Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph | Ep #46 | July 5th 2023
Jul 5, 2023
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The podcast discusses the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973 and the destruction of Stafford Beer's Project Cybersyn. It explores topics such as scarcity, poverty, empire, and social neuroses. The chapter descriptions include the difficulty of accepting scientific principles in social institutions, the connection between greed and scarcity, exploitation in capitalism, and the application of Stafford Beer's viable system model to redesign the Chilean economy.
The podcast explores the concept of a universal force that affects everything equally, regardless of substance or nature.
The episode discusses the story of Project Cybersyn in Chile, a government initiative to redesign the economy using cybernetics.
Deep dives
The Concept of a Universal Force
The podcast discusses the concept of a force that affects everything on the planet equally, cutting across different substances and treating them the same.
The Difficulty in Studying Institutions
The speaker highlights the challenge of studying institutions due to the reluctance of accepting general scientific statements about them.
The Science of Effective Organization
The episode introduces the idea of a science of effective organization, which is not widely recognized but can improve various aspects of society.
Project Cybersyn in Chile
The podcast narrates the story of Project Cybersyn in Chile, a government initiative that aimed to redesign the economy using cybernetics and strategic real-time economic management.
In this episode, the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973 is discussed, along with the consequential destruction of Stafford Beer’s Project Cybersyn. Other issues examined are the nature of scarcity, poverty, empire and social neuroses.