Global Pause - Rethink the Future
278 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -We are consumers of life not its co-creators, so we are just givens. We are given credit for our wants and thats it. We consume our time as an economic good to no end. To see beyond the consumer is to see potential for change that would not just add value to the buyers journey called life, but unmarket it.
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#273: The Dreamtime
December 11, 2023 23:12 - 21 minutes - 41.1 MBCan we dreamtime beyond the economic good it is presupposed to be? Can we animate creation by taking our turn that would surpass life as a compensatory exercise? We explore the dreaming story of creation beyond the totalising claim of a buyers journey.
#272: What wisdom...
November 18, 2023 21:30 - 25 minutes - 48.5 MBWhat need do we have for a wisdom when to be sold a buyers journey, requires an obviousness as to how we produce ourselves as consumers? We explore
#271: Economic multiplier of redundancy
November 05, 2023 20:57 - 28 minutes - 53.4 MBWhen human activity is oriented to want and not necessity of creativity to nurture the way things are given the principle product of our economisation is sanctioned as transcendent to our activity. W explore how our redundancy is assured through the questioning the basis of our activity when this is the case.
#270: Web3 & the question of credit
October 07, 2023 20:41 - 18 minutes - 34.5 MBWeb3 is held out as providing a way to decentralise, so is a movement of "democratisation" but how democratic can it be when the command economy of the consumer remains intact? We discuss the aspirations for it in reference to what is jettison for it to be a vehicle of a misplaced hope for not addressing the issue of credit.
#269: The slur uttered against life
September 28, 2023 21:27 - 29 minutes - 55.8 MBWe look at how the existential totalitarian of a buyers journey set for life allows "parasites" to cast aspersions to any that do not adhere to sanctioned narratives or propaganda they require to maintain the niche they flourish in.
#268: To sell the some one
September 17, 2023 06:42 - 27 minutes - 51.3 MBWe explore aspirational branding form the selling of the someone and how to become as no ones creates a world beyond the niches catered for "life".
#267: From eco-system to world
September 07, 2023 23:51 - 22 minutes - 42.6 MBWe explore the transition to a post consumer world through the stage of development from a retail ecosystem to a new economy, that removes the economic multiplier of our redundancy out of life through surpassing the totalising claim of a buyers journey
#266: Money
August 15, 2023 21:14 - 28 minutes - 54.1 MBWe explore whether money is a means of exchange rather than a means to discount change. If money markets the way life is given then our acceptance of a credit we are not the originators of is always going to be the issue. We discuss
#265: The annulment of credit
August 01, 2023 00:22 - 24 minutes - 46.4 MBWe explore money through the annulment of credit for an action that potentialise life beyond the buyers journey by introducing a break in the production process of the consumer.
#264: Initiation beyond a buyers journey
July 22, 2023 22:22 - 46 minutes - 87.1 MBWe explore the initiation of a divergent step that would the becoming of a walkabout, a way of undoing the totalising claim of a buyers journey.
#263: Transitioning to the ”adult”
July 10, 2023 21:34 - 32 minutes - 60.6 MBWe look at existential arbitrage from the transition children have to undergo to become "adults" to perhaps reveal the mechanism more than would otherwise be teh case.
#262: False economy of the consumer
July 07, 2023 00:56 - 27 minutes - 51.4 MBWe explore the false economy through the continuous production process of the consumer we remain oblivious to when we get gold on life as a buyers journey.
#261: Existential arbitrage
June 25, 2023 06:24 - 29 minutes - 54.8 MBWe explore the mechanism of the way we are sold for life to be a buyers journey.
#260: ESG
June 13, 2023 23:16 - 20 minutes - 38.9 MBWe explore ESG scores as a way to maintain the consumer and how the ultimate "corporate responsibility" is its ascendancy to allow rentism to persist.
#259: Change that is primary
June 11, 2023 01:02 - 30 minutes - 56.2 MBWe look at change through the choice we feel we don't make when we have no understanding of the way the consumer is produced.
#258: How to ground change to place
June 05, 2023 21:56 - 25 minutes - 47.6 MBWe explore our unavowed utopianism and the possibility for change by looking at how true change is to be grounded.
