ZAYAAN KHAN on the Place of Sweet Waters Part 2/84

This week we are rejoined by Zayaan Khan to discuss what is happening in South Africa. What people are experiencing around water scarcity in South Africa is a threshold being reached; a point of no return at which culture can change rapidly. Suddenly people become accustomed to the unthinkable—not showering! no laundry!—and they begin to ask, how could we have ever been so wasteful, so indulgent? Meanwhile, those who worship capitalism as more sacred than human life go on doing so, until irreversible thresholds are crossed and cultural change is unavoidable even for those who have had the means to insulate themselves from the realities of the majority. This week we discuss what’s on the other side of the threshold.