The failure of Neoliberalism and how to solve it | George Monbiot interview

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  • @MrGavinBoyd
    @MrGavinBoyd 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +457

    Too late. Most of Britain’s state assets have been sold. The problem with Thatcherism is that you eventually run out of assets to sell to overseas investors so that they can rip off British consumers.

    • @seafoodpizza
      @seafoodpizza 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      If Arab states own so many of our services, shouldn't we all move to the middle East to benefit from their growing economies?

    • @evolassunglasses4673
      @evolassunglasses4673 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Unfortunately the Left have embraced open borders Globalisation and have no solutions

    • @evolassunglasses4673
      @evolassunglasses4673 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@howmanybeansmakefive unfortunately the Left have embraced open borders Globalisation and have no solutions.

    • @normanchristie4524
      @normanchristie4524 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Or as that arch Conservative MacMillan pointed out 'selling the family silver'....

    • @normanchristie4524
      @normanchristie4524 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@seafoodpizzaexcept....it is only the ruling families in these countries that own that wealth.

  • @shinydarknight01
    @shinydarknight01 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +265

    Great interview, should be on national television

    • @brianbarham2277
      @brianbarham2277 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Don't hold your breath for that to happen.

    • @oldishandwoke-ish1181
      @oldishandwoke-ish1181 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@brianbarham2277 You said it for me!

    • @juliewake4585
      @juliewake4585 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Agreed, but can you imagine what all the right wing press would say?

    • @swojnowski453
      @swojnowski453 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It does not have to be on national television. Nobody sane watches that any more. Then you do not need a TV licence to watch it. No going back to the one-way broadcast of the last century, nobody should.

    • @james4ddy
      @james4ddy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      National television is properganda from mass media information warfare to a large percentage of fictional TV series and movies

  • @efghggdxlmfn33
    @efghggdxlmfn33 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +104

    “Inverted totalitarianism, unlike classical totalitarianism, does not revolve around a demagogue or charismatic leader. It finds expression in the anonymity of the Corporate State. It purports to cherish democracy, patriotism, and the Constitution while manipulating internal levers.”
    ― Chris Hedges , Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

    • @kaoskronostyche9939
      @kaoskronostyche9939 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thank you very much for the quote. I read that when it came out and was impressed but that was years ago. I was fascinated by Inverted Totalitarianism. You reminded me and I'm going to take another look at that. Thanks again.

    • @almillar7280
      @almillar7280 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sheldon Wolin is an OG

    • @efghggdxlmfn33
      @efghggdxlmfn33 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@almillar7280 Chris Hedges , Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

  • @oldishandwoke-ish1181
    @oldishandwoke-ish1181 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +180

    I realised this aged 18 in 1979 ...... and here we are in 2024, it is reaching its logical conclusion: total economic meltdown.

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      I realised it in 1972 aged 9. It's only been down hill since then! I'm 61 now and ill-health retired from a broken system that doesn't give a fart about the units that make the wealth.

    • @SusannaSaunders
      @SusannaSaunders 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @JamJam0189 really? Wasn't it rather obvious that this was all just one big Ponzi Scheme for the rich to become richer? Even a kid could see that was obvious!

    • @suburbanyobbo9412
      @suburbanyobbo9412 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @JamJam0189Joining the EU didn’t revive the economy. It wrecked trade, agricultural and food standards, led the UK to try to join the European Exchange Rate mechanism which tanked the value of the pound and ultimately deepened neoliberalism.

    • @cweatherfella547
      @cweatherfella547 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly
      That's what has happened
      The billionaire media are the propaganda machine brainwashing everybody to believe that this good for them

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I only started to wake up to all this from the Falklands crisis, and then I looked at the key points in the SDP manifesto and joined them. The SDP were stronger than the Liberal and Labour parties where I lived at the time, so that was another reason for joining them and voting for them. They were also pro EC membership as well then. Then Roy Jenkins stood down as leader, and David Owen took over, which was disappointing. Roy Jenkins was pro the Liberal Party and wanted to join it at one time while David Owen was anti the Liberal Party.

  • @hyper_fn_al1459
    @hyper_fn_al1459 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +528

    "Broadly speaking: we are a society of altruists, governed by psychopaths."
    - George Monbiot

    • @Andy.Smurphy
      @Andy.Smurphy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      So very very true ...

    • @swojnowski453
      @swojnowski453 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      or in other words, If you assume that everything is a scam, 95% of us, sincere people, is employed by master scammers to help them to scam others. Scammers need sincere people or they themselves will get scammed. Scammers for capitalism are what psychopaths are for politics. Word of politics and world of economics are parallel worlds and each of them has been taken over by its particular type of psychopath. They can only function if we are divided and fighting against each other under different flags, in corpos and political parties. How to defeat capitalism, it is simple. Impose on central banks the rule to keep inflation not at 2% but at -2% and see what happens. Why everyone either is or will get greedy, because we all know the prices will go up in the future, and we all are scarred that what we have now might not be enough till we die. George said a lot of interesting things, but what he has not stated is : every process is growth or decay. To stop the growth we have to make inflation negative. Another world is possible, and it is closer than we think, the only one who stand between us and it are the central banks. Degrowth is the only option to preserve the planet and save nature and us from extinction caused by climate change. We will not die first, but if most insects die, there will be nowhere for us to hide, and the are well on their way to their extinction ...

    • @simontist
      @simontist 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      That's the norm everywhere, always has been. The most stable configuration unfortunately.

    • @thefinestsake1660
      @thefinestsake1660 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Best line

    • @thefinestsake1660
      @thefinestsake1660 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      ​​@@simontist Hardly the most stable configuration. It hasn't always been this way and doesn't have to be. Chin up.

  • @willrogers6635
    @willrogers6635 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    One of the best assessements of the current state of power in our society that I've ever listened to. The problems we have are painfully avoidable and only exist due to the motivations of the wealthy. Everyone should listen to this

  • @Petraisshred
    @Petraisshred 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +329

    Oh my days can't believe im actually hearing someone discuss the horror of the social care industry that surrounds young people and children in care

    • @zoranblackie5921
      @zoranblackie5921 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      Exploiting the most vulnerable in society for corporate gain - how is this allowed?

