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.]
CAPITALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE?
JUNK ECONOMICS
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME, PLENTY AND SCARCITY
ART, FREUD, LACAN
BLAIR TRASHES COBYN
WHAT IS ART?
LAO TZU 15
FREE SPEECH
INTOXICATION AND THE WILL TO POWER
VALUE & NATURALLY OCCURRING COMMUNISM
TRUMP, MAY, PUTIN AND MEN IN FUNNY HATS [PART TWO: FRAGMENTATION]
TRUMP, MAY, PUTIN AND MEN IN FUNNY HATS [PART ONE: POLITICAL SCOUNDRELS]
LAOTZU 14
THE INTERNET AS COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
LAOTZU 13
BEING INTO IT
HOW TO MEANDER
PRIDE
MORTALITY, INSECURITY, MEDITATION
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