Meet the Renegades - Eliane Glaser

Eliane Glaser is a Guardian writer, a lecturer and broadcaster. She is interested in ideology and propaganda which has led her to critique the current faltering economic system.

In this interview of Meet the Renegades she explores how work is changing and how we can adapt to the new world.

Busting the jargon and unravelling the spin, she reveals the secrets behind modern life that we were never supposed to know. Hint: tech won’t solve everything.

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[NeurogenicMT]

Just have to say, Elaine Glaser is not only very smart and thought provoking, she's also VERY beautiful!

[kingkerouac]

Eliane explains what most of us would think is obvious to everyone. It isn't.
Good work.

[DeniseAshurst]

Language has to be around the environment. THIS is what we share not just with our fellow humans, but the species and environmental networks which we rely upon for life. Thanks for a great interview

[viewst]

Brilliant exposition of the present situation we find ourselves in. As she said, we literally lack (more honestly, have been robbed of) the words and concepts needed to articulate an alternative. The grand narrative or meta-narrative has been monopolised by a mass media controlled by the elite and alternative voices have been marginalised and made to disappear, and when something does pop up that has potential it is co-opted and 'de-authenticated'. Once again, brilliant - kudos to this woman.

*_Now what?_*

[Achrononmaster]

There's nothing wrong with having an ideology, everyone has one, even anarchists. What's bad is when your ideology is not correct and yet you still push it (like neoliberalism for example). Most ideologies have good aspects, which can be usefully applied at certain times or certain circumstances. Like deciding what kind of transport you could best use in getting from to B. Once people acknowledge this a great intellectual unlocking and spiritual view becomes possible, where you realise only the underlying virtues truly matter, like being honest just, and kind, and they are found in every good part of every contingently valid ideology. Once you start to get into material critique, then those virtues need to be translated into some material policy, and that's where the sensible debate occurs. Thank goodness we have people like Glaser speaking up and critiquing the current failing paradigms.

[jegeh]

what is the title of the song used in this video? I know it said music by Jonas Buehler, but not mentioning the title and how to get it.

[dinnerwithfranklin]

Really insightful interview, thanks so much!

[michaelreid]

What a brilliant exploration of the problem. I asked the new edgy cool cafe, if they were independent and they turned out to be part of a huge conglomerate!

[JamesOGant]

An alternate vote would go a long way. It would absorb ideology and create real compromise in political systems. This then would lend to moral choices or candidates who run on the rhetoric which appeals to the greater good rather than demagoguery.

[spikeboard]

Transport sports can make a big progressive difference in our society.

[postmanlondon]

To dismiss the only political party for has achieved genuine change as narrow nationalism shows that even people that believe they are 'free thinkers' are still trapped in their own bubble. However, i am in agreement with most of what is said here.

[nanciqwerty]

What national debt ?
Please STOP pretending there is real debt owed to these 'banks' by people calling themselves your 'government'.
If you create currency from nothing and 'loan' it out .... you have NOT suffered a loss.
If you loan some actual money (any valuable commodity of your you HAVE suffered a loss until it is re-paid.

[kasegiyabu]

Ultimately the responsibility for the mess lies with those who voted for these people to form the legislature. The dumbing-down of the population is the reason for it, yet is no excuse for said voters not educating themselves.

[MrCZRC]

Work is a means for moneys to survive but when banks create money out of nothing the money eventually becomes or feels worthless

[kevincox]

We cannot change the language until we have things in which to ground language. We need personal and collective tools that put us on an equal footing with the organisations that now control and dominate our interactions. This will happen because distributed collective cooperation of sovereign entities is more efficient than surveillance and centralisation. The organizations that deliver us goods and services are starting to realise that they too are being conned by unnecessary and parasitic intermediaries.

We, the people, need to join with organizations that do things for us and banish the freeloading intermediaries, particularly in the finance sectors, to the sidelines.

The language that will come will be around the language of cooperation and success of the best adapted versus than the language of competition and survival of the fittest.

[mandeqjama]

This new language she keeps talking about isn't something that could be come up with by some ingenious individual. Language changes along with the changes that happen in the social realm, I wouldn't be surprised if Sanders and Corbyn's respective movements end up indirectly creating a new political paradigm. Or (at least) evolve the old 20th century idealist socialism with one more digestible in the 21st.

[nanciqwerty]

Democracy ? !
A democracy is NOT something you live in, it is something you can JOIN, voluntarily.
The people of Britain have been brainwashed into thinking they are enrolled in the membership of a democratic (political) nation called the UK. The Crown corporation makes damn sure things look that way in their courts.
The public mistakenly believe they can vote-away the rights of their neighbours as, to them, that is how things APPEAR to be working.
In the real world you can not give to someone else a right that you don't have.
If people have ACTUALLY joined a democracy, they have agreed to follow rules (statutes) voted on by the membership, maybe even rules that violate their rights.
But the rules ONLY apply to members, not their neighbours too!
If members don't like it they are free to leave the organisation.
The problem is that the public believe they are in the system when they are not.
They believe everyone else is in it too. So when sitting on a jury they act as though gov't statutes apply to all defendants. It never occurs to them to INSIST that the judge show them the evidence of jurisdiction the crown persecutor is relying on. They mistake opinions for evidence.
This makes life very easy for the City of London corporation (Crown) to control a whole population through slave-on-slave violence/envy/jealousy etc.
So STOP wanting to control others, else you are just enabling the psychopaths amongst us.

[DarkHorse]

You can't undo whats gone, we are still going to have to pay back debt, otherwise you are only Greece. You can only influence change going forward and that path is likely to be so very rocky, and truly democratic and so opposed by those who support the status quo make it unlikely. I'm devils advocate here, most economists on this channel are more "short everything" which has a ring to it you can hear, this dialogue has no clear path forward, what are **you** going to **do** about it, other than just complain. Come on guys you can do better than this

[efernardx]

don, t blame Company's blame government more goverment = less freedom less government = more freedom

[dickhamilton]

this talk, as expressed, irritates the fuck out of me, but in fact I should be sympathetic to its message, since I broadly agree with the analysis. Why? I know, can you guess?