Graham Priest
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386 appearances
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
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It could be bigger, it could be, you know, is the current way that politicians are elected in the United States sensible?
To which the answer is obviously no.
It could be, hey, you know, um
what's passes for democracy i in current Western societies
Well, democracy might be quite a good thing, maybe, maybe not, but we haven't got it.
I mean, we live in a world which is financed by capitalism.
I mean ask well well, ask who benefits by it.
It takes us back to this.
Um and the people who benefit by it are the people who have are rich and can pay for ads, or the at least the people who get elected because you know th they receive money from people who
pay for the ads, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So I mean the the sort of question you're asking works at all levels.
Anything, any decision you take has political ramifications and you think through what the consequences of those are.
And I'm not suggesting there's a magic bullet for any of this.
I mean, I don't have any magic solutions, and neither does anybody else.
But sure as hell, sitting on our arse and just accepting the status quo is not giving us a better kind of society.
In fact, looking at what is happening to the world's environment at the moment.
moment, you know, we're all gonna oh okay, I probably won't see it, but my grandkids will see it.
It's really gonna, you know, have terrible consequences for the people of the future.
Yeah.
No, compassion uh is the central later Buddhist virtue.
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