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.]
DEATH OF THE NHS? -GE 19
THE MAIN-STREAM MEDIA, THE BBC & PROPAGANDA - GE 19
THE INTERNET & ELECTORAL POLITICS - GE 19
BREXIT - GE 19
THE CASE FOR LABOUR - GE 2019
DESIRE & ULTIMATES [YES & NO 7]
OPERATION YELLOWHAMMER - WHAT IT SAYS AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE
MISLEADING SLOGANS [3] "LEAVE MEANS LEAVE"
MISLEADING SLOGANS [2] "#SURRENDER BILL"
MISLEADING SLOGANS [1] "TAKE BACK CONTROL"
THE WORLD BURNS
THE CASE FOR JEREMY CORBYN
DESIRE & THE FUTURE [YES & NO 6]
DESIRE, ACTION, TIME [YES & NO 5]
THATCHERISM REVISITED
DESIRING TRUTH [YES & NO 4]
LAO TZU 16
EMBRACING THE HUMAN [YES & NO 3]
EXPERIENCE [NO & YES 2]
SITTING [NO & YES 1]
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