Juno News - June 29, 2022


How do we get our freedoms back？ (Feat. Bruce Pardy)

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Rupa
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2 minutes

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159.92

Word count

365

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16


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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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00:00:00.000 So, you know, I wanted to go back to progressivism, something that we touched upon
00:00:04.380 earlier in our conversation. And it sounds as if progressivism in the service of collectivism has
00:00:11.900 taken hold in our legal system, essentially working as a handmaiden of the technocratic state.
00:00:20.340 And you've argued this in several of your recent writings. The question really is, you know, as
00:00:27.200 believers in individual liberty and originalists, you know, as in interpreting the Constitution as it
00:00:34.240 was written, how do we reclaim our freedoms in such a context? Yes, you know, this is the question,
00:00:42.200 Rupa. It's the question that we're all asking ourselves. What do you do when the institutions
00:00:47.260 in your society seem to have adopted a completely different philosophy than the one that you believe
00:00:51.500 your society is built on? Yeah. And if I had an easy answer to that, I'd be shouting it from the
00:00:57.400 rooftops. And I really don't. But first, I mean, the first reality is that it's really got to come
00:01:07.180 from the people. And part of the problem during these past two years is, I mean, in addition to
00:01:15.260 the problem that the technocrats have taken over, in addition to the problem that the courts don't
00:01:19.420 seem to care, in addition to the problem that the public health officials have been given more power
00:01:23.860 than they deserve, and so on, the real problem is that a whole bunch of people, a very large portion
00:01:31.060 of the population seem to be fine with it, and wanted more of it, and complain when the restrictions
00:01:37.880 are taken off. I mean, this is the central problem. And so there's a lot of educating to do,
00:01:45.260 a lot of talking to do, a lot of trying to get people out of the trance that they seem to be in.
00:01:51.100 And I'm not sure that that very much will happen before that happens, because many other institutions
00:01:59.660 are built upon and think that they're following public opinion, public sentiment, as opposed to
00:02:07.980 pushing against it. And until they do have to push against it, I'm not sure that they will feel compelled
00:02:15.020 to change the path that they're on.