Why are hierarchy and male dominance so prevalent in human societies?  According to anthropologists David Graeber & David Wengrow, it’s because people were “self-consciously experimenting with different social possibilities,” and then we somehow got stuck this way.  Meanwhile according to... Continue Reading →

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7. The Origin of Hierarchy and Male Dominance: why David Graeber and Jordan Peterson are wrong

Everywhere we look, past and present we see hierarchical societies where some people have more wealth, more power, and more rights than others.  Was this always the state of the human world?  Is hierarchy in our nature?  Are egalitarian societies... Continue Reading →

6. Political Anthropology: Why Communism Worked

This episode is for everyone who keeps writing to me to insist that one or the other wrong, incoherent, popular definitions of Left and Right is actually the correct one.   How do we know the left and right refer... Continue Reading →

5. Who’s Who on the Left and Right: 1789-1917

Why police get away with murder, why their budgets keep inflating while other services keep getting cut, why we suddenly have the power to do something about it, and how we can use that power. tweeter: @worbsintowords YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WHATISPOLITICS69 Patreon:... Continue Reading →

Bleep Bloop: police, protestors and power

Definitions of political terms affect what we see and don’t see in the world around us, and turn us into effective or ineffective communicators and political actors. The definition of government that journalists and academics use makes us blind to... Continue Reading →

4. Definitions and Perception: right-wing vs. left-wing definitions of political terms

Most journalists and Doctor-Professor academics don’t really know what the left-right political spectrum is about, but you will after listening to this episode. help! http://www.patreon.com/whatispolitics https://archive.org/download/03leftrightandyou/03%20-%20LEFT-RIGHT%20AND%20YOU.mp3

3. The Left-Right Political Spectrum: what it actually means

How can people who don’t have official decision-making power exert their influence over those who do?  A quick overview of some basic political concepts: POLITICS PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE POLITICS POLITIES GOVERNMENT DEMOCRACY AUTOCRACY CONSENSUS POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS ECONOMICS CAPITALISM IDEOLOGY CLASS THE... Continue Reading →

2. What is Politics and Why Should I Care? (video)

Politics is unique among practical fields in that almost all of the main political terms are worbs: words that everyone (including academics and journalists) uses without really knowing what they mean. This rots our brains. It makes us easy to... Continue Reading →

1. Worbs

This series aims to make sense out of the political muddle that we've inherited from media, academia, and decades of cold war propaganda, so that we can figure what’s happening all around us, and what we can do about it.

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WHAT IS POLITICS?

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