I’m joined by Ron Purser to discuss how mindfulness, rather than starting any meaningful revolution, is feeding right into the neoliberal capitalist ideology, and becoming what Purser calls “the new capitalist spirituality”. Ron is a professor of management at San Francisco State University, as well as an ordained Zen dharma teacher in the Korean Zen Taego order of Buddhism.We discuss the incompatibility between meditation practice and neoliberal capitalism, the difference between democratic...

A quick introduction to the podcast, and the shenanigans to come.