Apr 07 2019 67 mins 126
--{ "A Blink in Time: Changes Fast and Furious Causing Alienation, Power, Always Prodding to Mind Your Station." © Alan Watt }-- I Want to Thank those Who Listen to the Talks - Always New Listeners Who Want to Know What it's All About - The Rich People Rule the World; Many have said this Before Me - Aldous Huxley Talked about a Dominant Elite Who have Always Existed and He Presumed They Always Would - Academia - Jacques Ellul on Efficiency - Man-Made Global Warming - People Turn to Self-Destructive Behaviours Because They can't Find Purpose - Psychopathic Tendencies; Political Correctness - H.G. Wells, Fabian Socialists, Communists - Alienation Studied in the 1800's; A Sense of Drifting - Terrible Conditions for the Worker at the Height of the British Empire - The Common Market - Margaret Thatcher said Get Used to Mass Unemployment, Some will Never See Employment in Their Lifetime - Manufacturing Exported to China - India - What Employed Remains in the West? - Real Estate - The Majority of the Public won't Have Private Property - Dennis Potter, Television Writer and Journalist - The BBC - MI5, MI6 - The 1960s, Pop Music, Drugs, LSD, Sex, the Birth Control Pill - Blade on the Feather - As Dennis Potter was Dying in 1994, he wrote his Last Two Television Movies, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus - In Potter's Cold Lazarus, a World Run by Extremely Wealthy Business Owners who have Superstar Status, People Totally Surveilled and Treated Poorly, the Cars are Driverless, the Police-Military Types are Black-Clad, Heavily Armed and Everywhere - Public-Private Partnerships - Electromagnetic Waves - In Peace, War Industry Shifts to Surveillance and Security Systems - Queen Elizabeth I; Elaborate Spy System - Why Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste? - Club of Rome; Famine, Plague, Drought; Man is the Enemy of the Planet - Utopias and the Incredible Lies around Utopias - Soviet Gulags - Tyranny Always Silences Speech - Khrushchev - Alienation, Despondency - Orwell on Freedom of the Press - Carbon Taxes - USMCA, A NAFTA Reboot - Mark Zuckerberg asks Governments to Help Control Internet Content - US Military Develops Genetically Modified Plants to Spy in Environments ‘Unsuitable for Traditional Sensors’ - Millionaires Immigrating to Canada - Carbon Taxes, Private Organizations - AEI Holds Carbon Tax Love-In - Australian Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes calls for Reinstatement of Carbon Tax - Militant Vegans - Julian Assange - U.N. Floating Cities - For the Younger Listeners, Life is Not Just Fun, Games and the Occult. *Title and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Apr. 7, 2019 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)
