Revolution Now! is a bi-weekly program about social change, hosted by author, filmmaker and activist: Peter Joseph.
Episodes
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
Wednesday Oct 16, 2024
In this episode, Peter Joseph critiques the pervasive belief in competition as a beneficial force for personal development, creativity, and societal progress. Drawing on research by Alfie Kohn and Daniel Pink, he argues that competition actually hinders creative problem-solving and distorts human motivation. Joseph explores how monetary rewards and the market economy create narrow, self-serving goals that undermine genuine innovation. He also discusses the harmful effects of market-driven incentives, such as planned obsolescence, and the interconnectedness of industries that profit from maintaining problems rather than solving them.
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Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
In episode 51 of Revolution Now, Peter Joseph discusses sociological causality and its profound influence on human behavior. He emphasizes that systemic change, especially in the economy, is necessary to alter behavior, and activism must focus on changing the system itself, not just individual minds. He also explains the difference between internal and external system regulation, and hence the importance of cybernetic self-regulation, while offering a critique regarding the inefficiency of government regulation in managing market forces, noting that market dynamics, driven by money, overpower democratic efforts to correct issues like environmental degradation and inequality. This is not a side effect. The money-power feedback loop is far more powerful than the market-instability-regulatory loop and even democracy itself, making workable regulation toward homeostasis or balance impossible.
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Friday Jul 05, 2024
Friday Jul 05, 2024
In this episode, Peter discusses the anti-democratic roots of market capitalism and the dynamics therein.
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Thursday May 30, 2024
Thursday May 30, 2024
In this sprawling episode, Peter discusses the requirement of minimalism in our understanding of post-scarcity; the reason historical idealists have been wrong about predicting the future role of labor-saving automation; the nature of creativity and failure of common communicative forms, along with primary and secondary considerations in market incentive thought.
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Friday Apr 19, 2024
Friday Apr 19, 2024
In this episode, Peter touches upon the role of science, the wisdom of cybernetician Norbert Weiner and gives a description and some audio previews of his new film work "Zeitgeist | Requiem"
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Sunday Nov 05, 2023
Sunday Nov 05, 2023
In this episode, Peter expands on the importance of system change, given our collective society "is producing outcomes that no one intends" due to system functions that go unseen; hence the failure of incrementalism as a method of change, concluding with an analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
Wednesday Jul 05, 2023
In this episode, the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973 is discussed, along with the consequential destruction of Stafford Beer’s Project Cybersyn. Other issues examined are the nature of scarcity, poverty, empire and social neuroses.
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Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
In this episode, further exploration of the dangerous growth function endogenous to market economics is explored along with how traditional activism misunderstands the structural determinism and structural constraints inherent, making common political activity virtually pointless in the context of economic change.
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Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Tuesday Mar 28, 2023
Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph | Ep #44 | March 29th 2023
In this episode, the problem of activism is approached from the angle of our shared social nature, particularly conformity through biopsychosocial forces, inhibiting change.
An extra, hour-long interview is also appended.
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Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
In this episode, different forms of activism are analyzed, with the central focus on development-based activism, in the interest of economic change.
Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live/episodes
“A Viable Society” prezo, as mentioned in this podcast: https://youtu.be/8RSZMVxfv38
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