In this podcast, we discuss Chuang Tzu's Cracking the Safe [ix. 2.], which outlines the emergence and persistence of kleptocratic states and the operations of their rulers. Chuang Tzu mocks the plethora of 'rules and principles' rhetorically expounded by kleptocrats and characterises them as merely the ideological support for unwieldly bureaucracies. Against this mode of social organisation, Chuang Tzu proposes simplicity and bucolic peace. We discuss the resonances between this passage and 'classical anarchism'. [Free. 46 minutes.]
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TRAILER FOR ’THE APOCALYPSE & YOU’ LIVE EVENTS
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A SUSPICION - CLIMATE & CULTURE WARS
LAO TZU 65
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INTERESTING TIMES 68 - WHERE IS THE WAR ON WOKE GOING?
LAO TZU 63
MUSIC - HOMAGE
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SOCRATES & THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
BORIS JOHNSON’S PERFECT POST-TRUTH MOMENT - INTERESTING TIMES 66
AI - THREAT OR PROMISE?
NAT-C OR NAZI? INTERESTING TIMES 65
CLICK BAIT, RAGE BAIT & CALM BAIT
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