2024-06-03
37 分钟Today we begin our discussion on the work of Mark Fisher surrounding his concept of Capitalism Realism. We talk about the origins of Neoliberalism, it's core strategies, some critiques of Neoliberalism, and the hyperfocus on individualism and competition that has come to define a piece of our thinking in the western world. Hope you enjoy it and have a great rest of your week. :) Sponsors: Nord VPN: https://www.NordVPN.com/philothis Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow
Hello everyone, I'm Stephen west.
This is philosophize this.
So I want to begin today with a question the late Mark Fisher had been asking people for decades by the end of his life.
Do you ever look at the world around you?
See the problems that are going on here?
People like Zizek, we've been talking about lately, who bring an anti capitalist sort of energy to this whole conversation, and do you ever feel like, okay, yeah, there's certainly problems with capitalism, I can agree with that.
But I'm gonna be honest with you.
I don't see the obvious, amazing, revolutionary way out of this situation that seems to be required for any of this stuff to work.
In fact, sometimes, the way I think about it, and this is a quote attributed to Zizek and Frederick Jameson, but something that describes the way I feel sometimes, is that it's easier for me to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism.
I mean, that's just a true statement for a lot of people.
I can think of ten different ways the world may end tomorrow.
It's not even hard to.
But you asked me for one single way that we can go from capitalism to anything.
Whatever it is on the other side of it.
It just seems much more likely to me that what's going to end up ending global capitalism are the flaws in setting things up this way, that are already producing bad results, that are just going to get so out of hand one day that we run civilization off a cliff.
I mean, is that the fate that all this is headed for?
Because things will just never change.
Because from where I sit, this person may say, where my life has always seemed to be as an adult is in this constant place where I'm choosing between the lesser of two evils.
So many things already feel that way to me.
Why wouldn't it be the case that most of the issues we talk about politically are fundamentally grounded in this value judgment, that capitalism may not be great, but at least it isn't the marxism of the 20th century.