Leo D.M.J. Aurini

00:00:00.000 Hey there, folks. As you know, I've been a bit behind on the podcast recently, for rather obvious reasons.

00:00:08.640 And so I've decided to upload a video I recorded, originally as a response to Sargon of Akkad,

00:00:15.840 that wound up being a lot longer than I thought it was going to be.

00:00:20.020 I was trying to make it a very quick response video, but it wound up being way, way too long for just a response.

00:00:26.280 It's a video of me taking the political compass test, because Sargon took it a while back and got a left libertarian position in it.

00:00:36.220 Well, I decided to take it, to prove a bit of a point about how the test itself is inherently flawed.

00:00:44.080 The test itself assumes the modern political system.

00:00:49.020 And I'd like to introduce it by offering a metaphor for this.

00:00:52.860 Now, let's say there were a test that you could take to figure out which sports ball team you should be a fan of.

00:01:01.020 You know, myself, I'm interested in physical fitness, I'm interested in working out, all of that good stuff, and eating a good diet.

00:01:08.520 But I have zero interest in watching sports ball on television.

00:01:12.060 And so I take this test, and one of the big variances on the test is say that you have one team that focuses upon speed and upper body strength.

00:01:23.760 And you have another team that focuses upon endurance and core body strength.

00:01:31.380 And so I take this test with absolutely zero interest in sports ball, and it winds up telling me that I support this team or I support that team,

00:01:40.380 when my whole premise, my whole approach to this question, is that I think sports ball is nonsense.

00:01:47.620 I mean, if you like watching sports, I'm not trying to make fun of anybody that watches sports.

00:01:53.160 You know, I play video games, which is just as pointless of a pastime.

00:01:56.460 And if you like sports, all the power to you.

00:01:58.040 I think they're ridiculous.

00:02:00.620 But it shows, that's just to illustrate the underlying flaw in this entire premise.

00:02:07.940 The idea that your political preferences should be put into a modern paradigm.

00:02:16.320 The entire present political system is founded upon things like marketing.

00:02:21.400 The science of marketing is extremely well developed.

00:02:24.180 Facebook has even done experiments and proven that they can shift how people vote by just controlling what you see on the timeline.

00:02:32.700 Very advanced and terrifying science.

00:02:36.160 The premise of liberal democracy from the very get-go.

00:02:40.120 All of these assumptions.

00:02:42.340 And so when you get somebody like me that, you know, I'm on the right because I am fact-based.

00:02:48.220 I like evidence, common sense, you know, I don't like BS, I don't like shibboleth, so I'm on the right.

00:02:55.820 But when I actually take the test, it doesn't measure me there at all.

00:03:00.080 And surprise, surprise, it recommends I should vote for the Democrat Party.

00:03:03.920 So, video follows.

00:03:06.900 Skip to the end if you just want to see my results.

00:03:08.940 But then you might want to watch the video to see if I was actually honest in all of my opinions.

00:03:13.320 And I was.

00:03:16.020 And right before we get to the video itself, of course, I need to pay homage.

00:03:21.460 Pay homage? Is that right?

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00:03:33.260 As well, we've got Anonymous Conservatives' book, The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics.

00:03:40.140 If you want to think outside the box, outside the paradigm of liberal democracy,

00:03:45.360 where a bunch of marketing geniuses and pollsters control who wins,

00:03:49.340 if you want to think for yourself and actually analyze what's going on,

00:03:52.920 check out Anonymous Conservatives' book.

00:03:55.180 Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video, and there will be a regular podcast this weekend.

00:04:01.240 Irini out.

00:04:03.260 Hey, folks. This is your old pal Irini.

00:04:06.380 I know. I've been a bit derelict making videos lately.

00:04:09.020 I'm trying to jump back onto that bandwagon and do a few of the Irini's Insight videos that I've lined up.

00:04:15.520 But I decided to start with something easy.

00:04:17.660 The political compass test.

00:04:20.440 Now, this is supposedly a step above the simplistic left-right divide

00:04:26.920 that doesn't seem to quite adequately explain politics.

00:04:29.920 As it says on the main page here,

00:04:31.880 The enduring appeal of the political compass test lies in its universality.

00:04:36.340 Note that word, universalism.

00:04:38.620 And the fact that it's not a fly-by-night election time survey,

00:04:41.520 but a continually accessible profile of a political personality applicable to all democracies.

00:04:47.200 Our essential point is that the left and the right, although far from obsolete,

00:04:51.660 are essentially a measure of economics.

00:04:53.840 As political establishments adopt either enthusiastically or reluctantly the prevailing economic

00:04:59.260 orthodoxy, the neoliberal strain of capitalism,

00:05:02.160 the left-right division between mainstream parties becomes increasingly blurred.

00:05:07.980 Instead, party differences tend to be more about identity issues,

00:05:11.200 and the narrowing debate our social scale is more crucial than ever.

00:05:16.480 Now, right there, you have all the assumptions that go into this.

00:05:21.960 Universalism.

00:05:22.880 As noted by many others in the neo-reactionary circles,

00:05:25.840 is the modern religion.

00:05:28.160 Universalism and liberal democracies.

00:05:31.340 Which is what this applies to.

00:05:34.040 Democracy and democracy alone.

00:05:37.440 It only can see, it can only understand,

00:05:42.360 political establishments that exist within this orthodoxy.

00:05:47.400 You know, right here, they even discuss the neoliberal strain of capitalism.

00:05:51.540 You don't know what neoliberal is?

00:05:53.320 Don't worry.

00:05:53.940 That's just a word that hardcore radical Marxists in universities like to toss around.

00:05:59.980 Because if they act like they're attacking the neoliberals,

00:06:02.720 it makes them seem above the petty political phrase.

00:06:06.700 What this test ultimately is,

00:06:09.320 it's a sit down and shut up.

00:06:11.980 It assumes liberal democracy,

00:06:14.120 and based upon all of our educations,

00:06:16.640 all of the brainwashing that we've received,

00:06:19.440 and just the innate character of our times,

00:06:22.200 it's going to tell us that we fit in perfectly with the modern political system.

00:06:27.040 It does this by breaking things down to the left-right on the economic scale,

00:06:31.480 and the up-down on the authoritarian versus libertarian scale.

00:06:36.860 You see, when you measure the current political attitudes using these two metrics,

00:06:42.580 you wind up being in the middle, no matter what you do.

00:06:46.640 It completely misses the subtleties or the principles upon which government lies.

00:06:53.240 And so if you scroll down a bit here,

00:06:56.000 and they give an example of where all the different leaders would fit in,

00:07:00.420 you wind up with Hitler right next to Margaret Thatcher.

