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My name is Johannes,
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and I have a condition.
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I'm human.
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I first realized that when
I fell on my face on a concrete slab
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on a beach in Italy.
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I was four.
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And it was clear to me:
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beaches cannot be trusted,
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I hated Italy,
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and dreams can be broken.
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The human is a narrative being.
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We construct emotional machines...
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so called stories, to communicate
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to share the world in which we live
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and make it collectively experienceable.
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And we're pretty good
at doing that.
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Since the primoridial zoo
Mendelized into primate brains,
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we have either been fleeing
from big cats
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or telling others about
our escapes
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from the clutches of big cats.
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Sitting around a campfire
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interpreting and
breaking-down the world,
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charging it with meaning,
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regardless of whether the details hold up
to a Wikipedia check, or not.
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The human is also a political being,
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although many members of my species
don't like that idea.
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Get used to it.
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You can't avoid being politcal.
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The moment you choose to buy
a sugar-free Red Bull™ at Walmart™,
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you commit a political act.
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The same is true when you
drag a royalty-free
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hip-hop version
of Pachelbel's Canon in D
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into your shopping basket @
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pond5.com
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Politics is the practice of
distribution of power and resources
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within the given community as well as
the interrelationship between communities.
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Period.
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We project a certain story
out to the world.
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The story differs if you are a leftist,
a progressive, or conservative,
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but be assured,
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most people I know
who call themselves anarchists
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are just stupid libertarians.
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We communicate our views by
using narrative and conceptual shortcuts.
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Abbreviated terms like:
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"freedom" or "privacy"
and so on.
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These shortcuts are important.
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If someone had called
'global warming' something different,
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let's say, 'atmosphere cancer,'
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you wouldn't have problems
explaining why it's a bad thing.
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I always wanted to create a glossary
of all-important terms.
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Because Jesus Fuckin' McChrist,
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they're always used and abused
in common sections on the World Wide Web.
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I wanted to give some of these
golden calfs of discourse a second look,
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to explain, re-evaluate,
and maybe even sacrifice them.
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I teamed up with my
good friend Ishan Raval,
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who definitely matches me
in my political leanings.
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I mean, look,
we both have our hands on our chins
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in our Google profile pics.
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Pompous little fucks we are.
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And because I know
a lot of creative performers
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who will do pretty much anything
for almost nothing,
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I decided to make this film.
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How much longer
do I have to hold this shit? It's heavy!
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Well, y-you can put it in your resumé.
I mean come on... a little bit longer.
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-And we used my car.
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You're the head of
transportation fleets, okay?
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So, well, never forget,
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you don't hate Italy,
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you hate capitalism.
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What a big word!
So big!
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Capitalism.
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One of the biggest words I know...
and I know a lot of words.
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There's
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"Market" (true, but that one
sounds a bit too mystical).
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Oh!
I think that's Brian Ewok.
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Good to have a
comfy seat
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at my favorite hippster
coffee shop and wine bar
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enjoying free Wi-Fi
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from a network
whose password is "Helvetica."
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I'm just
minding my own business,
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when I get spotted
by Madame Juju,
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the friendly hippster
coffee shop and wine bar owner
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who does sweat yoga.
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Hello.
How can I help you?
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A double eggnog frappucino
with tofu-breaded halibut?
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There's a sticker for the
Green Party candidate behind the bar.
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Oh, I love the Greens!
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So friendly! So caring!
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So cuddly!
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Marx once called the State
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a committee for managing the
common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
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Thank the non-existing God for it!
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Because where management is possible,
so also is mismanagement.
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And some parts of the bourgeoisie,
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especially those who do sweat yoga
and keep their hearts wholesome,
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might be persuaded to use
that committee against their interests.
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Basically, there are people
who own the means of production.
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Let's say fancy coffee machines,
or servers, or farms, or server farms.
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That's the bourgeoisie.
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And then there are people who don't own
the means of production or capital,
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so they have to sell their work.
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The workers. That's all the barristas
and sandwich artists
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and Ryanair® check in personnel.
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But even if the bourgeoisie,
which includes Madame Juju,
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might not be united
in its political allegiances
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they play the same purpose.
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It isn't her fault.
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It isn't my fault.
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In all corners and cortices of her brain,
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she might just regard this as her job.
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An innocent livelihood.
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And even,
a community service.
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Oh, absolutely!
People love me.
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I am the Maggie Gyllenhaal
of safron-based cake frosting.
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All of that, it might be.
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But capitalism is bigger than
any of our lives and wills.
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It produces net effects
some capitalists don't realize.
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Madame Juju's heart may not
be driven by profit,
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but her business must be.
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Money must make more money.
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More money must be made
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so that it can keep up with competing
coffee shops and wine bars,
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which are constatly coming up
and trying to out-perform Madame Juju.
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It makes me cry.
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It's not even enough for me
to earn back the money I invested.
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There has to be a good return
on investment.
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There have to be upgrades
to match the latest
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speedy, spicy, sprinkle trends;
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or to keep paying an increasing rent
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so that the coffee
doesn't get more expensive.
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Otherwise, everyone will go to...
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Monsieur Dudu's down the street.
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It's true.
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His coffee is okay,
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but his wine selection
is out of this world.
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So, Madame Juju
is forced to cut costs
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by not protecting the environment,
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or by paying super-low wages.
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It is so very sad
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but, I donate to
Amnesty International.
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Overall, the wealth of the world
increases on the side of the capital,
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be it money uninvested and stagnant...
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There are some trillions of dollars
around like that today.
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or the things required
for and by business.
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And wealth decreases
on the side of the world
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where costs are cut.
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People working for wages
and the world itself.
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Take atmosphere cancer.
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Sadly it's not capitalism's
side-effect,
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but a sign of its normal functioning.
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The system was for the last
one hundred years,
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running on cheap oil
and making a huge profit with it.
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Money still needs
to make more money.
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So more and more things
have to be exchangeable for money.
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Everything from gummy bears
to DNA sequences,
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to carbon dioxide emissions.
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But Friedman says that
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economic freedom is the
precondition for political freedom.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
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Not so fast, Madame Juju.
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Well, freedom is a huge word too,
yes, yes, but
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in the capitalist society
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there is only one freedom:
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the freedom of the market.
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At its root, capitalism is based on
three simple things:
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working for a wage,
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private ownership, or control of
the means of production,
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and production
for exchange and profit.
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And, it's all sold
with the promise of liberty.
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But that has been true
since the beginning of time.
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Capitalism didn't arise
according to natural laws
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that stem from human nature.
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It was spread by organized violence.
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The concept of private land
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and means of production might seem like
the natural state of things now,
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however, we should remember
it is a human concept... .
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First in places like England:
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enclosures drove self-sufficient peasants
from communal land
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into the cities to work in factories.
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Under the reign of
Henry the Eighth alone,
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72,000 people were executed
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for vagabondage.
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Is that freedom?
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Later, capitalism was spread rapidly
and violently around the globe.
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Do you remember
that nice little girl, Alice?
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Oh, yes, certainly!
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Lovely!
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She fell into Wonderland,
used its resources,
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and was highly judgmental of the natives.
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A spoiled British imperialist brat!
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But the Germans weren't
much better.
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It's the year 1818.
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Powerful German merchants
started to profit
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from overseas commerce
in Asia and Africa.
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The German Empire supported this expansion
by conquering large amounts of land
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and established so-called "protectorates."
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With fraud, Bible, alcohol and violence,
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the German Empire grew to a staggering
2.6 million square kilometers,
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five times the size of Germany...
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reaching the third place
in colonial power,
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right after England and France.
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The following sarcastic folk song,
written in 1819,
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has its own perspective on the matter:
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But wait!
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I like black people.
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They've got the rhythm.
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Equality and justice for everyone.
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I don't like the super rich.
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The middle class is under attack.
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The goddamn politicians are to blame.
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Most liberal cosmopolitan folks
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lack faith in public institutions,
ideals and poliiticians.
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The notoriety of left-leaning authors
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like Michael Moore
or, Noam Chomsky,
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shows that our fellow humans
know very well
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what Moore claims is the awful truth,
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but they act as if they don't know.
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We have to realize that
everyone is part of the problem.
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It's our habits, our procedures,
that keep the game going.
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There is no good or bad capitalism.
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Inequality is an integral
part of capitalism.
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Everything including humans,
is treated as a mere resource.
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I like punk rock.
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I make my own sweaters.
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I recycle plastic bottles.
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I enjoy books by Terry Pratchett.
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I am a Buddhist.
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That is nice of you.
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But remember that
market driven capitalism
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musters the quasi-scientific discourses
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of marketing and public relations
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and increasingly, eastern religion,
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to recommend products to consumers
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as necessary means
in the liberal pursuit of happiness,
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self-fulfillment and personal freedom.
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Sometimes, there is
so much beauty in the world!
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I feel like I can't take it!
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Well, capitalism has its downsides.
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But, it's way better than communism...
...that's really bad!
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It killed people!
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Even worse... it didn't work.
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Let us quote Marx himself:
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"The categorical imperative
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"is to overthrow all relations
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"in which man
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is a debased, enslaved, forsaken,
despicable being."
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This imperative is true for all conditions.
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Even the ones created by perverted
misinterpretaions of his writings.
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State communism killed a ton of people
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and the sad truth
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is that it was based
on the principle of a state.
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It created forms of property.
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It had banks, police, even a market.
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State communism was a badly adapted,
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botched version
of the rules of capitalism.
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We shouldn't shed a tear for it.
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True, and socialism
penalizes high achievers,
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rewards laziness, cuts freedom
and stifles choice.
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Ayn Rand says,
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Ayn Rand died on welfare.
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that socialism stifles competition,
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impeding technological progess.
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May I jump in an remark,
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that one of the largest
cooperative projects
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and planned economies
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was ironically,
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the Apollo project
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to put the middle class American
on the moon.
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So, let's have a ...
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...and technology...
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I'm at six G.
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Excuse me for a moment...
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This is Hans Platzgaumer.
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He enjoys craft beer
and gory movies...
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in the Italian tradition.
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And, he's a passionate gamer.
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Jesus!
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You're going to need some lube
and a tow truck
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to pull my boot out of your ass!
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Do you have a minute
to talk about something important?
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Huh?
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Where's this voice coming from?
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I am your cerebral cortex.
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Listen!
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That's weird.
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Through the dark and not so dark
millennia of human history,
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we've organized ourselves into
adversarial cliques,
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communities and nations.
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World events were like
deadly ping pong balls hurtling towards us.
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And these groups were the paddles,
whose goal it was
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to knock the ball
into someone else's court.
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What a crazy-ass metaphor!
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Add military might,
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as the means to hold in place
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the lopsided system of distribution
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in which workers create
more and more economic value
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for wages... that never quite
grow at the same rate.
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And, lo,
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competion became the fabric
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in which everyday life was dressed.
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The technology necessary
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for global cooperation
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did not exist.
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Comptetition was thus established
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as the default way of
interacting with the world.
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In its genteel form,
competition meant nobody got killed.
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Gladiators turned to soccer....
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or turned to table tennis.
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By 1972,
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computers became advanced enough
to simulate competitive games...
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and Pong was born.
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Pong. Wha?
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Humans are a competitive species.
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But we shouldn't forget
that cooperation and altruism
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are as much hard-wired into our brains.
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But what does that have to do
with that old-school video game?
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If we dont want the Pong ball
to go off the table,
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we can program the computer
to control the paddles better
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than any human can.
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Our desire to play competitive Pong
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versus other humans
through obsolete hand operation
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is nothing but a vain show of
one-upmanship.
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There's no other point to
competitive gaming in the computer age.
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What the actual fuck? Fuck! Fuck!
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That's just your limbic system,
trying to interfere.
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Pay attention to me.
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Technology could save us,
if we'd let it.
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There's enough material wealth
for everyone on the planet
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to have a sturdy home
and a steady food supply.
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If we stop competing
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and use our global communication
and computation capabilities
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to level the playing field.
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But, competition is wonderful!