#257: Our roles as an acquittal
June 03, 2023 23:27 - 24 minutes - 45.1 MBWe explore our roles as a vehicle of the transcendental claim made on time and how only a civilisational domain that potentialises the relationality otherwise reduced to want can create a change beyond the buyers journey set.
#256: Universal basic income
June 02, 2023 00:09 - 19 minutes - 36.4 MBWe discuss universal basic income ensures the continuing redundancy of people through the form of the consumer remaining transcendent, or a given when anything "universal" is touted.
#255: Economic multiplier of our redundancy
May 20, 2023 23:57 - 25 minutes - 46.8 MBWe explore the economic multiplier of our redundancy through the trend of carnivore and whether this is a sign of a shifting ethos evocative of the "hunter gather".
#254: What circular economy?
May 07, 2023 05:26 - 21 minutes - 39.7 MBThe circular economy is sold as a way towards sustainability, but how sustainable can it be when the principle product our economisation produces is totally disregarded? We discuss.
#253: Sunk cost of social enterprise
April 25, 2023 21:47 - 18 minutes - 34.3 MBWe discuss further the sunk cost fallacy of the consumer, this time in reference to business that "do good"., and how the good they do can be reducible into the life time value of people still being given as consumers.
#252: Rise of the deep fake
April 22, 2023 08:32 - 28 minutes - 53.5 MBIf this world is filled with NPC's is the deep fake its next iteration? If we do not address the way time is turned into a line then anything offered as "truth" ensures we remain as hypnotised chickens. We explore.
#251: French protests
April 17, 2023 22:08 - 24 minutes - 46.2 MBWe look at the French protests & protest movements in general though the frame of the consumer that is completely disregarded. When people take exception to a power they themselves do not animate, what is it they fail to see? We discuss.
#250: Business models
April 15, 2023 04:04 - 29 minutes - 55.2 MBWhen human is considered economising then all business irrespective of their different business models are bound together to the same redundancy. We discuss.
#249: Sunk cost fallacy of the consumer
April 11, 2023 08:45 - 23 minutes - 44.6 MBBecause we remain oblivious there is a cost to our production as consumers we do not consider our lives are sunk or embedded as a fallacy we actualise, that is totalising in scope. We explore what no one recognises.
#248: Brand life
April 09, 2023 01:21 - 26 minutes - 50.1 MBWe explore the way marketing works to draw goodwill out to account for loyalty as an asset so as to discount an opportunity for life beyond a buyers journey set.
#247: To build business post consumer
March 28, 2023 22:52 - 25 minutes - 47 MBHow can you build a business when the resource of the consumer is no longer given? We explore what would actually be built post the consumers redundancy.
#246: Spiritual disease & parasitism
March 19, 2023 21:13 - 20 minutes - 38.5 MBIf we acknowledge there is a caste of people that live off us, that market their legitimacy as being representatives, or managers of our lives, how does this occur? Do we provide the conditions for parasitism to arise? We explore.
#245: Secularism & the religious relic of the consumer
March 15, 2023 22:08 - 24 minutes - 45.3 MBWe explore how secularism is a religious movement and the consumer the last religious relic that needs to be made redundant.
#244: AI as destining
March 09, 2023 22:50 - 18 minutes - 35 MBWe explore the development of AI as a destining and whether our givenness as consumers makes it contingent as a development on what people are yet to question when it is sold as such.
#243: Shared value creation of the consumer
March 04, 2023 21:15 - 22 minutes - 41.5 MBStakeholderism presupposes the "life time value" of the consumer, this is the stake in the future held up to ensure the continued management of people, this is the shared value that can be created. We discuss.
#242: The question you can’t censor
March 01, 2023 22:59 - 20 minutes - 37.5 MBCan a conversation about the way we produce ourselves as a consumer ever be censored? Why is this conversation foundational,? We explore this through the question we should ask people we feel are receptive to think about life.
#241: Economic calculation & thinking
February 25, 2023 00:19 - 22 minutes - 42.6 MBEconomic calculation does not constitute thinking, we explore the dogmatism we are all guilty of expounding when sold on life, from purpose to value our avowed religiosity is endemic.