00:07:04.220 Which seems pretty odd,

00:07:07.100 when you consider that Margaret Thatcher was just slashing,

00:07:10.600 she was destroying unions in a country suffering from stagflation.

00:07:14.820 She wasn't putting anybody in death camps.

00:07:17.800 She wasn't dictating a national religion to anybody.

00:07:22.180 She was trying to get the economy back on track

00:07:24.640 after the left had been destroying it for ages.

00:07:29.260 You see, what this thing completely misses,

00:07:32.460 because the whole left-right divide is becoming increasingly nonsensical.

00:07:37.380 As Samuel Johnson said back in the 18th century,

00:07:41.140 the devil was the first wick.

00:07:42.640 All of the toxins have been coming from the left.

00:07:48.560 Again, Nazism, fascism, those are forms of leftist collectivism.

00:07:54.060 You know, same thing with Stalin.

00:07:55.520 Same thing with the Marxists right now,

00:07:57.400 that are pushing an insane amount of freedom to atomize people.

00:08:01.780 While the left-right divide in this simplistic manner doesn't make any sense,

00:08:06.580 there is a very real divide between civilization and savagery.

00:08:11.360 And civilization is always on the right.

00:08:15.380 Realism, healthy individuals, healthy threat assessment,

00:08:19.920 K-type reproductive strategies, these are things on the right.

00:08:24.460 Whereas excessive freedom, turning people into replaceable cogs,

00:08:28.840 not freedom, license, but no freedom, is what the left is pushing.

00:08:34.620 And see, to demonstrate what nonsense this is,

00:08:40.080 I've decided to take the test for myself,

00:08:41.780 to see where it scores me on this whole thing.

00:08:46.180 Because there's no better way to demonstrate

00:08:48.340 that this is just another tool of the establishment,

00:08:52.100 of the dead god Leviathan,

00:08:55.260 to make us sit down, shut up, and vote for our leaders.

00:08:59.240 Nowhere does it acknowledge that monarchies and republics are not democracies.

00:09:06.280 This assumes democracy as the base nature of humanity.

00:09:11.960 So part one.

00:09:14.700 These questions determine how I see the country and the world.

00:09:20.140 And I'm going to do my best to answer these as honestly as possible,

00:09:25.280 even though they are all loaded questions,

00:09:28.540 and they all have right answers.

00:09:31.940 Question number one.

00:09:33.600 If economic globalization is inevitable,

00:09:36.040 it should primarily serve humanity

00:09:37.880 rather than the interests of transnational corporations.

00:09:43.080 Now this is something I've discussed before.

00:09:45.660 How corporations are hypothetical legal entities

00:09:48.600 given the rights of a person.

00:09:51.700 But if they were people,

00:09:53.200 they'd all be psychopaths.

00:09:55.460 They constantly manipulate to try and get the bottom line,

00:09:59.020 which is profit with no question of where it came from.

00:10:04.580 And that's not good for anybody.

00:10:08.060 You see, the free market,

00:10:09.940 yes, the free market is all about how

00:10:11.880 being selfish can wind up serving other people

00:10:14.720 better than supposedly being heartless

00:10:17.100 or being selfless.

00:10:21.080 How selfish is not the same thing as heartless.

00:10:23.940 But these companies merely look at the bottom line.

00:10:26.760 And so if they can fire a bunch of people

00:10:28.900 and have a temporary blip in profits,

00:10:32.920 they'll do that,

00:10:34.060 even though it's bad for the company in the long term,

00:10:36.640 let alone everything they'll do to the planet

00:10:38.440 or do to societies, etc.

00:10:40.960 These are legal entities we've created.

00:10:44.360 And if they're not serving humanity,

00:10:46.200 then they're not doing what they should.

00:10:49.760 Corporations could be a great way

00:10:51.160 to keep a hold of technologies and patents

00:10:53.520 that might be lost otherwise,

00:10:55.060 but there's a lot of dangers with them as well.

00:10:57.760 So if economic globalization is inevitable,

00:11:00.680 then yes, it should primarily serve humanity.

00:11:05.140 Corporations only have the right to exist

00:11:07.920 while they are serving humanity.

00:11:11.720 Next, I'd always support my country

00:11:13.680 whether it was right or wrong.

00:11:16.400 Now, you're supposed to say no to this,

00:11:19.280 okay, because we've all learned

00:11:20.580 that nationalism is a terrible thing.

00:11:23.300 But see, I believe strongly in order,

00:11:25.460 that without organization and order to society,

00:11:28.240 you just have complete rampant chaos.

00:11:31.780 So, no, you should question your society.

00:11:35.120 You should question your country.

00:11:36.260 You should hold your leaders to task

00:11:38.560 to make sure they're doing a good job

00:11:40.380 and that they're not behaving immorally.

00:11:43.180 But, generally speaking, agree.

00:11:45.880 Yes, you should generally support your country

00:11:48.000 because it's easy to criticize leadership.

00:11:50.960 You know, it's much harder to be a leader.

00:11:53.720 So just because a leader's not perfect

00:11:55.220 doesn't mean they don't deserve to be followed.

00:11:59.000 No one chooses his or her country of birth,

00:12:01.180 so it's foolish to be proud of it.

00:12:02.880 Again, this is a bit of the universalist education

00:12:06.280 that you're supposed to be a completely replaceable cog

00:12:09.480 no different than somebody on the other side of the planet.

00:12:12.600 And this is some very toxic, evil stuff right here.

00:12:16.660 You should be proud of where you came from,

00:12:21.020 of who your family was,

00:12:22.700 of your community, of the accomplishments.

00:12:25.020 Everybody should feel that way.

00:12:28.440 It's a very foundational building block of who you are,

00:12:31.520 is where you came from.

00:12:33.420 And so the pride that everybody can feel,

00:12:36.140 that love of home that you hear in the song

00:12:38.280 Sweet Home Alabama,

00:12:40.200 that's a wonderful thing.

00:12:42.020 We're not talking about overweening pride.

00:12:45.000 We're talking about healthy love for your homeland.

00:12:48.740 So, agree on that one.

00:12:51.260 Our race has many superior qualities compared with other races.

00:12:57.680 Oh, good lord.

00:13:01.060 What a loaded question.

00:13:04.000 You know, we all know what the right answer to this is.

00:13:07.360 You know, if you agree with this,

00:13:08.920 then you must be some sort of Nazi.

00:13:11.200 We've all learned with our mother's milk

00:13:12.980 that this is a terrible, evil, evil thing to believe in.

00:13:16.420 And what's it even asking?

00:13:19.000 Is there really anybody that believes this

00:13:23.100 in any sort of meaningful sense?

00:13:26.420 I mean, like, I mean, obviously.

00:13:28.300 Okay, I'm Italian,

00:13:29.260 and everybody knows that Italians are the best people on the planet.