    • @Non-Doctors-Music
      @Non-Doctors-Music 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I was simply thinking "What the fuck!" as I found my jaw had dropped to the floor. It needs sorting ... NOW!

    • @zoranblackie5921
      @zoranblackie5921 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Also worth seeing the articles about the use of Deprivation of Liberty orders (DoLs) for children and young people

    • @swojnowski453
      @swojnowski453 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      trading in humans has a good tradition in the UK. This is just another iteration of it. Nothing has changed and will not change until the people unite and stop it. This governing by the psychopaths has to stop or it will become a new normal one day ...

    • @adamscottprice
      @adamscottprice 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Absolutely. We should be hearing about this everywhere from everybody. Thank god for people like Monbiot, politics Joe, Novara media, Kernow Damo, DDN and all the others trying to get this sort of stuff some attention

  • @Andy.Smurphy
    @Andy.Smurphy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

    George Monbiot a true British hero, if only we have more of his kind dominating politics ...

    • @carnmarth334
      @carnmarth334 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wasn't Monbiot one of the Guardian "journalists" who went out of his way to smear Jeremy Corbyn again and again? And if so, what right does he have to complain about neoliberalism, after smearing a socialist and thereby helping a fascist (Boris Johnson) into power?
      (Clue: yes he was.)

  • @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
    @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +194

    Yesterday an English friend sent me an adorable video in which a little girl shows immense indignation because they wanted to charge £9 for two ice creams. With £5.90 I buy a 2 liter jar of pineapple/wine ice cream in Brazil. The video was the beginning of a long conversation. I was shocked to learn that she pays £5 a day for electricity. Her family's monthly electricity bill (£150) is equivalent to 64.5% of the minimum wage in Brazil. Most Brazilians would not be able to pay this electricity bill. Here I pay the equivalent of £13 per month for electricity and another £77.39 per month for condominium fees (including water and piped gas with no usage limit). The prices of things in England are insane and that's what the neoliberal bastards want to bring to Brazil.

    • @globalist1990
      @globalist1990 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Keep in mind that the minimum wage comes around at £1800 per month, IF, you manage to be employed at full time, which is an increasing rarity. You can get zero hours contracts, where you are employed with no guarantee of work and here everyone is payed by the hour. There's no minimum monthly salary guarantee. They even take holidays from you if you don't work full time. So if you work half time, you only get payed for half the normal holidays. This makes the uk an extreme case of neoliberalism in europe, but the rest of the countries are following suit.

    • @oldishandwoke-ish1181
      @oldishandwoke-ish1181 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yep. The U.S. model (el modelo!) must prevail......

    • @richardgregory3684
      @richardgregory3684 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Average income in Brazil is $750/month. In the Uk it is $3,500. Brazil has the second most expensive energy in the world; the average Brazillian household spends 25% of their entire income of energy bills. Eveything is expensive in Europe, Britain is no exception to that.

    • @carlosjbittencourt5796
      @carlosjbittencourt5796 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@richardgregory3684, that’s not true. According to research done by Statista, for fiscal year 2023, Brazil has the 17th most expensive electricity cost in the World , in USD per Kilowatt hour.

    • @swojnowski453
      @swojnowski453 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      because nobody stands for consumers in this country. It is a wild west by corpos from abroad. Customers are fixed targets with their mortgages, they can be charged whatever, council tax 170, water 80, electricity 200 quid a month. The UK is an example of what happens when you sell your assets to those whose only concern is how to make more money.

  • @haomingong
    @haomingong 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    Monbiot has a vision of England, beyond the harms of capitalism, that returns us together to our truer selves and better relations. As an older (59) person, the fact that the younger generation tend to want and advocate for this kind of comradely, empathetic, sustainable future, fills me with hope

    • @dolmen6613
      @dolmen6613 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      and how -apart from whinging- is he going to achieve this paradise?

    • @tr3vk4m
      @tr3vk4m 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dolmen6613 me mer me mer me mer mer mer me merr...

    • @cpcnw
      @cpcnw 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@dolmen6613 There's no doubt that authors can change peoples minds. Thatcher herself was a massive fan of Ayn Rand. I always find it interesting that when people highlight issues, the detractors rarely engage with the issues but more so, attack the critic.

    • @Vesividad86
      @Vesividad86 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      he's a globalist and a communist

    • @rudeigin
      @rudeigin 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@dolmen6613through communist totalitarianism; the criminalization of private property; destruction of all private business; industrialization of agriculture & expropriation of land for direct state management of food production; vigorous policing; mass immigration.

  • @richardday6220
    @richardday6220 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Weirdly, I've been thinking about this over the past week or so, feeling pretty crap about myself, but not able to articulate what is bothering me. To hear someone basically explain what my thoughts are in words I could never muster was refreshing.

    • @dogeared100
      @dogeared100 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Organize.

  • @daviddobarganes9115
    @daviddobarganes9115 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    When they were saying "Capitalism is the end of history" they weren't saying we will never find a better system, they were saying we will never dislodge the giant tick bringing humanity to its knees

    • @Invisible-Rhino
      @Invisible-Rhino 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      the french knew how to remove it - and it will not leave without being forced to leave - if it can be persuaded of that then maybe it Can step back without the need for unpleasantness,.,.,.,

    • @deathrides4756
      @deathrides4756 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Invisible-Rhino You are asking the tick to be considerate?

    • @Invisible-Rhino
      @Invisible-Rhino 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@deathrides4756 more like showing it the possible futures and inviting it to pick the mutually beneficial solution.,.,.,

    • @gmonkman
      @gmonkman 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      capitalism is fine in a well run mixed economy

  • @Om-ry4tb
    @Om-ry4tb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Really glad youre talking about the horrific way young people in care are being profiteered from. Absolutely depraved disgusting people running companies to make money that way.

  • @shimmime
    @shimmime 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    This is the best interview EVER. Everybody needs to watch it.

