In the debut episode of House of Life, hosts Asim Hussain and Tom Greenwood pull sustainability out of its usual carbon-counting box and wrestle with its deeper meaning.
You both followed in reverse the learning path I have had in the last 20 years:
- 2005 and the French No to the EU referendum, mainly pushed by the bottom's up realisation that the proposed EU constitution was not democratic. One French professor woke up back then the understanding of many: https://youtu.be/oN5tdMSXWV8?feature=shared (subtitled in English)
- the above was followed by the understanding of the power of monetary creation and the issue of "money as debt"
Thank you so much for this comment Oli. It’s fascinating to hear this perspective and the insight into the EU constitution. And great that you highlighted money as debt as that’s a key aspect of all this too. I’m sure that will come up somewhere in a future episode.
Ditto thanks Oli. My current journey has me deep into the analysis of neoclassical economic theory (or to put it another way, the complete and utter failure of neoclassical economics to both predict the global financial crisis and understand what to do afterwards, and the strange way this hasn't triggered a paradigm shift, we've just brushed it under the carpet and moved on)
Long Decent sounded interesting.. but they I read that the author is also the Head of the Order of Druids, so it's definitely on my read list now ;)
What a first podcast episode!
You both followed in reverse the learning path I have had in the last 20 years:
- 2005 and the French No to the EU referendum, mainly pushed by the bottom's up realisation that the proposed EU constitution was not democratic. One French professor woke up back then the understanding of many: https://youtu.be/oN5tdMSXWV8?feature=shared (subtitled in English)
- the above was followed by the understanding of the power of monetary creation and the issue of "money as debt"
- in 2014 with John Michael Greer's book "The long descent", https://goodreads.com/book/show/4347496-the-long-descent , I realised our global predicament.
- 10 years followed in the search of "solutions" and true sustainability...
So your podcast brought me back to central question of power and governance, the circle is completed.
Thank you so much for this comment Oli. It’s fascinating to hear this perspective and the insight into the EU constitution. And great that you highlighted money as debt as that’s a key aspect of all this too. I’m sure that will come up somewhere in a future episode.
Ditto thanks Oli. My current journey has me deep into the analysis of neoclassical economic theory (or to put it another way, the complete and utter failure of neoclassical economics to both predict the global financial crisis and understand what to do afterwards, and the strange way this hasn't triggered a paradigm shift, we've just brushed it under the carpet and moved on)
Long Decent sounded interesting.. but they I read that the author is also the Head of the Order of Druids, so it's definitely on my read list now ;)