00:13:33.980 We have the best artists, the best theologians.

00:13:36.820 We're the best lovers.

00:13:38.320 You know, everyone wishes they were Italian,

00:13:40.460 and you can't blame them.

00:13:42.160 But what does this question mean?

00:13:46.420 Let's replace race with band, musical band.

00:13:54.420 You know, let's say you are part of a band,

00:13:56.920 and I asked you,

00:13:57.840 does your band have many superior qualities

00:13:59.940 compared with other bands?

00:14:03.080 And you'd say yes.

00:14:06.020 But that doesn't then translate into,

00:14:09.700 I want to destroy other bands,

00:14:11.780 or other bands don't have the right to make their own music,

00:14:15.380 or I want special rules put in place at this venue

00:14:18.960 so that other bands don't have the opportunity

00:14:21.420 to play their music.

00:14:24.380 You know, there is so much loaded into this question.

00:14:27.380 You're not supposed to agree with this question,

00:14:29.900 even though anybody who is remotely normal and healthy

00:14:32.880 likes where they came from,

00:14:35.020 they like being themselves,

00:14:36.760 they like the color of their hair,

00:14:38.260 they like all of it.

00:14:42.020 So, in pure intellectual honesty,

00:14:44.420 I'm going to put agree,

00:14:45.400 just to see where this puts me.

00:14:46.920 It might make me a complete Nazi by the end of this,

00:14:49.300 but we'll see how that works out.

00:14:52.320 But it's a very manipulative question.

00:14:54.880 You know, you take your average person nowadays,

00:14:56.940 they are going to disagree with this.

00:14:58.320 The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

00:15:03.800 Again, this is just basic strategy.

00:15:05.760 Who would disagree with this?

00:15:07.940 The only people I could imagine disagreeing with this

00:15:10.640 are leftoids whose amygdalas are so freaking damaged

00:15:14.740 that even imagining that enemies exist,

00:15:17.480 it's so terrifying that they can't even think the thought.

00:15:21.600 You know, anybody else?

00:15:22.720 Yeah, you know, medium agreement.

00:15:24.540 You know, it doesn't mean that you can trust them.

00:15:27.820 You know, there are alliances of convenience.

00:15:30.200 But, yeah, generally speaking,

00:15:32.020 the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

00:15:34.940 Next, military action that defies international law

00:15:37.800 is sometimes justified.

00:15:41.760 Well, again, this is a question of

00:15:44.520 what sort of international law do we have?

00:15:47.580 If the Nazis had won World War II,

00:15:50.140 and then they passed laws saying it was illegal

00:15:52.180 for Israel to ever defend themselves

00:15:54.020 against incursions onto their territory,

00:15:57.740 would that mean Israel wasn't justified

00:16:00.080 in defending themselves?

00:16:01.940 You know, what about the UN?

00:16:03.220 Do you completely support the UN?

00:16:05.280 You know, good lord.

00:16:06.820 For all the people that seem to think

00:16:08.320 the Jews have this secret cabal,

00:16:10.520 there is an amazing amount of anti-Semitism

00:16:13.100 that comes out of the United Nations.

00:16:15.580 I'm not the biggest fan.

00:16:17.600 At the same time, the rules of warfare,

00:16:19.840 the rules of engagement,

00:16:20.800 I do think these are very civilized things.

00:16:22.900 We're allowing them to hamper ourselves

00:16:25.180 in these current wars,

00:16:26.500 but in and of themselves,

00:16:28.360 they're not bad things.

00:16:30.120 So I'm going to put agree with that.

00:16:34.720 You know, it's sometimes, yes,

00:16:36.280 sometimes something can be right,

00:16:37.840 even if international law says it's wrong.

00:16:40.420 But the idea of having some sort of standards internationally,

00:16:44.120 those aren't terrible ideas either.

00:16:45.600 There is now a worrying fusion

00:16:49.200 of information and entertainment.

00:16:52.760 Well, strongly agree on that.

00:16:55.120 We have the entire internet at our hands,

00:16:57.180 and yet people are more ignorant,

00:16:59.340 more uneducated,

00:17:00.840 than they were 200 years ago.

00:17:05.240 So, next set of questions.

00:17:08.300 The economy.

00:17:09.180 What are my opinions on the economy?

00:17:13.980 Now, folks,

00:17:14.780 I am a very strong supporter of free markets

00:17:18.560 so long as they come second to national health.

00:17:23.260 You know,

00:17:23.580 if you're throwing your own country

00:17:27.040 onto the funeral pyre

00:17:28.420 for the sake of short-term profits,

00:17:30.440 no, that's not a good thing.

00:17:32.360 But we'll get to my basic values

00:17:35.080 at the end of this video.

00:17:36.520 So,

00:17:38.260 people are ultimately

00:17:39.220 more divided by class

00:17:41.340 than nationality.

00:17:43.700 Strongly disagree with that.

00:17:44.980 What absolute nonsense.

00:17:46.720 You take a business owner

00:17:47.820 and employee

00:17:48.420 from the same country,

00:17:49.760 they share the same culture,

00:17:52.300 the same foods,

00:17:53.800 the same holidays.

00:17:55.760 And they also just know

00:17:56.900 how to relate to one another

00:17:58.140 innately,

00:17:59.380 where they would both feel awkward

00:18:01.020 going to another country.

00:18:03.860 So, absolute nonsense.

00:18:05.220 That's a bit of Marxist propaganda

00:18:06.780 that they put up

00:18:08.440 that actually has no basis in reality.

00:18:12.940 And again,

00:18:13.300 anybody that wants to say

00:18:14.140 that Marxism is,

00:18:15.660 you know,

00:18:15.980 ooh, red scare,

00:18:17.060 if there weren't a problem

00:18:19.340 with Marxism,

00:18:20.620 this wouldn't be a question

00:18:22.600 on this survey.

00:18:24.980 You know,

00:18:25.260 liberal democracy

00:18:26.060 is just another form of Marxism.

00:18:30.340 Controlling inflation

00:18:31.340 is more important

00:18:32.160 than controlling unemployment.

00:18:34.260 Well,

00:18:35.440 strongly agree with this one

00:18:36.720 because employment

00:18:38.240 isn't something

00:18:39.800 that the government

00:18:40.320 can actually control.

00:18:42.080 Now,

00:18:42.400 controlling inflation,

00:18:43.740 they can have a bit

00:18:44.920 of control there.

00:18:45.740 It's called monetary policy.

00:18:47.580 And when you do

00:18:48.440 institute policies,

00:18:49.780 like we have been,

00:18:50.660 that are going to lead

00:18:51.520 to rampant inflation,

00:18:52.900 that will lead

00:18:53.800 to unemployment.

