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Overview
In this essay, I look at the rise of Global Techno-Feudal Brahmanism and its dissociated relationship with the social body and earth. I offer thoughts on individual practices and collective reform I perceive as necessary to overcome the chronic deterioration of basic universal human rights, and cultivate a sustainable society capable of supporting deep practice and progress.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction: Practice is Political
02:05 A Story About Motivation & Ownership
05:12 Rise of the Techno-Brahmins
07:08 Plato & Democracy
08:52 Ignorance & Evil
10:56 Practice as Remedy
12:48 The Caste Body
15:46 Becoming Hungry Ghosts
19:12 Systems of Collective (Dis)empowerment
31:13 Metrics of Social Success & Universal Human Rights
35:45 An Appeal to Practice
References
02:00 The French Revolution, Wikipedia
04:41 The Man Who Ruined Your Life by Xevi, Youtube
07:08 Plato’s Republic (PDF), Science the Earth
12:28 Bhagavad Gita 2.50, Thrift Books
13:50 What is India’s Caste System, BBC
17:28 Wealth Shown To Scale, Eat The Rich
17:54 Hungry Ghosts, Wikipedia
19:38 The USA Electoral College, Wikipedia
The Three-Fifths Compromise, Wikipedia
21:30 Family Offices, Wikipedia
22:48 Food (In)security in the USA, Economic Research Service
23:35 Ranked Choice Voting, RCV Resources
Jiddu Krishnamurti:
*I support the democratization and crowdsourcing of knowledge, and I regard platforms such as Wikipedia as valid and valuable repositories of human knowledge that help balance academic gatekeeping of epistemic authority. I also value rigorous fact-checking and common sense.
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