Saint Douglas Rushkoff/Santo Douglass Rushkoff
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0:00 - 0:05A neighbor of Mine asked me this morning: What are you doing tonight?
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0:05 - 0:07[Laughter] - [Somebody from the audience asks: did you invited him?]
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0:07 - 0:09I did! I said, "Why don't you come along?"
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0:09 - 0:14"I'm getting canonized by the Church of No-Shopping, Life After Shopping."
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0:14 - 0:16"What are you doing?"
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0:16 - 0:18[Laughter]
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0:18 - 0:20And he said: "I actually have to go to buy a car tonight."
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0:20 - 0:22(Audience: Ohhhhh)
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0:22 - 0:27[Piano Suspense]
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0:27 - 0:31And he said: "WTF do you mean... No Shopping?"
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0:31 - 0:37"I need a car cause' I got to get to work, I got to make money to feed my Family."
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0:37 - 0:46I said: "I understand, it looks like that. That you need a car because you need to get to work."
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0:46 - 0:51Now, why do you need a car to get to work? Because GM (General Motors)
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0:51 - 0:57lobbied our government in the 1940s to change the landscape of America,
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0:57 - 1:00so Americans, would need to buy cars in order to get to work.
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1:00 - 1:03(Applause coming from Audience)
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1:04 - 1:08Why, do you need to get to work?
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1:08 - 1:15Because I have "a job," and why do we have jobs working for companies?
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1:15 - 1:20Because even further back in the 1600 the kings made a deal
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1:20 - 1:25with people they called the "Charter Corporations" to charter monopolies
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1:25 - 1:30to make it ilegal for people to make business in a peer to peer fashion
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1:30 - 1:33and instead to insist that people had to work for companies
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1:33 - 1:38and no longer to be able to use peer to peer currencies, or do favors with one another
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1:38 - 1:42BUt to have to borrow this stuff we are going to call "money," from a central currency
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1:44 - 1:46This is not money, this is a kind of money
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1:46 - 1:52Invented by people that meant to exploit you, to prevent you from doing work and exchanging value with other people
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1:52 - 1:58and to force you instead. to work for them and have value extracted from you
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1:58 - 2:03[applause]
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2:03 - 2:06But, but...
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2:06 - 2:14When you are born into a world, in which this is the preexisting condition
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2:14 - 2:20It is very easy to mistake this monopoly game for reality
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2:20 - 2:25And is very easy then to see the planet
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2:25 - 2:30as a set of regions to be extracted and exploited
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2:30 - 2:33To see one's fellow, men and women, as Marx
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2:33 - 2:37With whom to be competing
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2:37 - 2:45And see value and success, as a number in your bank statement, or on the Dow Jones, or on the GMP
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2:46 - 2:51Rather than the amount of love and happiness you can create for your fellows.
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2:51 - 2:52Amen
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2:52 - 2:55[Applause]
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2:55 - 2:59Preach it brother Douglas!
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2:59 - 3:00Saint Douglas
- Title:
- Saint Douglas Rushkoff/Santo Douglass Rushkoff
- Description:
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Douglas Rushkoff is a Saint of the Church of Earthalujah!
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- Video Language:
- English, British
- Duration:
- 03:31