Culture Clash Ep.2: The Peripheral - politics, philosophy and theology

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Join us as we take a deep dive into the politics, philosophy and theology of the Peripheral, one of those rare occurences of excellency in film and television. Based on William Gibson's homonymous novel, the series is profound, executed with love for the story and the medium and opens a number of very interesting avenunes that we will be exploring together. We invite you to continue the conversation in the comments or, why not, in your own reaction videos. Enjoy!
00:00 Intro
02:15 Opening sequence
03:23 The Peripheral: not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi story
04:07 Understanding science-fiction political opposites
06:06 The essential dychotomy of The Peripheral
06:33 ”Hillbilly Elegy”
07:49 Reflections on today's society: the state of the family
08:21 The importance of family and community
10:05 Organisms, enhancers and parasites
11:11 Christianity in The Peripheral
11:39 This here is the only world I've got
11:49 Understanding science-fiction political opposites: Conclusion
13:15 A grim vision of not to so distant future
13:42 The future's MET Police: an appeal to tradition
14:05 The Hobbesian perspective of MET Police
15:19 2099 London: a quasi-Hobbesian future
16:03 The importance of unpredictability
16:29 The 2099 Potemkin village
17:10 Visions of future London in today's London
17:35 The pesimism of the future
18:02 A clash of views: The ”Many worlds interpretation” v Leibnitz's ”The best of all possible worlds”
18:16 Dychotomy continued: antithesis in regional language and attitude
20:56 Outro

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@user-jj4pm2wr6o Ай бұрын

You make a big thing about not liking socialism in this video but say nothing about how capitalism is the problem in the future. A few rich families use there money and power to control everyone else, that’s capitalism.

@76Central Ай бұрын

Thank you for joining the conversation! You are partially right in your assessment and you will find people on the right that will agree with you too some extent. Capitalism as it's understood today is actually cronyism where corporations, or most of them anyway, are in cahoots with the governments and indeed exercise too much power. This however does not invalidate my criticism of socialism. I am planning a new video where I will touch on this topic. Again, thank you and feel more than welcome to share your ideas on our channel.

@user-jj4pm2wr6o Ай бұрын

@@76Central your welcome, to be clear I'm not say socialism is all good as a way of doing thing it has it's own problems as does capitalism. you are right about cronyism though that is a big problem in the world today and it is probably fair to separate that from capitalism however I would argue that unless there is regulation of capitalism you get cronyism. I'll look out for that video, sounds like it will be interesting.

@76Central Ай бұрын

@@user-jj4pm2wr6o I'll say this for now since I'm swamped in work and it will be a while until I manage to publish the new video. Cronyism is a direct descendant of regulations. The state alone has the power of the sword. And that power is tempting. When the state uses the power of the sword to regulate one way or the other it presents itself as a great prize for most corporate entities which will attempt and many time succeed to capture that power of the sword (through lobbying or outright corruption). So as long as the state has power to regulate the chances of corporations take advantage of that power are considerable. In fact one can observe how corporate power has grown in sync with the power of the state to regulate.

@user-jj4pm2wr6o Ай бұрын

@@76Central however you can see in places in the world where there is no regulation that corporations grow in size and power constantly to the point where they created monopolies allowing them to be the sole decider of things like the cost of living. also I'd point out that a lack or regulations has led to most of the economic crashes in history, corporations and rich individuals use highly risky strategies to make money because there are no rules to stop them and eventually the system breaks. it sounds like you are in favour of the kind of free market that has no regulations, is that the case?

@76Central Ай бұрын

@@user-jj4pm2wr6o Actually it's regulations themselves that have destabilized markets and played to the advantage of corporations. Like I said above, regulations HELP big corporations and most of the time they are in on how those regulations are created and applied. Just look at who's asking to regulate the AI industry and social media. But more importantly there is a crucial distinction between regulation and LAW. Regulations force people to do something. Laws force people to NOT do something. A world where corporations are made accountable is a world with simple, clear and adequately enforced laws where everyone is equal under those laws, including corporations. Yaron Brook has a great short video on this topic: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrGgldCena_VpmQ.html