrections and adjustments sooner...in order to keep the story successfully functional? Instead of out right "failure", We might be able to achieve low points and high points in the flow of it?

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

@Hugh Jones Is there anything that acts on the movement of a pendulum that could alter its designed result?

@McDanClay

4 жыл бұрын

It's because we haven't told a good enough story. Plus it's easy to be seduced into being a hero in your own story

Problem - Reaction - Solution

Excellent

*"Political failure is at heart, a failure of imagination."*

@ludwigvr3212

4 жыл бұрын

Ludwig cool name

@shahuni

4 жыл бұрын

My name is Mises. Don't steal my name!

@eameece

2 жыл бұрын

@@shahuni But Ludwig von Mises was a neo-liberal founder. Neo-liberalism has no imagination; only deception and racketeering.

@shahuni

2 жыл бұрын

@@eameece All kind of economics is deception and racketeering because it is based on consumerism and consumerism is product of deception, false advertising and agressive advertising and propaganda. It's like a child's game where children are given tokens for good (desired) behaviour and then those tokens can be redeemed for rewards (which are produced by other children) within the system.

@eameece

2 жыл бұрын

@@shahuni I agree, but economics is a general field. Can their be an eco-nomics?

This reminds me of the ANDREW YANG. He is the only one telling the new political story, having the vision for the future and well thought out solution for the present. He wants to keep HUMANITY FIRST by proposing Human centred capitalism. Changing the incentives such that capitalism works for humans and addressing climate change.

Brilliant . True. Optimistic.

A new voice... Thank you

This guy does a good job of synthesizing what is happening today. The raising of Ayn Rand’s objectivism to the level of doctrine has been a mistake and it could lead to our extinction. Altruism will save the planet and our species.

@AJ-xm4xc

4 жыл бұрын

Amazing how many people in power follow ayn rand.

@revspikejonez

4 жыл бұрын

@@AJ-xm4xc yeah, most people in power don't concern themselves with the people they've used to get there.

@bobtaylor170

4 жыл бұрын

Frank Maskil, Ayn Rand's wretched soul has gone to its proper reward, and because her disembodied soul is as powerless in itself as everyone else's, I presume she's cold, starving, homeless, and naked.

So true ! 👍🙏💛

I believe this where the New story will begin from. PEOPLE.

I Understand his New Story.

Our story is now how we formulate our future Belief in music with technologically enhancement, allows miraculous global events, as we Groove as One!!!

In my old age, I am discovering that the rock musicians of my generation, not only got all of the girls, they may well have been more sage philosophers than Kant, Hegel, Locke, Hayek, Aristotle or Plato. I do not recommend adopting life philosophies from the lyrics to rock music, but now that I have listened to more of Mr. Monbiot on KZread, I think The Who in their 1971 album, “Who’s Next,” with the track “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” is all you need to know about about Monbiot and his narratives story. Change “narrative” to “messiah,” and label the new narrative/messiah “envirofascism,” and you can see his agenda.Daltrey and Townsend say it best:“I'll tip my hat to the new constitution...Take a bow for the new revolution Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and pray We don't get fooled again The change, it had to come We knew it all along We were liberated from the fold, that's all And the world looks just the same And history ain't changed 'Cause the banners, they are flown in the last war And a parting on the left Is now a parting on the right And the beards have all grown longer overnight Meet the new boss Same as the old boss”No thanks Mr. Monbiot. We want no bosses.

@eameece

2 жыл бұрын

I interpret that, my favorite rock song, a bit differently. It is just the process Monbiot presents. That is the process of history. New stories become old, and are replaced by the by. You need to see the song in its larger context, in Lifehouse, which also contains the song "Let's See Action, Let's see People, Let's be free, and see who cares. Nothing is Everything" and "Relay, it's a revolution!" All these songs have the spirit of revolution in the music, especially Won't Get Fooled Again. The synthesizer episode is the sound of humanity as it reverberates through this historical process. I also discovered that this song is somehow patterned after Beethoven's Leonore Overture!

@eameece

2 жыл бұрын

Does your rejection of "envirofascism" reveal your anti-environmental agenda?

a brilliantly told story.

