c/david-graeber
Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…through entrepreneurs. I can't go into the whole thing. But essentially, there's this pervasive idea that power creates reality. Bush people said this outright. We're an empire. We create reality. You guys are the reality-based community. We don't need…
…her on the court, basically, so she can vote to uphold his victory, even if he is not victorious. But if there is a Bush v. Gore situation again where the Supreme Court decides is called upon to decide who's the winner if trump contests a biden victory…
…discourse at the time. So if we think of the popular protests against the Iraq War, we see protesters holding signs saying, send Bush and Blair to The Hague and so on, and that this was the war was illegal. It's a fundamentally ambiguous question whether…
…the crimes in the hope in the future that will be a legal action. in order to help the US, the UK, Tony Blair, Bush, whoever committed this war of aggression to be held responsible. That took us some time and still is actually with any kind of…
…LBJ, how many kids have you killed today? It's a different language. It is a different language, although we had that in the Bush version. Yes, we had the Bush version in 2003 as well. But the Bush version was followed up with, and therefore you should…
…today? It's a different language. It is a different language, although we had that in the Bush version. Yes, we had the Bush version in 2003 as well. But the Bush version was followed up with, and therefore you should be prosecuted. Yes. Yes, exactly.…
…is a different language, although we had that in the Bush version. Yes, we had the Bush version in 2003 as well. But the Bush version was followed up with, and therefore you should be prosecuted. Yes. Yes, exactly. And I see this as a problem that our…
…okay, you know, back in the first Gulf War, or no, no, the second Gulf War, the invasion of Afghanistan, Iraq, you know, George Bush was famously evoking feminism as one of the reasons for doing it. The kind of line was, well, people in this region of…
…an interesting insight because if the government wanted to make tuition free for everyone in America, it would cost less than the Bush tax cuts. Right. And it's also there's a self-feeding phenomenon in that the debt is easy to get. So it actually drives…
…considered a war crime. It's clear that, at the time, the U.S. command feared it might be. President George H.W. Bush quickly announced a temporary cessation of hostilities, and the military has deployed enormous efforts since then to minimize the casualty…
…insist that no, it is they who are actually fearful. All attacks on U.S. citizens are by definition cowardly attacks. The second George Bush was referring to the 9-11 attacks as, quote, On the face of it, this is odd. After all, there's no lack of bad…
…of the things that surprised me was that they hate President Obama far more than they hate President Biden. George W. Bush, because he has increased the number of drone strikes in the tribal areas, and he's increased American troop levels into Afghanistan.…
…God's sake, get out your credit cards and go shop, go back to Broadway, go back and do this kind of stuff, go back. Bush even appeared on a TV ad for the airline industry saying, get back and start flying, get back in motion. In other words,…
…that no, it is they who are actually fearful. All attacks on U.S. citizens are by definition cowardly attacks. The second George Bush was referring to the 9-11 attacks as, quote, cowardly acts, unquote, the very next morning. On the face of it, this is…
…money contributions which all gravitate to here of course. Plus all the lobbying, all the efforts to put government on what President Bush used to call a market based footing. All the things that David in his new book refers to simply as bribery. And…
…those constraints will go away if everyone means well. One of the most compelling documents I've ever seen was during the Bush administration, a group of CEOs wrote a letter to the president, actually, of the United States. They were mainly people in…
…says, no, what's important is the powerful white guys, and I must stop David Cameron or whoever it might be from doing Trump or Bush or whoever the bad guy is at this moment. I must stop them, and that's what really matters. Who cares about these brown…
…real productive jobs, for what they call the liberal elite. And this is very dramatic in America. This is why we have people like Bush and then Trump. It is a phenomenon that can be observed in most places. I was wondering for years why it is so many…
…key multilateral treaties that particular states might pull back from. But the same luster and rhetoric was there in the early Bush years. And for all of the sort of key withdrawals from particular treaties, Bush, the Bush administration, and even the Trump…
…and rhetoric was there in the early Bush years. And for all of the sort of key withdrawals from particular treaties, Bush, the Bush administration, and even the Trump administration continues to make sure to justify everything they do in the language of…
…was there in the early Bush years. And for all of the sort of key withdrawals from particular treaties, Bush, the Bush administration, and even the Trump administration continues to make sure to justify everything they do in the language of international…
…an ideological closure to all of the structural forces behind those individuals, right? So the Iraq War didn't happen because Bush is an evil man. It happened because of imperialism, of capitalism, or whatever systemic forces you want to identify there.…