The Future of Humanity and the United States (Peter Joseph Interview) 

Peter Joseph is a very underrated modern philosopher. Really glad to see him on the show.

Damn. This guy is smart and one of the most intelligent articulate individuals I've ever heard speak unscripted.

Peter Joseph was the man that got me thinking about 'systems' and 'structures' in socio-economics. Incredibly sharp and articulate. Good luck to him. Also everyone should check out his "revolution now" podcast on Spotify if you haven't already

Absolutely great interview!! I found myself saying “yes, right” out loud to him every few minutes haha

Peter Joseph, has become a voice to be heard.

Peter has a beautiful mind. He's so far ahead of his time.

Peter Joseph is an absolute LEGEND 🙌🏻

Hand down the best John Cusack performance in years

Thank you for having Peter on!! Much appreciated.

I love this man!!! If only we could make these ideas MAINSTREAM 😭😤

Peter Joseph is a genius visionary. Great interview.

This is the type of content that youtube should recommend.

Great interview! Peter Joseph is my Yoda. He helped me navigate through the value system disorder in this country, its origin and possible solutions and positive approaches and most importantly, gave me hope that there is a better way right within our reach.

I loved his documentary Zeitgeist, series.

That was amazing, insightful, and deep. Well done!

Between Jeremy Rifkin, Buckminster Fuller, Jacque Fresco and Peter Joseph, there's a plethora of REAL WEALTH to be made...for everyone. I feel committed to understanding zero marginal cost and a resource-based economy, and applying myself towards these ideals. Technology and science, NOT politics, will help us win on planet Earth.

I like the host, he listens actively and is permanently on the same train like Peter, and Peter himself is always talking right out of my head, it is very calming to know that atleast there is someone there who has the possibility to talk to many people, I can only do that very limited and need to live with that people begin to avoid me because they say I'm negative because I never talk about bullshit like soccer, but about problems, causes and solutions, but they think they are positive because they ignore and deny, destroy their ill minds even more with alcohol, drugs, mindless consumption, sex, media, yoga and all other kinds of addictions and brain damaging tools.

quality PJ content. he reminds me i'm not crazy, but actually pretty sane

Love Peter Joseph's perspective and great to see you speaking with him David. Would love to see a multi series of interviews between you two!

Thanks for having Peter on. He's lowkey the single most important thought leader on the left

Peter Joseph has done more to focus my social conscience than any member of my family, my friends, my educators or my politicians.

In the future ppl will be amazed just how enlightened Peter was for the age he lived in. The holistic system approach he represent is the most practical - and in the same time deep - way to think about the human condition, unfortunatelly almost completelly absent from most of the political discussion. Basicaly he talks about the really important things with the utmost clarity.

Future of humanity? The universe doesn’t revolve around the US!

Peter Joseph has sure done his homework!

*No1: Don't Only Hope On Government's Responds On security Matter's And Economy growth, No2: As An Individual You Should Be Safeguarded And Also Look For Different Self Business And Trade Not Only Waiting on Betterment of Stock market activities, No3: Most Important Always Save The Little You Can And Think Of What To Do With It When It Become Good For Capital, Because Government Have Failed Us In Aspect Of Security, Economics Activities And Other Trading Systems*

Peter is on a higher level. He won’t be really appreciated until 50yrs after his death.

HOW did I not notice this interview. I love Peter Joseph and I enjoy watching TDPS. I blame work

Fascinating interview

This was absolutely the most interesting conversation I have had the pleasure to listen to in quite a long time. Three years after the fact, and it is bang on relevant!

I'm so happy to see you interview Peter Joseph! I was first introduced to his work around '06/ '07. Always thought these concepts and The Venus Project so fascinating.

That was an insightful interview. It had my head thinking about some stuff for some time

Great to run into Peter again. 💪

I like the Zeitgeist speaker. He has a great vision and ideas for how to reform and reintegrate people into a polite as well as well-working society.

What an amazing interview.

Everything Peter says is awesome, glad there are people like your in the world! Blessed love Peter thanks for all the great work! 🙏

I've been wondering where he was. He's been quiet. Peter is an awesome human.

This is AWESOME!! Love this guy.

So on point! Great interview!

guy makes some good points

Great talk.

This attempted coup looks like what happens when a Tom Clancy movie and a Mel Brooks movie have a baby.

David, I'm new to your show and very happy to see that you had Peter Joseph on!

Watching him struggle to not say "get rid of money" Because people won't listen once that is said. So sad that people have such a hard time thinking outside monetary terms.