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I've come here to
chew bubblegum and kick ass!
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And I'm all out of bubblegum.
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Competitive systems, such as
evolution and capitalism,
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are terriffic at creating
unpredictable change very quickly.
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It's the trial by error system.
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If you're looking for
a wide variety of output,
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competitive systems are the best.
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Not only will the product of such systems
tend to improve over time,
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they'll fill just about any niche
available to them.
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A competititive system,
such as a market
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also has its merits as a censor
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in approximating
what and how much people want.
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00:20:17,389 --> 00:20:20,559
See!
See, it's a good thing!
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Competition can be a great inspiration
to develop skills related to the goal.
348
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Which is great,
if inspiration is needed
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...and the skills are useful ones.
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In a system like Pong, however,
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you just wind-up
getteing better at playing Pong.
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A competitive system, also
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is great for ensuring that
people who are ahead in the game
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get exactly what they want,
when they want it.
355
00:20:47,441 --> 00:20:51,379
A hawk uses highly evolved vision
to catch its prey.
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and first-worlders use
their superior buying-power
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to get iPad™s.
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Hey, hey, hey, hey!
359
00:20:58,396 --> 00:21:02,095
Don't speak about
Steve Jobs' products in vain!
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00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,081
You're making me very angry!
361
00:21:05,411 --> 00:21:08,606
Although competitive systems
produce good things,
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such as human beings
and diet cola,
363
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we also wind up with things
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such as wooly mammoths
and guided missles.
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It's a horribly inefficient way
of producing things people need.
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Most energy in
a competitive system
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is spent not in
producing a product,
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but in staying competititve.
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In evolution,
this waste manifests
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in a less-than-desireable cycle
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of predator-prey adaptation-escalation,
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where more energy is spent surviving,
than enjoying life.
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In capitalism,
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it results in the
same sort of relationship,
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except between those with capital value
and those without.
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People who don't have
capital value
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are trapped working
for those who do.
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And their energy is directed towards
keeping their team...
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competitive.
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I'm a team player.
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In our competitive system,
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most of our energy uses
are redundant and wasteful.
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Redundancy is the result of
the wasted overhead
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when multiple people are working
on the same problem on different teams.
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Team Coke™ and team Pepsi™
are both working on the cola problem.
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But each spends
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huge amounts of resources
battling the other.
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Even within a supposedly
cooperative society,
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most businesses exist in order
to support other buisnesses.
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How much would the production of
our essential goods decrease
391
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if we laid-off our accountants
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and all the people
who supply computers to them
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and all the people who print
brochures for the computer salesmen
394
00:22:54,695 --> 00:22:58,361
and the people who produce the ink
for those brochures
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00:22:58,627 --> 00:23:00,909
and the people
who make packaged food
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00:23:01,076 --> 00:23:04,167
for the truckers who drive
those materials around?
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00:23:04,581 --> 00:23:07,764
We have seen a ballooning of
what David Graeber calls:
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00:23:07,893 --> 00:23:09,153
"bullshit jobs."
399
00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:13,580
Bullshit jobs?
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00:23:13,694 --> 00:23:17,253
Services, like financial stuff
or telemarketing.
401
00:23:17,541 --> 00:23:22,492
Even ancillary industries like
dog washers and all-night pizza delivery
402
00:23:22,543 --> 00:23:25,234
exist only because everyone else
403
00:23:25,409 --> 00:23:29,911
is spending so much of their time
working in all the other ones.
404
00:23:30,572 --> 00:23:34,799
In Pong, the fact that your opponent
keeps hitting the ball at you
405
00:23:34,953 --> 00:23:38,659
means you must spend your resources
defending your goal,
406
00:23:38,825 --> 00:23:42,151
instead of using your time for
more noble endeavors.
407
00:23:42,733 --> 00:23:45,008
That sounds like propaganda.
408
00:23:45,137 --> 00:23:46,260
Boring!
409
00:23:47,071 --> 00:23:49,005
Can we watch
a blood film instead?
410
00:24:04,191 --> 00:24:05,846
Boring!
411
00:24:06,163 --> 00:24:08,217
Can we listen to
propaganda again?
412
00:24:08,366 --> 00:24:11,966
Evolution and capitalism
have brought us to the point
413
00:24:12,073 --> 00:24:16,816
where it's possible to propel ourselves
out of our current state of affairs.
414
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,810
Things that used to be
competitive games,
415
00:24:19,978 --> 00:24:24,260
should now be cooperative ones,
or not games at all.
416
00:24:24,912 --> 00:24:27,618
We have the
compuitational power needed
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00:24:27,661 --> 00:24:32,670
to ensure basic goods are produced
and distributed optimally.
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00:24:33,256 --> 00:24:36,384
We can wisely respond
to global crisis.
419
00:24:36,697 --> 00:24:38,784
By breaking market dependency,
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00:24:39,151 --> 00:24:42,487
we could create an economy
of complexity,
421
00:24:42,663 --> 00:24:44,036
unpredictability
422
00:24:44,206 --> 00:24:45,919
and genuine freedom
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00:24:46,032 --> 00:24:47,953
that capitalism has enabled
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00:24:48,235 --> 00:24:50,069
but also constrained.
425
00:24:50,346 --> 00:24:51,645
In the new world,
426
00:24:51,727 --> 00:24:53,315
we'll be able to relax
427
00:24:53,416 --> 00:24:55,276
and let technology do the job.
428
00:24:55,903 --> 00:24:57,426
Try it !
429
00:24:58,169 --> 00:25:00,150
I control the ball
430
00:25:00,323 --> 00:25:02,314
and it doesn't let me lose.
431
00:25:05,181 --> 00:25:06,181
Awesome!
432
00:25:07,989 --> 00:25:11,223
The Pong ball will
never fall off the table again.
433
00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:27,463
A fresh idea isn't it?
So neat, so different, so countercultural.
434
00:25:28,830 --> 00:25:30,491
It's the early 19th century.
435
00:25:30,860 --> 00:25:34,931
The Catholic township of Oberstetten,
in Württemberg, now a part of Germany,
436
00:25:34,988 --> 00:25:37,584
announces to the neighboring commune
of Bernloch,
437
00:25:37,587 --> 00:25:39,319
that the cows of Bernloch will
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00:25:39,378 --> 00:25:42,405
no longer be mounted by
the bull of Uberstetsin.
439
00:25:42,472 --> 00:25:45,108
Bernloch had voted to
become Protestant.
440
00:25:45,416 --> 00:25:47,216
Some creative contermporaries,
441
00:25:47,255 --> 00:25:50,066
hmm, well, they write a song
about the case:
442
00:27:18,509 --> 00:27:21,885
Hello, I would like to
exchange fifty euros to dollars.
443
00:27:21,966 --> 00:27:24,495
Okay,
Here's your receipt.
444
00:27:24,847 --> 00:27:25,847
Dollars.
445
00:27:26,068 --> 00:27:29,693
Thank you very much.
And now, I would like to exchange these
446
00:27:29,804 --> 00:27:30,845
to euros.
447
00:27:30,904 --> 00:27:32,233
We can cancel that.
448
00:27:32,264 --> 00:27:33,174
No.
449
00:27:33,176 --> 00:27:34,926
But you'll take a loss on that.
450
00:27:35,102 --> 00:27:37,171
Well, that's the nature of things.
451
00:27:37,779 --> 00:27:39,938
Forty-four euros.
There you are.
452
00:27:40,236 --> 00:27:41,534
Ah, the leftovers.
453
00:27:41,988 --> 00:27:44,522
So, this is your
thirty-five dollars.
454
00:27:44,661 --> 00:27:47,861
Fine, I'll have these
exchanged to euros, then.
455
00:27:48,003 --> 00:27:49,076
Uh-ha.
456
00:27:49,243 --> 00:27:52,023
So, there's the thirty-one,
thirty-five for you.
457
00:27:52,128 --> 00:27:54,195
I'll exchange them for dollars.
458
00:27:54,797 --> 00:27:58,013
Have you got some change left?
I need eighty-seven cents.
459
00:27:58,157 --> 00:27:59,157
Okay.
460
00:27:59,367 --> 00:28:01,167
Okay, you get twenty-seven.
461
00:28:01,374 --> 00:28:03,783
Well, can you exchange them
for euros then?
462
00:28:03,905 --> 00:28:05,728
Twenty-three euros, fifty-nine.
463
00:28:05,948 --> 00:28:07,015
Fine by me.
464
00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:10,155
Alright, let's exchange that
for dollars.
465
00:28:10,255 --> 00:28:11,455
What will that be?
466
00:28:11,525 --> 00:28:13,259
I need twenty-three, fifty.
467
00:28:13,513 --> 00:28:15,380
That was nineteen... okay.
468
00:28:15,619 --> 00:28:17,621
Can I get euros for this, please?
469
00:28:18,034 --> 00:28:20,101
And I'll have dollars for that.
470
00:28:20,201 --> 00:28:21,698
Eleven dollars.
471
00:28:21,717 --> 00:28:23,928
I see, fine.
In euros, please.
472
00:28:24,025 --> 00:28:26,012
Thanks.
- Let's have a look.
473
00:28:26,106 --> 00:28:28,249
I'd like these
exchanged to dollars.
474
00:28:28,561 --> 00:28:30,303
We'll be done in no time now.
475
00:28:30,373 --> 00:28:32,897
I'll have these four,
exchange them please.
476
00:28:33,050 --> 00:28:35,081
Forty cents.
You can't change this?
477
00:28:35,168 --> 00:28:37,901
No.
- Okay, I will bid you thanks, then.
478
00:28:37,972 --> 00:28:39,101
You're welcome.
479
00:28:45,572 --> 00:28:48,660
The worldwide amount of cash,
in coins and banknotes,
480
00:28:48,662 --> 00:28:50,582
is twenty trillion euros.
481
00:28:51,031 --> 00:28:52,547
So, imagine
482
00:28:52,731 --> 00:28:53,950
to change that amount
483
00:28:54,143 --> 00:28:57,895
from euros to dollars to euros to dollars,
back and forth, back and forth,
484
00:28:58,281 --> 00:29:03,111
how many times would it take for fees
to eat up all that cash?
485
00:29:04,268 --> 00:29:05,686
Well, guess.
486
00:29:07,706 --> 00:29:09,098
Here is the formula.
487
00:29:10,832 --> 00:29:13,407
We put it into an Excel™ sheet.
488
00:29:13,593 --> 00:29:16,594
And the answer is,
eight hundred, forty-nine times.
489
00:29:16,802 --> 00:29:18,601
Eighteen cents remain.
490
00:29:19,006 --> 00:29:22,551
And two cents get eaten
by Microsoft® Excel™ rounding errors.
491
00:29:22,883 --> 00:29:24,978
But Microsoft® always
gets its fair share.
492
00:29:25,675 --> 00:29:26,752
I need a break.
493
00:29:27,565 --> 00:29:32,125
I don't know why I keep returning
to coffee shops, I don't even like coffee.
494
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:33,492
I'm a bad Austrian.
495
00:29:33,776 --> 00:29:36,439
Well, at least this one is
a hipster-free zone.
496
00:29:37,307 --> 00:29:38,507
Waiter!
497
00:29:39,202 --> 00:29:41,650
Hello,
Herr Walter,
498
00:29:41,787 --> 00:29:44,476
I'd like one scandal, please.
499
00:29:44,558 --> 00:29:46,825
Certainly, Frau Schlammpeitzinger.
500
00:29:46,847 --> 00:29:48,968
We have a prescription drug scandal.
501
00:29:49,172 --> 00:29:50,654
A healthcare scandal.
502
00:29:50,728 --> 00:29:52,676
Or, a corruption scandal.
503
00:29:52,781 --> 00:29:54,562
Each topped with whipped cream.
504
00:29:54,660 --> 00:29:56,804
No other scandal?
505
00:29:56,870 --> 00:29:57,852
No, ma'am.
506
00:29:57,877 --> 00:30:03,610
Oh! What a disappointment!
How I would love an art scandal!
