2017-10-20
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So it's taken me a while to figure out exactly where I want to go with the rest of the Frankfurt School series.
Distilling the work of one thinker down into a few episodes is impossible enough.
When you have a whole group of people, it becomes exponentially more difficult.
But I think I found a way.
And I want to start the show today by talking about a capitalist response to all this.
It's a response that over the years talking to people seems to be a common rebuttal from people who hear everything the Frankfurt School has said so far,
but still believe that capitalism is the best way to be doing things.
It's kind of a nuanced way of being a proponent of capitalism, and it goes like this.
What if everything the Frankfurt School has said so far about capitalism is true?
What if they're right?
What if from birth I have been programmed to think of myself as fundamentally a worker and consumer?
I go to a job that sucks the life out of me.
I buy things to make me feel better.
What if I'm not close to other human beings around me?