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Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Why We Must Confront the Painful Parts of US History
TED Talk [2020]
“To move forward in the United States, we must look back and confront the difficult history that has shaped widespread injustice. Revisiting a significant yet overlooked piece of the past, Hasan Kwame Jeffries emphasizes the need to weave historical context, no matter how painful, into our understanding of modern society — so we can disrupt the continuum of inequality massively affecting marginalized communities.”
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Neonn Felicity Curations
📚 Lectures / Books 📚
YouTube Playlist
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Geo-Strategy#2: Christian Zionism and the Middle East ConflictGeo-Strategy #8: The Iran TrapNazis Never Left — They Just Rebranded. Here’s How They Took Over Mainstream PoliticsMichael Parenti "The Struggle for History" North Hollywood, California June 1994Michael Parenti "Democratic Government vs. The State" Long Beach, California September 1991Michael Parenti "Reflections on the Overthrow of Communism" Santa Rosa, California March 1996A Spectre Haunting: China Miéville on the Communist ManifestoManifesting the Utopian Mind 🔮 Neonn Felicity 🔮 Lightning in a Bottle 2022When Freedom Is Oppression: White Resistance To Federal Power w/ Jefferson Cowie | MR LIVE 1/30/231/14Categories: Books, Lectures, Literature, Symposia
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Mike Figueredo
The Humanist Report
Political News & Commentary Show
1/708Big Tech Shills Seethe as More Americans Rise Up Against Data Centers and WINLatest GOP Fruitcake is So Unhinged He Had Us CACKLING | Leftist Mafia ClipBUSTED: Abdul El-Sayed’s Opponent Gets Caught Paying Influencers to Gas Her UpWatching (& Debunking) Trump's Election-Denying Primetime Address (w/ Kristina) | Leftist Mafia #178Dem Leaders NEVER Miss an Opportunity to Give Their Own Base the FingerMass Pearl-Clutching Ensues Over Celebrations of Lindsey Graham’s DeathA Sincere & Respectful Tribute to Senator Lindsey GrahamDesperate Establishment Democrats Try to Tie Abdul El-Sayed to Graham PlatnerHEATED Graham Platner Debate (w/ Zaid Tabani) | Leftist Mafia #1771/708Categories: Afternoon News, Evening News, News, Symposia, Vlogs, YouTube Channels
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Dr. Greg Carr & Karen Hunter
In Class with Carr
Africana Studies Philosophical History Show
1/21Private videoPrivate videoIn Class with Carr, Ep. 13: What is Juneteenth?In Class with Carr, Ep. 36: The History of The Insurrection of 1898 in Wilmington, NC!In Class with Carr, Ep. 14: Do We Need a Juneteenth Holiday?Private videoPrivate videoPrivate videoIn Class with Carr, Ep. 20: "Mickey Mouse Was a Minstrel Figure!"1/21Super educational show for contextualizing current events in their historical trajectory ^^ Dr. Carr is a walking encyclopedia! But FYI, the newest episodes are at the end of this playlist 🙂
Categories: Afternoon News, Interviews, Podcasts, Symposia, YouTube Channels
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Neonn Felicity Curations
🤑 Capitalism 🤑
YouTube Playlist
1/73Capitalism & Slavery: The Truth They Don’t Teach You | David McNally & Clara MatteiThe Wealthy & Illegals: A Love Story | Yannis Pappas HourMichael Parenti "Democratic Government vs. The State" Long Beach, California September 1991Michael Parenti "Racism and the Ideology of Slavery: From Aristotle to George Bush"Michael Parenti "Imperialism, Drugs and Social Control"Rich People Want Fascism | Hasanabi Reacts to Second ThoughtMichael Parenti "Reflections on the Overthrow of Communism" Santa Rosa, California March 1996Capitalism Is Over: What's Next Is WorsePrivate video1/73Categories: Symposia
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Kyle Kulinski
Secular Talk
Political News & Commentary Show
1/2223‘HE’S COMPLETELY FAKE’: Tim Dillon’s SCATHING REBUKE Of RFK Jr!! | The Kyle Kulinski ShowCLOSET CASE MAGA HACK BENNY JOHNSON HAS TOTALLY LOST IT | The Kyle Kulinski ShowWATCH: Secret Zionist Conference ADMITS Evil Plan Out Loud | The Kyle Kulinski ShowEMERGENCY: DOJ SENDING FEDERAL AGENTS TO MIDTERM POLLS!!! | The Kyle Kulinski ShowWE’RE F*CKED | The Kyle Kulinski ShowTrump PANICS As Judge Demands He SURRENDER FINANCIAL RECORDS!!! | The Kyle Kulinski ShowTrump ROBS $100 MILLION From MAGA To Pay His Legal Bills!!! | The Kyle Kulinski ShowTrump Polls COLLAPSE To ‘WORST IN US HISTORY’!!! | The Kyle Kulinski ShowBill Maher Castrates Himself For Trump | The Kyle Kulinski Show1/2223Categories: Afternoon News, Evening News, News, Symposia, Vlogs, YouTube Channels
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Russell Brand
Russell Brand
Political & Cultural Commentary Show
1/643Elon knows what’s coming…Is this the crisis nobody's talking about?Ricky Gervais did us all a service.Yet American kids are still being fed this crap…The true cost of validation…Mel Gibson was right about this…The Biden Family Is Not Innocent!Was Russell deliberately silenced during the Covid era?Will we ever see the government held accountable for this?!1/643Categories: Afternoon News, Evening News, News, Symposia, Vlogs, YouTube Channels
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David Graeber
DEBT:
The First 5,000 YearsAnthropological Economic History Book [2012]
❝ Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it. ❞
Categories: Books, Lectures, Literature, Symposia
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Ray Kurzweil
The Singularity Is Near:
When Humans Transcend BiologyFuturist Philosophy Book [2005]
❝ The great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil is one of the best-known and most controversial advocates for the role of machines in the future of humanity. In his latest book, he envisions an event—the “”singularity””—in which technological change becomes so rapid and so profound that our bodies and brains will merge with our machines.