I live in switzerland and we have universal health care. Yes you have to pay for it, but if you can't pay you still have the right for health care. We also have student funding where the students pay back a fraction of it. This has nothing to do with socialism or communism or marxism or whatever. It's just a system that helps people who don't have the money for education and thus creates more fairness in society. I agree with peter that it is naiv to say that everyone gets what they work for. This is absolutely not the case. Compare switzerland to africa - Its also about luck and not "everybody gets what they earn". This is an oversimplified and false statement of people who don't know what privilege is i think and i live in a privileged society.

Wow. This guy is basically summing up everything I have been thinking for the last couple of years! Chomsky, Chris Hedges, William Barber and Rick Wolff all roller into one! Not sure about his solutions. I haven't heard this stuff before. Maybe worth finding out more. AFAIK if we don't push back hard on capitalism then we are screwed.

Great conversation. Understandable and informative.

Brilliant as usual David but I especially enjoyed your learned guest. People like him and David Stockman should be advising our leaders. They have the wisdom to see a broader picture. Thank-you David for your inestimable contribution to humanity.

Man, I really enjoyed that interview! Super informative! Hell, I even share a lot of these opinions, so it was nice to see them articilated and discussed!

Great interview. I need to check out interreflections soon.

Woooo the king, has returned!! You’re the man Peter ! A nice surprise to see you on the Packman Show! Made my afternoon 😁👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Peter is a beast

Bruh my history teacher said that the news is only focusing on what happened at the front of the capitol and not in the far far back which he said was peaceful. Well the most the people in the back back was kick some grass and yell nasty stuff. And many interviews showed that they were gonna go into the capital to and they thought what was going on in the capital was good. They already went far enough to go beyond the point then they were aloud to, and also there were some police back a little further than the front of capital and they got beat up by the rioters. The reason why the people in the back weren't acting as violent as the ones who were in the capitol was because they never even got the chance to get in there. A majority in the back also WANTED to go into the capital and get to the Congress Members. So my teacher doesn't know what he is talking about.

Thanks so much David for interviewing Peter!! I wish more people would at the very least consider his point of view.

I remember this guy

I loved this interview, David. Thanks for doing it. Also, it's good that you delved into the causes of our problems and possible solutions to them as opposed to just doing videos about sensational headlines in the news.

`Why' is the only real source of power, without it you are powerless.” - The Merovingian

He's a young Chris Hedges without the absolute gloom that Chris paints.

If you're interested in learning more I highly suggest his third zeitgeist movie ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QwiL0wEl8gA.html ), Especially at 1:30:10 although I do strongly suggest checking out the whole thing

Great discussion.

you are one of the only people in the main independent online news that platforms peter. if more would do this it could trigger people to start moving this way.

Wonderful stuff, I always recommend the book 'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy, many of these concepts were posited by Bellamy while he was writing in 1897.

Great talk

Yes!

Peter is describing TRUE human freedom. It’ll happen eventually.

Blessings

Edward Bernays(Friend’s nephew) and the office of Public Relations coupled with Calvin were good spots to start for of all this.

I really didn't espect this interview... this is a nice surprise.

Wowwww interview Peter joseph nice!! Very cool!

I love this guy. He lifts the veil from this social construction.

Love you David, just wanted to know what you thought about the recent story of trump stealing statues and items from the whitehouse?

Wonderful interview, have been a huge fan of Zeitgeist trilogy for several years now and try and share it with anyone who will listen. The extremely blind world view and unrealized utter confusion about a great many things in general most Americans seem to have unfortunately doesn’t seem to be the best place to do this but I think what must happen to really facilitate a substantial movement in the direction you are talking about and advocate for is somewhere on earth a good real sizable(possibly few hundred thousand people or more)working example or prototype of those concepts so that people can actually see the benefits of that type resource based society first hand. The transition from one to the other is ultimately going to require some monetary investment in the beginning at the very least because that is under the current system what gets things done however inefficient they may be what this means is that some of those with great wealth will have to be convinced and agree to invest in the movement the only problem clearly is that in essence they would be investing that wealth to eventually eliminate that they enjoy that wealthy status in society and why would they do this and who would be willing to do it? My knowledge is very limited when it comes to how one would go about colonizing another planet but I what little I do think I understand the conceptual model of resource based society is one that in many ways could fit easily into how societal structure would be most efficient and best structured for such a colonization and if this is so then I would think Elon Musk would have interest in helping to create the model on earth in my opinion that is necessary to spark real change as a prototype for societal structure for his dream of Mars human colonization someday. It’s seems a bit obvious so it’s quite possible this idea has already been proposed or discussed but because I have not specifically heard of any thing along these lines I thought I might suggest some type of effort in collaboration of Mr. Joseph’s(and/or the Venus Project’s)ideas and Mr. Musks monetary resources and also his dreams regarding Mars…

Not very common to have a interviewer that actually gets everything Peter talks about. Thanks a lot for having Peter on!