00:18:55.900 There's simply

00:18:56.540 nothing the government

00:18:57.740 can really do

00:18:58.540 about unemployment.

00:18:59.700 It's the free market

00:19:00.760 that creates jobs,

00:19:01.840 not the government.

00:19:03.980 So, yeah,

00:19:04.500 strongly agree

00:19:05.160 with that one.

00:19:07.820 Because corporations

00:19:08.560 cannot be trusted

00:19:09.340 to voluntarily

00:19:09.900 protect the environment,

00:19:11.400 they require regulation.

00:19:13.460 Now,

00:19:14.040 again,

00:19:15.760 again,

00:19:17.040 this assumes

00:19:18.040 corporations.

00:19:20.020 This assumes

00:19:21.060 a country that regulates.

00:19:22.680 There are so many assumptions

00:19:24.000 that go into

00:19:24.540 this bloody question.

00:19:25.760 Now,

00:19:25.920 I'm going to put

00:19:26.480 agree,

00:19:27.460 not strongly agree,

00:19:28.480 but agree.

00:19:29.420 Because the issue

00:19:30.400 is that when there

00:19:31.520 are extremely

00:19:32.560 onerous regulations,

00:19:34.560 what the corporations

00:19:35.780 do is they hire lobbyists

00:19:37.160 and they write

00:19:37.840 those regulations.

00:19:39.160 So you now have

00:19:39.920 an environmental agency

00:19:41.120 that puts private

00:19:42.500 entrepreneurs

00:19:43.040 out of business

00:19:43.940 while the big companies

00:19:45.840 run absolutely

00:19:46.800 roughshod over everybody.

00:19:50.140 From each

00:19:50.880 according to his ability

00:19:51.840 to each

00:19:52.580 according to his need

00:19:53.560 is a fundamentally

00:19:54.900 good idea.

00:19:55.920 Again,

00:19:59.020 one of the basic

00:19:59.640 principles of Marxism

00:20:01.340 and yes,

00:20:02.120 there are no

00:20:02.660 communists left,

00:20:03.560 we aren't living

00:20:04.140 in a communist country.

00:20:06.660 Well,

00:20:06.900 the thing is,

00:20:07.260 it's asking

00:20:07.980 is it a fundamentally

00:20:08.760 good idea?

00:20:10.180 And I'd say,

00:20:10.780 yeah,

00:20:10.960 you know what it is.

00:20:12.240 Those are actually

00:20:12.740 the principles

00:20:13.260 of the military.

00:20:15.380 Those are the principles

00:20:16.160 of classical nobility,

00:20:18.720 of noblesse oblige,

00:20:20.360 of the natural aristocracy

00:20:22.880 that the founders

00:20:23.740 of the American government

00:20:25.360 believed.

00:20:26.840 This is actually

00:20:27.680 a pretty good

00:20:28.360 fundamental idea.

00:20:30.480 So I'm going

00:20:31.580 to agree with it.

00:20:33.240 You know,

00:20:33.540 it's not the best way

00:20:34.500 to...

00:20:34.980 See,

00:20:35.260 the problem is

00:20:36.320 that,

00:20:37.500 again,

00:20:37.980 government regulation

00:20:38.880 doesn't work

00:20:39.580 because government

00:20:40.740 is not that competent.

00:20:42.500 Government is not

00:20:43.060 very good at figuring

00:20:43.980 out what each

00:20:44.580 person's ability is.

00:20:46.280 Individual managers,

00:20:48.060 individual officers

00:20:49.060 might be good

00:20:49.720 at figuring that out,

00:20:51.100 but the government's

00:20:51.740 not very good

00:20:52.160 at making policies

00:20:52.920 to support this.

00:20:54.300 So yes,

00:20:54.740 it's a fundamentally

00:20:55.320 good idea

00:20:55.940 that I think

00:20:56.500 everyone believes in

00:20:58.000 to some degree

00:20:58.640 or another.

00:20:59.980 It just doesn't work

00:21:02.240 when you have the state

00:21:03.080 legislating it.

00:21:04.480 it's a sad reflection

00:21:07.200 on our society

00:21:08.020 that something as

00:21:08.700 basic as drinking

00:21:09.440 water is now a

00:21:10.560 bottled,

00:21:11.240 branded consumer

00:21:12.400 product.

00:21:13.000 Well,

00:21:15.540 I'm not going to

00:21:16.260 agree with this one

00:21:17.320 because I think

00:21:18.040 it's actually quite

00:21:18.660 nice that you can

00:21:19.380 get fresh

00:21:20.380 drinking water,

00:21:21.120 like you can get

00:21:21.560 fresh glacial

00:21:22.240 drinking water

00:21:22.960 at the corner store.

00:21:25.120 And there is a

00:21:26.020 difference in the

00:21:26.640 taste between that

00:21:27.340 and tap water.

00:21:28.040 It's nice.

00:21:29.180 But the branding,

00:21:30.720 now the branding

00:21:31.600 is a bit depressing.

00:21:33.800 Dasani,

00:21:34.460 for example,

00:21:35.660 which uses

00:21:36.280 public water

00:21:37.080 and then filters it

00:21:38.440 and yet still

00:21:38.980 somehow has a

00:21:39.780 higher bacteria

00:21:40.600 count in it

00:21:41.260 than public water,

00:21:42.040 that's a bit

00:21:44.180 depressing.

00:21:44.900 The fact that

00:21:45.700 marketing is such

00:21:46.620 a foundational leg

00:21:48.040 of democratic

00:21:49.240 societies is

00:21:50.720 quite disappointing.

00:21:52.360 So,

00:21:52.980 slight disagreement

00:21:54.080 there.

00:21:56.320 It's not terrible

00:21:57.420 but it does point

00:21:58.020 to something else

00:21:58.660 that's terrible.

00:22:01.300 Land shouldn't

00:22:01.940 be a commodity

00:22:02.560 to be bought

00:22:03.280 and sold.

00:22:05.480 Strongly disagree

00:22:06.480 here because

00:22:07.200 land is capital.

00:22:09.960 Capital is

00:22:10.920 what you use

00:22:11.860 to earn

00:22:12.680 a living.

00:22:13.680 If you have

00:22:14.160 zero capital

00:22:15.040 then yes,

00:22:15.580 you're going to

00:22:15.940 be stuck

00:22:17.940 in the role

00:22:18.500 of an employee.

00:22:20.120 You will have

00:22:20.580 to do whatever

00:22:21.100 your boss

00:22:21.600 tells you.

00:22:23.260 But anybody

00:22:24.180 can save up

00:22:25.600 and buy capital.

00:22:27.800 For me,

00:22:28.840 my computer

00:22:29.500 is capital.

00:22:30.760 I use it

00:22:31.520 to make money.