    • @ziminar93
      @ziminar93 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      its total bs to be honest. It makes me want to vote for the tories! and thats saying something!

    • @shimmime
      @shimmime 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ziminar93 Why do you think it's bs?

  • @mikepotter2561
    @mikepotter2561 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    George was just talking about our public services being outsourced to foreign states and my viewing was interrupted by an ad for EDF. Couldn't make it up! 😩

    • @Skylark_Jones
      @Skylark_Jones 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      EDF is one of my utility suppliers, for years they've had ads saying they're investing in green energy which is supposed to be cheaper but my bill is still high! They're all f**kers.

    • @oldishandwoke-ish1181
      @oldishandwoke-ish1181 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Taking back control! Ahem.....

    • @Glashome
      @Glashome 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      In fairness, that sounds quite like something a dystopian fiction writer would make up.

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I watch videos on atheist or anti cult channels and then an advert for a Christian organisation pops up.

    • @Inkulabi
      @Inkulabi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😅

  • @leerowland9621
    @leerowland9621 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    30:39 "Broadly speaking, we're a society of altruists governed by psychopaths." Brilliant, George. Nailed it.

  • @Chris-pp3hu
    @Chris-pp3hu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    George Monbiot always well research and fact based information.

    • @maryannemckay3606
      @maryannemckay3606 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      …not always!…but definitely correct in this instance!…🥲

  • @karenwilliams7600
    @karenwilliams7600 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    George hits all the metaphorical nails on the head. I live in Spain because society still exists here, a non-economic culture still exists. The British disease began centuries ago. George has my undying admiration.

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      There was a post war consensus between 1945 and 1979 when neo liberalism was rejected and community valued more. People found community in the workplace more then. So it was a hiatus from that old thinking.

  • @normanchristie4524
    @normanchristie4524 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    George, you are so right...

  • @atverde
    @atverde 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Wow! What he explained about the situation around social care of children is absolutely incredible and shocking.

  • @gazfisher7391
    @gazfisher7391 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    "The elite ruling class wants us asleep so we'll remain a docile, apathetic herd of passive consumers and non-participants in the true agendas of our governments, which is to keep us separate and present an image of a world filled with unresolvable problems, that they, and only they, might somewhere, in the never-arriving future, may be able to solve."
    William Melvin Hicks

    • @tonjamarshall4842
      @tonjamarshall4842 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think it's called being "woke."

    • @GKEL18
      @GKEL18 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tonjamarshall4842no you complete miss the point. This is all right wing BS. The only thing you can accuse the left of is caring too much and for everybody.

  • @td6460
    @td6460 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +264

    Marx thought he was living in late stage capitalism, but he hadn't seen the modern world. This system is eating itself alive.

    • @lagringa7518
      @lagringa7518 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well no, actually it's eating YOU and me alive, THEY (the system that bought off your politicians and turned democracy into a mafia shake down of the majority) are doing quite nicely thank you, playing winners take all... easy when you rig the table.

    • @sarat1325
      @sarat1325 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Exactly that. Good comment.

    • @malcolmmitchell6529
      @malcolmmitchell6529 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      And completely unsustainable.

    • @krispysox
      @krispysox 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      A grotesque ouroboros

    • @DJWESG1
      @DJWESG1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      His world was also modern, what he didn't see was our time with his own eyes. However, he did say toward the end of capital that.. 'in a credit system, everything changes'

  • @LyricalLacerations
    @LyricalLacerations 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    I think a law needs to be passed that scraps private ownership of public services. They can sell the water and rail back to the public, but the cost of rebuilding comes out of that sale. If the amount needed to fix the service is greater than the amount by the sale. The shareholders are then indebted to the state for said amount. This is an insanely unfair deal for the shareholders, but you know what fuck em. They basically fucked us over and I think this is completely just.

    • @dogeared100
      @dogeared100 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Those laws used to exist.

    • @chuck1804
      @chuck1804 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ok. Now all we need is a political party to stand on that motion, 650 localised candidates across the country, a few million pounds in campaign funds, at least 1 in 4 voters to support, and another 5 year wait for that magical one day window when we actually get a say, because one thing for certain is, it will not happen under Labour, or indeed under FPTP.

  • @PetaloudesTouYialou
    @PetaloudesTouYialou 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    Coz of the rubbish climate we lack open public spaces. We need sheltrerd halls and indoor community spaces where we arent required to pay out money constantly to be allowed in. We only have libraries, really. We end up broke and alone, and that batters our mental health. Community cannot really be found in most workplaces - good will is conditional, compassion discouraged, affection forbidden.

    • @globalist1990
      @globalist1990 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      On point. There are no public free spaces left. Parks and libraries. That's it.

    • @gavincutler8889
      @gavincutler8889 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And in those remaining public spaces, most folks have got earphones in, staring at their phones and scrolling 😂

    • @zoranblackie5921
      @zoranblackie5921 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Its a big part of facilitating community collaboration, to have community assets (look up asset based community development) but after long austerity these are all the things falling to the wayside as councils literally have to divest of every 'nice to have' to prop up increasing demand and complexity in social care, education and housing

    • @BunnyYotsi
      @BunnyYotsi 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And they're closing libraries down!

    • @enriquemoran9094
      @enriquemoran9094 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I live in Canada. The same situation happens here. Only parks and libraries remain, but you cant make friends out of books. Parks are poorly designed making their use inefficient and discouraging. Benches are seen as enemies taken only by homeless people. Add to that the excessive use of the car and the long distances between places and you have the perfect cocktail for a mental breakdown. The system has won, at least for now. We are only peons that feed it everyday until death. A perfect example of social isolation is the use of handheld devices in public places. The triumph of individuality for sure.

  • @frasercook5823
    @frasercook5823 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    So happy he mentioned children in care. It’s why as a care experienced person I rejected the status quo and anti neoliberalism.

    • @maryannemckay3606
      @maryannemckay3606 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep!…right from the verrrry beginning!!!

