Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph | Ep. 55 | "Civil Rights Regression, Integral & Lee Camp"

In Episode 56 of Revolution Now! (approximately two hours), Peter Joseph explores the links between market economics and the drive toward imperialism, conflict and international war. Also discussed is the importance of overriding "Hedonic Adaptation" in pursuit of post-scarcity, as associated to the Integral Project. The program concludes with a 45 minute interview with investigative journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin in regard to the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, Palestine. PLEASE support Peter's efforts through Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/peterjoseph  or Direct Donation:  https://www.gentlemachineproductions.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f1ef0539d5bc56fac97a266  Website & Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live/  Read the latest Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-149986086?source=queue&autoPlay=false  Get Peter's book, The New Human Rights Movement:  https://www.amazon.com/New-Human-Rights-Movement-Reinventing/dp/1942952651  Join his mailing list: https://www.peterjoseph.info/  This podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts.  Website & Free Archive https://www.revolutionnow.live/  Join Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RevolutionNowPodcast/  “Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI  About Peter: https://www.peterjoseph.info/biography

In Episode 55 of Revolution Now! (which runs approximately two hours), Peter Joseph explores ten false ideas/narratives that contribute to the modern erosion of civil and human rights. He then reviews the abstract for a forthcoming white paper on the Integral Parallel Economy activist project. Finally, he is joined by Lee Camp, who discusses his new show and the troubling state of global affairs. Please support Peter's efforts through Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/peterjoseph  or Direct Donation:  https://www.gentlemachineproductions.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f1ef0539d5bc56fac97a266  Website: https://www.revolutionnow.live/

In this (2 hour+ !) episode of Revolution Now (Episode 54), Peter Joseph examines the complexities of systemic transition and the limitations of reformist approaches to change, including a critical review of Jason Hickel’s work. The episode concludes with a 40-minute conversation with Alfie Kohn on the destructive nature of competition. Key topics include: -Defining capitalism in a coherent and precise way. -The strategic foundation of the Integral Parallel Economy project. -The importance of out-system leverage points in driving meaningful change. -Value distortions within market economics (exchange vs use) -Why negative human behaviors are often mislabeled as human nature. -The common failures of social movements and the dangers of group identity. And more. Please support Peter's efforts through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/peterjoseph or  Direct Donation: https://www.gentlemachineproductions.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f1ef0539d5bc56fac97a266  Website & Transcript: Pending Medium Transcript: Pending Read the latest Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-149986086?source=queue&autoPlay=false  Get Peter's book, The New Human Rights Movement: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691520/the-new-human-rights-movement-by-peter-joseph/  Join his mailing list: https://www.peterjoseph.info/  This podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts.  Website & Free Archive https://www.revolutionnow.live/  Join Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RevolutionNowPodcast/  “Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI  About Peter: https://www.peterjoseph.info/biography  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peterjosephofficial  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterjosephofficial

In this episode, the focus is on introducing a new phase of the podcast with expanded content, including visuals, interviews, media analysis, and discussions of current events, while ensuring accessibility for audio-only listeners. It revisits foundational critiques of the socio-economic system, highlighting how market capitalism's competitive nature drives ecological destruction, inequality, and systemic dysfunction. The episode emphasizes the urgency of systemic change, arguing that solutions like technology or policy within capitalism are inadequate. It then discusses a collaborative socio-economic model rooted in sustainability, cooperation, and participatory economic governance, challenging traditional ideologies and exploring approaches the building of a parallel, collaborative-based, economic transition out of market economics. Please support Peter's efforts through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/peterjoseph or Direct Donation: https://www.gentlemachineproductions.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f1ef0539d5bc56fac97a266   Read latest Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-149986086?source=queue&autoPlay=false   Get Peter's book, The New Human Rights Movement: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691520/the-new-human-rights-movement-by-peter-joseph/   Join his mailing list: https://www.peterjoseph.info/   This podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts.   Website & Free Archive https://www.revolutionnow.live/   Join Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RevolutionNowPodcast/   “Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI   About Peter: https://www.peterjoseph.info/biography   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peterjosephofficial

In this episode, Peter Joseph critiques the pervasive belief in competition as a beneficial force for personal development, creativity, and societal progress. Drawing on research by Alfie Kohn and Daniel Pink, he argues that competition actually hinders creative problem-solving and distorts human motivation. Joseph explores how monetary rewards and the market economy create narrow, self-serving goals that undermine genuine innovation. He also discusses the harmful effects of market-driven incentives, such as planned obsolescence, and the interconnectedness of industries that profit from maintaining problems rather than solving them. Website & Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live/episode-52/ Medium Transcript: https://peter-joseph.medium.com/market-incentive-disorders-the-myth-of-competitive-benefit-0d25bf385e13 Please support Peter's efforts through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/peterjoseph  or  Direct Donation: https://www.gentlemachineproductions.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f1ef0539d5bc56fac97a266  Read latest Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-149986086?source=queue&autoPlay=false Get Peter's latest book, The New Human Rights Movement: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691520/the-new-human-rights-movement-by-peter-joseph/  Join his mailing list: https://www.peterjoseph.info/  This podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts.  Website & Free Archive https://www.revolutionnow.live/  Join Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RevolutionNowPodcast/  “Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI About Peter: https://www.peterjoseph.info/biography  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peterjosephofficial  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterjosephofficial

