This meander was stimulated by a recent repudiation by Zizek of the possible role of small communities in any future human flourishing. In this context, I revisit E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful (1973). I discuss some of the core ideas from that seminal work. In particular, I focus on the treatement of raw materials as [inexhaustible] income and the treatement of the environment as a free dump by capitalism and the economic theories that act as its ideological justification. I touch upon intermediate technology, the role of 'spirituality' in the good life, the way in which economic theories and political practice often treat people as numbers on a spreadsheet, the 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike and the persistence of alienation in nationalised industries. I do this by discerning Zizek's 'inner Schumacher' and Schumacher's 'inner Zizek' and recounting instances of their expression. In both cases these inner others are mostly repressed, but vigorous enough to surface now and then in brilliant insight. [Free. 47 minutes.]
LOVE & COMPASSION
HUMAN INTERACTIONS: POWER DIFFERENTIALS, MASTER-SLAVE LIVED EXPERIENCE, OPEN RECEPTIVITY TO THE OTHER
HOW DO WE KNOW THAT EVERYTHING ISN'T AN ILLUSION?
IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR THE HUMAN SPECIES?
CHAOS AND COSMOS PART THREE
WHO AM I (1) - OVERVIEW
WHO AM I? (2) - PSYCHOLOGY, BIOGRAPHY
WHO AM I? (3) - ADVAITA AND OTHER WHOLENESS TALK
WHO AM I? (4) - ZEN KOAN
WHO AM I? (5) - PHENOMENOLOGY & PATANJALI
WHO AM I? (6) - LANGUAGE
WHO AM I? (7) - LIVED EXPERIENCE
METAPHORS, JAM ROLY-POLY, THE VERTICAL AXIS & FLATLAND
PATANJALI ON PRANAYAMA
A RAMBLE - IS NIETZSCHE SOCRATES WITH A FLUTE?
ON YOGA POSTURES
THEY CONSCIOUSNESS
EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON? REALLY?
CHAOS AND COSMOS PART 2
THE MEANING OF LIFE IS LIFE
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