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This guy, a Plutocrat, gave a TED talk aimed at his fellow plutocrats, on a similar topic, the disease of neoliberalism- sickens the patient and ends up killing all of us. Throughout history, without exception, vast inequities driven by a small overlord class have not persisted long and violent revolution has always followed, either Myanmar or France being opposite outcomes, as I assume you are all aware. So his talk is pragmatic, but a great summary of a capitalist way of looking at things based on history.

After reading your column, I got that the BB on both sides do neoliberalism because the short term profits are better. So it’s another level in the war between people with externally directed egos and people with internally directed egos, or the 1% with Rupert Murdoch flying monkeys and the rest of us. The Goths are winning and Rome is falling due to internal divisions. I guess 2000 years or so in planetary time is an eye blink, because we certainly aren’t learning. There hasn’t been a leap in consciousness since the Buddha, although those levels of awareness are more accessible to more people these days. You don’t have to live in a monastery to experience the ground of being. At that level, everything is one and these divisions are manufactured for financial gain. The only question is do we want to be a pawn or are we going to take control of our own destinies?

https://youtu.be/q2gO4DKVpa8?si=RAKDkbvqXr6eFb_X

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