507
00:30:03,667 --> 00:30:05,462
That might be a little difficult, madam,
508
00:30:05,745 --> 00:30:07,260
We no loger live in the sixties.
509
00:30:07,435 --> 00:30:09,978
Oh please!
Just a couple of years ago,
510
00:30:10,026 --> 00:30:11,644
there was one in Salzburg,
511
00:30:11,675 --> 00:30:15,459
the one with the
plasticine penies on that horse.
512
00:30:15,578 --> 00:30:18,224
And what about Sárkány ??
513
00:30:18,337 --> 00:30:21,549
And that is what madam would
consider a proper art scandal? Please!
514
00:30:21,672 --> 00:30:23,176
If madam would allow me a remark,
515
00:30:23,266 --> 00:30:25,592
the longevity of such a scandal
is negligible,
516
00:30:25,650 --> 00:30:27,450
on a par with the music of a tweeter.
517
00:30:27,577 --> 00:30:30,871
We'll catch hell from the health department
if we serve you something like that.
518
00:30:31,022 --> 00:30:32,921
A poor excuse for an art scandal.
519
00:30:32,990 --> 00:30:34,207
C'mon!
520
00:30:34,461 --> 00:30:37,151
This may be the last time I'm in Vienna
521
00:30:37,178 --> 00:30:39,291
and I want my art scandal!
522
00:30:39,374 --> 00:30:42,306
Like old times, 1968,
523
00:30:42,357 --> 00:30:44,219
une flèchele, you know ??
524
00:30:44,309 --> 00:30:49,054
When the Viennese actionists
shit on a desk at the university.
525
00:30:49,150 --> 00:30:51,211
Something risky!
526
00:30:51,469 --> 00:30:52,802
I'm an elderly woman,
527
00:30:52,947 --> 00:30:56,989
and I'm used to a certain level
of artistic extravagance.
528
00:30:57,071 --> 00:30:58,195
I see. I see.
529
00:30:58,556 --> 00:31:00,410
However, if that is what you are after,
530
00:31:00,412 --> 00:31:03,031
you'd have to live
in a disciplinary society,
531
00:31:03,197 --> 00:31:05,707
and you're in
the wrong place for that.
532
00:31:05,833 --> 00:31:07,797
Oh, would you kindly explain?
533
00:31:07,858 --> 00:31:12,107
The last philosopher I read
was Habermas, in 1975.
534
00:31:12,477 --> 00:31:14,026
Let's explain discipline.
535
00:31:14,194 --> 00:31:16,104
In the course of a lifetime,
an individual
536
00:31:16,106 --> 00:31:19,085
switches from one closed framework
of confinement to another.
537
00:31:19,397 --> 00:31:22,253
Where each one operates according
to its own laws.
538
00:31:22,335 --> 00:31:24,951
From a family, to a school,
then to a university,
539
00:31:24,953 --> 00:31:27,001
or factory, or the military,
540
00:31:27,231 --> 00:31:28,524
from time to time to the hospital
541
00:31:28,526 --> 00:31:31,632
and eventually, to the
quintessential framework of confinement,
542
00:31:31,699 --> 00:31:32,699
the prison.
543
00:31:32,835 --> 00:31:34,722
The function is always clear.
544
00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:36,643
Discipline and punishment.
545
00:31:36,991 --> 00:31:39,535
And, and how does one
go about escaping?
546
00:31:39,578 --> 00:31:41,978
I can imagine
it must be difficult.
547
00:31:42,141 --> 00:31:44,606
It's indeed difficult, as you say,
but not impossible.
548
00:31:44,805 --> 00:31:47,630
Discipline and punishment
are certainly effective,
549
00:31:47,813 --> 00:31:50,157
yet at least it will produce
an inner resistance
550
00:31:50,182 --> 00:31:52,583
as well as the possibility
to avoid either.
551
00:31:53,065 --> 00:31:55,182
It's hard to monitor in absolute terms.
552
00:31:55,271 --> 00:31:56,824
And there are always ways of avoiding,
553
00:31:56,849 --> 00:32:00,650
if not hacking and ridiculing these
mechanisms of control.
554
00:32:00,812 --> 00:32:02,412
Let's take work as an example.
555
00:32:02,613 --> 00:32:03,651
You hate your boss,
556
00:32:03,654 --> 00:32:06,145
he commands you all the time,
he doesn't pay you enough,
557
00:32:06,262 --> 00:32:10,700
so you look for loopholes and niches,
like long trips to the toilet,
558
00:32:10,780 --> 00:32:13,692
theft of work materials,
misuse of hard and software,
559
00:32:13,694 --> 00:32:16,841
sick leave, pretending to look busy,
playing dumb.
560
00:32:16,895 --> 00:32:18,800
I want my art scandal!
561
00:32:18,921 --> 00:32:20,959
Forgive me madam,
you don't seem to understand.
562
00:32:21,151 --> 00:32:24,254
We are not really living in
a disciplinary society anymore
563
00:32:24,407 --> 00:32:26,810
and the world is changing into
a control society.
564
00:32:27,165 --> 00:32:30,979
For example, surveillance cameras
now have stickers on them that read:
565
00:32:31,076 --> 00:32:32,984
"Smile! You are on camera!"
566
00:32:33,031 --> 00:32:34,899
It's friendly and abrasive!
567
00:32:35,231 --> 00:32:39,732
Or, Google® created a free
alternate reality game called Ingress™.
568
00:32:39,842 --> 00:32:42,548
It is played and loved by
millions of people.
569
00:32:42,786 --> 00:32:45,738
The players don't realize that they
are actually entering
570
00:32:45,740 --> 00:32:48,683
geographical information
that could be used as themselves.
571
00:32:48,796 --> 00:32:52,925
Google® turned expensive,
labor intensve data entry into a game.
572
00:32:53,077 --> 00:32:55,904
And now people work for them free,
without even knowing it.
573
00:32:56,301 --> 00:32:58,781
One of the best examples
is my old religious studies book
574
00:32:58,842 --> 00:33:00,049
from the 1980s.
575
00:33:00,090 --> 00:33:03,357
It propagated a
responsible treatment of sexuality,
576
00:33:03,556 --> 00:33:05,659
instead of the age-old catechistic way.
577
00:33:05,857 --> 00:33:08,210
Masturbation was suddenly okay.
578
00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:11,308
But you had to do it in a responsible way.
[Easy Living Catholic Religion]
579
00:33:11,458 --> 00:33:13,163
Madam, I hope you can understand
580
00:33:13,198 --> 00:33:16,420
that it is impossible to maintain
a responsible erection.
581
00:33:16,566 --> 00:33:20,145
It was all a perfidious trick
to internalize control.
582
00:33:20,351 --> 00:33:24,554
Smelling? Playing?
"Mestur-bating?"
583
00:33:24,694 --> 00:33:26,898
The moment a person
internalizes the control,
584
00:33:27,104 --> 00:33:31,349
making it an integral part of their
psychological make-up and their thinking,
585
00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:33,139
it becomes absolute.
586
00:33:33,507 --> 00:33:35,904
There is no longer anything external
to that component.
587
00:33:35,947 --> 00:33:37,968
You don't have to be told
to behave anymore,
588
00:33:37,970 --> 00:33:39,051
you want to behave.
589
00:33:39,156 --> 00:33:41,130
Because you think it's
good for you.
590
00:33:41,281 --> 00:33:43,591
And it's very hard to
subvert yourself.
591
00:33:43,740 --> 00:33:46,852
This is especially perfidious for
your breadwinning chunk.
592
00:33:47,049 --> 00:33:49,316
Your boss is your friend nowadays,
593
00:33:49,318 --> 00:33:51,640
because it makes it easier
to exploit you.
594
00:33:51,693 --> 00:33:53,937
Workers, now called employees,
595
00:33:53,964 --> 00:33:57,228
begin to identify with the
corporate identity of the firm itself,
596
00:33:57,289 --> 00:34:00,582
resulting in a kind of
spiritual share in the company.
597
00:34:01,109 --> 00:34:03,649
Did you know that many corporations
now have their own anthems?
598
00:34:03,934 --> 00:34:07,973
Look, here's the one of Gazprom®
performed by Vladimir Tumayev.
599
00:35:00,069 --> 00:35:04,615
New liberal Russian drinking songs?
This is too much!
600
00:35:04,725 --> 00:35:06,859
I don't even like rum in my tea!
601
00:35:07,062 --> 00:35:10,528
My doctor tells me
I don't have much longer to live
602
00:35:10,636 --> 00:35:12,271
and just once more,
603
00:35:12,281 --> 00:35:16,791
I would love to experience a
genuine art scandal.
604
00:35:16,899 --> 00:35:18,555
Where there are distinct boundaries,
605
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,537
where there are established codes,
606
00:35:20,741 --> 00:35:23,907
that's where one can
effectively take action against them.
607
00:35:24,210 --> 00:35:27,174
Where there is a wall,
there's a hammer that fits.
608
00:35:27,236 --> 00:35:28,569
Cast your mind back,
609
00:35:28,594 --> 00:35:31,337
the police once arrested
members of the Viennese actualists
610
00:35:31,362 --> 00:35:33,320
for painting with blood,
or similar things.
611
00:35:33,393 --> 00:35:36,778
The outrage!
(Great word of the public.)
612
00:35:37,164 --> 00:35:39,697
Now, if you will
consider the context of the 1960s:
613
00:35:40,312 --> 00:35:43,106
A substantial Catholic society
living in Austria.
614
00:35:43,188 --> 00:35:46,181
Nowadays, if you want to put-on
a blood-painting performance,
615
00:35:46,260 --> 00:35:48,397
you would probably not even come-up
on the Facebook®
616
00:35:48,488 --> 00:35:50,355
in time enough for a Slovak toothist.
617
00:35:50,538 --> 00:35:53,354
But waiter,
that's still no excuse.
618
00:35:53,379 --> 00:35:57,205
If one looks for it,
one can find a boundary.
619
00:35:57,655 --> 00:35:59,483
There are always boundaries.
620
00:35:59,641 --> 00:36:02,907
Because, look, see,
if I were to grab a pretzel,
621
00:36:03,143 --> 00:36:06,610
and stick it in my rather old cunt,
for all to see...
622
00:36:07,057 --> 00:36:11,557
I think that's a case in which
one might call it a 'transgression.'
623
00:36:11,624 --> 00:36:13,555
Naturally, you could do that,
624
00:36:13,777 --> 00:36:17,256
but the boundaries that
you are transgressing, are arbitrary,
625
00:36:17,601 --> 00:36:21,852
and as far as Austria is concerned,
and I mean Austria as a social entity,
626
00:36:22,125 --> 00:36:23,814
I think it couldn't care less.
627
00:36:27,634 --> 00:36:29,558
I'm fainting!
628
00:36:29,750 --> 00:36:31,995
Calm down madam,
drink a glass of water.
629
00:36:32,137 --> 00:36:34,227
A scandal must involve an outrage
630
00:36:34,252 --> 00:36:36,933
in the sense of
a moral and passionate response.
631
00:36:37,035 --> 00:36:39,699
In a world of micro-societies
and niche capital,
632
00:36:39,758 --> 00:36:42,358
it is hard to hold a mirror to society.
633
00:36:42,553 --> 00:36:45,872
But waiter,
that would be horrible!
634
00:36:45,978 --> 00:36:47,131
Madam, you are right.
635
00:36:47,147 --> 00:36:48,260
But I refer you
636
00:36:48,299 --> 00:36:51,089
to an aural "F***"
interview with the German hip-hop maverick,
637
00:36:51,179 --> 00:36:52,223
Jan Delay.
638
00:36:52,274 --> 00:36:54,428
Where he says that
he wouldn't think twice
639
00:36:54,453 --> 00:36:56,205
about calling the Pope gay,
640
00:36:56,255 --> 00:36:57,906
but, mocking his land
641
00:36:57,988 --> 00:37:01,156
is something he would never do...
out of too much respect.
642
00:37:01,387 --> 00:37:02,514
What a coward!
