The Power Hungry Podcast: Joel Kotkin

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[chaptertravels]

I know that Trump's personality is toxic but his vision for the future of the US is closer to what you have been talking about for an hour than any other leader.

[khaledj]

The clergy part is actually quite profound. People need to have purpose beyond Netflix, politics or alcohol.
Climate/environmental activism is something that everyone can democratically and individually participate in a much more grounded level than some recent headline in the news.
The only thing I have observed that prevents environmentalism in most countries is poor and wretched existence where basic necessities supersede clean environment.

[michaels]

Kotkin is wrong about "neoliberalism" (globalism). Around the world, living standards rose faster under the Bretton Woods system than under the neoliberal system based on free trade and floating exchange rates.

[michaels]

Many of the votes in Congress are not even roll call votes. You will never know how your Congressman voted on those laws.

[michaels]

"the worst thing is someone who is an apostate in their view" - the standard term in Communist rhetoric is "deviationist, " not apostate. You are guilty of deviationism - not toeing the Party line.

[arnoldwatkins]

I disagree with the gentleman about what is at the heart of our energy policies and why the push for green is so pervasive. I think it's way less conspiratorial. I doubt seriously that those at the top are driven by ideology or religious fervor as it relates to climate change. I believe that what drives their policy decisions is something more practical which is oil is becoming less economical to recover. I thinks it's all about net energy, any time you have Saudi Arabia planning to diversify their economy by 2030 they're not doing that for no reason. I believe oil is becoming more and more expensive to acquire and the return are also diminishing. I think the transition is inevitable and has very little to do with climate change and those at the top are just trying to manage the decline in order to maintain some order and maintain power.