00:22:33.060 For somebody else,

00:22:34.440 the tools

00:22:35.660 they use

00:22:36.120 to work on cars

00:22:37.020 are their capital.

00:22:38.840 And property

00:22:39.520 itself

00:22:40.120 is capital.

00:22:42.400 You know,

00:22:42.960 you need

00:22:43.380 somewhere to live

00:22:44.320 and you need

00:22:44.780 somewhere to have

00:22:45.600 a business.

00:22:47.000 So,

00:22:47.360 land can be

00:22:48.140 capital.

00:22:48.820 And if you

00:22:49.200 prevent it

00:22:49.700 from being

00:22:50.040 bought and

00:22:50.560 sold,

00:22:51.840 that only means

00:22:52.800 that you have

00:22:53.400 to acquire it

00:22:54.020 through some

00:22:54.500 other manner.

00:22:55.660 The free market's

00:22:56.440 open to everybody

00:22:57.280 but if you can't

00:22:59.280 buy property,

00:23:00.000 if you can't

00:23:00.480 buy capital,

00:23:01.980 then only government

00:23:03.060 bureaucrats

00:23:03.920 get to control it.

00:23:05.440 So you have

00:23:06.400 to say

00:23:07.060 the right

00:23:07.400 things,

00:23:07.760 be part of

00:23:08.140 the right

00:23:08.480 ideology

00:23:09.060 to control

00:23:09.700 capital

00:23:10.200 at that point.

00:23:11.480 And then

00:23:12.200 we are all

00:23:13.760 slaves,

00:23:14.620 we are all

00:23:15.180 stuck as

00:23:15.800 employees.

00:23:17.000 See,

00:23:17.180 in the free market

00:23:17.720 an employee

00:23:18.300 can eventually

00:23:18.820 become an owner.

00:23:20.200 In the communist

00:23:21.040 society,

00:23:21.600 if you are not

00:23:22.560 one of the

00:23:23.100 top 1%,

00:23:24.080 then you are

00:23:24.960 a slave.

00:23:27.720 It is regrettable

00:23:28.780 that many

00:23:29.180 personal fortunes

00:23:30.060 are made by

00:23:30.460 people who

00:23:30.920 simply manipulate

00:23:31.600 money and

00:23:32.480 contribute nothing

00:23:33.440 to their society.

00:23:34.500 Absolutely.

00:23:37.840 You know,

00:23:38.220 there is certainly

00:23:38.900 somewhat of a

00:23:39.640 justification for

00:23:40.800 speculation.

00:23:42.720 It does help

00:23:43.440 regulate prices

00:23:44.200 on things.

00:23:45.740 But the

00:23:46.980 present environment,

00:23:48.520 you know,

00:23:48.820 the number of

00:23:49.720 people that

00:23:50.440 just move

00:23:50.940 money around,

00:23:52.040 the Wall

00:23:52.660 Street shysters,

00:23:53.780 yeah,

00:23:54.360 hang them all.

00:23:57.220 Protectionism

00:23:57.780 is sometimes

00:23:58.700 necessary in

00:23:59.520 trade.

00:24:01.200 Strongly agree

00:24:02.040 with this one.

00:24:03.280 In fact,

00:24:03.640 you find the

00:24:04.120 wealthiest

00:24:04.560 countries,

00:24:05.480 they would

00:24:05.740 have,

00:24:06.380 throughout

00:24:06.840 history,

00:24:07.300 they have

00:24:07.600 an internal

00:24:08.060 free market,

00:24:09.240 so there's

00:24:09.620 very few

00:24:10.260 controls on

00:24:10.940 their economy

00:24:11.600 inside the

00:24:12.620 country,

00:24:13.360 but they do

00:24:14.080 have protectionist

00:24:15.120 tariffs.

00:24:16.520 Because you

00:24:17.120 have to

00:24:17.680 maintain your

00:24:18.520 own country.

00:24:19.860 You know,

00:24:20.140 yes,

00:24:20.460 perfect free

00:24:21.060 trade would

00:24:21.620 make the

00:24:21.960 entire world

00:24:22.660 better off,

00:24:23.880 but it's a

00:24:24.520 question,

00:24:25.440 it's the

00:24:26.720 prisoner's

00:24:27.160 dilemma.

00:24:28.940 Doves

00:24:29.340 versus hawks.

00:24:30.580 If everybody

00:24:31.300 was a dove,

00:24:32.220 then yes,

00:24:32.640 the world

00:24:33.340 would be

00:24:33.580 so much

00:24:34.060 wonderful.

00:24:35.160 But see,

00:24:35.460 if everybody

00:24:35.920 is working

00:24:36.360 with a

00:24:36.620 completely

00:24:37.060 open border,

00:24:38.480 and one

00:24:39.040 country decides

00:24:39.720 not to have

00:24:40.420 an open

00:24:40.740 border,

00:24:41.400 that one

00:24:41.920 country that's

00:24:42.480 being the

00:24:42.820 hawk will

00:24:43.240 benefit over

00:24:43.980 all the

00:24:44.420 others.

00:24:46.020 So,

00:24:46.480 yes,

00:24:47.120 some

00:24:47.440 protectionism

00:24:48.180 can be good

00:24:49.080 for the

00:24:49.380 local economy,

00:24:50.380 even though it's

00:24:51.020 not good for

00:24:51.720 the global

00:24:52.500 economy.

00:24:54.480 And the thing

00:24:54.740 is,

00:24:54.920 we have to,

00:24:56.020 organizations,

00:24:56.660 they start

00:24:57.360 from the

00:24:57.820 individual up

00:24:58.880 to the

00:24:59.140 family,

00:24:59.600 the community,

00:25:00.740 then the

00:25:01.540 nation.

00:25:02.660 And so a

00:25:03.100 nation should

00:25:03.760 look after

00:25:04.220 its own.

00:25:07.320 The only

00:25:07.660 social

00:25:07.960 responsibility of

00:25:08.800 a company

00:25:09.180 should be to

00:25:09.780 deliver a

00:25:10.440 profit to

00:25:11.000 its shareholders.

00:25:13.380 Strongly

00:25:13.940 disagree.

00:25:14.880 As I noted

00:25:15.400 earlier,

00:25:15.880 corporations are

00:25:16.620 legal fictions

00:25:17.520 that we create

00:25:18.840 to benefit

00:25:20.220 humanity.

00:25:21.400 So there's

00:25:21.900 many justifications

00:25:22.860 for a corporation.

00:25:24.120 The fact that

00:25:24.540 they can hold

00:25:25.280 on to

00:25:25.660 inventions

00:25:26.120 and patents

00:25:26.940 that would

00:25:28.180 otherwise be

00:25:28.920 forgotten.

