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Post Industrial Capitalism
Gentrification is a perfect analog to that because it's, it's basically a polite way of talking about social cleansing. You know, you have populations who are at the sharp end of, of capitals, contradictions who are just cleared out of the way. The first high demand group that I was in actually, um, run by a guy named Michael Roach who taught a form of Americanized prosperity gospel Tibetan Buddhism. Uh, and he would go on at length about how, uh, the internet was simply creating trillions of dollars of new wealth out of nothing. And there was this thread that he tied between that excitement and everything that he thought he knew about the infinite expansiveness of consciousness