#240: Money as marketing
February 19, 2023 03:41 - 22 minutes - 42.8 MBMoney has always been a social credit system, it has just taken the totalising claim made on time to reveal the leveraging that will be actualised to make people aware the only reason we use it is because we are given no credit as people. We explore
#239: Time value of money
February 13, 2023 04:34 - 28 minutes - 52.6 MBWe explore the way the time value of money ensures economic calculation discounts thinking beyond the consumer business has to be sold on prior for any return to be even be feasible.
#238: Transvaluation of values
February 08, 2023 21:49 - 34 minutes - 64.8 MBWe explore Nietzsche's concept when time is the principle value, can we revalue time and make it any less a means it is given as, and so transcend nihilism? We explore
#237: Cost of business
February 06, 2023 02:33 - 33 minutes - 62 MBWe explore the opportunity cost of our economising actions so what would be a civilisational enterprise to potentialise the creativity we otherwise absence when given as consumers of life.
#236: Potential of place
January 31, 2023 22:09 - 31 minutes - 58.2 MBWe explore place when the value attributed to time is addressed through actions that transcend its presupposition. Can we reinvigorate place beyond the commerce or buyers journeys? We discuss
#235: Zero growth world
January 25, 2023 04:42 - 28 minutes - 52.9 MBWe take up the issue of growth but through a zero growth world. What has to grow to make what we do sustainable and where does the potential need to be drawn from to generate the capability to achieve this?
#234: Trans-humanism & enframing
January 20, 2023 20:46 - 22 minutes - 41.7 MBWe explore trans-humanism through the work of Heidegger, how the enframing of time is critical to reveal the determinism offered when discussing the challenge of technology is itself a religious artefact.
#233: To run business out of life
January 17, 2023 00:10 - 17 minutes - 33.3 MBHow do you make the running of a business is to run the business out of what it does, so make it the cornerstone of a transitioning that will force a change to see the potential of enterprise beyond the commerce made for it? We discuss.
#232: Kant’s categorical imperative
January 12, 2023 22:38 - 20 minutes - 38.1 MBWe explore the command to produce ourselves as consumers through the categorial imperative proposed by Kant. Can we treat people as ends when we presuppose time has a value? We discuss.
#231: The goodwill in our role
January 10, 2023 04:46 - 26 minutes - 49.9 MBWe explore goodwill we attribute to our employers when awaiting for remittance, and how it needs to be animated to potential a change that becomes us. We discuss
#230: A productive member of society?
January 08, 2023 05:30 - 19 minutes - 37.2 MBTo be a productive member of society when we cannot produce ourselves any more than the consumers we are given as, means there is a limit we have accepted for our cooperation and our lives. We discuss.
#229: The expiation of life
January 05, 2023 23:05 - 21 minutes - 40.8 MBWhen we absence creativity through practising economising actions we seek atonement for being born, as to seek compensation or a return is to not presence ourselves as the expression of life, but rather make up for a lack. we discuss.
#228: The annulment of credit
January 04, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes - 71.3 MBWe explore the convention of money through the annulment of credit, and how its origination cannot be made separable to its annulment if its use is to be transcended.
#227: The life we risk
December 31, 2022 00:29 - 19 minutes - 36.1 MBIf we are to change then we must risk something of ourselves for transformation to occur. We explore how risking the form of life is the only risk we need take to orient a totalising change.
#226: How do you separate a world?
December 26, 2022 20:56 - 21 minutes - 40.4 MBIf the way the world is heading is not what we envisage is a future we want to share, how do we separate ourselves from what has been set as a path we are meant to follow? If we do not view life holistically then we will not consider the change necessary to remove ourselves from it and so offer a different way. We explore.
#225: Democratisation of creativity
December 22, 2022 22:14 - 9 minutes - 17 MBWe look at the way our roles can become vehicles of a democratic impetus, beyond any institutionalisation, when the choice on the way time is given is the only one we need make.
#224: Civilsational initiation
December 18, 2022 23:31 - 27 minutes - 51.9 MBTo initiate change when there is a totalising claim made on life, would make this initiation a rite that is civilisational. We explore the way we otherwise understand initiation and how this diverges when the form of life is what is to undergo change.