Roberto Unger on Hardtalk

[whirlygigspin]

The host is a total wanker, trying hard to 'service' power~ in the DU vernacular 'blowing clowns for fries'.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. So the host is a "wanker"? That's why we should watch it?

If the video is worth investing 24:27 time in watching it, then perhaps the OP might see the worth of investing about 60 seconds to write a persuasive summary to encourage us to watch it.

[whirlygigspin]

3. tempus fugit

thank you for your suggestion, although I did not post this to persuade anyone to watch it but did so simply for those who have an active interest in Mr. Unger's views and how they may effect contemporary political thought and action.

summary: "Finance makes a good servant but a bad master"

In physics, the point of greatest loss is conversely also the point of greatest possible gain. Mr. Unger is suggesting that investment in the working class/poor would return a much greater real gain to the productive economy (real economy) than that from the bubble economy of finance.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Thanks for the notes. Could be interesting. I may look at it later. nt

[drynberg]

2. About Half way through the 24 min. the "host" says America is a "conservative nation"

Really? I thought Unger should have said that he'd like some evidence of that very broad (and incorrect) statement. This is when I stopped watching/listening to this video. Why a limey thinks he knows and can just posit the "truth" about the true nature of the USA drives me to higher ground.

[whirlygigspin]

4. God save the King

"America is not a revolutionary country, America is a small c conservative nation"

I guess that's news to Jefferson et al.

This insipid statement by Sackur is either proof that the British are still in denial over the American revolution or that America has truly fallen so far down the shithole that it's time for a new one, either way, he is way wrong on that score.