So far the reaction to our Frithjof Bergmann interview has been fantastic. Instead of simply giving our amateur commentary on Plato or Nietzsche or someone that you can find out about in plenty of other places, we've exposed something new and exciting. Whether or not you agree with Frithjof's vision, it sure as hell deserves to be a widely discussed option in our political discourse. If you agree, then I challenge you do do something about it: send the episode link to some friends who maybe would never otherwise listen to anything having to do with philosophy. Spread it around your dissatisfied office. Send it to your old political science or economics prof. Post to Facebook! Tweet it! Go go go!
-Mark Linsenmayer
“Instead of simply giving our amateur commentary on Plato or Nietzsche or someone that you can find out about in plenty of other places”
Disagreed.
There are plenty of “talk-casts”and “philosophy-casts” out there, but PEL is the only one I’ve come across so far that’s found a near-perfect balance between the two genres. Plus, you guys cover a lot of thinkers most people don’t, like Santayana and Buber (the non-objectivist but still serious engagement of Rand is pretty hard to find as well).
That said, Bergman’s awesome. I’ll spread the word.
The Swiss may be making a huge step in this direction pretty soon… http://www.salon.com/2013/10/11/rather_than_savage_cuts_switzerland_considers_star_trek_economics/
(I’m Swiss.)
I’m pretty sure the Initiative for a basic income will have no chance, but it will provoke many interesting public debates (this is the main function of “Intiatives” in Switzerland, they’re very rarely won at the end.
BTW: Bergman is agains’t basic income, as far as I know. Personally I’m undecided, but have great sympathies for Bergman’s approach to focus on making work better. (sorry for my bad English)