00:25:30.420 You know,

00:25:30.660 they can

00:25:31.040 preserve these

00:25:32.200 methods of

00:25:33.040 running a

00:25:33.420 business.

00:25:34.980 The fact that

00:25:36.060 they can,

00:25:36.900 you know,

00:25:37.300 increase output,

00:25:38.540 that they can

00:25:38.840 benefit people.

00:25:40.680 But that's

00:25:41.400 more than just

00:25:42.060 a profit to

00:25:42.740 its shareholders.

00:25:44.100 You know,

00:25:44.300 slash and burn

00:25:44.980 tactics are

00:25:46.200 absolutely,

00:25:48.240 absolutely terrible.

00:25:49.320 And yeah,

00:25:49.820 corporations are

00:25:51.020 hypothetical psychopaths

00:25:52.620 that will do

00:25:53.000 whatever they can

00:25:53.760 to make money.

00:25:54.660 This is why

00:25:55.200 you should

00:25:55.420 never trust

00:25:56.040 a corporation

00:25:56.620 doing anything

00:25:57.340 charitable.

00:25:59.580 The rich

00:26:00.000 are too

00:26:00.500 highly taxed.

00:26:02.060 Everybody

00:26:02.580 is too

00:26:03.580 highly taxed

00:26:04.300 today,

00:26:04.680 so strongly

00:26:05.520 agree.

00:26:08.920 Those with

00:26:09.640 the ability

00:26:10.040 to pay

00:26:10.460 should have

00:26:10.920 the right

00:26:11.360 to higher

00:26:12.020 standards

00:26:12.620 of medical

00:26:13.140 care.

00:26:15.820 Well,

00:26:16.540 I'm going to

00:26:16.980 strongly agree

00:26:17.540 with this one.

00:26:18.800 The simple

00:26:19.680 fact of the

00:26:20.120 matter is

00:26:20.660 that

00:26:21.060 something is

00:26:22.600 always going

00:26:23.360 to regulate

00:26:24.340 access to

00:26:25.560 medicine.

00:26:26.940 If it's

00:26:27.800 not money,

00:26:28.960 it is going

00:26:29.480 to be

00:26:29.840 waiting lists.

00:26:30.840 Just look at

00:26:31.400 the terrible

00:26:31.880 health care

00:26:32.460 that is in

00:26:33.580 Canada.

00:26:35.120 Now,

00:26:35.800 when you have

00:26:36.120 the free

00:26:36.440 market addressing

00:26:37.160 it,

00:26:38.020 there is

00:26:39.040 indirect benefits

00:26:40.220 for everybody

00:26:40.820 else.

00:26:42.180 You know,

00:26:42.400 like in Canada,

00:26:43.540 they'll have

00:26:44.260 usually like

00:26:44.720 one CAT scan

00:26:45.720 machine,

00:26:46.460 whereas an

00:26:46.920 equivalent hospital

00:26:47.660 in the United

00:26:48.080 States would

00:26:48.720 have 30 of

00:26:49.700 them.

00:26:50.280 Because in

00:26:50.800 Canada,

00:26:51.020 they can't

00:26:51.420 afford it.

00:26:51.940 Because there

00:26:52.300 is no free

00:26:53.120 market.

00:26:53.820 Because people

00:26:54.320 can't pay.

00:26:57.060 So,

00:26:58.000 absolutely.

00:26:59.080 The free

00:27:00.380 market is the

00:27:01.080 most equitable,

00:27:02.080 it is the

00:27:02.420 fairest thing

00:27:03.280 ever developed

00:27:04.700 to regulate

00:27:05.440 resources between

00:27:06.460 people.

00:27:08.920 Governments

00:27:09.280 should penalize

00:27:09.920 businesses that

00:27:10.600 mislead the

00:27:11.140 public.

00:27:12.440 Strongly

00:27:13.060 agree.

00:27:13.940 This is one

00:27:14.460 of the natural

00:27:15.060 roles of

00:27:15.680 government,

00:27:16.480 to enforce

00:27:17.900 basic laws.

00:27:20.180 You know,

00:27:20.340 you don't

00:27:21.020 assault

00:27:21.480 anybody else,

00:27:22.200 you don't

00:27:22.520 lie and

00:27:23.020 manipulate

00:27:23.740 anybody else.

00:27:25.960 And that's

00:27:26.680 exactly what

00:27:27.200 this is.

00:27:27.640 If you're

00:27:28.040 selling a

00:27:28.640 toxic product

00:27:29.440 with a

00:27:30.140 label saying

00:27:30.840 it's healthy,

00:27:31.600 you are

00:27:32.160 lying and

00:27:32.700 you are

00:27:33.000 directly

00:27:33.580 hurting

00:27:34.380 people.

00:27:34.840 There is

00:27:35.040 culpability

00:27:35.540 there that

00:27:35.940 government

00:27:36.220 should do

00:27:36.580 something.

00:27:38.840 A genuine

00:27:39.220 free market

00:27:39.780 requires

00:27:40.220 restrictions on

00:27:41.000 the ability

00:27:41.440 of predator

00:27:41.920 multinationals

00:27:42.740 to create

00:27:43.280 monopolies.

00:27:44.420 Well,

00:27:48.040 here's the

00:27:48.860 thing.

00:27:49.280 This question

00:27:50.040 is eating

00:27:50.380 its own

00:27:50.740 tail.

00:27:52.220 You see,

00:27:52.460 a genuine

00:27:52.940 free market,

00:27:54.200 a market

00:27:55.020 free of

00:27:56.320 intervention,

00:27:58.180 of intervention

00:27:59.240 from violent

00:28:00.040 people,

00:28:01.340 does not

00:28:02.120 enable

00:28:03.020 monopolies.

00:28:06.260 Monopolies

00:28:06.980 happen when

00:28:07.880 the government

00:28:08.460 intervenes.

00:28:10.800 See,

00:28:11.200 monopolies

00:28:11.800 simply aren't

00:28:12.380 efficient.

00:28:12.800 They are

00:28:13.440 too large

00:28:14.420 to be

00:28:15.060 efficient.

00:28:16.020 Smaller

00:28:16.440 businesses

00:28:16.800 will be

00:28:17.200 more

00:28:17.520 dynamic,

00:28:18.120 they will

00:28:18.300 be able

00:28:18.720 to

00:28:18.940 outmaneuver

00:28:19.580 the

00:28:20.020 monopoly.

