Everything You Know About The Future is Wrong | Aaron Bastani meets John Gray

[Your Old Comrade]

John Gray's writing on political philosophy is not easily pigeonholed. Over the last 50 or so years, he has favoured ideas that span the political spectrum and pissed almost everybody off - his central thesis being that growth and progress are not inevitable.

In his new book, his attention turns to the changing fate of 'the west'. This, to him, means a revival of old forms of living: feudalism, religious orthodoxy and ultra-nationalism.

Aaron sat down with John to talk about the nonsense of centrism, the US opioid epidemic and why Dune is the most worthwhile work of science fiction.

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[Tooting Carmen]

I like John Gray. He is very insightful and free-thinking, and tears apart shibboleths on both the Left and the Right.

[Your Old Comrade]

Varoufakis shares a similar bleak outlook.

In his new book, ‘Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism’, Yanis Varoufakis explores how giant tech firms, both in the US and China are expanding their control over the planet. His analysis is that, whilst material resources certainly matter, the real battle ground is over digital real estate. Aaron sat down with Yanis to talk about how Europe’s power has faded, Elon Musk’s wet dreams and why the US is really afraid of China.

Technofeudalism is available on Penguin Books.