643
00:37:02,768 --> 00:37:03,901
In other words,
644
00:37:03,905 --> 00:37:07,377
as long as people
have boundaries of respect,
645
00:37:07,706 --> 00:37:09,181
there will be scandals?
646
00:37:09,279 --> 00:37:10,279
Yes!
647
00:37:10,389 --> 00:37:11,554
More or less.
648
00:37:11,628 --> 00:37:13,316
But these boundaries of respect
649
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,604
are becoming
progressively smaller and smaller.
650
00:37:17,136 --> 00:37:18,919
Punk is dead.
651
00:37:19,156 --> 00:37:20,905
So what am I to do?
652
00:37:20,971 --> 00:37:24,954
Simply seek out a new
geographical focus for your life.
653
00:37:25,098 --> 00:37:28,298
You're saying,
I should leave beautiful Austria?
654
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:29,779
Don't get nostalgic.
655
00:37:29,876 --> 00:37:31,725
There would be no highway waves of
656
00:37:31,776 --> 00:37:34,725
the wonderful and disciplined
People's Republic of China.
657
00:37:35,166 --> 00:37:36,769
And Iran is also pretty.
658
00:37:36,845 --> 00:37:38,629
By all accounts,
the weather there is idyllic
659
00:37:38,631 --> 00:37:41,274
and everyday people are offed,
because of their...
660
00:37:41,278 --> 00:37:42,312
for example, their views...
661
00:37:42,315 --> 00:37:44,020
and their sexual orientation.
662
00:37:44,045 --> 00:37:45,057
Thank you!
663
00:37:45,061 --> 00:37:47,906
Then I think I'll give the menu
another glance.
664
00:37:48,099 --> 00:37:49,524
As madam wishes.
665
00:37:49,794 --> 00:37:51,963
Call me when you've selected
something to your liking.
666
00:37:52,524 --> 00:37:54,244
- Waiter!
- Yes madam?
667
00:37:54,286 --> 00:37:57,800
Could you at least give me
the recipe for a real art scandal?
668
00:37:57,824 --> 00:38:00,014
I'm just a nostalgic type of person.
669
00:38:00,111 --> 00:38:02,865
I'm sorry, but our old cook passed away
the year before last.
670
00:38:03,264 --> 00:38:05,703
However, I could bring you an event...
671
00:38:05,776 --> 00:38:08,703
...and some say,
you can't even taste the difference.
672
00:38:12,684 --> 00:38:15,308
Oh, it's a birth simulator!
673
00:38:15,441 --> 00:38:19,213
- I blame society for "sexnitis correa."
674
00:38:19,367 --> 00:38:20,779
In 1914,
675
00:38:20,916 --> 00:38:23,546
the German Reich declared war
against Russia and France,
676
00:38:23,732 --> 00:38:26,113
effectively starting
World War One.
677
00:38:26,450 --> 00:38:30,953
The elite wanted a German Reich from
Brittany to Saint Petersburg.
678
00:38:31,197 --> 00:38:33,471
A lot of walking for simple soldiers.
679
00:40:32,178 --> 00:40:34,151
How can this be the future?
680
00:40:34,585 --> 00:40:37,303
That's not what Blade Runner
promised me.
681
00:40:38,292 --> 00:40:40,340
Global communication is organized
682
00:40:40,342 --> 00:40:41,859
and institutionalized
683
00:40:41,862 --> 00:40:44,314
by interconnected machines
that we call...
684
00:40:45,964 --> 00:40:49,736
Satellite dishes, YouTube channels,
Snapchat and The Guardian,
685
00:40:49,739 --> 00:40:51,209
The Onion, Tender...
686
00:40:51,601 --> 00:40:53,110
...you get the point.
687
00:40:53,452 --> 00:40:56,747
I would emphasize the fiber optic cables
that traverse the whole globe,
688
00:40:56,777 --> 00:40:59,291
not only holding together
the current information economy,
689
00:40:59,366 --> 00:41:01,632
but scrambling
our system of nation states.
690
00:41:02,244 --> 00:41:04,049
Such a smart ass!
691
00:41:04,994 --> 00:41:06,545
Ahh...hh! Ouch!
692
00:41:07,093 --> 00:41:08,249
Bottom line,
693
00:41:08,332 --> 00:41:09,962
media is the strongest
694
00:41:09,989 --> 00:41:13,743
political, economic and heruristic
power in the modern world.
695
00:41:15,927 --> 00:41:18,197
I own some, you own some,
696
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,769
but most of it is owned by,
well... someone else.
697
00:41:22,292 --> 00:41:25,024
Recently, I asked my friend, David Fine,
698
00:41:25,026 --> 00:41:27,512
to do a research study
on his lunch-break.
699
00:41:27,855 --> 00:41:30,635
His result suggested that
thirty-five percent of the media
700
00:41:30,639 --> 00:41:32,677
is owned by Mark Zuckerberg.
701
00:41:32,868 --> 00:41:34,545
I first offered him twenty-five euros
702
00:41:34,547 --> 00:41:36,886
if he could find that
it's actually forty-five percent,
703
00:41:36,935 --> 00:41:38,803
but he said
nobody would believe that.
704
00:41:38,993 --> 00:41:41,874
We agreed on thirty-five percent
for twenty euros.
705
00:41:42,210 --> 00:41:44,906
David Fine completed his study
in under two minutes.
706
00:41:45,097 --> 00:41:46,981
Five stars.
Would buy again.
707
00:41:47,023 --> 00:41:49,939
You see, it's redundant to talk
about fake news,
708
00:41:49,941 --> 00:41:53,102
because news is, by definition, fake.
709
00:41:53,279 --> 00:41:54,703
Ask the constructivist.
710
00:41:54,770 --> 00:41:56,674
That's right!
711
00:41:57,034 --> 00:42:01,064
News is fake because it is
created and edited in a specific way,
712
00:42:01,154 --> 00:42:04,873
for a specific target group,
for a specific purpose.
713
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:08,319
The idea of freedom of the press
and journalistic objectivity
714
00:42:08,322 --> 00:42:10,352
is strange in a world
so obviously
715
00:42:10,377 --> 00:42:12,707
based on power relationships.
716
00:42:12,808 --> 00:42:15,035
Facts used to be a driving force
717
00:42:15,038 --> 00:42:16,864
and selling point of journalism,
718
00:42:16,964 --> 00:42:19,750
but, research is expensive
and market forces
719
00:42:19,793 --> 00:42:21,618
don't care if you sell something
720
00:42:21,645 --> 00:42:24,298
because it's researched well
or faked well.
721
00:42:24,514 --> 00:42:27,876
Free speech! Free speech!
Free speech!
722
00:42:28,163 --> 00:42:29,631
"Freeze peach"?
723
00:42:29,847 --> 00:42:33,117
Free speech! Free speech!
Free speech!
724
00:42:33,301 --> 00:42:35,239
Shut your piehole!
725
00:42:35,357 --> 00:42:37,232
Who or what
do people imagine
726
00:42:37,235 --> 00:42:39,519
delivers the right to free speech?
727
00:42:39,700 --> 00:42:41,024
The question should not be
728
00:42:41,026 --> 00:42:43,741
"do you believe in free speech?"
729
00:42:43,913 --> 00:42:45,420
The question should be:
730
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,337
Defending the free speech of Nazis
731
00:42:51,362 --> 00:42:54,127
doesn't guarantee
the free speech of anti-facists.
732
00:42:54,186 --> 00:42:56,905
The content of speech or
in your right to it,
733
00:42:57,016 --> 00:42:58,550
isn't what's important.
734
00:42:58,622 --> 00:43:01,784
The provision of labor, power
and social inclusion
735
00:43:01,786 --> 00:43:04,845
determines the
affordance anyone's speech is given.
736
00:43:04,958 --> 00:43:07,507
But that means we have to
uphold the ideal of free speech for all
737
00:43:07,509 --> 00:43:10,705
otherwise the bourgeois state enforces its
domination and have an excuse to--
738
00:43:10,708 --> 00:43:12,312
Smartass... again!
739
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:13,640
Ouch!
740
00:43:13,645 --> 00:43:15,586
Let's not act
as if we live in a world
741
00:43:15,587 --> 00:43:18,543
where everyone
has the same free speech.
742
00:43:18,711 --> 00:43:21,536
There was no freedom of speech
in Eastern Germany,
743
00:43:21,663 --> 00:43:23,637
yet there was very
active communication
744
00:43:23,639 --> 00:43:25,550
channels, pamphlets
and discussions,
745
00:43:25,677 --> 00:43:27,741
all beneath the radar of the state.
746
00:43:27,974 --> 00:43:30,148
The open media world
of liberal societies
747
00:43:30,150 --> 00:43:33,204
always encouraged
free-ish speech,
748
00:43:33,466 --> 00:43:35,999
but in a way of
calming-down dissent.
749
00:43:36,393 --> 00:43:38,914
But comedy functions as
an important--
750
00:43:39,138 --> 00:43:41,103
Ahh! God damn it!
751
00:43:41,474 --> 00:43:44,336
The oh, so wonderful heroes
of liberals,
752
00:43:46,671 --> 00:43:48,671
never really changed anything.
753
00:43:49,059 --> 00:43:51,917
Our naked emperor is still an emperor!
754
00:43:52,194 --> 00:43:55,500
Free speech! Free speech!
Free speech!
755
00:43:55,546 --> 00:43:59,108
We are a free society!
You can say whatever you want,
756
00:43:59,194 --> 00:44:02,524
whenever you want,
on all of the channels you want!
757
00:44:02,807 --> 00:44:04,088
Sure!
758
00:44:04,206 --> 00:44:07,425
But it's irrelevant... and we all know it.
759
00:44:07,510 --> 00:44:09,799
How can we find a way
to communicate
760
00:44:09,824 --> 00:44:11,701
when no one wants to listen?
761
00:44:20,636 --> 00:44:24,826
To attack normality and reality
would also mean to attack this structure,
762
00:44:24,877 --> 00:44:26,533
something folks have referred to as:
763
00:44:26,535 --> 00:44:29,381
the semiotics of reality, or
764
00:44:29,383 --> 00:44:30,956
social semantics.
765
00:44:31,123 --> 00:44:33,091
Have you heard about
the Bechdel test?
766
00:44:33,142 --> 00:44:34,399
No. What's that?
767
00:44:34,622 --> 00:44:36,155
It's a test for movies.
768
00:44:42,025 --> 00:44:43,158
Oh, I see.
769
00:44:43,287 --> 00:44:45,831
So this film passes the test now?
770
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,711
Yes. We are the token conversation.
771
00:44:48,863 --> 00:44:50,995
Oh, that's very nice then.
772
00:44:51,035 --> 00:44:52,655
It's important to analyze
773
00:44:52,683 --> 00:44:54,248
how something is represented
774
00:44:54,306 --> 00:44:55,878
and what is not represented,
775
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,255
or how it lacks representation.
776
00:44:58,485 --> 00:45:02,023
It is not Zuckerberg,
whose ass-holishness is not in dispute,
777
00:45:02,089 --> 00:45:03,271
we should attack.
778
00:45:03,392 --> 00:45:06,495
But, rather, the cultural grammar
of the public space.
779
00:45:06,702 --> 00:45:09,450
Power is formed
within such a grammar.
780
00:45:09,521 --> 00:45:13,625
Access and nonaccess to everything
is regulated in its realm.
781
00:45:13,793 --> 00:45:15,893
Meanings are negotiated there.
782
00:45:15,999 --> 00:45:18,569
Good and evil are determined.
783
00:45:18,713 --> 00:45:20,672
It is a common reflex for
people to think
784
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:21,957
they are helpless against
785
00:45:21,987 --> 00:45:24,596
almighty governments and corporate powers.
786
00:45:24,709 --> 00:45:28,496
But, power is more like an icky jellyfish,
than a solid brick wall.
787
00:45:29,041 --> 00:45:30,505
Play with it!
788
00:45:30,975 --> 00:45:32,686
Y--yes, madame!