    • @lizziestevenson1908
      @lizziestevenson1908 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The way 'cared for' children are treated, to me, is the worst travesty. It just exaccerbates the unhappy, disconnected, aimles and in too many cases unloved society of today.

    • @cormacatcyclesierranevada1451
      @cormacatcyclesierranevada1451 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Conversely, George was all for masking children and shutting schools during the pandemic. I wonder what affect this had on working class kids and their attendance post lock downs. What does it mean for their future?

  • @lagringa7518
    @lagringa7518 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Excellent synopsis of exactly where we are. Bravo Monbiot.
    I think most people who are not afraid to do their homework and are not obsessed with teams, have been seeing this go down for decades.... we see the culprits and the game... so now what?

    • @JasperJohnD
      @JasperJohnD 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      War. Every time society reaches the point of revolution against the corrupt system, they send the young men off to war.

    • @MattAngiono
      @MattAngiono 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Correct, but most people still do see this as team sports...
      That's the result of watching them endlessly for decades.
      Most people don't realize just how much such things brainwash us.
      Divide and conquer. The oldest strategy in the book, and still holding us all down

  • @charleyhullah
    @charleyhullah 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I cried hearing those stats on children in care. Within my family, I have experienced this with my cousin being moved into a huge shared private young persons home in Manchester. All he knows was Worcestershire. I didn’t understand why the action and decision was so drastic but it makes complete sense now.

    • @BetjeWolff-v2s
      @BetjeWolff-v2s 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is the same here in the Netherlands. On top of that child care is also the place where pedophilia florishes. And drugsdealers find a market. Children are always screwed in every way in every time period. Humans are a ruthless, agressive species. We are all born with empathy, social instinct. help each other, untill we are betrayed by those who are supposed to care for us.

  • @ac4486
    @ac4486 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    George was a bit of a melt when it came to supporting the one person who could have taken us a step towards these things in 2017 and 2019.

    • @PantomimeHorse
      @PantomimeHorse 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      More than 'a bit'.
      He made a choice - he chose to protect his media career rather than fight for a chance at changing the system he decries.
      Maybe that was the right call for him - We've all got to make a living, and I'm genuinely not interested in dragging one of the very few mainstream journos in this country that 'get it' - but it's sad nevertheless.

    • @Fishstickification
      @Fishstickification 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Ironic considering the way they were discussing individualism at the start of this video

    • @adrianthoroughgood1191
      @adrianthoroughgood1191 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@PantomimeHorse I didn't see any of what he said then. Was he really telling people not to vote Labour?

    • @ac4486
      @ac4486 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @adrianthoroughgood1191 I'd refer you to - 1. Jonathan Cook blog post 'Whenever it truly matters...'. 2. Counterfire article 'An open letter to George Monbiot'.
      Also his response to Al Jazeera Labour files was a bit wet. Supposedly mega brained commentators like him feigning surprise at how disingenuous the "Antisemitism" stuff turned out to be, when it was obvious from the start to mere mortals like ourselves.

    • @ac4486
      @ac4486 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @adrianthoroughgood1191 an article 'whenever it truly matters...' from Jonathan Cook summarises quite well

  • @kevinmallinson4170
    @kevinmallinson4170 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +155

    Was going to blame the Tories, but I blame the ignorance of the vast majority of British people who voted time and time again for these bastards

    • @PantomimeHorse
      @PantomimeHorse 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I would blame those responsible for fostering that ignorance.
      The marxist concept of false consciousness has gone out of fashion - 'patronising', apparently - but I can't find a better explanation for why ~45% of voters would vote for a party that nakedly exists to further the aims of the 1%.

    • @finianlacy8827
      @finianlacy8827 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      And decided to dedicate themselves ans/ or kids to the same neo -liberal fate...

    • @giansideros
      @giansideros 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      You can't say it's a vast MAJORITY when it's no such thing, that's very flattering to the Tories and their loud supporters.
      They often win a PLURALITY, but that ONLY takes a minority, even if it is a large one.

    • @Ghengiskhansmum
      @Ghengiskhansmum 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      English Tory rural voters voted for them like they voted for Brexit. It's the same in the USA where rural voters adore Trump. They're detached from reality.

    • @sdwone
      @sdwone 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is true... Politicians, at the end of the day, are simply a reflection of US! And they can only get away with anything if WE allow them to do so! And since we are sooo divided, then that's music to the ears of our corrupt politicians.
      I mean Hell... Some CRAZY individuals STILL want Boris back!!???!?
      That just about sums it up really! And is a reflection of the Insanity that's currently being played out, across the pond, in America...
      This will be an interesting year, for the supposed pillars... US and UK... Of Western Civilization...

  • @rossconnell8838
    @rossconnell8838 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Great interview. More like it please!
    A breath of fresh air to listen to Monbiot describing the best route forward - Communities! At CAT we are working increadibly hard to educate ourselves and spread exactly the economic principles Monbiot describes. It can really feel like an uphill battle and lonely space at times but places such as CAT, alongside seeing interviews such as this can do so much to enage with wider audiences. We need more people to find agency within their local communities and do everything possible to overturn this rotten political system. It is time to harness the power of our local spaces and really give people the oppotunity to shape the communities inwhich they live.

  • @ciano9535
    @ciano9535 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    I think we've moved passed neo liberalism and we live in a full on oligarchy

    • @MattAngiono
      @MattAngiono 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Techno feudalism...
      They own us already.
      George Carlin was right lol

    • @Layla-kd4ui
      @Layla-kd4ui 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I think of it more as neofeudalism...which is just a little more British sounding...

    • @MattAngiono
      @MattAngiono 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My previous comment seems to have disappeared, but I fully concur.
      I think the more we point out that capitalism has predictably morphed back into feudalism (either neo- or technoz- both sound accurate to me), and an even more stratified version of it, the sooner we can start to discuss real alternatives.
      So many people are still caught in the capitalism vs socialism debate and fail to realize we don't have the former and the latter is also insufficient on its own.
      We need to change the basic values that structure the system.
      Some interesting people to listen to on this topic are Yanis Varoufakis and professor Sam Vaknin...
      Cheers

    • @MattAngiono
      @MattAngiono 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Layla-kd4ui my last comment was meant to reply to you

  • @Peter-ww9bw
    @Peter-ww9bw 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    I'm with you in Australia they sold critical services to foreign countries

    • @davidpowellseattle
      @davidpowellseattle 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We are all in this together. One planet. Time to figure it out.

