Raj Patel
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157 appearances
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first heard May 2022
last heard May 2022
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Eve as your helper, and there's no way that you can let your helper suffer with so much work.
And so by reading the Bible as a radical call for equality, which, you know, it's a stretch, but Anita can do it, she's able to use certain kinds of narratives that are shared in order to bring about a world that is genuinely shared.
And that mirrors the ways that liberals try to persuade conservatives that climate change is real.
It's like if you bang people with enough statistics about CO2, somehow their views will change.
change.
That's bad storytelling.
And the good storytelling is precisely about how it is that we're knit together in the web of life.
It's about recreating the kinds of cosmologies that capitalism has destroyed.
And you mentioned blue zones, which are these areas around the world where through a sort of a series of almost magical confluence, people get to live incredibly long lives.
And as far as we can see, it's because people have friendships and they have access to fresh food and they exercise every day, and they haven't, in various ways, been contaminated with the sort of evils of the modern food system.
One of those places is Okinawa, where uh particularly for women, the
Average expected lifespan was in the 90s.
There are lots of women over 100 and and lots of men too.
But what we noticed also is that that's transforming, it's falling.
The number of people living that long is dipping to the extent that you now have grandparents burying their grandchildren.
And what's driving that is again the sort of colonial extermination of the ways of life in which people could fish and farm on their own land.
And build these friendships and move freely about the island.
And that's in large part because one of the largest US bases in the Pacific, the Futenma base, is right on the very best farmland on that island.
And so all of a sudden, you know, and people do cut through the wire fences and plant some of their stuff surreptitiously.
But in general, it's really hard now that there is a US base and the crappy food that comes with it to be able to eat as an Okinawan used to do 100 years ago, because that world has been constantly.
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