A New Video (FINALLY)

To All You Dear Lovely People Who Support Me On Patreon...

Omg, so yesterday I released a new video for the first time in... I just checked and it's been literally a year (well, one week less than a year). I’m sorry for the long wait. I’ve been working on a few videos simultaneously, so expect another two coming in either September or October. And after that, although I can’t say how long the wait will be, I can assure you it won’t be nearly as long as it was this time.

Here's the link if you missed it: https://youtu.beF4Joz6xzc

Thank you for ALL your comments. I had to step away for a while due to constraints in my time, but I will be reading all of them eventually.

Below is a description of the new video. I hope you like it! And thank you SO much for your patience and support.

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VIDEO DESCRIPTION

The more power someone has over another person, the more they can constrain that person’s freedom – and it’s hard to think of a power imbalance more extreme than being dependent on someone for food, shelter, and other survival needs. Yet this is the norm in our society.

Human freedom is constrained by the fact that most of us are dependent on the economic ruling class for our survival. In today’s world this means that most people are dependent on a wage paid by an employer, which we do in exchange for working for that employer. In earlier eras many people were dependent on land that was owned/controlled by lords or other elites, and access to that land was only granted in exchange for paying those elites either in crops, currency, or labor. In both cases an economic ruling class controls access to resources the rest of us are deprived of yet need for survival, and this enables our exploitation.

But why is it like this? How was this dependency created? How is it that we, the vast majority of humanity, lost our freedom? That's what this video seeks to explore.

The main takeaway is that a person’s freedom is not secure if someone else controls their access to the means of subsistence and means of production – which in today’s world is much more than just the land. Therefore, to create a society where people are truly free, it must be the case that access to the means of subsistence and means of production are shared by all, and something that no one is alienated from. By contrast, if these are under the exclusive control of only a portion of the population – whether that be an elite economic class or even a socialist/communist political party – then that is a recipe for tyranny, exploitation, and unfreedom.

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Sending good wishes to you all. And as the saying goes, remember to love yourself and each other!