He says he’s a capitalist, but he’s philosophizing away in a way that reminds me of Karl Marx. Vertical farming is an amazing concept, but it’s gonna take decades to make that transition. Meanwhile, climate change is gonna kick in and it’s gonna hit the lower and middle class hard. Much food is being imported - in fact, most products that we buy are mostly produced very far away. We are extremely addicted to oil in a similar way a heroin addict is addicted to a chemical that will ultimately kill him. We know this is gonna happen and we can fantasize away, but the transition toward a more sustainable world is probably gonna get very ugly unless we get real about the climate calamity real soon.

Great interview. I highly recommend Peter’s new film Interreflections. Also, consider supporting Peter on Patreon if you can afford it.

I agree 100% with what he says about inequality being the prime reason for Trumpism and where we have arrived.

Hell yeah! PJ got rescheduled!

Niiiiiice. I had more words but I feel that's enough

peter joseph needs a more prominent voice among the left. ive been saying this for years. hes a genius.

Love Peter

16:05 Is where all these ideas inevitably break down. Selfishness is an incredibly powerful force and is usually underestimated.

Funny I was just thinking the other day, where is Peter Joseph? I think it could be argued that there is a line that can be drawn starting from the first Zeitgeist documentary and ending at the trump presidency, qanon, and current situation.

I agree with his opinion on inequality 1000%. Inequality is the root cause of nearly all of our problems. It's just that right wingers often misattribute the cause of their anger to Mexicans, Democrats, Communism, feminists, atheists, government or whatever.

This was not expected

the only reasonable voice out there

What if some group of people will start to create eco villages?intentional communities?open to everyone in the side of each city where is the need for it? Create one fully functioning community and bring it to global stage? Like for example charitable rock concert LIVE AID have done?

Why isn't someone like Peter or David a presidential candidate?

This person seems to have good ideas. (Because I agree with them😄 )

....so where do we go from here folks?

The enthusiastic nerd energy of this video is very appealing to me.

Wonderfully intelligent discussion. It’s so much more productive than the impotent outrage that’s been regurgitated ever since the domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol. Just a reminder however to people who make their living talking: It’s familiar not fermiliar; It’s February not Febuary and its realtor not relator.

How do you get to post scarcity in a scarcity based capitalists economy without using socialism?

Weird hearing Peter say words like "um" here. Maybe he was under slept. Still a god tier orator though.

Are you both for the World Economic Forum project known as The Great Reset? Much of what you are saying Peter seems to agree with wsws . org. They thoroughly discuss many topics you discuss. You, Peter still seem to have care for The Venus Project. thevenusproject . org Resource Based Economy. Thank you gentlemen.

God, let that guy start in politics! I would follow him all the way!

6:54 crime: we determine what is a crime and what isn’t...Portugal decriminalized all drugs. Oregon just did the same. Canada legalized cannabis. The Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand has either decriminalized or legalized prostitution. We here in the United States need to end the criminalization of drugs and prostitution.

Indeed. Excellent analysis. He takes the focus off Trump, the personality, and looks at broader trends.

While it can be viewed as campy hyperbole from the middle of the last century, Fredrick Pohl's speculative short story "The Midas Plague" is worth a mention here in reference to societal abundance and automation. It's a quick read. [Oh, that's right; RU-vidrs prefer not to read. 😄 ]

If anyone understands wtf is going on it's Peter

Economic equality. . . how? That isn't something you can GIVE. My experience has been that there are many people who simply have no interest in bettering themselves or their family. They are raised to have no ambition other than to work a dead end job and suffer through the week in order to drink or drug their weekends away, then look for someone to blame for their situation. They have no interest in education; educating themselves in order to qualify for higher paying jobs/careers. I don't believe it has as much to do with oppression as with lack of drive, curiosity, interest in working to better their lot. I was raised poor in the south. I never once thought I was oppressed. I wanted to succeed and I did so. I went to college (working full time and on scholarships and loans, no one provided the funds), became employable and employed. I eventually had a career in aerospace. I do agree that some have circumstances that put more pressure on them, but I don't believe you can excuse what happened at our capitol as 'economic oppression'.

If you enjoyed this, please watch his new film Interreflections.