10.5d – The Real Dawn of Everything pt. 4: the origins of modern life and prospects for the future

Why did social liberalism become widespread again, after thousands of years of socially conservative tribes, monarchies and empires? How did democratic states re-emerge after thousands of years of the state being primarily a tool to help ruling classes steal grain and rice from peasants? Why did the ballooning inequality of the industrial revolution suddenly contract into the social welfare state era that’s now being undone?  And what can we do about it? Cover art: The Abisnthe Drinker, Viktor Oliva, 1901 TO SUPPORT MY EXISTENCE (I do not monetize my channel, and depend on donations in order to do this!): PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS:  PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS  (subscribe via web browser, and NOT the apple app which takes 30% of your money!) KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS https://ko-fi.com/whatispolitics BIBLIOGRAPHY: (coming soon) TRANSCRIPT: (coming soon) VIDEO VERSION RSS FEED tweeter: @worbsintowords ALL MUSIC BY STARSIXNINE: (NEW ARTIST OWNED COOP PLATFORM!) or bandcamp or spotify 00:00 hello fellow kids: theory and action 7:00 states and the growth of commerce 8:56 egalitarian cities?  the indus valley civilization 10:53 urban religious orthodoxy vs rural resistance and idiosyncracy 13:57 urban life, commerce and social liberalism 16:22 from grain extraction empires to oligarchal commerce states 21:25 commerce, printing and the decline of state religion 24:57 the agricultural and industrial revolutions  25:50 enclosure: the business controlled the state versus the population 29:31 urban life and social liberalism 31:09 capitalism, property rights and the new urban working class 33:24 the urban working classes organize 34:06 when the clergy clashes with the nobility 38:17 how capitalism breaks the standard political compass 39:56 capitalism as a system of (authoritarian) government 42:54 the rebirth of democracy: back to the first quadrant 45:17 similarities between people living in welfare states and hunter gatherer societies 46:02 the neo-liberal era: not so fast, star trek fans! 47:39 current material conditions and hopeful prospects for the future 51:53 flushing elitism out of the left 53:41 more hopeful prospects for the future https://archive.org/download/quadrant-04/04%20-%20QUADRANT%2004.mp3 WHAT IS POLITICS? is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://worldwidescrotes.wordpress.com/