    • @Peter-ww9bw
      @Peter-ww9bw 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@davidpowellseattle in what together, look into the London school of economics

  • @marksmit8112
    @marksmit8112 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Agree with 99% of what was said. Its refreshing to hear someone telling the truth for a change

    • @sukotu23
      @sukotu23 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And the 1% you didn't agree with was..?

  • @marielloyd8594
    @marielloyd8594 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Thank you, George Monbiot. I can only thank you.

  • @jahithalil4097
    @jahithalil4097 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

    The past 30 years have been shit,and I'm one of the lucky ones!

    • @evolassunglasses4673
      @evolassunglasses4673 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      The 70s were so bad they created the conditions for Thatcher

    • @philbraithwaite1316
      @philbraithwaite1316 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@evolassunglasses4673 Post-war decline created the conditions for Thatcher

    • @mozartsbumbumsrus7750
      @mozartsbumbumsrus7750 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I came to Londinium from rich California to further my career as a creative artist and serious high art classical musician. The monarchical class-system of Britain always was silly and stupid thanks to Willie the Bastard Conqueror in 1066. I only used Londinium as a base to get work on the Asian continent because Britain never gave me a break other than the occasional one off and even then they hated me for it. I played their game and beat them at their own game. I'm one of the lucky ones and live on full state benefits, thank you Britain. Oh, and I promised to pay the TV licence fee when/if the Beeb gave me a proper job. They never did and I never did a won/won or lose/lose situation for over 4 decades. Laaaaaaaavly. Cheers and trebles all around. More tea, vicar? Tennis anyone? Ah, life is grand!

    • @dreamcrusher112
      @dreamcrusher112 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mozartsbumbumsrus7750 verbal diarrhea

    • @peteroneill2991
      @peteroneill2991 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Pre 1980 full employment was the policy aim of all governments and owning your own home was possible for many. University was free and grants where available for students from lower income families. If you were not academically inclined you could easily get an apprenticeship, even unskilled work was easily available. There where proper government retraining schemes for older adults which were scrapped by Thatcher. Pensions were linked to average wages not inflation. This link was broken by Thatcher in 1980 and as a result by the mid 2000’s its value had fallen to 15% of average wages, in 1979 it was 26%. We actually had council houses, government house building and reconstruction was in full swing

  • @Patrick-p8z1m
    @Patrick-p8z1m 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    The crimes of Thatcher

  • @Steventrafford
    @Steventrafford 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Thanks for platforming this man. I’ll watch anything he talks in👊

  • @mickspencer2030
    @mickspencer2030 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    More power to you George keep telling how it is 👍👊

  • @Transidity
    @Transidity 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Holy cow, the revelation of so many truths, all linked by one thread - glorious yet truly horrifying. When will we find a new 'story' to replace the current, as George suggests. We the people need a miracle.

    • @normanbott
      @normanbott 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Agreed. If anyone tries to pull together even some of the threads he mentioned and show the connections they are branded as "A conspiracy theorist !" I don't know what the story is and I fear Starmer can't develop one.

  • @jondavid8830
    @jondavid8830 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It’s refreshing to return to George Monbiot after several years without listening to.
    What I like about George is he genuinely tries to build bridges, and to avoid stereotypes of “the Left” and “the Right”, and has a deep desire to bring people together.
    That said, there are still many questions I’d love him to answer:
    Such as,
    Why has the interviewer brought up the subject of George Floyd in this conversation?
    I can only think it was some kind of “group inclusion signalling”, and I wish he’d stayed on subject.
    What does George think about the fact that when Margaret Thatcher took over, the UK was an absolute s**t show, with militant Unions really out of control, appalling management equally to blame, three day weeks, electricity cuts and a level of relative poverty for most of us that we would now fall in to the “absolute poverty” definition.
    Young people obviously don’t remember those days, and my generation quite understandably don’t want to return to them.
    Where does someone like George sit with regard to someone like, say, Jordan Peterson?
    They both appear to rage against “neoliberalism”, so clearly they have at least something in common.
    And whilst I’d agree that by many measures “Capitalism” has failed us, “Communism” didn’t exactly fair any better now did it.
    In conclusion, George is entirely correct when he states that you can’t just come up with a (highly intellectual ) set of radical policies and expect the public to simply accept them.
    They need to be fully explained, rationalised, costed, with controls and monitoring systems set up, and reassurances provided that “tote-Left” (and equally “alt-Right”) cannot get their hands on them for purely ideological purposes.
    Jeremy Corbyn failed abysmally on these matters, hence his drubbing at the polls.
    Finally, mass immigration is almost entirely a result of Neo-liberal policies, providing a cheap labour source yet inadvertently stirring great concerns amongst those most affected day to day (usually the poorest).
    Why champion it so enthusiastically now, rather than simply suggest “a pause”, a moratorium on immigration to the UK , a country that simply has not built the infrastructure to cope with it, nor addressed the undoubted challenges that rapid multiculturalism brings to the receptor communities.
    They must be allowed their say.

  • @robertjohnson2830
    @robertjohnson2830 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Yet again George is absolutely on point.

  • @jayr9952
    @jayr9952 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    This is an excellent discussion

  • @Ded_Silu
    @Ded_Silu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I loved the interview and hope that more and indepth discussions of real economic matters can be presented!

  • @a.j.ponderbooks
    @a.j.ponderbooks 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    So true. Thank you for the video. Always worth seeing what George Monbiot has to say.

  • @beatlegreg07
    @beatlegreg07 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I could listen to George all day.