I think every word he said is plain truth, a shared narrative if I may so say :P Even the part that we (worldwide) are too often led by sociopaths and psychopaths (NO, though, I am not saying all politicians: I know many are not at all, but overall there is a sociopathic tendency in State decisions and it is getting worse). The lack of alternative ideology (yoops, story) is clearly lacking. Any mention of social policy is labeled socialist (red scare) and any criticism of capitalism triggers defensive reactions: we are *too binary* in our thinking. The classical story is good versus bad, but our reality is too complicated or our economies too integrated for those good old stories. Monbiot's compromise is what many have been proposing for a long time, basically focused on sincere and mature democracy. A good number of people are trying to build such cooperative and responsible economics now, but not on a State level. I strongly believe a better democracy is a solution (and also listening to our scientists much much more), but I do not know if Humans can do it... To be followed.

@antikokalis

4 жыл бұрын

He is a moron. He didn't even check the basic facts of poverty on the planet. In 1990 the extreme poverty on the planet was at about 50%. Now it's at 10%. The world has never been in a better condition. Except the environment obviously

@VincentGill3

4 жыл бұрын

I have known this for a long time, The rabbit hole of deception goes very deep into our human history. I used to get depressed when thinking of the future - then I got some good news after watching a video on KZread. The KZread video was called "One Small Town" (can change the world). It contains a plan for small town communities to transition out of the banking system. Best wishes to all.

Yessss

speech like this can be accepted after great suffering!

I experience what you are saying every day...

#yanggang2020

#HumanityFirst story is the new restoration story. #Yang2020

This guy has insights into the corruption on another level. More people should be listening to him.

@tuckerbugeater

Жыл бұрын

Because he's part of the corruption. LOL. Now eat your pink lab grown slime!

Phenomenal

Unfortunately both sides think their answer aligns with this too vague narrative.

@jamespier7801

4 жыл бұрын

Lee No, conservatives recognize his 250-year-old caricature of the free market political economy. An economy based on private property and - imagine! - voluntary cooperation.

@NWLee

4 жыл бұрын

@@jamespier7801 You are probably right, just hard to find actual conservatives

@eameece

2 жыл бұрын

Monbiot likes to avoid mentioning the fact that the Keynesian story was mainly supported and implemented by Democrats and Labor, and the neo-liberal story was mainly supported and implemented by Republicans and Tories. But their power in each case caused their opponents to buckle under to them to a large degree.

