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This is for people interested in seeing what's likely to be coming next, or (even better) interested to help.

Being Worked On

Ideas

Assuming The Worst

How target/money culture subverts humans

• Teaching Children To Care, Alfie Kohn, 54 min
• The war on moral will (Barry Schwartz) 68 min
• Don't Let Money Change You (Music) 7 min

• What motivates people? (Daniel Pink) 10 min
• Adam Curtis - The Trap, section on hospital targets

Left Hand of God

The title is from Michael Lerner, who describes how the religious right has recreated God in their own image as a powerful dominator, but how they address a gap in people's lives, the loneliness and social disconnection of pretending to be homo economicus all day.

• People's social isolation
• How the market assumption
• Cheapening of Friendship
• Ivan Illich on the commitment of friendship

The Emerging Gift Economy

How people are responding to the poison of money

• Interview about doing RRFMs in 1992, 25 min
• Mali's Gift Economy video (from YouTube)
• Robin Upton's Internet Gift Economy, 35 min

BIG Money

Drug cartels

• Peter Dale Scott
• Drug money keeping banks solvent
• Linda Napoleoni

Booms & Busts

Why money needs exponential growth, why there is never enough

• G. Edward Griffin (duck dinner mechanism) - reality of money (6 hours, MP3)
• Money as Debt
• The Money Masters

References in Literature

A less academicky flavour show than usual. Assemble a collection of references/metaphors in popular culture to describe what is going on.

• [Would be nice to have some academicky content to give food for thought]
• Douglas Adams, HHGG - The party that had no end (link to dumbing down, celebrity culture, peak oil)
•  ?...

See Also

• Content Ideas
• Show Guidelines