  • @chaoscarl8414
    @chaoscarl8414 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I'm afraid there's no way to solve this until it's too late.
    To solve a problem, you first have to acknowledge that the problem is there. But even the 2008 crash wasn't enough to convince people that the system itself is the problem. Years of anti-socialist and anti-communist propaganda has put us in a place we we can't even debate the problems inherent in capitalism.
    Seems to me that the whole rotten house of cards has to come crashing down before anything will happen. And even then, I'm not sure...

    • @dogeared100
      @dogeared100 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Trump is the manifestation of what was done in 2008.

  • @ady9830
    @ady9830 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    In China you can't change the party but you can change the policies. In the UK you can change the party but you can't change the policies.

    • @monsieurlapinot2549
      @monsieurlapinot2549 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no. now xi ximping can change policies. it's different.

    • @captainwheelbarrow649
      @captainwheelbarrow649 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@monsieurlapinot2549 I read that as Xi Simping lol

  • @malcolmmitchell6529
    @malcolmmitchell6529 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I wholeheartedly agree with every word you said. This is what people need to know.

  • @TennesseeJed
    @TennesseeJed 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Thatcher and Regan put a hurting on this world.

    • @mathelga
      @mathelga 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Neither were that clever! Look behind them and see where the ideas were born....that is why they havent gone away!

    • @TennesseeJed
      @TennesseeJed 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mathelga Milton Freedman was one of the actual minds behind the rebranding of laissez-faire capitalism.

  • @mikewells6121
    @mikewells6121 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    In 1930 economist John Maynard Keynes, wrote... within 100 years, most people will be working no more than 15 hours a week.
    In 1867 Karl Marx wrote... 'The prolongation of the working-day beyond the limits of the natural day, into the night, only acts as a palliative. It quenches only in a slight degree the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour. To appropriate labour during all the 24 hours of the day is, therefore, the inherent tendency of capitalist production.'
    It's obvious which of these two figures had the better understanding of Capitalism.
    Yet the vampire thirst isn't limited to labour, it's gobbles up absolutely everything. Perhaps Capitalism would be better seen more as a black hole than a vampire.

  • @wuhnder
    @wuhnder 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Superb interviewee _and_ interviewer 👏

  • @keith214
    @keith214 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I am 40 with no ability to own my own home without selling off a family home when my parents die or winning the lottery. How should that be viewed as “normal”

  • @MikeRLloyd73
    @MikeRLloyd73 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    What Britain is going through with the mental health crisis America started it 55 years ago...and look at us

    • @oldishandwoke-ish1181
      @oldishandwoke-ish1181 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A basket case 😣

    • @Maxibo234
      @Maxibo234 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      At least we don't have all those guns here/ the NRA denying that school shootings have anything do do with them 😂

  • @ServaasFlesch
    @ServaasFlesch 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Best philosopher journalist in, arguably, the world. Enormous bank of knowledge and he expresses it all in such clarity. Hats off, George.

  • @martinhughes7973
    @martinhughes7973 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Best interview I've seen for a long time. Always appreciated the views of George Monbiot, but his many years of experience and skilful articulation distil our political problems with such clarity. This should be compulsory viewing.

    • @Cotswolds1913
      @Cotswolds1913 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I mean it was absolute bollocks but okay, I guess when you're impressionable you can lop up anything.

  • @alexandermccarthy
    @alexandermccarthy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    As a kid born in near poverty in SE London in the late 1960s, I'm living proof that George's commentary is absolutely spot on!
    Things MUST change, and that change needs to happen by smashing the existing political class.

    • @GKEL18
      @GKEL18 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No Alexander you’re confused like everybody else. The political class is merely a reflection of its struggle with the upper class. These are the people who have brought politics to this point, fuelled by the Media. They have found a way over decades to use it to solely their advantage. The beauty of Democracy is that it kept these people at bay, because we have voting power. But Democracy, public health and school, etc. have no advantage to them and only stands in the way of conquest. The same has happened to Unions and their demise. Brexit was the same kind of BS bullshit perpetrated on the British people by using anger, hate and mis-information and by recruiting any nit that would listen. It’s a war against the people. Its deliberate.

  • @ricochet243
    @ricochet243 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    It was never about selling state assets for the Treasury’s benefit, it was to cripple the unions and get the Govt off the hook from having to deal with them.

    • @keithparker1346
      @keithparker1346 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      An interesting point

  • @Rachel_M_
    @Rachel_M_ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I still have my copy of Captive State I bought years ago
    .. . Omg!! I feel old now 😳

  • @n3d_ludd379
    @n3d_ludd379 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Fantastic interview, thank you

  • @Number_Free
    @Number_Free 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is one historic video! Excellent.

  • @Anonymjen-rz3xu
    @Anonymjen-rz3xu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    "Only thing that can replace a story is a story". That's what we are missing ....

  • @Martin-id4xp
    @Martin-id4xp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The start to this is incredible. Without connecting to something other than ours and each other, we are nothing.

  • @bonariablackie4047
    @bonariablackie4047 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    We have a mental health crisis because the Tories destroyed mental health services. People with Anorexia need mental health services. People with Schizophrenia, or psychosis or depression NEED mental health services. It's all very well saying society has been divided, which it has, but nevertheless, what is needed is properly staffed, properly funded Mental Health Services.

    • @Stoddardian
      @Stoddardian 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Muh Tories.

    • @normanchristie4524
      @normanchristie4524 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher.! Even the blood contammination problem is down to her. (Dr) David Owen appealed to her to create a UK blood processing service, she refused!

    • @gillscorner794
      @gillscorner794 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They didn't just destroy the services they created a toxic environment to create a higher demand for what their destroyed

    • @adamrosendahl8090
      @adamrosendahl8090 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stop blaming politicians who cannot operate under neoliberalism. They have no power to change anything under the umbrella of private property.

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@adamrosendahl8090 Sorry, I can't blame the politicians who have spent the last 38 years touting neoliberalism? Yes. Yes I can.

  • @ME0423
    @ME0423 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Excellent interview, very informative!