cool

George Monbiot is very a nice bloke. He’s a very intelligent and thoroughly decent man and no one with a heart could dislike him. But, as Tommy Cooper might say, from here on in, my comments go down-hill. I certainly agree with George’s final theme that more needs to be done to encourage human beings to engage with one another at a local level. Most people, in my experience, are much more talented than they think they are. Perhaps, in the past, particularly before the mass media, people didn’t have to compare themselves with the ‘super gifted’ from around the world and those with celebrity status. In reality, amazing people can be found in every street, in every town and in every country across the planet. (The converse is also true, of course. A lot of the supposedly super gifted are not as talented as they think they are, but that’s another ‘story’). So, I believe that George is right to finally home in on the importance of community, local democracy, participation and engagement. But what a meal he makes of the journey! To listen to George, one might conclude that everything is totally torn asunder in the world. George’s description of where we are all now is naive and exaggerated. We are not ruled by psychopaths. That’s silly, and it’s important to realise that despite all the dreadful things that are going on in the world, life is gradually, albiet painfully slowly, getting better. Steven Pinker, in his book ‘The better angels of our nature’, charts that gradual improvement in considerable and, for me, convincing detail. In my view, the problem of world governance can only be properly understood if it’s viewed from a ‘power perspective’. I use the word ‘power’ in the limited sense of ‘the ability to get other people to do things that they don’t want to do and to prevent other people from doing things that they do want to do’. Both of these things can be achieved in many ways. Physical force is the ultimate one but the powerful can and do use other more sophisticated methods. A familiar one is misleading people and lying. Another is presenting arguments which seem convincing but are, in reality, bogus. The most powerful means, however, is the use of ideology, whether it’s religious, political or tribal and it is ideology that George is seeking to conflate with ‘a story’. I agree with George that stories play a vital part in human discourse. We see stories everywhere. From our primitive beginnings, once we had language to convey our thoughts and ideas to one another, men and women would conjure stories in order to try and make sense of the world around them. We dream in stories, (mine usually revolve around forgetting where I parked my car and wondering how I might get home again, although I can probably put that down to digestion). Novelists build stories to explore human behaviour and character. Politicians use and sometimes invent stories to promote their particular view of the world and their perspective on how society should operate. Even scientists use stories when they conjecture about what they see. They construct, by means if induction, a story that explains what they observe. They then see where the story takes them, by means of deduction, in the hope of stumbling upon the odd prediction that can be tested. Stories are a vital part of us but, sadly, they don’t always end in harmony or restoration. Harmony is a nice fluffy make-belief sort of word bathed in happiness and peacefulness. In real-life, stories are far more likely to end in temporary equilibrium and it is the concept of equilibrium that we need to use if we are to generate ideas that make the human world a better place. George describes how people are fundamentally altruistic and decent and that evolution has made them that way. But his assertion contains a fatal flaw. Evolution doesn’t care about whether people are altruistic. It’s certainly true that, in general terms, natural selection might favour certain traits within human beings that encourage cooperation and empathy. But evolution is really about the survival of genetic information and the biological world is really a battlefield. You won’t find much ‘harmony’ in nature. What you will find is ‘equilibrium’ and that’s a very different thing. Human life, the planet on which we live and the universe, through which we travel, are all battle fields. Any equilibrium that emerges will be the result of huge conflicting forces balancing each other out. It’s the same in human relationships and in the forming of groups, organisations, societies and the nation states that exist around the globe. George is good to listen to and he’s very entertaining. But his story is not going to change the world. I think that’ll do for now.

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the interesting ideas about "harmony" vs "equilibrium". Question, if you will please: Can "equilibrium" be either static, or dynamic (in movement)...or both static and dynamic at the same time? (Say, as the offered example, the Equilibrium in Nature)

@davidclifford5124

4 жыл бұрын

@@danieljones9463 Hello. Thank you for your interesting question. I would say that equilibrium, in the context of George’s presentation, will always be dynamic simply because the balance of power will inevitably shift over time. I guess that this is as true in nature as it is in politics. George’s concept of ‘harmony’, on the other hand, would seem to be static since the thrust of his argument is that, if only we all subscribed to his restorative ‘story’, everything would settle down to a condition of peace and harmony. I simply don’t buy it. I’m a great believer in George’s ‘localism’ because when people are engaged locally, they are more likely to have the inclination to be engaged nationally. But localism, whilst being necessary, is certainly not sufficient. Things must be done to improve the operation of free market capitalism but that doesn’t mean throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Things must also be done about reducing the power of the state. Power is addictive as well as corruptive. Anyway, I’m drifting off your question.

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidclifford5124 Thank you David Clifford, for your courteous and thoughtful reply. In it you shared: "George’s concept of ‘harmony’, on the other hand, would seem to be static since the thrust of his argument is that, if only we all subscribed to his restorative ‘story’, everything would settle down to a condition of peace and harmony." I don't think "all" of Us subscribing to his restorative "story" is what George Monbiot dares to Hope for. I think he would be content with just enough of Us (a Majority) to get this "new story and direction" started. If this did take place, I think a settling into "Peace and Harmony" might eventually result, but for only short periods of time. Then the differences would, in some ways, re-emerge and the work would have to commence again. It occurs to me that the More We do this work, the Better We will become at doing it. Eventually, in the "long run", I think We would realize that the differences are less severe...as Our increased skills in Applied Morality gradually takes effect. Just sharing some of my thoughts with you. Thanks again for the considerate response. Would you mind me responding further to your reply? There are a couple of other things you brought up that deserves discussion.

@davidclifford5124

4 жыл бұрын

@@danieljones9463 Hello again. Yes, of course I would welcome further comment. As I said initially, I believe George to be a decent person. There’s no question that he genuinely wishes to tease out a way of gradually changing our society for the better. I just happen to believe that his suggestion is not a ‘silver bullet’ for fundamental reasons. I certainly didn’t get the impression that he regarded ‘harmony’ as a dynamic concept although I may have misunderstood him. Whilst I share his view that localism is a key element of a viable strategy, I don’t consider it any where near sufficient and I’m pretty sure, from his initial comments at the beginning of his presentation, that we wouldn’t agree on the fundamental nature of the problem.