789
00:45:32,900 --> 00:45:35,694
And that's how I like my pundits!
790
00:46:23,291 --> 00:46:25,926
We live...
in a paradoxical world.
791
00:46:26,286 --> 00:46:29,995
The largest phone providers own
no telco infrastructure.
792
00:46:30,292 --> 00:46:34,062
The most popular media
own or creates almost no content.
793
00:46:34,246 --> 00:46:37,995
The world's largest media house
owns no cinemas.
794
00:46:38,094 --> 00:46:41,491
The world's largest software vendors
create no apps.
795
00:46:41,588 --> 00:46:43,615
And so on... .
796
00:46:43,807 --> 00:46:46,158
What is this sorcery?
797
00:46:46,445 --> 00:46:50,859
Yet, we obviously live
in a highly material world.
798
00:46:51,284 --> 00:46:53,269
Our freedom
of yada-yada-yada
799
00:46:53,312 --> 00:46:55,197
seems a bit sketchy, when you consider
800
00:46:55,199 --> 00:46:58,103
that all our lovely
Pepe the Frog fan-blogs
801
00:46:58,247 --> 00:47:00,078
and anachro-syndicalist forums
802
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:01,735
would be gone in a heartbeat,
803
00:47:01,926 --> 00:47:04,768
if just one company
decides to shut-down their
804
00:47:04,770 --> 00:47:08,965
♪ itsy bitsy teenie weenie
yellow polka-deepsea cable. ♪
805
00:47:09,150 --> 00:47:13,428
Or, imagine if our home country wants
to pull an Egypt or a Turkey on us.
806
00:47:13,661 --> 00:47:18,559
I know now why you cry,
but it's something I can never do.
807
00:47:19,132 --> 00:47:20,312
Prost!
808
00:47:21,043 --> 00:47:23,951
There is no
freedom of information until...
809
00:47:24,307 --> 00:47:26,257
let's put it in simple terms,
810
00:47:26,662 --> 00:47:29,718
you can download your hardware.
811
00:47:30,015 --> 00:47:31,192
Not gonna happen,
812
00:47:31,436 --> 00:47:35,103
even the wonderful D.I.Y. revolution
can't change that.
813
00:47:35,193 --> 00:47:38,682
All our happy gadgets and
our Adrenos® and our Linux notebooks
814
00:47:38,725 --> 00:47:42,709
are made from the same raw materials
as the corporate hardware...
815
00:47:42,937 --> 00:47:47,015
mined under horrific conditions
by twenty-first century slaves,
816
00:47:47,176 --> 00:47:50,173
assembled by folks with a similar fate.
817
00:47:50,521 --> 00:47:52,167
Here's a crazy,
818
00:47:52,169 --> 00:47:55,164
yet strangely compelling
piece of music,
819
00:47:55,361 --> 00:47:59,988
first presented at the German
Evangelical Church Assembly in 1975.
820
00:48:00,220 --> 00:48:02,620
A mixture of Christian Revival attitude
821
00:48:02,625 --> 00:48:04,793
and left-leaning agitprop.
822
00:48:05,125 --> 00:48:07,367
Quite something, isn't it Pontius?
823
00:50:03,067 --> 00:50:06,593
I'm useless as an artist.
824
00:50:06,599 --> 00:50:10,333
There's nothing left to do!
825
00:50:10,572 --> 00:50:11,572
Oh...
826
00:50:11,864 --> 00:50:16,231
A video filter that makes videos
look like they're really old.
827
00:50:16,613 --> 00:50:19,581
This changes everything!
828
00:50:55,922 --> 00:50:57,048
Hey!
829
00:50:57,448 --> 00:50:58,538
You!
830
00:50:59,243 --> 00:51:00,861
Yeah, you!
831
00:51:02,145 --> 00:51:05,173
What?
Is someone there, you're asking.
832
00:51:05,427 --> 00:51:06,980
Is someone watching you?
833
00:51:07,054 --> 00:51:08,321
Of course there is!
834
00:51:09,244 --> 00:51:10,541
But don't be scared.
835
00:51:10,616 --> 00:51:14,243
You are my big brother.
The modern subject.
836
00:51:14,844 --> 00:51:15,828
I know.
837
00:51:15,830 --> 00:51:18,462
You haven't known me personally
since our parents
838
00:51:18,487 --> 00:51:21,211
Father Honor, and Mother Concern,
839
00:51:21,396 --> 00:51:24,915
sent you away to the
Boarding School of Bourgeois Privacy
840
00:51:24,917 --> 00:51:26,006
when you were young.
841
00:51:26,092 --> 00:51:28,815
But those years of your life are over.
842
00:51:29,050 --> 00:51:32,984
I'm here to pick you up
and guide you into a new tomorrow.
843
00:51:33,366 --> 00:51:34,833
Let me give you a hug!
844
00:51:35,814 --> 00:51:36,814
No.
845
00:51:36,966 --> 00:51:39,362
You miss Bourgeois Privacy?
846
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:42,489
Oh, my... my...
847
00:51:42,510 --> 00:51:44,370
Hey, don't cry.
848
00:51:44,916 --> 00:51:47,009
You say your liberty was
protected in there.
849
00:51:47,435 --> 00:51:48,579
You felt safe
850
00:51:48,581 --> 00:51:51,448
having a personal space
that felt hidden
851
00:51:51,508 --> 00:51:56,505
from outside
curiosities, views and disapproval.
852
00:51:57,088 --> 00:51:59,675
You don't understand, big brother.
853
00:51:59,941 --> 00:52:02,304
The privacy you've had so far,
854
00:52:02,441 --> 00:52:05,088
is a historical contingency...
855
00:52:05,254 --> 00:52:07,019
not a universal fact.
856
00:52:07,516 --> 00:52:09,881
You can't stay in school for ever.
857
00:52:10,043 --> 00:52:13,744
It's a stage in the life of
a subject, like you.
858
00:52:14,152 --> 00:52:18,501
See, privacy as we think of it,
is only three hundred years old.
859
00:52:18,576 --> 00:52:24,247
It doesn't exist in its precise
western bourgeois form in eastern cultures,
860
00:52:24,325 --> 00:52:27,826
but, as common goods
came to be held in fewer hands,
861
00:52:27,916 --> 00:52:30,491
creating separate
private and public spheres,
862
00:52:30,616 --> 00:52:35,819
an ever more tightly defined family
protected itself and its wealth
863
00:52:35,952 --> 00:52:39,560
against the street,
against the remaining population.
864
00:52:49,509 --> 00:52:50,590
The bourgeoisie
865
00:52:50,610 --> 00:52:55,037
often defined its moral superiority
over the masses of workers
866
00:52:55,371 --> 00:52:58,392
through the latter's lack of
proper privacy.
867
00:52:58,550 --> 00:53:02,278
Although, the workers simply
couldn't afford adequate living conditions.
868
00:53:02,563 --> 00:53:05,675
Heinrich Heine wrote
this lovely revolutionary ditty,
869
00:53:05,747 --> 00:53:08,836
just a couple of weeks
after the uprising of the weavers
870
00:53:08,929 --> 00:53:12,694
of Langenbielau and Peterswaldau
in Silesia, in 1844:
871
00:56:26,778 --> 00:56:29,934
They were weaving and weaving ♪
872
00:56:30,001 --> 00:56:32,020
and their bosses had money, ♪
873
00:56:32,079 --> 00:56:33,810
spare time, and... ♪
874
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:35,773
privacy. ♪
875
00:56:35,958 --> 00:56:38,736
But privacy was
already being undermined.
876
00:56:38,898 --> 00:56:42,214
The technological advances toward the
end of the nineteenth century,
877
00:56:42,216 --> 00:56:45,199
were discussed just as much
as today's are.
878
00:56:45,469 --> 00:56:49,821
The telephone was dangerous
for opening the home's safe space
879
00:56:49,823 --> 00:56:51,723
to far away ears.
880
00:56:51,834 --> 00:56:53,060
X-rays were
881
00:56:53,168 --> 00:56:57,302
'a weapon to peek beyond walls
into the most private quarters.'
882
00:56:57,760 --> 00:56:58,760
Hahh...
883
00:56:58,879 --> 00:57:01,079
Calls for strong laws
to protect privacy
884
00:57:01,090 --> 00:57:04,038
against such threats
emerged, most famously
885
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,324
in the 1890 essay:
886
00:57:06,376 --> 00:57:07,990
"The Right to Privacy"
887
00:57:08,090 --> 00:57:12,051
which is still prevalent
in privacy legislation debates.
888
00:57:12,501 --> 00:57:16,835
The problems were not limited to
the intrusions into individual's lives.
889
00:57:17,087 --> 00:57:19,939
Disrespect the line beween
public and private,
890
00:57:20,094 --> 00:57:22,291
and you set poor moral examples
891
00:57:22,343 --> 00:57:25,299
and degenerate proper public discourse.
892
00:57:25,399 --> 00:57:27,681
For example,
the authors warned against
893
00:57:27,732 --> 00:57:30,153
newspaper stories leading to
894
00:57:30,156 --> 00:57:33,741
improper public discussions
of private matters.
895
00:57:33,952 --> 00:57:36,236
Such stories can matter to the demos
896
00:57:36,263 --> 00:57:39,780
and become a matter of politics.
897
00:57:39,847 --> 00:57:40,747
Hmm...
898
00:57:40,794 --> 00:57:42,044
In the twentieth century,
899
00:57:42,227 --> 00:57:43,227
liberal democracies
900
00:57:43,282 --> 00:57:47,837
promoted privacy as a liberal counter
against populist doctrines,
901
00:57:48,019 --> 00:57:50,203
be they communist or fascist.
902
00:57:50,300 --> 00:57:52,113
This period was also
903
00:57:52,242 --> 00:57:55,449
when the welfare capitalism of
liberal democracies,
904
00:57:55,489 --> 00:57:59,249
through their surpluses
from colonialism or imperialism,
905
00:57:59,299 --> 00:58:02,747
raised the living standards
of most of their populace.
906
00:58:02,874 --> 00:58:06,333
The so called 'middle class'
had privacy too,
907
00:58:06,358 --> 00:58:10,405
but, these very economic conditions
enabled marginalized parts of
908
00:58:10,463 --> 00:58:15,060
bourgeois society to think
about the good and the bad of privacy.
909
00:58:15,226 --> 00:58:18,830
Feminist activists used drastic
publicity tactics
910
00:58:18,912 --> 00:58:20,726
to start discussions of issues
911
00:58:20,878 --> 00:58:23,197
formerly hidden by privacy and taboo.
912
00:58:23,263 --> 00:58:25,472
For example,
in France and Germany,
913
00:58:25,562 --> 00:58:27,638
they started public mass confessions
914
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:31,945
involving prominent women stating:
'we had abortions.'
915
00:58:32,107 --> 00:58:35,494
Similar tacts were used by
homosexual activists.
916
00:58:36,051 --> 00:58:37,231
Oh. Eh...
917
00:58:37,622 --> 00:58:38,978
I got carried away.
918
00:58:39,583 --> 00:58:40,783
What did you say, big brother?
919
00:58:40,867 --> 00:58:45,068
Oh, eh, it's not all bad...
especially for marginalized groups.
920
00:58:45,096 --> 00:58:49,730
It is useful to have space
free from authoritarian eyes.
921
00:58:50,010 --> 00:58:51,981
But privacy is under attack.
922
00:58:52,075 --> 00:58:54,403
This time, the troubles
might be terminal,
923
00:58:54,589 --> 00:58:58,353
along with probably so many other troubles
of bourgeois political economy.
924
00:58:58,897 --> 00:59:01,714
Dear big brother,
put in your earbuds.
925
00:59:02,369 --> 00:59:05,164
Here is an interesting song
from the 1970s,
926
00:59:05,258 --> 00:59:09,179
It's called Die Nummer,
by: Info Music Bamberg.
