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- key insight - neoliberalism and industrial capitalism were based on Descarte and our separation from the natural world - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023
- adjacency - materialism, science and neoliberalism - will technology save us? - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023
- to - The Three Great Separations
key insight / summary - neoliberalism and industrial capitalism were based on Descarte and our separation from the natural world - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023
- FIrst, Descarte separated the mind from the body. We have the paradox of:
- godlike mind housed in
- animalistic bodies
- (incidentally, this sets us up for the exageration of the existential crisis of the denial of death in modernity - Ernest Becker)
- Then we impose separation of external vs internal world
- Then, we have separate categories of mind and nature, and we begin othering of:
- women
- other (indigenous) cultures
- What Alnoor and Lynn forgot to mention was that there is another separation that preceded the industrial revolution, the separation of people into distinct classes of:
- producer
- consumer
- Then with the advance of Newtonian physics and the wild success of materialist theory applied to create a plethora of industrial technologies, a wedding occurred between:
- dualism and
- materialism
- Materialism decomposes everything into subatomic particles that a rational mind can understand
- To those who think science and technology can save us from the crisis it helped create
- the deeper understanding reveals that science and technology are themselves agents of separation.
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- See the three great separations
- https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Finthesetimes.com%2Farticle%2Findustrial-agricultural-revolution-planet-earth-david-korten&group=world