In this episode of Positively Pedestrian, we discuss, an arc of topics from the Pope as an apologist, for fraud waste and abuse to the Sackler family profiting from much the same, and offering the same sort of tacit, and weak apology. From there we look at history and access to information. Visualizing wealth distribution, alongside a world of unparalleled productivity, speed and scale. We talk about the lives of the independently wealthy, those who own the means of production. Proffering a tiered model of wealth and justice. We conclude by offering up a list of tools that can shift the balance of power and a proposal for a Community College class to disseminate it.
0:00:00 | Meritocracy - Historical transparency and fraud from all quarters incl. the church0:02:05 | Post-Mortem - How did this happen? -- Apartheid0:04:24 | Sackler family - Opioids, Addiction, Religion, Consumerism0:05:56 | Fraud, waste, and abuse and Misinformation0:09:33 | Historical Context - NOW is the best documented moment in history 0:11:45 | Our societal view of history - is winnowed down by available datasets and the limits of personal exposure0:12:00 | CRT in schools -- Your past exposure and focus defines your reality0:13:00 | Looking at history through different lenses - Money power and influence, Patriotism and Nationalism0:14:00 | Access to information - Removing books ala Rage Against The Machine 0:16:00 | Cherrypicking facts to create a narrative0:18:10 | History as a focusing lens - Technology as a feedback loop to create hypervelocity change0:20:10 | Tipping point -- What we choose to do now, ripples into the next century0:21:00 | Teaching History - Net effects of focusing on slavery0:24:19 | Generational wealth - Ultra wealthy versus everyone else.0:26:11 | Pathways to getting rich - Death of the American Dream0:28:00 | The hockey stick -- Visualizing wealth distribution0:31:15 | Globalization, mobility, manifold increases in speed, scale, and productivity0:33:20 | Control of the means of production, has skewed the distribution of wealth0:34:25 | Obfuscating modern slavery versus obvious and direct slavery.0:38:05 | The life of the independently wealthy versus the rest of us fighting over scraps.0:40:00 | Out of touch globe-trotting execs - 3 tiers of wealth 0:43:15 | The Kardashians and Trump - monetizing pissing people off0:44:10 | Lady Justice peeking at your bank balance - 3 tiers of Justice0:46:00 | Tier 1 justice and state sponsored murder0:49:22 | January 6th punishment versus Nixon - losing public support0:52:00 | Insider trading and brown nosing and “feeling the Bern”0:54:00 | Kleptocracy at work0:56:30 | Situational design - Distractions, non-essential knowledge1:00:00 | Giving your kid's their experience - Subjectivity of subjects1:03:00 | A feedback loop for Teachers - Fostering critical thinking1:04:50 | The kleptocracy shunning an informed populace with critical thinking skills1:07:00 | Extreme ideologies clouding our collective vision1:09:00 | Truth about history - Embrace the dumb, and narratives that we swallow1:11:30 | Giving society the tools to build and embrace a new future1:13:00 | What's the name of this hypothetical class? 1:14:45 | Worship and glorification of the ruling caste1:15:30 | The new tools of power1:16:30 | The drunk captain - Agents of chaos1:18:00 | The punishment for treason is?
