WHAT IS POLITICS?

WorldWideScrotes

Politics is one of the only practical disciplines where none of the main concepts have clear, coherent definitions.

We define ourselves with terms like "left” and "right" and we believe in things like "democracy," “markets,” "capitalism" and "socialism" even though we don’t really know what any of these words actually mean.

This series aims to make sense out of the political muddle that we've inherited from media, academia, and from decades of cold war propaganda, so that we can figure what it is that we want when it comes to politics, and how we can achieve it.

Play

Open in

20 episodes
monthly
English

Episodes 20

Newest Oldest Longest

All20 Unplayed20 In progress0 Played0

June 21 · length unknown
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... Continue Reading →
June 1 · length unknown
10.5c – The Real Dawn of Everything: from democratic chieftains to despotic monarchs
This segment outlines the role that bargaining power plays in: 1. how social classes and economic hierarchy emerged around the world in cultures that initially had tribes made up of equal families 2. how authoritarian kings and emperors emerged, where... Continue Reading →
May 14 · length unknown
10.5b – The real Dawn of Everything: from socially liberal bands to conservative patriarchal tribes
How did human societies go from socially liberal, gender equal band societies to male dominated, gerontocratic, socially conservative tribal societies? Why did some societies maintain gender equality despite adopting gerontocracy and tribalism? Part 2 of a 4 part series tracking... Continue Reading →
May 12 · length unknown
10.5a – The Real Dawn of Everything: why our early ancestors were egalitarian and socially liberal
Can we stop our civilization from collapsing into more and more inequality and less and less democracy? Are our only choices to be ruled by an owner class of infantile, out of touch zillionaire lunatics, or else an intellectual class... Continue Reading →
March 25 · length unknown
9.4 – Noam Chomsky: what does the evidence actually say about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein?
Why was Noam Chomsky – scourge of the american elite – BFFs with Jeffrey Epstein, the personification of the worst aspects of that elite? Why was Chomsky giving Epstein advice on how to deal with attacks against him in... Continue Reading →
March 5 · length unknown
9.5 – Why the “Left” is full of Cancel Goblins, Stalinist Gooners, D.E.Idiots and Post-Modern Tallywankers
As inequality gets worse and worse, hostility for elites is at all time highs, and huge majorities of voters want higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy to pay for social programs, all the conditions are perfect for the left to be... Continue Reading →
January 28 · length unknown
17 – Socialism for Conservatives, Free Markets for Socialists and the Tyranny of Property Rights
Today, free markets are championed as the foundation of capitalism, while socialists argue that free markets cause growing inequality and exploitation of the working classes, and thus need to be constrained by the state, or else abolished entirely. But in... Continue Reading →
Dec 16, 2025 · length unknown
16.1 – A Realistic Solution to the Forever Housing Crisis (make it happen!)
In this episode we outline: How to build enough affordable housing for everyone using an existing housing model that’s proven to work. How to pay for it. How to convert existing market rate housing into affordable housing. How we can... Continue Reading →
Nov 23, 2025 · length unknown
12.3 The Great Land Theft (secret history of Israel / Palestine pt. 3)
In this chapter of Secret History of Israel/Palestine, we look how the small urban elite stole much of region’s land from it’s rightful peasant owners, turning them from an independent tribal peasantry, into a class of impoverished, indebted tenants on... Continue Reading →
Oct 17, 2025 · length unknown
12.2 Fellahin and Bedouin in the Ottoman Empire (secret history of Israel / Palestine pt. 2)
Who were the people of Palestine and what were their lives about in the late 19th century, before the first Zionists began arriving from Europe in the 1880s? This episode focuses on the fellahin – the peasants of Palestine... Continue Reading →
Sep 2, 2025 · length unknown
16 – Dumbundance: can the “Abundance Agenda” fix the eternal housing crisis?
In the book Abundance, left liberal authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson identify unnecessary bureaucracy and red tape as an important factor in why there is a shortage of housing across the USA. Very quickly, billionaires and powerful donors have... Continue Reading →
Aug 4, 2025 · length unknown
15 – How Inequality of Wealth and Power are like Obesity and Diabetes
Why are human beings so greedy and why are our societies so hierarchical, if our ancestors were so fiercely egalitarian? What is “human nature” in this regard? A new theory about inequality of wealth and power in human societies.... Continue Reading →
Jul 1, 2025 · length unknown
Hello, Fellow Jews! How Lies About Oslo led to the Destruction of Gaza
My message to Jewish supporters of the war in Gaza. (TIMESTAMPS BELOW)   TO SUPPORT MY EXISTENCE: PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS: PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS: KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS: TRANSCRIPT BIBLIOGRAPHY / WORKS CITED VIDEO... Continue Reading →
May 30, 2025 · length unknown
14 – Why Elites Ruined the Meaning of the Left Right Political Spectrum (and we need it back!)
Market Exit, like many others before him, tells us that the left-right political spectrum is obsolete and does more harm than good. That’s because he doesn’t know what they mean. This video explains: 1. What the political left and right... Continue Reading →
May 1, 2025 · length unknown
13 – “Nationalism vs. Globalism”: Why is the Populist Right on the Rise?
Why are nationalist / populist / far right candidates and parties getting elected all around the world?  Why isn’t the populist left enjoying the same success? Why does inequality keep getting worse nomatter who gets elected? PAYPAL ONE TIME OR... Continue Reading →
Apr 1, 2025 · length unknown
12.1 – The Jews of Europe and the rise of Zionism (secret history of Israel / Palestine, Part I)
This series focuses on those aspects of the origins of the Israel/Palestine conflict that partisans on both sides mutually ignore. This episode examines jewish life in Europe and the conditions leading to the rise of Zionism until the first wave... Continue Reading →
Apr 30, 2024 · length unknown
Q&A on the ABCs of Israel/Palestine
This is a Q&A where I respond to questions and critiques about episode 12: The ABC’s of Israel/Palestine (https://youtu.be/OLr_VCqnId0) and also go off on a whole bunch of related tangents. TIMESTAMPS BELOW! BIBLIOGRAPHY: https://www.patreon.com/posts/102834580 (no paywall) I purposefully don’t monetize... Continue Reading →
Apr 23, 2024 · length unknown
Brainstorm: Israel/Palestine – Who Started It?
What was supposed to be an informal QnA about the “Israel/Palestine ABCs” episode, turned into a What is Politics “live” brainstorm session à la Matt Christman “grillstream,” where I discuss my arguments and readings on who and what started the... Continue Reading →
Mar 5, 2024 · length unknown
12: From “Never Again” to “There are No Uninvolved Civilians”: The ABC’s of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Elites use identity, particularly national identity, as a way of advancing their own interests, often against the interests of the populations that they pretend to represent. But before we can understand this, we need an ABC of the conflict, to... Continue Reading →
Aug 10, 2023 · length unknown
9.2 – Equity, Equality and Lizard People: When Social Control Masquerades as Social Justice
When ideas and movements that threaten to overturn established hierarchies of power are absorbed into elite institutions like Ivy League universities and for-profit corporations, they get transformed into ideas that support the status quo, while remaining cloaked in the language... Continue Reading →

Showing 1–20 of 20 episodes