  • @lesliestenta3084
    @lesliestenta3084 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    " Its no sign of good Health to be well adjusted in a profoundly sick society"

  • @wickenworkshop4625
    @wickenworkshop4625 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great episode. Thanks to you both for this 🙂

  • @lorenzocorradini7556
    @lorenzocorradini7556 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Fascinating interview once more. Sad nobody was present to check the audio... :-S

    • @Pogman30
      @Pogman30 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Count Binface was present and he says Ollie sounds fine.

  • @4whirledpeas
    @4whirledpeas 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was a brilliant conversation. Thank you!

  • @autisticautumn7379
    @autisticautumn7379 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Nothing has changed since Thatcher just got so much worse .

  • @syllomusic
    @syllomusic 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've never known what NeoLiberalism is, but thank you auto-play for (probably) auto-serving me the most inspiring and coherent explanation in existence

  • @candascat
    @candascat 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    No mention of Ayn Rand and the influence objectivism has had on society in the last 50 years. You’ve written about her before George, this needs to be highlighted in every conversation about the world and the economy and it’s devastating effect.

    • @lemsip207
      @lemsip207 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Chicago School of Economics followed then with neoliberalism which it touted in Davos and then imposed on Chile and Argentina. Only the people there wouldn't accept it so fascist dictators were used to impose it. The British readily accepted neo liberalism in the 80s except for the Labour Party then. The SDP came up with a compromise between Thatcherism and traditional Labourism from the 70s.

  • @WilleasFogg
    @WilleasFogg 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My god - at 14:51.... Had to do a rewind and just let that sink in. Always loved George Monbiot, but he just blew my mind right there. Beautifully articulating the utter madness and outdated nature of our FPTP system.
    Proportional representation would be a good start, but the very nature of the 5 year term needs to be overhauled.

  • @seancapes2
    @seancapes2 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I really like George's views and commentary. Yes, we're in dire straits, but it's up to us to make the necessary changes. We're the ones complicit in this. Sure, voting for poor choice A or poor choice B isn't much of a choice, so let's choose something else. We're the only ones who can change this.

  • @uberwench_
    @uberwench_ 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Incredible interview. Thank you

  • @pastyman001
    @pastyman001 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Monbiot has the most convincing tale as to what is wrong with society and economy and why. Extremely impressive

    • @Neo-ECO-LIberalism
      @Neo-ECO-LIberalism 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      he tells you what you want to hear, without getting to the core of the problem

    • @pastyman001
      @pastyman001 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Neo-ECO-LIberalism This was not what I expected to hear

  • @numbersix8919
    @numbersix8919 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    George Monbiot. Really, really liking this conversation.

  • @MartinJames389
    @MartinJames389 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Lots of insight there, but I see cracks in neoliberalism which haven't been apparent before, and it all emanates from .... GAZA, albeit not directly. The manifested creation of community I've experienced in opposing the genocide has been rapid and unprecedented. What's more, it's been revelatory. People in the global minority world are see their wealthy societies and their role in the world in a new light. The desperation, the lies and the violence of states against us serves only to show this more clearly. Can the USA and European states glue things back together again? They probably can, at a heavy price, but are they canny enough to even see the big picture of what's happening in the fog of their own lies? I see little sign of that capacity so far, and long may it be absent.

    • @dogeared100
      @dogeared100 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No. People just won't see what is going on!

    • @dogeared100
      @dogeared100 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But we should try anyway.

    • @MartinJames389
      @MartinJames389 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dogeared100 New realities will be seen by increasing numbers of people as they develop.

    • @MattAngiono
      @MattAngiono 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think technological dystopia is more likely.
      When things get bad, they'll be ready to match out the new systems of surveillance, isolation, drug induced apathy, etc...
      In fact, Palestine seems to be the test bed for lots of this insanity.
      I think we'll also see a lot of it in post apocalyptic Ukraine, and you can tell already by the investors chomping at the bit there.
      They want to make it ALL digital, as that's the ultimate form of control.
      I am at least somewhat inspired by the anti Zionist movement taking hold.
      I just hope we don't get stuck in our own box that prevents us from understanding that this goes far beyond one conflict and extends to our entire society and how we think.
      And I don't see any real leverage to get the psychos out of power.
      But I do hope to be wrong about all of that.
      Keep fighting! ✌️🍉

  • @0zoneTherapyCures
    @0zoneTherapyCures 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "You’ll live like a king, but you’ll also have to sacrifice everything inside you that makes life worth living." ~ Caitlin Johnstone. Ever since capitalism became unshackled 50 yrs ago, the world turned ugly fast. Turns out human/labor rights ARE important, borders ARE important, safety regulations ARE important, local businesses ARE important, public services ARE important, owning a home and car ARE important, family values ARE important, untainted food supply and medical products that benefit health ARE important, quality education IS important, etc.

  • @shaunmiller7370
    @shaunmiller7370 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It started in 79 when the Tories were voted in not by me, I was labour, but that’s for another day. Maggie’s idea was to sell everything or go to war to keep the Tories in number 10 at all cost, and that was selling Britain off and that is all the Tories in brackets Conservatives have done for the past 45 years give or take and it don’t work. None of it works. It worked for the Tories who had a big windfall. They didn’t have to tax the right people, and that was the top 1% at the time when they have the windfall of oil revenue, we also at that time paid of the Americans for world War two, which was called lease. Lend we paid the Americans billions for all their help in World War II. Now let’s get back to the Tories, they screwed this country just so they could keep in power. They got into bed with Ronald Ragan because Ronnie and Maggie were good buddies. I don’t think that good but hey Ho, eczema years later 40 odd years later, privatisation does not work it is screwed this country badly we need our infrastructure back in the house and obviously managed well but privatisation no no no

  • @jonathaneffemey944
    @jonathaneffemey944 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks so much for posting

  • @f0xylady100
    @f0xylady100 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Please ask George where he gets his shirts, they're always so natty and must be ethically sourced.

    • @NoobRideseMTB
      @NoobRideseMTB 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😮

    • @mozartsbumbumsrus7750
      @mozartsbumbumsrus7750 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I go to Gail's daily to write, research, study for several hours. I spend as little as possible or nothing and enjoy the air con , but I just learned that Gail's Bakery is Israeli owned. BOYCOTT Gail's!

