This is for people interested in seeing what's likely to be coming next, or (even better) interested to help.
Contents
[hide]Being Worked On
Ideas
Teaching Children To Care about Money
How target/money culture subverts humans
- Noam Chomsky 1850 "spirit of the age" 3 min
- Teaching Children To Care, Alfie Kohn, 54 min
- Don't Let Money Change You (Music) 7 min
- Twelve Shovels 183 (Lyn) 6 min
- What motivates people? (Daniel Pink) 10 min mastery, engagement, purpose
- Adam Curtis 371 The Trap, on hospital targets 8 min
- Barry Schwartz, Moral Values 20 min
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
Reconceiving Money
Alternative Ideas of Money
- Competition in Western Society Alfie Kohn 27 min
- Beyond Money 42 min
- Interview with Larry Mason 22 min
- Invisible Hand, chapter 1 42 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
Seismic Shifts in Consciousness
How the world could get much better very quickly
- Corbett Report on how the G20 demo changed
- How a shock to the system gets people out of earlier patterns
- ???
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)
- ?...