WHAT IS POLITICS?
Politics is the only practical discipline where none of the main terms have any clear consensus definitions. Scholars write entire books about things like capitalism, markets, socialism, government, democracy, politics, the left and right, without defining them, or really knowing what they’re talking about.
When such fundamental words have no meaning they can be manipulated by powerful people to pit potential allies against eachother, and to align people with their actual enemies, on top of making everyone generally more confused and apathetic than they would be otherwise.
If this was the situation in architecture or engineering we’d have buildings crashing down all around us. And this is exactly what’s happening in politics today.
The point of this podcast/youtube channel is make sense of all of this muddle so that we can all understand what’s going on all around us and figure what it is that we want when it comes to politics, and how we can achieve it.
Why Elites Ruined the Left Right Political Spectrum (and why we need it back!)
Inequality and the Rise of the Nationalist Right
12.1 - The Secret History of Israel/Palestine, part I: The Jews of Europe and the rise of Zionism
Q&A: ABCs of Israel/Palestine
Brainstorm: Israel/Palestine - Who Started It?
12: From “Never Again” to “There are No Uninvolved Civilians” - the ABCs of Israel/Palestine
9.2 - A Rainbow of Inequality: When Social Control Masquerades as Social Justice
11.1 Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids do all the Socialism
11 - Why Every Communist Country is a One-Party Dictatorship
Play With Me | starsixnine | OP-Z
Sea Serpents | Star69 | (Arpanoid, Black Fountain, Randy's Revenge, Astral Destiny)
Prince: Delirious | starsixnine | Elektron Model:Cycles
Fus Ro Dah | starsixnine | Star69
Björk: Unravel | starsixnine
10.4 What Causes Seasonal Political Structures? Graeber & Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything Ch. 3
10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow's Dawn of Everything, Chapter 3
10.2 The Dawn of Everything: How Graeber & Wengrow’s book sets us up to fail at politics
10.1 Do "Egalitarian Societies" Exist? David Graeber & David Wengrow’s "The Dawn of Everything"
10. David Graeber & David Wengrow "The Dawn of Everything" critique: The Wisdom of Kandiaronk
7.1 Material Conditions: How to Eliminate Sexism
Interview: Fight Like an Animal / Arnold Schroeder part 2 | What is Politics?
Interview: Fight Like an Animal / Arnold Schroeder part 1 | What is Politics?
9.1 Cancel Culture is Corporate Management Culture | What is Politics?
9. Cancel Culture and At-Will Termination | What is Politics?
What Was It You Wanted? Bob Dylan | starsixnine | Elektron Model:Samples
8. Materialism vs. Idealism: How Social Change Happens | What is Politics?
7. The Origins of Male Dominance and Hierarchy; what David Graeber and Jordan Peterson get wrong
5. How we know what Left and Right actually mean: who’s who, 1789-1917
6. Political Anthropology: When Communism Works and Why | What is Politics?
How Tax Cuts Fuel Police Power | What is Politics?