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The lefties I follow are sharing lectures by Murray Bookchin, who would have been 100 years old today. His works have had a profound impact on many organizations and individuals that I respect, so I pulled this one up and started listening. I'm about 1/4 through and my mind is a puddle. His words have prompted at least five different profound tracks of thought, and their prescience of and applicability to our current moment cannot be overstated.
his realistic take that any system can become hierarchical and oppressive is refreshing. just because you have a revolution and establish committees and workers councils doesn't means that you're going to over come hierarchy or class society....
Bookchin the New York prophet. This one is an absolute gem ringing with truth and relevance 45 years later. If humanity survives he'll be among the saints - such clarity of vision spoken in what it is, common sense. He couldn't see the scale of the addiction, the web of addictions. Or maybe could, he just still hoped, he saw a way.
My guess is that he’s referring to Italian architect Paolo Soleri, who was somewhat well-known at the time for ecologically-oriented architecture emphasizing a harmonious coexistence of human settlements and nature. Bookchin says he doesn’t want to make ad hominem attacks against Soleri because he feels that Soleri is well-intentioned. Ultimately though Soleri is still a futurist in Bookchin’s view.
You should edit the audio for this so that the volume stays the same it should not be that hard. There are some spots where it gets so quiet. I can hardly hear it even if I max out my volume
Based on Bookchin’s other contextual clues, he most likely was referring to Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian philosopher who coined the term ‘global village’ and extrapolated on it in his writings. The ‘global village’, which he started writing about in the early 1960s, referred to our world becoming more interconnected as a result of electronic media technologies. And this was 30 years prior to the WWW being invented. It seems Bookchin would not have been a fan of platforms like YT where people can exchange ideas but never (or rarely) meet in person to dialogue and create a real community.
it's still a good observation even if the WTC no longer exists. I imagine you would get that same feeling he describes if you were looking out from the top of any tall skyscraper.
Must be nice to think this way and be appreciated. These days the mechanical and the biological are interchangeable in most peoples' minds. I like what he means by the organic but am cautious of anyone who apes this rhetoric today.
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The lefties I follow are sharing lectures by Murray Bookchin, who would have been 100 years old today. His works have had a profound impact on many organizations and individuals that I respect, so I pulled this one up and started listening.
I'm about 1/4 through and my mind is a puddle. His words have prompted at least five different profound tracks of thought, and their prescience of and applicability to our current moment cannot be overstated.
his realistic take that any system can become hierarchical and oppressive is refreshing. just because you have a revolution and establish committees and workers councils doesn't means that you're going to over come hierarchy or class society....
I'd never heard MB talk before. Now I'm a convert! Brilliant, inspiring, prophetic and chilling: we ignore this guy at our peril...
Well said. I feel similarly
He is such an inspiring speaker....Gosh, if only I could talk like that.....
Dude pretty much warned us of silicon valley neoliberalism
elon musk
Read Bill Joy's piece: _Why The Future Doesn't Need Us_ published in _Wired_ .
Yeah Elon musk exemplifies everything Bookchin is warning against.
He is spot on! The world needs to hear this message now
OMG this guy. My favourite thinker.
Same
Man, they had Kenneth Boulding, Murray Bookchin, and Alexander Solzhenizin talking in the same event!!! WOW I wish I was already born at the time
This is so inspiring.
This hits so hard in 2024!
Bookchin the New York prophet. This one is an absolute gem ringing with truth and relevance 45 years later. If humanity survives he'll be among the saints - such clarity of vision spoken in what it is, common sense.
He couldn't see the scale of the addiction, the web of addictions. Or maybe could, he just still hoped, he saw a way.
I love this! :D
pure wahnsinn! so true to the bone!
This guy rocks.
Keep up the good work!
This is amazing 🤯❤️🙏
Wow, this is deep.
“Daydreams are dangerous” thats goin in the mental vault
If feel like parts of this address go really well with Aesop Rock's album "Integrated Tech Solutions".
11:30 OMG Murray Bookchin predicted the youtube channel game theory!!!
this is epic.
Murray's classes at Alternate U were the most crowded and boisterous that were.
This is the antidote to e/acc.
Anybody knows what he says at 5:28 to 5:34?
My guess is that he’s referring to Italian architect Paolo Soleri, who was somewhat well-known at the time for ecologically-oriented architecture emphasizing a harmonious coexistence of human settlements and nature. Bookchin says he doesn’t want to make ad hominem attacks against Soleri because he feels that Soleri is well-intentioned. Ultimately though Soleri is still a futurist in Bookchin’s view.
nice
You should edit the audio for this so that the volume stays the same it should not be that hard. There are some spots where it gets so quiet. I can hardly hear it even if I max out my volume
Who was he talking about 15:25?
Based on Bookchin’s other contextual clues, he most likely was referring to Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian philosopher who coined the term ‘global village’ and extrapolated on it in his writings. The ‘global village’, which he started writing about in the early 1960s, referred to our world becoming more interconnected as a result of electronic media technologies. And this was 30 years prior to the WWW being invented. It seems Bookchin would not have been a fan of platforms like YT where people can exchange ideas but never (or rarely) meet in person to dialogue and create a real community.
this mf spittin'
11:33
24:10
44:00 Beautiful
25:00 didnt age well oof
it's still a good observation even if the WTC no longer exists. I imagine you would get that same feeling he describes if you were looking out from the top of any tall skyscraper.
It didn't have to. Bookended by reality. Enola Gay. Drone warfare. End of discussion.
Must be nice to think this way and be appreciated. These days the mechanical and the biological are interchangeable in most peoples' minds. I like what he means by the organic but am cautious of anyone who apes this rhetoric today.
Yes, they took his lead - organic and development and growth were all subsumed by capitalist technocrats!
Ben Franklin was not a philistine! That was a low blow, Murray. I thought Utopians were nice people.
Murray Bookchin was a polemecist and not at all concerned with being nice.
i am not a futurist - murray bookchin. gold!