15: Talking CHAZ (or is it CHOP?)

Show Notes We talk about the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), or Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) Let us talk CHAZ Flip charts are racist Overdemocracy is sometimes worse than too little democracy. The meaning of private property in the CHAZ Have human beings always had a concept of ownership? Are we back to envy again? Imagine no possessions? We want to see the results of this experiment because you cannot have that kind of independent state unless you have supplies flowing in and out of it. Living in CHAZ hits you with too much dopamine oxytocin and serotonin. But once it’s gone, it’s gone; I mean they’re not making new food, are they? A communist society cannot survive without a capitalist society supporting it. No man is an island Put them on a homestead where they can fend for themselves then. We are not homesteaders anymore, right. CHAZ or CHOP? No one wants to name it after the lazy dude in Wedding Crashers. Greed or Envy? The CHAZ folks need a patron who can pay for them not to work Can you live on rice and beans? Communes cannot last – they have been proven to survive between 2 (secular) and 20 years (religious), and every one of them failed