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidclifford5124 Good Saturday Morning, David Clifford. It is good to see from you again. My further response to your first reply starts with agreeing with you and George about the importance of local structure in "restorative politics". Since I am of the "Worker Class", I've pretty much always been a "ground roots" type of guy. But I take a second look and frown a bit, when I see the word "restorative". It makes me think that the same old ways are going to be warmed up and tried again. I feel that We need less restoration (though some early constitutional restorative work is needed) in Our Government System and More innovative and forward push. But, of course, We should be careful about this new directionalism. Basically, I believe there is less that should be "restored" than new things that should be tried...starting at the local level. (Our Own Neighborhoods?) The devil and the Evolutionary Goodness For Many, is in the details. In your first response, you also mentioned: "Things must be done to improve the operation of free market capitalism but that doesn’t mean throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Things must also be done about reducing the power of the state. Power is addictive as well as corruptive." I agree with both of these Ideas. But I urge some new system, of some control of Capitalist Behavior, through "Standards Of Limitations Of Decency". One of these limitations should be a wealth acquisition ceiling for Individuals and Corporations. (I am anti-billionaire) The "Standards", which are ultimately given the power of Law by We The People, should also be considered, discussed and designed by Us. The excesses of government power, with the resultant corruption, should also be controlled by We The People, through well considered and applied "Standards". But there is a Third Area that is vital to "Good Governance". The People Ourselves. This huge Third Area is, to a large extent, a wasted potential, as it lives in overly Individualistic irresponsibility and takes insufficient part in Better Governance of Our Nation. We The People need to participate in the affairs of Our Nation a whole lot more than We are. We should have "Standards Of Decency" guiding Us too. It is out of Us, that the other two social elements, you have mentioned, rises. I conclude this comment with: Let Us make "Inferior Capitalism" into "Superior Capitalism" and The Best Government Is Not Of The Opportunistic and Capable Few, but Of The Enlightened and Rising Many. Thank you David. For giving me the opportunity to lightly hint at these ideas.

ingenious, so true

Freedom Dividend!! Money is the bridge.

@djangokill65

4 жыл бұрын

Money is a band-aid but can help. We need to change our society's priorities and put people's lives before profits.

This is why we need Yang. He's the only one with a truly new and inspiring story, and one that appeals to both left and right, altruism and self interest

@aprim85

4 жыл бұрын

Ziljan Vega first thing I thought when I started this talk

@eameece

2 жыл бұрын

Yang won't win any presidential election.

This is Juan Domingo Peron discovery in 1945, his doctrine "The Organized Community" explains this philosophy.

I'll admit this TED talk didn't really wow me that much but the speaker is right when he says there are fundamental elements to stories that resonate with people on a deeply human level. They are tools that good and bad leaders can use. You have to dig into the deeper message of the details in those leaders stories. His final story didn't really vibe with me, it sounded okay, but not specific enough. But it did remind me of Andrew Yangs story. We have reached a turning point in our society where we have the chance to protect ourselves from some terrifying problems facing us. If we act now we can heal our political divisions before we reach a dangerous tipping point, we can provide meaningful safety nets to our people and economy before the job shift wrecks millions of lives, we can put the breaks on carbon emissions before most of our cities are underwater. It's not about socialism or capitalism. It's humanity first and data driven solutions. We all can see there's a cliff ahead. And things have been getting worse for many of us already. So let's try to change direction, stop hurting each other and work together so that we all have a baseline that starts above zero. Give those who don't have much to work with a little more wiggle room and we'll be amazed at how much more we can collectively do. Yang's story is the 21st century restoration story.

This is warm and fuzzy, but we're circling the drain. Human is going bye bye.

@danieljones9463

4 жыл бұрын

Being somewhat on the outer edge of the drain area, maybe I would stick to the tub...and wait for new fresh water?

Excellent and so inspirational !!!