927
00:59:09,348 --> 00:59:13,760
This song is a great example of
middle class angst at the
928
00:59:13,963 --> 00:59:17,504
♪ dawning of the age of computer-is ♪
929
00:59:18,569 --> 00:59:20,347
Sorry, just listen to the song:
930
01:00:04,477 --> 01:00:08,641
Our lives are being rewired to form
one global infrastructure,
931
01:00:08,650 --> 01:00:11,643
that works on the basis of
our information.
932
01:00:27,094 --> 01:00:30,547
Privacy is not under attack by
some evil outside forces,
933
01:00:30,621 --> 01:00:33,954
it's under attack
by our own collective behavior.
934
01:00:34,088 --> 01:00:37,795
These trends could be stopped
only by massive efforts.
935
01:00:38,166 --> 01:00:40,147
People wouldn't be able
to share stuff online.
936
01:00:40,163 --> 01:00:44,426
Mongolian barbecue is neither
Mongolian nor barbecue.
937
01:00:44,903 --> 01:00:48,310
We would have to get rid
of the internet as we know it.
938
01:00:48,671 --> 01:00:50,863
But you don't want to do that.
Right?
939
01:00:51,370 --> 01:00:53,116
You'd make the right choice,
940
01:00:53,351 --> 01:00:54,576
wouldn't you, big brother?
941
01:00:54,783 --> 01:00:57,183
You wouldn't sacrifice
memes and...
942
01:00:57,871 --> 01:00:58,871
porn
943
01:00:58,999 --> 01:01:00,849
for bourgeois privacy?
944
01:01:01,141 --> 01:01:02,313
Right?
945
01:01:03,327 --> 01:01:05,057
Our information is out there.
946
01:01:05,377 --> 01:01:06,644
It's not by choice.
947
01:01:07,043 --> 01:01:09,305
It's a necessary entanglement
948
01:01:09,395 --> 01:01:12,841
and it's adding up to
something big and beautiful...
949
01:01:13,342 --> 01:01:15,721
presupposing we take the right actions.
950
01:01:16,021 --> 01:01:20,920
If nice things are being made on the basis
of mass data collection and utilization,
951
01:01:21,070 --> 01:01:22,599
you should have those things.
952
01:01:22,849 --> 01:01:24,313
The problem isn't data.
953
01:01:24,421 --> 01:01:29,133
It's the power relations
that lie behind the data and its use.
954
01:01:29,446 --> 01:01:34,829
Our liberty depends on factors
other than the secrecy of our actions.
955
01:01:35,128 --> 01:01:38,554
You wouldn't hide your weed
from Father Honor and Mother Concern
956
01:01:38,556 --> 01:01:41,864
if they didn't still have
some power over you, right?
957
01:01:42,212 --> 01:01:46,595
Institutions might be forced
into greater efficiency and honesty
958
01:01:46,705 --> 01:01:48,923
if all corruption were to leak out.
959
01:01:49,115 --> 01:01:51,387
Actually, this process is already starting.
960
01:01:51,524 --> 01:01:53,722
Think of WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden.
961
01:01:53,747 --> 01:01:55,647
There's a cool game,
it's called:
962
01:01:55,702 --> 01:01:59,134
'don't think about Julian Assange
molesting a chicken.'
963
01:01:59,276 --> 01:02:00,414
You lost.
964
01:02:00,504 --> 01:02:02,588
I got the weirdest boner.
965
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:05,634
A democratization of surveillance
966
01:02:05,716 --> 01:02:08,157
would allow it to be
turned against the powerful.
967
01:02:08,507 --> 01:02:13,116
Post-privacy will be difficult, though,
if the playing field isn't level,
968
01:02:13,225 --> 01:02:16,887
if information is released,
but the same groups have the power.
969
01:02:17,242 --> 01:02:19,032
But if we hold the information,
970
01:02:19,153 --> 01:02:20,716
if we decide how it's used,
971
01:02:20,770 --> 01:02:23,684
given how important it is to
everything that happens today,
972
01:02:23,899 --> 01:02:26,902
we can settle historical
power imbalances.
973
01:02:27,159 --> 01:02:28,159
See,
974
01:02:28,280 --> 01:02:29,422
I'm not the state,
975
01:02:29,574 --> 01:02:33,374
or Wall Street, or
the servers of silicon valley.
976
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:35,255
I'm little brother.
977
01:02:35,861 --> 01:02:38,492
I own no means of production,
978
01:02:38,620 --> 01:02:41,662
except all of the information I have
about you and your friends.
979
01:02:41,806 --> 01:02:44,902
What we need today
is a network, a platform, or
980
01:02:45,028 --> 01:02:48,810
some equivalent institution
of little brothers, like me,
981
01:02:48,998 --> 01:02:51,720
who have no monopoly
over violence,
982
01:02:51,817 --> 01:02:54,349
power over your credit rating, or
983
01:02:54,583 --> 01:02:56,273
ownership of your debt.
984
01:02:56,361 --> 01:03:00,689
My sole power rests on having
all this data.
985
01:03:01,154 --> 01:03:03,287
But I'm not alienated
from you.
986
01:03:03,493 --> 01:03:04,845
I'm on your side.
987
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:09,511
So let's attack the forces
that make us fear for the loss of privacy
988
01:03:09,589 --> 01:03:10,848
at their roots.
989
01:03:10,954 --> 01:03:15,651
Because we have the core productive
force of the day in our hands,
990
01:03:15,874 --> 01:03:19,617
we can take these forces on...
together.
991
01:03:31,177 --> 01:03:34,086
I once met a
pansexual German paratrooper
992
01:03:34,088 --> 01:03:37,232
who thought Michael Haneke
is totally overrated.
993
01:03:37,353 --> 01:03:38,484
Clever fellow.
994
01:03:38,598 --> 01:03:42,064
He invited me to check out
Vienna's Museum of Natural History.
995
01:03:42,275 --> 01:03:45,168
I joined him and
he told me an interesting story.
996
01:03:45,500 --> 01:03:46,987
In 1952,
997
01:03:47,046 --> 01:03:49,415
Austrian big game hunter in Africa,
998
01:03:49,512 --> 01:03:50,921
researcher,
999
01:03:51,015 --> 01:03:52,437
Ernst Zwillinge,
1000
01:03:52,543 --> 01:03:55,494
colonial revisionist,
a member of the Nazi party;
1001
01:03:55,615 --> 01:03:58,824
brought a male chimpanzee
from Cameroon to Schonbrunn,
1002
01:03:58,890 --> 01:04:00,290
the Viennese zoo.
1003
01:04:00,385 --> 01:04:03,448
In his African home, Honzo
had reportedly been
1004
01:04:03,450 --> 01:04:05,240
a friendly and likable animal.
1005
01:04:05,277 --> 01:04:08,503
But in the zoo,
he began to show a violent temper.
1006
01:04:08,632 --> 01:04:10,632
Due to his choleric outbreaks,
1007
01:04:10,667 --> 01:04:13,967
poor Honzo was kept
in solitary confinement.
1008
01:04:14,053 --> 01:04:16,824
The chimpanzee was given
beer and cigarettes.
1009
01:04:17,054 --> 01:04:20,608
He got addicted, and died
an alcoholic and chain-smoker.
1010
01:04:21,056 --> 01:04:23,542
After his death,
the chimp was taxidermed
1011
01:04:23,628 --> 01:04:25,874
and put into the
Museum of Natural History.
1012
01:04:26,175 --> 01:04:29,303
Now people from all over the world
stare at him.
1013
01:04:29,722 --> 01:04:31,955
That's gotta be
an allegory for something.
1014
01:09:27,867 --> 01:09:30,461
"There is no such thing as men.
1015
01:09:30,597 --> 01:09:33,352
"I have seen Frenchmen, Italians,
1016
01:09:33,426 --> 01:09:34,662
"and Russians.
1017
01:09:34,853 --> 01:09:35,933
"As for men,
1018
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:39,321
I have never come across
him anywhere."
1019
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:47,655
Occupied by Occupy Bathroom.
1020
01:11:47,831 --> 01:11:49,069
Fuck!
1021
01:11:49,729 --> 01:11:51,667
Das 'Lied der Arbeit,'
1022
01:11:51,842 --> 01:11:53,149
the 'Song of Work,'
1023
01:11:53,153 --> 01:11:56,439
was first presented
to the world in 1868.
1024
01:11:56,712 --> 01:12:00,479
It is the official anthem
of Austrian Social Democracy.
1025
01:12:00,803 --> 01:12:05,325
♪ And I say to thee,
what the fuckity fuck? ♪
1026
01:12:05,443 --> 01:12:07,923
It's such a
horrendous fetishization of work.
1027
01:12:08,016 --> 01:12:10,833
I want to puke
and build a factory out of it.
1028
01:12:11,113 --> 01:12:16,150
Let's listen to an interpretation by
Mira Sophia Ulz, from 2009.
1029
01:12:16,396 --> 01:12:20,814
Mira won the Austrian Kiddie Contest,
a song contest for young singers.
1030
01:12:20,861 --> 01:12:24,889
And so the Social Democrats invited her
to celebrate with them.
1031
01:12:25,190 --> 01:12:26,990
Not sure she deserved that... .
1032
01:12:27,682 --> 01:12:31,290
I asked wobblersound
to create the proper remix.
1033
01:14:13,567 --> 01:14:14,567
Mmm.
1034
01:14:15,129 --> 01:14:17,594
Democracy. Mmm.
1035
01:14:18,245 --> 01:14:21,100
One ruling form
that rules them all.
1036
01:14:21,935 --> 01:14:24,527
The young adult novel
of governmental systems:
1037
01:14:24,747 --> 01:14:27,262
it does't work,
but, people still go with it.
1038
01:14:27,914 --> 01:14:30,877
Every couple of years
we vote for our representatives.
1039
01:14:31,001 --> 01:14:33,923
Yet, the rest of our lives
is very undemocratic.
1040
01:14:34,208 --> 01:14:35,813
Work life is no democracy,
1041
01:14:35,910 --> 01:14:37,510
sports are undemocratic,
1042
01:14:37,638 --> 01:14:39,108
art isn't democratic,
1043
01:14:39,329 --> 01:14:41,087
and, just as a nudge:
1044
01:14:41,231 --> 01:14:44,165
imagine NASA is planning
a mission to Mars.
1045
01:14:44,306 --> 01:14:47,957
Do you believe a democratic process
will determine who goes on that mission?
1046
01:14:48,149 --> 01:14:52,007
They won't waste billions of dollars
sending unqualified personnel.
1047
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:54,240
They will peer fuckin' review it.
1048
01:14:54,378 --> 01:14:55,291
The question is,
1049
01:14:55,294 --> 01:14:58,229
why do we use democracy
to run nations?
1050
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:00,760
The answer, you might imagine, is:
1051
01:15:00,957 --> 01:15:02,713
if you believe you have power,
1052
01:15:02,862 --> 01:15:04,846
you don't challenge power.
1053
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:08,245
Let's have a look at a specific
subgenre of democracy:
1054
01:15:11,601 --> 01:15:13,214
It is 1926.
1055
01:15:13,288 --> 01:15:15,647
Erich Mühsam dedicates
the lyrics of
1056
01:15:15,761 --> 01:15:16,971
the upcoming song
1057
01:15:17,044 --> 01:15:20,381
to the leading cadre of the
German Social Democratic movement,
1058
01:15:20,549 --> 01:15:23,388
because they're constantly
collaborating with police,
1059
01:15:23,458 --> 01:15:26,554
justice, military, and administration.
1060
01:15:26,811 --> 01:15:30,270
The Social Democrats were thus
supporting and perpetuating
1061
01:15:30,552 --> 01:15:33,355
the societal order
of the German Empire.
1062
01:15:33,858 --> 01:15:35,091
Enough said.
1063
01:17:04,289 --> 01:17:07,424
Maybe Social Democracy
learned from its failures.
1064
01:17:08,375 --> 01:17:13,290
Let's visit a meeting in the
nation of Sirkennethbranaghkhgkia,
1065
01:17:13,552 --> 01:17:16,575
the state that owes its name
to lack of creativity.