00:28:21.380 The only

00:28:22.000 exceptions

00:28:22.560 are going

00:28:23.820 to be

00:28:24.240 industries

00:28:24.780 that require

00:28:25.300 so much

00:28:26.020 capital

00:28:26.460 investment

00:28:27.020 that it

00:28:28.260 winds up

00:28:28.620 becoming

00:28:28.920 a monopoly

00:28:29.480 simply

00:28:30.420 because it's

00:28:30.800 not more

00:28:31.280 efficient

00:28:31.680 for somebody

00:28:32.200 to raise

00:28:33.120 all that

00:28:33.440 money and

00:28:33.820 open up

00:28:34.240 a business.

00:28:36.480 At which

00:28:37.240 point you

00:28:38.240 have the

00:28:38.680 ideal solution

00:28:39.360 already.

00:28:41.280 See,

00:28:41.500 what causes

00:28:42.200 monopolies,

00:28:43.500 what allows

00:28:44.140 multinationals

00:28:44.940 to be

00:28:45.220 predatory is

00:28:46.820 the fact

00:28:47.200 that they

00:28:47.940 get in bed

00:28:48.380 with government

00:28:48.920 and they

00:28:49.880 pass all

00:28:50.480 these laws

00:28:51.100 that holds

00:28:52.020 down the

00:28:53.620 free market.

00:28:59.620 So a

00:29:00.360 genuine free

00:29:00.980 market requires

00:29:01.760 lack of

00:29:02.340 government

00:29:02.680 intervention,

00:29:03.380 not lack

00:29:03.900 of predatory

00:29:04.580 multinationals.

00:29:06.240 So I'm

00:29:08.080 going to

00:29:08.280 slightly

00:29:08.660 disagree on

00:29:09.660 this.

00:29:10.880 You know,

00:29:11.240 if you're

00:29:11.460 talking about

00:29:11.920 legislation

00:29:12.440 saying that

00:29:12.980 you're going

00:29:13.300 to prevent

00:29:13.960 them from

00:29:14.380 lobbying

00:29:14.680 government,

00:29:15.540 all right,

00:29:15.860 that might

00:29:16.860 actually work.

00:29:17.920 You know,

00:29:18.180 if you're

00:29:18.320 going to

00:29:18.460 prevent them

00:29:18.840 from bribing

00:29:19.520 people.

00:29:21.080 But the

00:29:21.740 legislation

00:29:22.160 itself,

00:29:23.460 the legislation

00:29:24.140 that supposedly

00:29:24.860 restricts these

00:29:25.580 multinationals

00:29:26.300 is usually

00:29:26.940 what enables

00:29:27.680 them.

00:29:28.300 It's usually

00:29:28.920 what puts

00:29:29.380 private businesses

00:29:30.300 out of

00:29:31.260 business.

00:29:31.720 And finally,

00:29:33.880 the freer

00:29:34.220 the market,

00:29:34.920 the freer

00:29:35.300 the people.

00:29:36.860 Strongly

00:29:37.380 agree with

00:29:37.800 that one.

00:29:39.340 I think

00:29:39.700 it speaks

00:29:40.060 for itself.

00:29:42.600 So the

00:29:43.220 next part.

00:29:45.000 Personal

00:29:45.440 social values.

00:29:48.940 Abortion,

00:29:49.580 when the

00:29:49.820 woman's life

00:29:50.300 is not

00:29:50.640 threatened,

00:29:51.400 should always

00:29:52.160 be illegal.

00:29:58.800 Now,

00:29:59.500 we're

00:30:00.020 talking

00:30:00.320 legalities

00:30:01.420 here.

00:30:03.480 We're

00:30:03.940 talking

00:30:04.140 about it

00:30:04.580 being

00:30:04.960 illegal,

00:30:05.920 not just

00:30:06.580 that it's

00:30:06.940 morally

00:30:07.320 wrong.

00:30:09.320 And see,

00:30:09.720 I have

00:30:10.100 to extend

00:30:11.640 my thoughts

00:30:12.360 to people

00:30:13.660 that are

00:30:14.300 not part

00:30:15.300 of the,

00:30:16.160 do not

00:30:16.700 have the

00:30:17.000 same beliefs

00:30:17.460 as me.

00:30:19.960 So,

00:30:20.520 let's take

00:30:20.820 a reasonable

00:30:21.240 standard.

00:30:21.900 I think

00:30:22.300 everybody can

00:30:22.820 agree with

00:30:23.220 this,

00:30:23.660 that we

00:30:23.980 need to

00:30:24.280 draw a

00:30:24.620 line in

00:30:24.920 the sand

00:30:25.300 somewhere as

00:30:26.080 to when

00:30:26.320 it becomes

00:30:26.720 a baby.

00:30:28.080 And at

00:30:29.060 the 23rd

00:30:30.020 week,

00:30:30.440 thereabouts,

00:30:30.980 it has

00:30:32.240 a brain.

00:30:33.240 There is

00:30:33.660 neurological

00:30:34.080 activity going

00:30:35.080 on at that

00:30:35.640 point.

00:30:36.360 And I think

00:30:36.860 that's a

00:30:37.200 fairly safe

00:30:37.960 line in the

00:30:39.020 sand to

00:30:39.420 draw.

00:30:40.040 At that

00:30:40.500 point,

00:30:40.820 it's a

00:30:41.120 baby,

00:30:41.880 it's a

00:30:42.460 person,

00:30:43.280 it has

00:30:43.980 rights.

00:30:45.660 And so,

00:30:46.440 I think,

00:30:46.880 yes,

00:30:47.140 making it

00:30:47.540 illegal at

00:30:48.160 that point

00:30:48.540 because it's

00:30:49.040 a person,

00:30:50.080 that is

00:30:50.680 justifiable.

00:30:51.480 illegal.

00:30:53.620 But to

00:30:54.940 demand that

00:30:55.600 it always

00:30:56.120 be illegal

00:30:56.680 even though

00:30:57.200 I disagree

00:30:57.760 with abortion,

00:30:59.140 you know,

00:30:59.480 now we're

00:30:59.740 getting into

00:31:00.040 questions of

00:31:00.640 theology,

00:31:01.500 of faith.

00:31:02.920 And I

00:31:03.660 don't think

00:31:04.040 the government

00:31:04.440 should be

00:31:04.800 taking a

00:31:05.380 stance on

00:31:05.880 faith.

00:31:06.220 After all,

00:31:07.040 I am a

00:31:07.500 son of

00:31:07.780 Europe.

00:31:08.160 We have

00:31:08.400 always had

00:31:08.940 a separation

00:31:09.520 between

00:31:09.940 church and

00:31:10.640 state.

00:31:12.160 Before the

00:31:12.720 Protestant

00:31:13.060 heresies,

00:31:14.540 of course.

00:31:14.900 So,

00:31:16.020 I'm going to

00:31:16.700 say agree,

00:31:17.320 but not

00:31:17.600 strongly agree

00:31:18.320 to that

00:31:18.640 one.

