Of course, it's not just the Other, simple, common partisanship keeps us dazed and confused too. See Matt Taibbi's Hate, Inc. (OR Books, 2019) for a spirited analysis.
Eno adds some value to Varoufakis's observation, later in the conversation:
I recall that there are two stages in a revolution. The first stage is when everyone realizes something is wrong. The second and important stage is when everyone realizes that everyone else realizes it as well.
We're all still woke-ing up, as it were. We'll get there, the musician believes.
Eno tells Varoufakis that he just finished an article by Douglas Rushkoff called "Survival of the Richest," where he's hired to deliver speeches to Wall Street types about "the future of technology." Eno says they weren't interested in the tech:
All they really wanted to know was, "How do we escape?" They felt that humans were on an inevitable trajectory toward doom and there was no future (and this was before Covid-19, by the way). They wanted to know how to escape from and protect themselves from the future.
Jeezuz, makes you wonder where Hillary told these bankers to go for $250,000 a pop.
Jeremy Scahill & SreÄ"ko Horvat discuss "Capitalism, Covid-19, and the US Election." Scahill, the co-founder of The Intercept, with Glenn Greenwald, shockingly comes across as an Obama fanboy, which is surprising, given how much Greenwald railed against so many of Obama's precedent-setting policies. But Scahill does say, "The death toll has skyrocketed in New York City and has already surpassed that of 9/11." And though he despises Trump, Scahill embodies the angst that comes with voting the Lesser Of Two Evils:
Joe Biden, the likely Democratic nominee for president, has a forty-year track record of terrible policies; has been accused of inappropriate conduct by eight women; is often unaware of what room he's in; he cannot speak clearly unless he has notes in front of him; has repeatedly lied about his role in the civil rights movement; and there are questions about nepotistic exploitation that led to his son, Hunter Biden, working for a Ukrainian oil interest, Burisma.
We'd be better off with Jim Carrey, playing Joe Biden, in office. Probably no one would notice the difference anyway. (Obama says Joe will find a way to "f*ck it up.") Horvat adds, "Yes, the choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden seems like a choice between Ebola and SARS."
I best liked Daniel Ellsberg's conversation with Angela Richter, Croatian-German theatre director, activist, and author, who produced the 2015 transmedia project 'Supernerds.'In "The Urgent Global Need for Whistleblowers." Their conversation begins:
Angela: It sounds as though falling in love with your wife changed the course of your life, and perhaps influenced you to later become a whistleblower?
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