1066
01:17:16,852 --> 01:17:21,931
Anyways, the newly elected president,
Ödem von Horvath sits at his desk,
1067
01:17:22,159 --> 01:17:23,762
two advisors beside him...
1068
01:17:23,945 --> 01:17:26,545
Biological Male
and Biological Female.
1069
01:17:26,741 --> 01:17:27,741
Emmhh!
1070
01:17:27,968 --> 01:17:29,663
I sure hope the hot water
is working soon.
1071
01:17:29,726 --> 01:17:31,689
I'm sure it will be,
Mr. President.
1072
01:17:31,909 --> 01:17:34,507
Okay, so,
what's on the agenda?
1073
01:17:35,855 --> 01:17:38,235
We promised free healthcare,
1074
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:40,427
free education, wage increases,
1075
01:17:40,502 --> 01:17:42,162
two months paid vacation,
1076
01:17:42,212 --> 01:17:44,667
strong housing and
transportation programs
1077
01:17:44,725 --> 01:17:46,298
and more.
- Superb!
1078
01:17:46,375 --> 01:17:47,670
Shouldn't be a problem, right?
1079
01:17:47,728 --> 01:17:49,234
Just tax the rich!
1080
01:17:49,462 --> 01:17:52,495
- Well, to do that, we must first
have a robust economy,
1081
01:17:52,632 --> 01:17:53,911
with a thriving private sector
1082
01:17:53,914 --> 01:17:55,834
that enjoys production and
marketing advantages
1083
01:17:55,836 --> 01:17:57,540
over the economies of other nations.
1084
01:17:57,571 --> 01:17:58,995
Ah!
Is that so?
1085
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:00,886
- Let's model it out.
- Mmm.
1086
01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:09,286
♪ Halleluja ♪
1087
01:18:14,659 --> 01:18:16,637
So, more for us.
1088
01:18:17,171 --> 01:18:18,171
This is how, right?
1089
01:18:18,895 --> 01:18:23,141
More for our companies
in market share and profits.
1090
01:18:23,145 --> 01:18:24,404
- Yes.
1091
01:18:24,672 --> 01:18:25,607
Eh!
1092
01:18:25,609 --> 01:18:27,275
Oh, why isn't it working?
1093
01:18:27,663 --> 01:18:28,886
- I can't say.
1094
01:18:29,389 --> 01:18:31,946
In the 1950s and '60s--
1095
01:18:31,949 --> 01:18:34,062
You mean the
golden age of capitalism?
1096
01:18:34,134 --> 01:18:36,792
Oh, yes!
1097
01:18:37,545 --> 01:18:40,502
- Um, but to go on... then it was easy!
1098
01:18:40,508 --> 01:18:43,206
Other world economies
weren't as good.
1099
01:18:43,476 --> 01:18:45,790
Ah! Our firms could
easily outcompete them.
1100
01:18:45,997 --> 01:18:48,370
But, in the 1970s,
the rest of the world
1101
01:18:48,375 --> 01:18:51,000
started to catch-up
and need an increased money supply.
1102
01:18:51,104 --> 01:18:55,056
So the system of fixed exchange rates
around the dollar was gutted.
1103
01:18:55,256 --> 01:18:58,358
Increases in oil prices
destabilized the system further.
1104
01:18:58,435 --> 01:19:01,619
And companies struggling against
national competitions
1105
01:19:01,622 --> 01:19:04,503
withdrew from their
compromise with labor.
1106
01:19:04,859 --> 01:19:06,929
I don't know what
we can do now, though.
1107
01:19:07,286 --> 01:19:08,841
Mmm.
- Hahh!
1108
01:19:09,054 --> 01:19:10,187
I've got an idea.
1109
01:19:10,613 --> 01:19:12,032
We could put a pump
1110
01:19:12,454 --> 01:19:14,683
in the other parts of this...
1111
01:19:14,851 --> 01:19:17,561
congealed labor it is...
very precious.
1112
01:19:17,650 --> 01:19:22,639
- Congealed labor is the amount of labor
intangibly present in a commodity,
1113
01:19:22,729 --> 01:19:27,141
which in the market is roughly expressed
as exchange value, or 'price.'
1114
01:19:27,325 --> 01:19:29,113
- Marvel of capitalism, really,
1115
01:19:29,304 --> 01:19:32,707
allows innovators such as ourselves,
to model the world
1116
01:19:32,883 --> 01:19:37,844
before it is directly lived
as an accumulation of representation.
1117
01:19:37,917 --> 01:19:39,751
Yes. Very good.
1118
01:19:39,881 --> 01:19:44,035
We can put a pump in
congealed labor that isn't ours
1119
01:19:44,133 --> 01:19:45,262
and we can just...
1120
01:19:45,521 --> 01:19:48,697
throw away some congealed labor
from other parts of the world.
1121
01:19:48,756 --> 01:19:49,908
- Excellent idea!
1122
01:19:50,053 --> 01:19:54,401
Ah, just make sure what we do doesn't
look like colonialism or imperialism,
1123
01:19:54,406 --> 01:19:57,474
that really alienates those millennials
from our party.
1124
01:19:57,563 --> 01:19:58,655
Of course!
1125
01:19:58,745 --> 01:20:00,958
And it's clear how it can be done!
1126
01:20:01,493 --> 01:20:03,791
I'll call China and India,
1127
01:20:03,881 --> 01:20:05,332
and all the other countries,
1128
01:20:05,379 --> 01:20:08,606
and bid them, in a spirit of
international cooperation
1129
01:20:08,675 --> 01:20:11,731
to funnel their congealed labor to us
1130
01:20:11,921 --> 01:20:14,400
and to become banded
to a global economy.
1131
01:20:14,515 --> 01:20:16,224
Tha--that probably won't work.
1132
01:20:16,428 --> 01:20:18,769
- Yeah... n-no.
1133
01:20:18,886 --> 01:20:21,533
Mr. Xioping and the
Communist Party of China,
1134
01:20:21,626 --> 01:20:24,885
are very committed to the ethos
of the Treaty of Nanjing.
1135
01:20:25,334 --> 01:20:29,365
Hhh! They feel they must uphold
uncompromising free trade.
1136
01:20:29,507 --> 01:20:32,551
- And, Mr. Moody, we've been trying
to get in touch with him all day,
1137
01:20:32,553 --> 01:20:34,477
but his phone is always
in airplane mode.
1138
01:20:34,518 --> 01:20:37,759
Then how are we supposed to
strengthen our economy?
1139
01:20:37,861 --> 01:20:40,578
- Discipline and social hierarchies.
1140
01:20:40,968 --> 01:20:43,322
We can make our consumers
buy our goods,
1141
01:20:43,396 --> 01:20:46,967
if we return to the production paradigm
of the 1950s.
1142
01:20:47,129 --> 01:20:49,298
White men get paychecks,
1143
01:20:49,372 --> 01:20:51,910
granting a certain standard of living
to their families.
1144
01:20:52,482 --> 01:20:54,507
In return for not only work,
1145
01:20:54,748 --> 01:20:57,281
but society itself being factory-like,
1146
01:20:57,577 --> 01:21:02,044
no unruly behavior, so women...
back in the semiautomated kitchen.
1147
01:21:02,438 --> 01:21:03,438
Please!
1148
01:21:03,827 --> 01:21:05,511
- Oh, this isn't working!
1149
01:21:05,593 --> 01:21:08,330
They're protesting against
assembly line production norms
1150
01:21:08,332 --> 01:21:10,559
and not working hard at all!
1151
01:21:10,695 --> 01:21:11,823
Ahh! They've become used
1152
01:21:11,825 --> 01:21:14,364
to the flexibility and autonomy
they have...
1153
01:21:14,409 --> 01:21:15,695
...limited as they are.
1154
01:21:15,750 --> 01:21:17,165
Oh, damn it all!
1155
01:21:17,313 --> 01:21:19,725
I'm just going to tax the rich,
they'll cough it up!
1156
01:21:20,124 --> 01:21:21,221
Here, let me text them.
1157
01:21:42,288 --> 01:21:43,934
Bad news, Mr. President.
1158
01:21:44,061 --> 01:21:46,405
Well, we've got the money to
solve the problem now.
1159
01:21:46,509 --> 01:21:47,931
- Maybe not, see!
1160
01:21:48,056 --> 01:21:52,864
Industrialists, venture capitalists,
tech C.E.O.s, and bankers
1161
01:21:52,931 --> 01:21:57,369
have all moved more capital to places with
lower taxes than what you're proposing.
1162
01:21:57,391 --> 01:22:00,847
Hhh! They've invested more money
in artificial intelligence
1163
01:22:00,849 --> 01:22:03,091
so they don't have to pay
living wages!
1164
01:22:04,051 --> 01:22:08,545
- Anyway, people were spending their
increased wages on cheap foreign goods.
1165
01:22:08,632 --> 01:22:09,966
And, and, and, and, an...
1166
01:22:09,968 --> 01:22:13,061
with our domestic companies
over capacity,
1167
01:22:13,166 --> 01:22:15,763
investors are speculating
in risky tech...
1168
01:22:15,814 --> 01:22:16,850
...and finance,
1169
01:22:16,878 --> 01:22:19,928
then they can move
even more as--
1170
01:22:21,031 --> 01:22:23,052
more assets away from us.
1171
01:22:23,232 --> 01:22:24,620
How could they?!
1172
01:22:24,622 --> 01:22:25,888
They can do
whatever they want.
1173
01:22:25,939 --> 01:22:27,751
They... they...
1174
01:22:28,522 --> 01:22:31,855
They still own the means of production!
1175
01:22:37,044 --> 01:22:40,895
The following song is
a parody of the Horst-Wessel-Lied,
1176
01:22:41,123 --> 01:22:43,481
The anthem of
the German Nazi Party,
1177
01:22:43,567 --> 01:22:47,485
from 1930 to 1945.
1178
01:22:47,616 --> 01:22:49,918
it was sung at
every fuckin' occassion,
1179
01:22:49,937 --> 01:22:54,599
but, during the Third Reich, the song
was parodied in underground versions,
1180
01:22:54,665 --> 01:22:57,468
poking fun at the
corruption of the Nazi elite.
1181
01:22:57,783 --> 01:23:00,434
Well, there are similarities
between different texts,
1182
01:23:00,493 --> 01:23:03,752
as underground authors developed
them with variations...
1183
01:23:03,827 --> 01:23:06,406
but here is my favorite!:
1184
01:24:25,430 --> 01:24:28,395
At long last,
we've arrived at the left.
1185
01:24:28,720 --> 01:24:30,279
I'm so happy!
1186
01:24:30,509 --> 01:24:32,509
Thanks for pushing me to come.
1187
01:24:33,351 --> 01:24:34,374
Professor!
1188
01:24:34,406 --> 01:24:39,188
What is a member of the burghertudinus
bourgeoisie doing here on the left
1189
01:24:39,337 --> 01:24:40,401
of that peak?
1190
01:24:40,869 --> 01:24:42,006
Peculiar!
1191
01:24:42,735 --> 01:24:44,289
He seems Swedish.
1192
01:24:44,406 --> 01:24:46,807
We should kick him
in the iron balls.
1193
01:24:46,923 --> 01:24:47,923
Okay.
1194
01:24:48,222 --> 01:24:51,230
First, I will
kindly asks him to leave.
1195
01:24:52,503 --> 01:24:53,599
Hello good sir!
1196
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:56,951
This is the fabled 'Realm of Left.'
1197
01:24:57,048 --> 01:24:58,486
The side of labor.
1198
01:24:58,637 --> 01:25:00,873
You are our enemy.
1199
01:25:01,363 --> 01:25:02,614
Well, how're you doin' there?
1200
01:25:02,697 --> 01:25:04,089
I'm Sven Shitpornson.
1201
01:25:04,225 --> 01:25:06,543
- I knew it! I knew it!
He's Swedish!
1202
01:25:06,719 --> 01:25:08,545
- Oh, no, I'm from Windsor.