The Singularity Is Near portrays what life will be like after this event— a human- machine civilization where our experiences shift from real reality to virtual reality and where our intelligence becomes nonbiological and trillions of times more powerful. In practical terms, this means that human aging and pollution will be reversed; world hunger will be solved; our bodies and environment transformed by nanotechnology to overcome the limitations of biology, including death; and virtually any physical product can be created from information alone. The Singularity Is Near also considers the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes, and is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and provocative books of 2005. ❞
Categories: Books, Literature, Symposia, Vlogs
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Dr. Rick Doblin
The Future of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
TED Talk [2019]
“Could psychedelics help us heal from trauma and mental illnesses? Researcher Rick Doblin has spent the past three decades investigating this question, and the results are promising. In this fascinating dive into the science of psychedelics, he explains how drugs like LSD, psilocybin and MDMA affect your brain — and shows how, when paired with psychotherapy, they could change the way we treat PTSD, depression, substance abuse and more.”
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George Carlin
American Bullshit
Epic Classic Stand-Up Comedy Bit [1999]
brilliant segment from “You are All Diseased”
Categories: Stand-Up Comedy, Symposia
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Dr. Rick Doblin
Transformational Psychedelics
The Long Now Foundation Seminar [2020]
“Humans have consumed psychedelics for at least the last 10,000 years. The outlawing of psychedelics in most of the world in the 20th century didn’t stop that, but it did put an end to promising research into their psychotherapeutic applications to treat depression, addiction, PTSD, anxiety, and trauma. Today, we’re in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance, with some psychedelics fast on their way to becoming legal medicines. One of the key players behind this movement is Rick Doblin, Ph.D.. In 01986, he founded the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a non-profit research and educational organization that has developed the medical and legal framework for the use of psychedelics to treat mental health conditions. MAPS has distributed over $20 million to fund psychedelic research and education, and in 02017 won fast-tracked “Breakthrough Therapy” designation from the FDA for using MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to treat Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). With legalization now in sight, what is the future of psychedelic medicine?”
Categories: Lectures, Symposia, Video Essays
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Peter Joseph
Improbable Democracy
Z-Day Talk [2017]
“About TZM: The Zeitgeist Movement is a global sustainability activist group working to bring the world together for the common goal of species sustainability before it is too late. Divisive notions such as nations, governments, races, political parties, religions, creeds or class are non-operational distinctions in the view of The Movement. Rather, we recognize the world as one system and the human species as a singular unit, sharing a common habitat.”
Categories: Lectures, Symposia, Talks, The Zeitgeist Movement
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Sheldon Solomon
Disagreement with Jordan Peterson
Lex Fridman Interview Clip [2020]
brilliant discussion on meaning
“Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist, a philosopher, co-developer of Terror Management Theory, co-author of The Worm at the Core.”
Categories: Interviews, Podcasts, Symposia
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Science Insider
Map Shows How Humans Migrated Across The Globe
Short Geography Animation [2015]
this seems useful in helping people understand that we’re all one big human family <3
“It’s tough to know what happened on Earth thousands of years before anyone started writing anything down. But thanks to the amazing work of anthropologists and paleontologists like those working on National Geographic’s Genographic Project, we can begin to piece together the story of our ancestors. Here’s how early humans spread from East Africa all around the world.”
