DIVIDE & RULE - The Plan of The 1% to Make You DISPOSABLE - Vandana Shiva | After Skool
Summary
The speaker explores how mechanistic, separative thinking leads to exploitation, contrasting it with quantum principles of non-locality and interconnectedness. They critique billionaire tech monopolies for extracting data and imposing control, linking modern identity politics to historical "divide and rule" strategies used to maintain power. The discussion extends to the economic violence of turning the "art of living" into profit, referencing Gandhi and Thoreau’s resistance to unjust systems. Ultimately, the episode calls for an "earth democracy" based on oneness to prevent the disposabili…
Topics discussed
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Designing the world: mechanistic vs quantum thought
Quantum principles: non-locality and uncertainty
Interconnectedness and the nature of reality
Tech billionaires and the AG One project
Data mining, elections, and corporate control
Global protests and the history of divide and rule
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Identity, partition, and the legacy of division
Apartheid, the Indian Act, and identity politics
Satyagraha, Thoreau, and the civil rights movement
Economic justice and the violence of capitalism
AI, disposability, and the future of work
Earth democracy and oneness as a political project
Conclusion: Unity and strength in togetherness
Music: God playing hide and seek
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