The Californian Ideology:
I agree with alot of this and the grand sweep of his vision of this is very informative with a fantastic knowledge of recent history- nevertheless one part of it, a core part of it, that is the identification of this strain of thought, I think there is alot of expanding here that could be done.
At about the 12 min mark he begins throwing words at it, struggling to describe what is happening: strange, bonkers, republican, hippies, new left, bizarre, participatory communication, neoliberalism, reactionary, counter culture.. "mao zedong meets hayek" , and finally declares it all at once in the space of a few beleaguered breaths, new left, new right, neoliberalism, sort of anarchism, actually libertarianism or .....OMG.
I think he might of done himself a bit of a favor here and instead of having a 3 minute verbal seizure just admitted that he had identified something that seemed completely new to him, had no idea what to call it, and so decided to call it after the place where he found it living, The Californian Ideology.
I would dispute his claim that it is in fact is neoliberalism. I instead perceive a battle, between on the one had the central government neoliberals funding the thing, initially for command and control - and on the other hand, the wishes and vision of the regular people working on it who sought to shape it into a very different form through their work. They are clearly not the same group.
