1. When Political Terms Have No Meaning
2. What Is Politics, And Why Should Anyone Give A Shit?
3. The Left-Right Political Spectrum Is About Class Conflict
4. How Political Definitions Shape Reality
5. How We Know What Left and Right Actually Mean
6. Political Anthropology: When Communism Works and Why
“Egalitarianism was most likely the norm for much of the last 300,000 years of our existence as anatomically modern humans (probably a lot longer than that) and it shaped our very nature as a species.
We might be capable of equality, but we currently live in a world full of endless hierarchy, with only a few hundred thousand people left in egalitarian hunting and gathering bands, and zero egalitarian industrial civilizations.
How did we get from there to here, and is there any way to go back?”
I’m a lot less sanguine about a positive answer to that than the series is.
But in any case, these deeply sophisticated and important questions are provided for you via Daniel at the @WhatIsPolitics69 channel, and I recommend them with all my heart.
Unless the queens we use would not excite you.
Bonus Listen/Palate Cleanser: One Night In Bangkok