    • @TheAlbinoskunk
      @TheAlbinoskunk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@mozartsbumbumsrus7750bro what is wrong with you

    • @mozartsbumbumsrus7750
      @mozartsbumbumsrus7750 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheAlbinoskunk And what exactly is your diagnosis of me?

    • @TheAlbinoskunk
      @TheAlbinoskunk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mozartsbumbumsrus7750 Socialist who enjoys Western luxuries whilst wishing you didn't. Also brain poisoned by Instagram politics, seeing as you decided to bring up Gail's out of context just because of your revulsion that you have been enjoying an Israeli-adjacent business all this time

  • @alexgray1905
    @alexgray1905 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great interview ... I am going to read more of what George Monboit has written.

  • @juliewake4585
    @juliewake4585 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    “He stands for election. He stands for very little else.” Nice one George.

  • @boatdweller310
    @boatdweller310 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Absolutely NAILS our current malaise. Peak Monbiot

  • @gordonwilson1631
    @gordonwilson1631 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Agreed. “There is no such thing as society” was not an opinion but a declaration for the future.

  • @bernieblundell6998
    @bernieblundell6998 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great reminder where we are...thanks

  • @roddychristodoulou9111
    @roddychristodoulou9111 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    On the subject of mental health the Tories closed down all the mental hospitals and introduced a scheme known as care in the community .
    And we see the final result as catastrophic failure , not to mention the thousands of innocent civilians that have been killed maimed and injured by these lunatics who should've been in secure mental hospitals .

    • @tanzeelahmadhashmi6209
      @tanzeelahmadhashmi6209 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I worked with some guys who were escorted by 2 police officers to doctors appointment. They had set behaviour in regimented hospitals but life in community was damaging and stressful to themselves

    • @pjl8119
      @pjl8119 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The decimation of mental health and social services is a major factor behind the enormous levels of homelessness and substance abuse that afflicts more or less everywhere in England. It's no longer just a big city problem. Homelessness and severe substance abuse is endemic right down to the village level. It's shocking returning to England after spending time away to see the state of it.

    • @foppo101
      @foppo101 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Don't call people lunatics roddy.Something can happen in your life or you are born with something and you can't do much about it.

    • @zoranblackie5921
      @zoranblackie5921 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Deinstitutionalisation took place due to a number of long stay scandals who were in these old asylums, with privately run facilities disincentivised from discharging people who did not need long term care. This was a massive cost, so care in the community enabled that - however it is not the panacea to severe and enduring mental illness which is managed through secure mental health services - however over the last 15 years cinderella services like mental health have disproportionally have had real term cuts year on year, with increasing SMI (due to pandemic and cost of living) meaning services are struggling. It is disingenuous to say 'thousands of civilians have been maimed or killed by these lunatics' - partly as its not true, but also stigmatises MH. The fact we have poor access to lower tier mental health support means more people will reach mental health crisis, which also impacts on the A&Es

  • @MontyCantsin5
    @MontyCantsin5 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    37:08: Great to hear this discussion taking place. Monbiot is absolutely correct; we should be aiming for zero economic growth for the simple reason that perpetual accumulation of capital at the cost of depleting natural resources (and, by extension, destroying fragile ecosystems) is entirely unsustainable. Degrowth should not be viewed as some kind of 'radical', or 'impossible' idea - it's a necessity if we want to keep living on a planet that is conducive to our wellbeing. Unfortunately, we seem to be set on a path of greed and complete denial centred around the impossible notion of endless growth. David Harvey is another excellent voice on this topic.

  • @lizbrown1822
    @lizbrown1822 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It’s already clear that if you want something doing you have to do it yourself - collectively, locally and in spite of it all.

  • @shayandasgupta3789
    @shayandasgupta3789 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a brilliant interview. It gives us a sense of the dangers we are facing to our security and sustenance even as we are led to believe that life's fulfillment comes only through our pursuit of maximizing our individual material wealth. We have become solitary beings disconnected from our aspirations of a greater common good.

  • @GBBRAVO-cq6fd
    @GBBRAVO-cq6fd 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    "Broadly speaking: we are a society of altruists, governed by psychopaths." Couldn't agree more - yet how does this get addressed?

    • @pwood6532
      @pwood6532 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Take the money out of politics...also the foreign influence..such as conservative friends of labour etc.

  • @clarencejones4717
    @clarencejones4717 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It’s so good to hear ppl talking about the failures of these systems to know I’m not alone.

  • @m.walther6434
    @m.walther6434 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I'd like to recommend two books.
    Naomi Oreskes et al.: The big Myth. A great book about 100 years of business propaganda and
    Jonathan Hopkins: Anti System Politics. A detailed analysis about the political fallout of Austerity politics and the economic meltdown of 2007/08

  • @blacksusan108
    @blacksusan108 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    brilliant interview! George knows his stuff!

  • @RuskiVixen
    @RuskiVixen 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    George seemingly describes meaningful and fulfilling life I had as a child in the USSR.

    • @subcitizen2012
      @subcitizen2012 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ye olde commie bloc had its problems for sure, but these days I really can t blame people for being nostalgic for that place and time, for people in and out of it. The soviets were by far a more rational and reasonable opponent compared to the me graded multipolarity of despots we have today. When society mattered more, people mattered, their jobs mattered. Now we are all just numbers on charts.

  • @appstratum9747
    @appstratum9747 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't always agree with George, but respect his integrity and views. This was a very interesting and enlightening interview that was well worth watching.

  • @kayleyedwards7141
    @kayleyedwards7141 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Great interview.

  • @mathewhasker
    @mathewhasker 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm 10 minutes and what this guy is saying is everything I've been thinking for years and yet felt I was the only one who felt this. Enlightening and basically the truth.

  • @juliahartshorn2473
    @juliahartshorn2473 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Making our vulnerable children profit fodder for business is disgusting.

  • @windokeluanda
    @windokeluanda 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Congratulations for the interview!