How do we get our freedoms back？ (Feat. Bruce Pardy)
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What do you do when the institutions in your society seem to have adopted a completely different philosophy than the one you believe your society is built on? Is there a way to reclaim our freedoms in such a context? In this episode, I sit down with philosopher and author Robert Noell to discuss this question.
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So, you know, I wanted to go back to progressivism, something that we touched upon
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earlier in our conversation. And it sounds as if progressivism in the service of collectivism has
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taken hold in our legal system, essentially working as a handmaiden of the technocratic state.
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And you've argued this in several of your recent writings. The question really is, you know, as
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believers in individual liberty and originalists, you know, as in interpreting the Constitution as it
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was written, how do we reclaim our freedoms in such a context? Yes, you know, this is the question,
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Rupa. It's the question that we're all asking ourselves. What do you do when the institutions
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in your society seem to have adopted a completely different philosophy than the one that you believe
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your society is built on? Yeah. And if I had an easy answer to that, I'd be shouting it from the
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rooftops. And I really don't. But first, I mean, the first reality is that it's really got to come
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from the people. And part of the problem during these past two years is, I mean, in addition to
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the problem that the technocrats have taken over, in addition to the problem that the courts don't
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seem to care, in addition to the problem that the public health officials have been given more power
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than they deserve, and so on, the real problem is that a whole bunch of people, a very large portion
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of the population seem to be fine with it, and wanted more of it, and complain when the restrictions
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are taken off. I mean, this is the central problem. And so there's a lot of educating to do,
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a lot of talking to do, a lot of trying to get people out of the trance that they seem to be in.
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And I'm not sure that that very much will happen before that happens, because many other institutions
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are built upon and think that they're following public opinion, public sentiment, as opposed to
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pushing against it. And until they do have to push against it, I'm not sure that they will feel compelled