I [Richard Metzger] was on my old friend Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human podcast. We taped this just before news of George Floyd’s murder became widely known, and talked for over four hours over the course of two long calls. The edited version is just under an hour. It’s always fun to have a conversation with him.Playing for Team Human today, counterculture icon and Editor of Dangerous Minds, Richard Metzger. Metzger envisions what life might look like on the dole and what that means for the future of the counterculture.
Rushkoff and Metzger consider whether the ideals of yesterday’s counterculture were so successful that they’ve become the new over culture? And if so, who really are the new revolutionaries? They also consider the effect Covid-19 will have on a new generation’s financial prospects, and whether the underlying flaws in capitalism will finally be laid bare.
In his monologue, Rushkoff looks at the way our policing problems can only be solved if we fund and utilize other kinds of civil servants instead of just ones with weapons.
Read “Good Cops Don’t Need Grenade Launchers” by Douglas Rushkoff from Medium’s GEN.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
TEAM HUMAN: DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF
AND RICHARD METZGER TALK COUNTERCULTURE
(AND WHERE IT MIGHT BE HEADING)
from Dangerous Minds:
