S2 E12 The Freedom Contract - Part 1 on Oppression

Episode discussion topics

• A recap on the car metaphor because we plan to keep using it in the discussion.
  
• This is a three-part series discussing freedom using a different perspective as you would expect us to. Peer through the lens of your pursuit of happiness. How empowered would you feel being free from oppression, poverty, and ignorance?
• The current state of the contract and the serious breaches by those not upholding their end of the bargain. Inequities, advantages, and entitlements, oh my!
  
• Playing by whose rules? Some get to stand their ground while others are run down.

Your hosts: Michael Piscitelli and Raymond Wong Jr.

More info

• The planks of the Freedom Contract Platform, "In Pursuit of Happiness" (our draft working name for it). The three parts of this series align to the following:
  
  • Freedom from oppression including equal justice for all, digital ownership rights, state surveillance, and other violence.
  • Freedom from poverty including a donut style economic model with a floor to stand on and a ceiling that protects the earth from greed and excess.
  • Freedom from ignorance including the development of skills for lifelong learning and adaptability, to collaborate among different groups of people and achieve a common goal, and the value of civic society and science for the sake of knowledge.
• Lastly, a shout out to the "Behind the Bastards" podcast, they do their research and have fun serving it up! This episode kicks off a multi-part on the lesser-known history of the police: Behind the Police: Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Law Enforcement.

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• Intro music sampled from “Okay Class” by Ozzy Jock under creative commons license through freemusicarchive.org.
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