While my cynical side fears the slick political machine will crush Chaytan I also admire his determination to do something in the name of what of he believes. Good things do happen even if not in the way we intended but one thing is for sure: nothing happens if we do nothing. I recall another episode on Ian Edwards who had a plan to change the law for fiduciaries in his state and I wonder if there is a spin off podcast here for people not just talking about change but doing it.
Great episode. Listened to it a few hours ago now.
Nice change of pace and tone: a younger voice committed to getting the politics right before being old enough to have sold out from pressure of needing to look after a family or some other excuse.
He's dead right:
he DOES have life experience, and those drastic experiences are only going to come thicker and faster because of the LACK of political changes over the last several decades when they ought to have been made.
Good chat, and admirable campaign. Interesting threads around rights of nature here in the Pacific NW.
Is degrowth a bad name? Or a fine name that's tarnished like any other name, by virtue of powerful forces disliking it? Has the value of being clear and honest!
The Degrowth movement gathers pace. We are eaarth, for some time, have championed the work of Kate Raworth, the assessment by Jason Hinkel. The work done by Barbara Williams. But there is a worldwide movement that scientific-based economists and environmentalists advocate, that growth is a geometrical progression that on a planet with finite resources and a millennium of replenishing the exhausted resources is totally unsustainable. The enemy of this ,of course, is the financial enrichment of a small cabal of self-serving elites, who have all the money and the power. Their removal is essential for the survival of the human Species, along with thousands of other species on our beautiful planet.
We loved having you down under here in our degrowth group (Degrowth Network Australia) here in Melbourne. So good to have spoken to you in person and witnessed your quiet intelligent comments in all of our meetings. THANK YOU and good luck in the mud slinging circus of USA politics. These conversations need to be heard in the USA scene and in the politics. Degrowth reaches a new level!!
The age that is now ending has been marked by industrial development that has yielded a sort of religious belief in the power of technologies to solve any problem. At the same time, hitherto practiced science has been desperately immature in its reductive nature, in addressing individual issues without correlating them and considering their combined impact. Despite being rooted in the Christian tradition, the Occident has engaged in the deadly sin of unbridled gluttony, facilitated by industrial development, infecting most of the rest of the world.
Due to multiple factors, all that has to and will end.
What the guy featured in the video, as well as most others who talk about the unsustainable nature of the present mode de vie, says is correct, but the world needs more than that. The world needs an ideology, a concept, perhaps a religion, a vision for a new form of existence. Something that is more appealing than the current gluttonous consumerism (which is appealing all right, it wouldn't be a sin otherwise) or at least as appealing, perhaps in conjunction with the stick of energy/resource shortages thrown in.
Traditionally, new ideas were proposed by artists (actual artists, not entertainers), philosophers, visionaries, developed by engineers, and implemented by politicians. Doing it the other way around won't work because politicians are opportunistic motherfuckers who rise to eminence by kissing ass and sucking dick (you will pardon my French, but I can't think of more accurate a description), devoid of ideas, principles, and good intentions. Exceptions only prove this rule.
Gotta wake up them artists, philosophers, and visionaries ....!
On the question of corporate personhood there has been a stupendous (overwhelming) amount of legal verbiage. Rachel's point was clearly stated by Thom Hartmann:
"This written statement, that corporations were 'persons' rather than 'artificial persons,' with an equal footing under the Bill of Rights as humans, was not a formal ruling of the court, but was reportedly a simple statement by its Chief Justice, recorded by the court recorder.
There was no Supreme Court decision to the effect that corporations are equal to natural persons and not artificial persons."
Rachel mentioned a statistic around how much emissions are being produced by rich people (billionaires maybe?) and I think it was 73%. Does anyone know where that statistic came from? I'd love to read more :)
Rachel mentioned a statistic around how much emissions are being produced by rich people (billionaires maybe?) and I think it was 73%. Does anyone know where that statistic came from? I'd love to read more :)
Ooooh it is so uplifting to hear someone running for political office who sounds like this. Thank you Chaytan! It doesn’t matter if he wins or how far he gets. His mere existence and attempt are revolutionary and so important.
Brilliant piece of news Rachel. Needs a wider audience to encourage a wider instigation of intelligent endevour to replace coruptocracy. Peace, Maurice
While my cynical side fears the slick political machine will crush Chaytan I also admire his determination to do something in the name of what of he believes. Good things do happen even if not in the way we intended but one thing is for sure: nothing happens if we do nothing. I recall another episode on Ian Edwards who had a plan to change the law for fiduciaries in his state and I wonder if there is a spin off podcast here for people not just talking about change but doing it.