In episode 51 of Revolution Now, Peter Joseph discusses sociological causality and its profound influence on human behavior. He emphasizes that systemic change, especially in the economy, is necessary to alter behavior, and activism must focus on changing the system itself, not just individual minds. He also explains the difference between internal and external system regulation, and hence the importance of cybernetic self-regulation, while offering a critique regarding the inefficiency of government regulation in managing market forces, noting that market dynamics, driven by money, overpower democratic efforts to correct issues like environmental degradation and inequality. This is not a side effect. The money-power feedback loop is far more powerful than the market-instability-regulatory loop and even democracy itself, making workable regulation toward homeostasis or balance impossible. Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live/episodes/ Support Peter's efforts through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/peterjoseph  or  Direct Donation: https://www.gentlemachineproductions.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f1ef0539d5bc56fac97a266  Read latest Substack: https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/nexus-from-capitalism-to-fascism Get Peter's latest book, The New Human Rights Movement: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691520/the-new-human-rights-movement-by-peter-joseph/  Join his mailing list: https://www.peterjoseph.info/  This podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts.  Website & Free Archive https://www.revolutionnow.live/  Join Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RevolutionNowPodcast/  “Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI About Peter: https://www.peterjoseph.info/biography  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peterjosephofficial  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterjosephofficial

In this episode, Peter discusses the anti-democratic roots of market capitalism and the dynamics therein. Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live Support Peter's efforts through: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/peterjoseph  Direct Donation: https://www.gentlemachineproductions.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f1ef0539d5bc56fac97a266  Read latest Substack: https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/nexus-from-capitalism-to-fascism Get Peter's book, The New Human Rights Movement: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691520/the-new-human-rights-movement-by-peter-joseph/  Join his mailing list: https://www.peterjoseph.info/  This podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts.  Website & Free Archive https://www.revolutionnow.live/  Join Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RevolutionNowPodcast/  “Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI About Peter: https://www.peterjoseph.info/biography  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peterjosephofficial  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterjosephofficial

In this sprawling episode, Peter discusses the requirement of minimalism in our understanding of post-scarcity; the reason historical idealists have been wrong about predicting the future role of labor-saving automation; the nature of creativity and failure of common communicative forms, along with primary and secondary considerations in market incentive thought.   Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live/episodes   Support Peter's efforts through: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/peterjoseph Direct Donation: https://www.gentlemachineproductions.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f1ef0539d5bc56fac97a266 Read latest Substack: https://peterjoseph.substack.com/p/nexus-from-capitalism-to-fascism   Get Peter's book, The New Human Rights Movement: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691520/the-new-human-rights-movement-by-peter-joseph/   Join his mailing list: https://www.peterjoseph.info/ Substack: https://substack.com/@peterjoseph   This podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts.   Website & Free Archive https://www.revolutionnow.live/   Join Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RevolutionNowPodcast/   About Peter: https://www.peterjoseph.info/biography   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peterjosephofficial   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterjosephofficial “Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI

In this episode, Peter touches upon the role of science, the wisdom of cybernetician Norbert Weiner and gives a description and some audio previews of his new film work "Zeitgeist | Requiem" Support Peter's efforts through:  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/peterjoseph  Direct Donation: https://www.gentlemachineproductions.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f1ef0539d5bc56fac97a266  Get Peter's book, The New Human Rights Movement: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691520/the-new-human-rights-movement-by-peter-joseph/  Join his mailing list: https://www.peterjoseph.info/  Substack: https://substack.com/@peterjoseph  This podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts.  Website & Free Archive https://www.revolutionnow.live/  Join Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RevolutionNowPodcast/  About Peter:  https://www.peterjoseph.info/biography Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peterjosephofficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterjosephofficial/  “Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI

In this episode, Peter expands on the importance of system change, given our collective society "is producing outcomes that no one intends" due to system functions that go unseen; hence the failure of incrementalism as a method of change, concluding with an analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Transcript: https://www.revolutionnow.live/episodes Support Peter's efforts through: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/peterjoseph Direct Donation: https://www.gentlemachineproductions.com/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f1ef0539d5bc56fac97a266 Substack: https://substack.com/@peterjoseph Join his mailing list: https://www.peterjoseph.info/ Get Peter's book, The New Human Rights Movement: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691520/the-new-human-rights-movement-by-peter-joseph/ This podcast is also available on Apple, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts. Website & Free Archive https://www.revolutionnow.live/ Join Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RevolutionNowPodcast/ About Peter: https://www.peterjoseph.info/biography Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peterjosephofficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterjosephofficial/ “Zeitgeist | Requiem” Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJ8KPZakNI Ticket notice for March 15th screening of “Zeitgeist | Requiem”: https://www.eventcreate.com/e/zeitgeist-requiem-by-pe