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A de-growth model would therefore necessitate a fundamental restructuring of the global financial system. This is not likely to happen any time soon. But this has as much to do with political barriers and vested-interests as economic ideology.

A lot of it was spent on bailing out US banks and that money is still there, as well as money funnelled into well connected corporations within the US. Already in the UK inflation is going out of control because of QE in this country, why should the US expect to be any different? What will happen when the US’s banks begin lending those trillions they are sitting on?

prefer ron paul /austrian economics view of life, but if you take on fiat debts worth trillions… you can’t solve the problem by cutting spending and having people suffer for this, this is not right, this type of debt should be canceled first (at least most of it)

What lessons have we learnt from the crisis?

Why did existing rules (including Basel 1/Basel 2) not stop the crisis from happening?

They should have taken the loft scene as the foundation for building new kinds of institutions, where the music could be played. But that was not achieved. There’s a lot of failure of things that happened in the ’60s that could have made the conditions for music to day much different. But those failures – they didn’t build institutions. And institutions are the only things that really change the environment.

I denne debat er der udviklet en strømning, der tager umiddelbart provokerende forslag op. Der bliver talt om ’syre-corbynisme’ – det er ment som et positivt ladet ord – og i samme boldgade har professor i politisk og kulturel teori Jeremy Gilberts forslået bevidsthedsudvidende psykedelisk socialisme. Med bevidsthedsudvidende menes blandt andet basisgrupper, meditation, happenings, fester til langt ud på natten, eksperimenterende jazz-rock og lignende, som i Gilberts øjne bør have en ny og seriøst diskuteret chance.

Gilbert taler om ’bevidsthedsudvidende aktiviteter’ i bred forstand, når han taler om det psykedeliske (ordet blev skabt i 1950’erne af oldgræske ord for psyke, sind og åbning eller klarhed)

I Jeremy Gilbert brede begreb om det psykedeliske er han inspireret af bloggeren og filosoffen Mark Fishers’ (1968-2017) idé om ’syre-kommunisme’. Det vil sige det, der har at gøre med 1960’ernes og 1970’ernes modkulturer omkring rockmusik, miljø, stoffer, kvindefrigørelse og forsøgene på at opbygge nye bevægelser omkring kønsspørgsmål. Med mere.