Great episode. Listened to it a few hours ago now.
Nice change of pace and tone: a younger voice committed to getting the politics right before being old enough to have sold out from pressure of needing to look after a family or some other excuse.
He's dead right:
he DOES have life experience, and those drastic experiences are only going to come thicker and faster because of the LACK of political changes over the last several decades when they ought to have been made.
Much love and strength to Chaytan Inman,
Washington's soon-to-be State Governor!
Good chat, and admirable campaign. Interesting threads around rights of nature here in the Pacific NW.
Is degrowth a bad name? Or a fine name that's tarnished like any other name, by virtue of powerful forces disliking it? Has the value of being clear and honest!
The Degrowth movement gathers pace. We are eaarth, for some time, have championed the work of Kate Raworth, the assessment by Jason Hinkel. The work done by Barbara Williams. But there is a worldwide movement that scientific-based economists and environmentalists advocate, that growth is a geometrical progression that on a planet with finite resources and a millennium of replenishing the exhausted resources is totally unsustainable. The enemy of this ,of course, is the financial enrichment of a small cabal of self-serving elites, who have all the money and the power. Their removal is essential for the survival of the human Species, along with thousands of other species on our beautiful planet.
We loved having you down under here in our degrowth group (Degrowth Network Australia) here in Melbourne. So good to have spoken to you in person and witnessed your quiet intelligent comments in all of our meetings. THANK YOU and good luck in the mud slinging circus of USA politics. These conversations need to be heard in the USA scene and in the politics. Degrowth reaches a new level!!
The world is ripe for a new age of renaissance.
The age that is now ending has been marked by industrial development that has yielded a sort of religious belief in the power of technologies to solve any problem. At the same time, hitherto practiced science has been desperately immature in its reductive nature, in addressing individual issues without correlating them and considering their combined impact. Despite being rooted in the Christian tradition, the Occident has engaged in the deadly sin of unbridled gluttony, facilitated by industrial development, infecting most of the rest of the world.
Due to multiple factors, all that has to and will end.
What the guy featured in the video, as well as most others who talk about the unsustainable nature of the present mode de vie, says is correct, but the world needs more than that. The world needs an ideology, a concept, perhaps a religion, a vision for a new form of existence. Something that is more appealing than the current gluttonous consumerism (which is appealing all right, it wouldn't be a sin otherwise) or at least as appealing, perhaps in conjunction with the stick of energy/resource shortages thrown in.
Traditionally, new ideas were proposed by artists (actual artists, not entertainers), philosophers, visionaries, developed by engineers, and implemented by politicians. Doing it the other way around won't work because politicians are opportunistic motherfuckers who rise to eminence by kissing ass and sucking dick (you will pardon my French, but I can't think of more accurate a description), devoid of ideas, principles, and good intentions. Exceptions only prove this rule.
Gotta wake up them artists, philosophers, and visionaries ....!
On the question of corporate personhood there has been a stupendous (overwhelming) amount of legal verbiage. Rachel's point was clearly stated by Thom Hartmann:
"This written statement, that corporations were 'persons' rather than 'artificial persons,' with an equal footing under the Bill of Rights as humans, was not a formal ruling of the court, but was reportedly a simple statement by its Chief Justice, recorded by the court recorder.
There was no Supreme Court decision to the effect that corporations are equal to natural persons and not artificial persons."
https://www.thomhartmann.com/unequal-protection/excerpt-theft
Chaytan seems to be clued up well beyond his years. Good luck to him, I hope he’s got a thick skin.
Great episode, good on you chaytan:)
Rachel mentioned a statistic around how much emissions are being produced by rich people (billionaires maybe?) and I think it was 73%. Does anyone know where that statistic came from? I'd love to read more :)
Great episode, good on you chaytan:)
Rachel mentioned a statistic around how much emissions are being produced by rich people (billionaires maybe?) and I think it was 73%. Does anyone know where that statistic came from? I'd love to read more :)
Ooooh it is so uplifting to hear someone running for political office who sounds like this. Thank you Chaytan! It doesn’t matter if he wins or how far he gets. His mere existence and attempt are revolutionary and so important.
Brilliant piece of news Rachel. Needs a wider audience to encourage a wider instigation of intelligent endevour to replace coruptocracy. Peace, Maurice
For a deeper dive see:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/history-corporate-personhood
For a long historical argument in favor of corporate standing, see:
https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/are-corporations-people#:~:text=Corporations%20as%20legal%20forms%2C%20Blackstone,view%20to%20socially%20useful%20ends