Are we just consumers - or are we CITIZENS?
I was on Radio 4's the #MoralMaze discussing the question of hardship and who should make sacrifices in these troubled times. Listen to a clip below.
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"...it’s possible for us to actually preserve, and indeed enhance, our quality of life, if what we do is look at the actual ways people get meaning and joy and purpose."
I was a witness on last night's edition of the BBC's #MoralMaze. If you missed it, listen now 👇
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"It only looks like sacrifice if you are thinking of people primarily as consumers. We ought to think of each other primarily as citizens..."
I was invited to be one of the witnesses on the BBC's #MoralMaze last night. Well worth a listen.
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The #MoralMaze offers us a bunch of right wingers trying to set the moral agenda. No wonder the BBC has become irrelevant. #bbcpm
The framing of #moralmaze is a bit outrageous: individuals—typically those on lower incomes—having to tighten their belts, when those much much richer—who ultimate cause of problem, causing financial crashes & slowing transition to green energy & transport—do not sacrifice proportionally!
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All of these #MAGA people have a great skill of talking complete bollocks.
Lowe will be a guest on Radio 4's Moral Maze in 1 2 . .
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Facts are beads of valid objective information; “Truth” is a subjective subset of facts that forms a narrative. But if the story contains lies that factually don’t match reality then it’s no longer “Truth”. It’s as simple as that. #MoralMaze
The #MoralMaze is the usual collection of cunts.
Glad to contribute to @bbcradio4 #moralmaze programme, going out tonight. The issue for me was not whether anyone knows the truth. But whether we love it, submit to it, look towards its divine horizon. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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I wonder how many Tufton St servants talk about 'civilisational erasure' in South Africa?
Why don't we send the Dutch crew and the British crew back to their 'homelands'?
Have they ever integrated? Indeed, they created apartheid to separate themselves.
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Imagine being this guy, and talking about 'civilisational erasure' in Europe.
JD Vance must really hate his wife and kids.
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The white racists from MAGA and elsewhere who cry about an alleged 'civilisational erasure' in Europe, never complain about the 4.5 million white people living on the southern tip of Africa.
This concern about 'civilisations' seems to be a one-way street.
A bunch of right wingers trying to set the moral agenda. #bbcpm #MoralMaze
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The late Mike Dickin used to say: walk down the street, and look at the next 12 people you see on the street, and ask yourself if you would trust those people with your liberty.
I believe in the jury system, but do not kid yourself that it is perfect.
And it turns out the #BBC #MORALMAZE thinks the same. On today on #BBCSOUNDS or live.
Moral maze : is it Hitler’s fault he was Hitler or was it Autism?
FUCK OFF #Radio4 #MoralMaze
and there lies the catch 22 - same as voters rejecting Dems over Gaza:
if one rejects something morally reprehensible, you effectively allow something even worse
#MoralMaze ?
Using my right to free speech… this man’s views are abhorrent, represent no one and are against any civilized view of humanity. Utterly appalled to hear him on bbc as the advocate against democracy.
What a political flat-earther.
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@menciusmoldbug.bsky.social
Block him
#moralmaze sounding almost proud to be pushing this dork posing as a philosopher. With a side order of far right ideas. Just keep pushing that Overton Window ever rightwards Michael.
#BBCPM
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping will be tuning in to the #MoralMaze with their bowls of popcorn.
The #MoralMaze is peak #MoralMaze tonight.
Even accepting the framing of 'netzero' as a reasonable and proportional response to the science of climate change (as most world governments have) is imprisoning yourself in the oil industry's paradigm.
#moralmaze #climatecrisis #wato #r4today
#MoralMaze hasn't been worth listening to for years. Its conundrums are entirely confected and rather obvious ploys to "both sides" any topic.
#bbcpm
If Michael Burke wants the #MoralMaze to remain relevant at all instead of what it is: a
right wing talking shop, they should discuss the Israeli genocide and apparent willingness to set the Middle East on fire. #bbcpm
Michael Buerk - we'll be putting the case for the oil industry tonight, who say that fighting climate change is pointless.
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Explain to me how that #moralMaze discussion isn't going to bothsides climate change AGAIN with space given to deniers in their new guise as opposers of net zero.
After decades you've still learned nothing BBC.
#r4today #climatecrisis
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I was baffled to hear no mention of Bernays or Chomsky nor the £42billion annually spent on advertising in the UK. Money entirely wasted is it? You did well George both to present the case and maintain composure. Looks now like you were only invited in order to be discredited. #propaganda #moralmaze
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social - Just heard you on #MoralMaze. You ended brilliantly! That anecdote on spikded stories was gold-dust. The fellow asking you questions didn't listen to you. He had his prepped Qs, and contradicted what you said someitimes totally. You went easy on him. #toonice