Categories: Animations, Symposia
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Vinton Cerf, Neil Gershenfeld, Elizabeth Stark, Alex Wright
❝ Disruptive technologies uproot culture, can precipitate wars & even topple empires. By this measure, human history has seen nothing like the internet. Pioneers of the digital revolution, Vinton Cerf, Neil Gershenfeld, Elizabeth Stark, & Alex Wright, examine the Internet’s brief but explosive history & reveal nascent projects that will shortly reinvent how we interact with technology—and each other. From social upheaval & ever-shifting privacy standards to self-driving cars & networked groceries, this eye-opening program provides a stunning glimpse of what’s around the corner. ❞
Categories: Panel Discussions, Symposia
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Dr. Carl Hart
MDMA for the People:
Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of HappinessMAPS Talk [2020]
“Carl Hart, Ph.D., is the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. His research focuses on the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs. He is particularly interested in what social and psychological factors influence drug use and their effects, and using evidence-based research to formulate more humane drug policies.”
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Slavoj Zizek
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
Philosophy Documentary [2013]
“Cultural theorist superstar Slavoj Žižek re-teams with director Sophie Fiennes (The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema) for another wildly entertaining romp through the crossroads of cinema and philosophy. With infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, Žižek literally goes inside some truly epochal movies, all the better to explore and expose how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. As the ideology that undergirds our cinematic fantasies is revealed, striking associations emerge: What hidden Catholic teachings lurk at the heart of The Sound of Music? What are the fascist political dimensions of Jaws? Taxi Driver, Zabriskie Point, The Searchers, The Dark Knight, John Carpenter’s They Live (“one of the forgotten masterpieces of the Hollywood Left”), Titanic, Kinder Eggs, verité news footage, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” and propaganda epics from Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia all inform Žižek’s stimulating, provocative and often hilarious psychoanalytic-cinematic rant.”
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Symposia
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In this episode of Utopian Cartography, Neonn Felicity sits down with the guerrilla poet laureate of Sacramento, Andru Defeye, to discuss the role of art in perpetuating or disrupting toxic patterns of complacency with the injustices in the world. Andru Defeye is a conscious existential emcee, founder of the guerrilla performance crew Zero Forbidden Goals, Communications Director for the community activist art space Sol Collective, & the vibrant host of a series of open mic events at Sol & on street corners around Sacramento.
Topics discussed include: popular culture as a narcissistic lullaby, art as a vehicle for collective consciousness, manifestation vs. privileged positivity culture, change as an inevitable process of unfolding, creativity as critical engagement with the world, how we can learn to listen to each other & why, how to prevent the robo-cops of the future from being racist, informal 2-way intergenerational education, how to love your enemies, how culture evolves from one generation to the next, the intuitive wokeness of kids these days, how to hunt for joy in your life, despite any tragedy, & how to respond effectively to a world in crisis. Thanks for joining us. ❤️
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Categories: Interviews, Podcasts, Symposia, Utopian Cartography Podcast w/ Neonn Felicity
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❝ A provocative work by medical ethicist James Hughes, Citizen Cyborg argues that technologies pushing the boundaries of humanness can radically improve our quality of life if they are controlled democratically. Hughes challenges both the technophobia of Leon Kass and Francis Fukuyama and the unchecked enthusiasm of others for limitless human enhancement. He argues instead for a third way, “democratic transhumanism,” by asking the question destined to become a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century: How can we use new cybernetic and biomedical technologies to make life better for everyone? These technologies hold great promise, but they also pose profound challenges to our health, our culture, and our liberal democratic political system. By allowing humans to become more than human – “posthuman” or “transhuman” – the new technologies will require new answers for the enduring issues of liberty and the common good. What limits should we place on the freedom of people to control their own bodies? Who should own genes and other living things? Which technologies should be mandatory, which voluntary, and which forbidden? For answers to these challenges, Citizen Cyborg proposes a radical return to a faith in the resilience of our democratic institutions. ❞
Categories: Books, Lectures, Literature, Symposia, Talks
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❝ In their bestseller Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams showed the world how mass collaboration was changing the way businesses communicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace.
This sequel shows that in more than a dozen fields—from finance to health care, science to education, the media to the environment—we have reached a historic turning point. Collaborative innovation is revolutionizing not only the way we work, but how we live, learn, create, govern, and care for one another. The wiki revolutions of the Arab Spring were only one example of how rebuilding civilization was not only possible but necessary.
With vivid examples from diverse sectors, Macrowikinomics is a handbook for people everywhere seeking a transformation of industry and institutions by embracing a new set of guiding principles, including openness and interdependence. Tapscott and Williams argue that this new communications medium, like the printing press before it, is enabling nothing less than the birth of a new civilization. ❞Categories: Books, Lectures, Literature, Symposia, Talks