Live Interview with Mathew Crawford
What do we want from a President? And other questions ...
Today, May 1st, at 1 Eastern time/ 10 Pacific Time (corrected!) Mathew is interviewing me on Rounding the Earth! Our topic is What Do We Want from a President? Here’s the link for the recording:
That was a very interesting conversation.
"We need for Government to stop protecting the bankers"
Tereza, what is your opinion about the criticism of money lending? Some people say it is all bad, that that banking practice ought not to be allowed.
A second thing, more like a comment. Subsistence economies sounds bad to me. I think that's because there is an element of tragedy and looming disaster, like the story of the Messenians losing against the Spartans. I know that economics is the dismal science, but this idea of "different economies" is good, it creates hope. It's almost not "economics."
Part of the problem is the general demoralization caused by monocrop central planning, where the only product is debt. But people finding a way to live and produce according to their values is much better: as people experience by themselves what works and what does not work, each on his own way, their values become reinforced or corrected in a natural and harmonious way. That's the good times.
Right now the world looks like Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan: There are no values or prosperity or hope.
I think I'm interested in your book.
As an anarchist I say absolutely nothing regarding a "president".
Anarchism is the big smear because it admits this simple fact: we don't need a state to govern free people. In fact the only ones who truly need such a entity are the ruling class, and they exist in every state regardless of ideological forms.