Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-11-26
Books mentioned on How Billionaires Are Preparing For Doomsday - Douglas Rushkoff - #557
Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, futurist, writer and documentarian. The world's richest people are preparing for the end.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Life of the Mind
The Life of the Mind is a book by Hannah Arendt that explores the philosophical foundations of thinking, willing, and judging, alongside related works by the author on political theory and totalitarianism.
Discussed“Hannah Arendt wrote about this in in the banality of evil and in other places that Marxism not workers rights but Marxism as a kind of a a scientific version of workers rights has as a kind of an end game this total equality”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Survival of the Richest
“I'm like no no I'm kind of trying to undermine it's called Escape fantasies of the tech of the tech billionaires”
Own book Survival of the Richest
“and check out this new book which is not um as depressing as it might sound survival of the richest Escape fantasies of the tech billionaires”