1203
01:25:08,686 --> 01:25:10,359
- When the revolution comes,
1204
01:25:10,603 --> 01:25:12,884
you will be the
first against the wall.
1205
01:25:13,232 --> 01:25:16,071
- Oh well now, wait a minute there,
I don't mean no harm, you know.
1206
01:25:16,175 --> 01:25:17,600
No. Okay. Yeah,
1207
01:25:17,690 --> 01:25:19,140
I might be a traitor to my kind,
1208
01:25:19,278 --> 01:25:21,553
and I know this is the left,
but I'm here to help ya.
1209
01:25:21,914 --> 01:25:22,874
Help?
1210
01:25:23,092 --> 01:25:25,764
Yeah! Yeah, you know,
I'm an entrepeneur.
1211
01:25:25,942 --> 01:25:26,970
I want to go make stuff.
1212
01:25:26,973 --> 01:25:28,273
I want to create and--
1213
01:25:28,318 --> 01:25:30,409
Don't let this big bag
of money here fool ya now.
1214
01:25:30,434 --> 01:25:31,402
I'm not a capitalist.
1215
01:25:35,525 --> 01:25:37,061
You know,
I'm just excited to make stuff,
1216
01:25:37,104 --> 01:25:40,242
but my company, there, it's owned by
investors and a managerial board.
1217
01:25:40,349 --> 01:25:41,572
And they're owned by banks,
1218
01:25:41,574 --> 01:25:43,824
which are also then owned
by managerial boards
1219
01:25:43,849 --> 01:25:44,955
and by investors, and...
1220
01:25:45,178 --> 01:25:47,511
I realize now
that today, finally,
1221
01:25:52,909 --> 01:25:54,697
It's in the form of
that there th, th,
1222
01:25:57,463 --> 01:25:59,248
- I am confused!
1223
01:25:59,512 --> 01:26:00,578
Eh, follow me.
1224
01:26:01,558 --> 01:26:03,558
My name is Lady Unsquaredance.
1225
01:26:03,796 --> 01:26:06,933
I like to watch classics,
such as The Lawn Mower Man...
1226
01:26:07,015 --> 01:26:08,482
and I teach economics.
1227
01:26:08,810 --> 01:26:09,810
- Ehhh...
1228
01:26:10,767 --> 01:26:15,897
- Due to the competitive stresses created
since the 1970s in global capital,
1229
01:26:24,891 --> 01:26:27,387
It's almost as if
banks and investors are
1230
01:26:29,518 --> 01:26:30,780
extracting rent.
1231
01:26:31,367 --> 01:26:34,545
Mr. Shitpornson
wants access to more capital,
1232
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:36,739
but these landlords
won't spare it.
1233
01:26:36,959 --> 01:26:41,184
Oh, yeah, yeah, that and that theres,
that's hardly the capitalism that I love.
1234
01:26:41,396 --> 01:26:43,245
He thought the left could free him,
1235
01:26:43,428 --> 01:26:46,213
but it's protesting statues
and other symbols
1236
01:26:46,275 --> 01:26:49,169
and how few women
sit in boardrooms,
1237
01:26:49,304 --> 01:26:51,738
not about what people
in boardrooms do.
1238
01:26:51,984 --> 01:26:55,049
But I've set-up a meeting
with a bright, young idea man.
1239
01:26:55,377 --> 01:26:57,136
And that's me!
1240
01:26:57,243 --> 01:27:00,845
Hello, I'm Billy Bob Turingengine
and who are these two?
1241
01:27:01,145 --> 01:27:02,438
Let's just say
1242
01:27:02,443 --> 01:27:06,624
we're true
working class revolutionaries.
1243
01:27:08,313 --> 01:27:11,685
And when is this
glorious revolution taking place?
1244
01:27:11,946 --> 01:27:14,906
Once we build
the power of the people.
1245
01:27:18,109 --> 01:27:20,572
This nostalgia
for schemes and slogans,
1246
01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:22,918
withered on a
century-old deathbed.
1247
01:27:23,059 --> 01:27:28,004
- Bah! Cynics like you are
why we will never have communism.
1248
01:27:28,068 --> 01:27:29,068
-Mmmh.
1249
01:27:32,566 --> 01:27:34,273
That sounds wonderful!
1250
01:27:34,673 --> 01:27:36,633
But material conditions indicate
1251
01:27:36,668 --> 01:27:39,377
capitalism, socialism and communism
1252
01:27:39,561 --> 01:27:41,298
need to be reevaluated,
1253
01:27:41,420 --> 01:27:43,392
and maybe all discarded.
1254
01:27:43,548 --> 01:27:44,789
- All what?
1255
01:27:44,899 --> 01:27:47,621
- Follow me, and I will explain.
1256
01:27:48,254 --> 01:27:49,419
I'm an engineer.
1257
01:27:49,733 --> 01:27:51,784
but like an artist, or data analyst,
1258
01:27:56,958 --> 01:27:58,650
If you have a concrete object,
1259
01:27:58,794 --> 01:27:59,924
like a hammer,
1260
01:28:00,115 --> 01:28:02,356
I can't have and use it
while you do.
1261
01:28:02,700 --> 01:28:05,104
But if you have anything that
can be copyrighted,
1262
01:28:07,281 --> 01:28:09,791
I can have and use it
while you do too.
1263
01:28:14,489 --> 01:28:17,914
Making traditional leftism irrelevent?
1264
01:28:18,309 --> 01:28:21,174
Information makes
the world go 'round now.
1265
01:28:21,326 --> 01:28:23,520
Physical production
still exists, of course, but
1266
01:28:29,835 --> 01:28:32,125
Companies like Uber® or Amazon®
succeed because
1267
01:28:35,814 --> 01:28:41,831
Oh, so platforms are institutions
as important today as markets and states.
1268
01:28:42,184 --> 01:28:43,229
Correct.
1269
01:28:43,231 --> 01:28:44,849
- Oh, well, okay,
1270
01:28:44,980 --> 01:28:47,703
but, ah, then how does that there
hold the system together?
1271
01:28:54,534 --> 01:28:56,376
and they sell that
to advertisers.
1272
01:28:56,967 --> 01:28:59,376
So many bright people I went
to college with,
1273
01:28:59,553 --> 01:29:02,475
spent dozens of hours a week
figuring out how to make people
1274
01:29:05,074 --> 01:29:06,350
A lucky few
1275
01:29:06,558 --> 01:29:08,196
do something more obvious.
1276
01:29:14,143 --> 01:29:17,628
Yes, capitalism is so weak today
1277
01:29:17,779 --> 01:29:20,195
that it needs the stuff
to stay afloat.
1278
01:29:20,520 --> 01:29:22,114
Okay, so then most
1279
01:29:36,302 --> 01:29:38,584
So, what's going on today is
1280
01:29:40,616 --> 01:29:43,106
- Yes! A lot of profit still derives
1281
01:29:43,149 --> 01:29:45,694
from extraction
of surplus value from labor.
1282
01:29:50,861 --> 01:29:53,951
Because the private information industry's
products can be
1283
01:30:01,288 --> 01:30:03,162
- So, what's the task today?!
1284
01:30:09,787 --> 01:30:13,167
and use them
for useful production?
1285
01:30:13,272 --> 01:30:14,429
You've got it.
1286
01:30:14,492 --> 01:30:17,569
- But I repair portable toilets.
1287
01:30:17,800 --> 01:30:19,713
Yet you work with information.
1288
01:30:19,849 --> 01:30:21,642
The most strategic place
to focus is on
1289
01:30:26,390 --> 01:30:29,280
So, what do we do with the left?
1290
01:30:29,598 --> 01:30:32,063
- To hell with them!
Arrgh!
1291
01:30:32,472 --> 01:30:36,027
Time is critical! My ship's docked.
We need to think of
1292
01:30:40,881 --> 01:30:41,881
Arrgh!
1293
01:30:41,953 --> 01:30:43,964
- Is that mutiny?
1294
01:30:44,333 --> 01:30:45,333
- Nah!
1295
01:30:45,468 --> 01:30:48,555
We have to be the ship,
not mutineers!
1296
01:30:48,714 --> 01:30:50,914
- Well, what are we waiting for?
1297
01:30:51,289 --> 01:30:52,469
Let's go!
1298
01:30:52,622 --> 01:30:53,622
- Yes!
1299
01:30:54,005 --> 01:30:56,149
- And, as you're Austrian landlubber,
1300
01:30:56,515 --> 01:30:57,800
anchors aweigh!
1301
01:30:58,195 --> 01:30:59,570
- He's Austrian?
1302
01:30:59,692 --> 01:31:01,324
How awful!
1303
01:31:01,450 --> 01:31:04,258
The ultimate broken dream,
1304
01:31:04,358 --> 01:31:06,661
is the left itself.
1305
01:31:07,318 --> 01:31:09,821
Ehh! We have to do this again.
1306
01:31:09,844 --> 01:31:11,595
It's ah... it needs more pathos.
1307
01:31:11,600 --> 01:31:15,991
It needs more... more drive, like, like
the ultimate broken dream
1308
01:31:16,023 --> 01:31:18,615
is the left itself!!
Okay?
1309
01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:21,426
So, do it again, okay?
1310
01:31:22,870 --> 01:31:24,513
- Hey! Hey!
Hey!
1311
01:31:25,001 --> 01:31:26,551
- What?
- He's-he's on the phone,
1312
01:31:26,554 --> 01:31:27,554
it's-it's urgent!
1313
01:31:27,560 --> 01:31:29,179
Oh, can we finish this here?
1314
01:31:29,181 --> 01:31:30,433
I-I'll call him back.
1315
01:31:30,578 --> 01:31:32,304
But he says you need to stop.
1316
01:31:32,396 --> 01:31:33,396
What?
1317
01:31:33,725 --> 01:31:34,725
What?
1318
01:31:35,812 --> 01:31:36,812
Ah,
1319
01:31:37,234 --> 01:31:38,492
Hel-hello!
1320
01:31:38,769 --> 01:31:40,045
Hi! Good to speak to you!
Hey!
1321
01:31:40,226 --> 01:31:42,668
Shut up you incompetent schlong!
1322
01:31:42,941 --> 01:31:43,911
You're done!
1323
01:31:43,936 --> 01:31:45,306
What, what?
- It's over.
1324
01:31:45,350 --> 01:31:46,422
N-no! Ah...
1325
01:31:46,626 --> 01:31:48,936
We-we were just recording this here
and...
1326
01:31:49,087 --> 01:31:51,472
Ishan had this great idea
for-for the end scene.
1327
01:31:51,552 --> 01:31:54,721
I don't care,
you're way over budget!
1328
01:31:54,795 --> 01:31:58,859
My budget, and more important,
my investors' budget.
1329
01:31:59,206 --> 01:32:01,031
Hasta luego.
1330
01:32:01,191 --> 01:32:04,941
Well, I-I-I'm recording
my, my, my conclusion here, and...
1331
01:32:05,082 --> 01:32:07,367
and we need money
for-for the licensing fee
1332
01:32:07,370 --> 01:32:08,856
for-for the end credit song.
1333
01:32:09,137 --> 01:32:11,496
End credit my ass!
1334
01:32:11,775 --> 01:32:14,659
What? What? Hey! No, no!
Hey! What, no!
1335
01:32:14,822 --> 01:32:16,077
No! No! Hey!
1336
01:32:17,038 --> 01:32:18,427
Fuck!! Aah!!!
1337
01:32:23,305 --> 01:32:24,305
Ahh!
1338
01:32:54,810 --> 01:32:56,096
Ah! Ah.
1339
01:37:00,925 --> 01:37:03,825
Hello Juan.
Ah, you found me, great!
1340
01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:06,123
How much money
did you want?
1341
01:37:07,434 --> 01:37:08,434
Twenty euros?
1342
01:37:09,385 --> 01:37:10,472
Come on.
1343
01:37:11,138 --> 01:37:12,304
You did what?
1344
01:37:12,871 --> 01:37:14,642
You ate him?!
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