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I think it's fascinating how this "Smart Power" can be so egregiously seen in North America when our French counterparts storm the streets over pensions, and in both a self-regulating manner consoling us about our own ambivalence towards pension cuts, and in a manner which seeks to regulate the French aswell, we screech about how the French are causing mischief over nothing, doing the work previously delegated to the media ourselves.

Yes! Finally! I've always wanted to hear people talk about how, after we abolish the owner-worker divide, we must then abolish the employed-unemployed divide that will inevitably follow!

"Self help - gets you to cope within the cage "

Gentlemen, with regard to Han's thought being "quite nihilistic" as the Canadian man said, Han is a practicing Zen Buddhist, all of his books are a very sophisticated and well informed critique if the status quo and the direction of European thought from Zen Buddhist perspective. That is his position. Also the Canadian man seems to think Marxism has some answers. The answers are beyond the dialectics of modern thought and the dichotomous nature of the European tradition in general. It requires a transformation in the structure of the western worldview based on Conceptual Being, which is what Han indicates from his Zen Buddhist perspective without openly stating it. All the best to all of you, I enjoyed listening.

Coincidence! I saw your burn out society video and looked up the author, bought this book last night and read the first chapter. This is some heavy heavy stuff. Thanks so much for all the hard work!

Another banger! I need to read some of Han's work, very enlightening stuff.

I just watched your video on Burnout Culture and it led me here!

internalised anger is depression.

great discussion. just my two cents, I think the problem with thinkers such as BCH is, finally, their idealism. That problematic phrase about proletarians ceasing to exist under neoliberalism is symptomatic of bourgeois philosophy's near-sightedness. What we are witnessing today is not the dissolution of the industrial proletariat or the dematerialization of labor. Rather, we are seeing the intensification of the deplacement of labor. Much of the industrial and 'material' processes of capitalism have now been transferred to the global South or relegated to migrant labor in advances economies. These problems that BHC is tackling are problems of the disenfranchised educated petty-bourgeosie. On the other hand, many people who continue to do material labor (the carpenters, nannies, etc) are drifting towards the right because of the lack of effort to organize their seemingly invisible labor. It's a sad sight, and I think people with progressive aspirations should begin to unify these struggles rather than see it as a contradiction between "new more sophisticated forms of struggle" vs "old guard workerism". Again, more power to the podcast, looking forward to hearing more.

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great episode!!!

great conversation, and especially relevant with r/antiwork blowing up so much in recent weeks and, y'know, all the striking going on in the US right now. I think people are/were underestimating just how quickly worker's power can manifest itself when there is over-mortality, as dark as that is. corona may not be the plague but still

all anti-work people I know came back into the "game", the same as all the "growth mindset" poeple came back to work. It is true that you can grow by getting into life's trouble. You become a good dad by having kids, especially when it was not "planned". Responsibility cant be substituted by "mindset". Either you are responsible for working for your kids while being there for them or you are not.

Hey just an aside on DPRK: plenty of people leave often to work for example in China. And the censorship is generally playing defense against western propaganda. Empire Files recently had a good pod on visiting there. Agreed on power tho

The quote at @41:20, was something I was hoping to hear, in the sense that someone else views it that way too. I wanted to go through "the new libertarian manifesto" for agorism because it seemed to me what was being described there was nothing more than self enslavement. Which became more clear when the dude who wrote that was close to Rothbard.

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Is 1dime radio on pod bean?

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Watched a few videos about this guy and have this book on order but I can't help but think... it isn't that deep. There are parts of the neo-liberal society and waves of the economy that we cannot avoid. Yet we buy into it as much or as little as we like. A picture is painted that we are all psychopoliticised rat-race running ladder climbing hyper capitalists but I don't see that as true in those around me. Nobody I know is very career orientated. People around me get a job they enjoy going to, or at least can endure, and climb the ladder as much or as little as they like. As for self-help, I like the view Han has and I hadn't viewed it in such a way before. However self-help isn't always capitalist and career orientated. It is only as capitalist as you want. Every time I have reflected on my life after I have either burnt out despite loving the work (truck driving and logistics industry) or come to key point in life (graduating). Each time I have focused to improve my work life balance by decreasing how much I buy into the system and using the free labour market (a very powerful tool for employees not just employers) to find labour that is good for me in both my employed time and free time. You can resist the pressures to do overtime by saying no, you can leave all together and go elsewhere due to the free labour market. There are forces in the economy I dont like such as the property market. Having to rent my house from a bank for 30 years beholden to the whims of interest rates and inflation isn't great. I would like more unionisation across all sectors but apart from that until a VIABLE alternative to neo-liberalism either evolves due to technology or is theorised I don't mind the system so much. I get a mostly 4 on 4 off shift pattern which allows for free time and can buy super cheap meat and vegetables from Lidl as well as grow my own. There is no famine where I live and no war, a miracle. There are things to be grateful for and people don't realise how good things are despite the flaws and how bad they can be. There will always be a system per se and always forces compelling you to labour either your own hunger for food, so you toil in the field. Or you need to trade food with someone else so you get goods to trade (money, sex.. idk?).