00:31:21.080 All

00:31:21.480 authority

00:31:21.840 should be

00:31:22.180 questioned.

00:31:23.480 Well,

00:31:23.860 absolutely.

00:31:24.740 I'm going to

00:31:25.220 put agree.

00:31:26.880 You know,

00:31:27.160 it shouldn't

00:31:27.580 be questioned

00:31:28.160 for the sake

00:31:28.700 of questioning

00:31:29.220 it.

00:31:29.600 It shouldn't

00:31:29.880 be questioned

00:31:30.380 for the sake

00:31:30.900 of being

00:31:31.300 a rebel.

00:31:32.500 But part

00:31:32.960 of the best

00:31:33.300 way to

00:31:33.540 understand

00:31:33.960 authority

00:31:34.360 is to

00:31:34.920 question it,

00:31:35.500 is to

00:31:35.940 learn from

00:31:36.520 it.

00:31:37.260 So,

00:31:37.820 no,

00:31:38.420 we do

00:31:39.440 not need

00:31:39.980 some sort

00:31:40.420 of top-down

00:31:41.180 controlling

00:31:41.760 system where

00:31:42.420 you always

00:31:42.820 do what

00:31:43.140 you're told,

00:31:44.460 you know,

00:31:44.660 where you

00:31:45.080 always think

00:31:45.780 what you're

00:31:46.080 supposed to

00:31:47.280 think.

00:31:48.320 Which seems

00:31:49.000 to be the

00:31:49.260 world we're

00:31:49.580 building right

00:31:50.140 now.

00:31:52.180 Rather,

00:31:52.720 I think there

00:31:53.040 should be

00:31:53.360 questioning.

00:31:53.820 I think there

00:31:54.140 should be

00:31:54.920 freedom of

00:31:55.880 speech.

00:31:56.780 And I think

00:31:57.260 a good leader

00:31:57.920 wants their

00:31:58.560 subordinates to

00:31:59.160 question them.

00:32:01.700 An eye for

00:32:02.520 an eye,

00:32:03.340 a tooth for

00:32:03.940 a tooth.

00:32:05.520 Now,

00:32:06.040 I strongly

00:32:06.680 disagree with

00:32:08.040 that one.

00:32:09.200 That might be

00:32:09.760 the beginning

00:32:10.340 of the legal

00:32:10.940 system,

00:32:11.460 but it's not

00:32:11.940 the end

00:32:12.620 of the legal

00:32:13.740 system.

00:32:15.060 And,

00:32:15.600 as I've

00:32:16.000 noted elsewhere,

00:32:17.000 you,

00:32:17.280 in five minutes,

00:32:18.140 you can do

00:32:18.600 more evil

00:32:19.340 than all

00:32:21.060 the good

00:32:21.360 you could

00:32:21.580 do in

00:32:21.780 the rest

00:32:22.040 of your

00:32:22.280 life.

00:32:23.300 So,

00:32:23.740 if we go

00:32:24.340 for this,

00:32:24.780 if we go

00:32:25.040 for revenge,

00:32:25.840 it's just

00:32:26.580 going to

00:32:26.880 drag everybody

00:32:27.920 down.

00:32:28.680 Forgiveness

00:32:29.120 is necessary

00:32:29.920 for us to

00:32:30.440 progress.

00:32:33.140 Taxpayers

00:32:33.560 should not

00:32:33.920 be expected

00:32:34.400 to prop up

00:32:34.940 any theaters

00:32:35.520 or museums

00:32:36.080 that cannot

00:32:36.620 survive on

00:32:37.840 a commercial

00:32:38.280 basis.

00:32:41.080 Now,

00:32:42.200 again,

00:32:42.620 this is getting

00:32:43.820 into some

00:32:44.180 other issues.

00:32:44.880 there is

00:32:45.980 justification

00:32:46.480 for a

00:32:47.220 country

00:32:47.420 promoting

00:32:47.800 its own

00:32:48.180 culture.

00:32:49.400 You know,

00:32:49.780 subsidizing

00:32:50.860 Shakespeare in

00:32:51.600 the Park,

00:32:52.100 for example,

00:32:53.380 even if it's

00:32:53.940 not commercially

00:32:54.520 successful,

00:32:55.940 you know,

00:32:56.180 I'm glad that

00:32:56.900 there is

00:32:57.480 Shakespeare in

00:32:58.080 the Park,

00:32:58.860 especially when

00:32:59.400 Transformers is

00:33:00.600 playing in the

00:33:01.220 theater.

00:33:02.940 So,

00:33:03.260 it's,

00:33:04.680 should there

00:33:05.400 be cultural

00:33:06.400 values that we

00:33:07.280 celebrate?

00:33:08.340 You know,

00:33:08.620 should the

00:33:09.900 French be

00:33:10.500 supporting

00:33:11.120 escargot

00:33:12.120 and frog legs

00:33:13.880 and whatever

00:33:14.180 other stuff

00:33:14.860 they eat?

00:33:16.060 You know,

00:33:16.420 as opposed to

00:33:17.080 just McDonald's,

00:33:17.880 even though

00:33:18.180 McDonald's is

00:33:18.720 faster,

00:33:19.220 easier,

00:33:19.640 cheaper.

00:33:22.160 So,

00:33:22.680 I'm going to

00:33:23.060 hit disagree

00:33:23.620 for this one.

00:33:25.840 Now,

00:33:26.060 certainly this

00:33:26.380 can go too

00:33:26.840 far,

00:33:27.380 and we

00:33:27.760 always have

00:33:28.120 to be on

00:33:28.420 the lookout

00:33:28.780 for the

00:33:29.200 fact that

00:33:30.120 these cultural

00:33:30.800 institutions

00:33:31.460 can be

00:33:32.520 very easily

00:33:33.440 taken over

00:33:34.100 by a cabal

00:33:35.540 of leftists

00:33:36.200 that want to

00:33:36.580 destroy the

00:33:37.020 culture.

00:33:37.480 So,

00:33:37.700 we need to

00:33:38.140 constantly

00:33:38.620 be

00:33:39.080 supervising

00:33:40.140 for that.

00:33:41.980 But,

00:33:42.520 the idea

00:33:42.900 that no

00:33:43.700 country should

00:33:44.200 ever support

00:33:44.940 its own

00:33:45.240 culture?

00:33:45.800 Absolute

00:33:46.240 nonsense.

00:33:46.800 Culture is

00:33:47.180 a very

00:33:47.600 important part

00:33:48.600 of who

00:33:49.020 we are.

00:33:50.000 And,

00:33:50.380 having

00:33:50.660 some

00:33:51.420 subsidy

00:33:52.560 for it

00:33:53.200 is a

00:33:54.900 wonderful

00:33:55.180 idea.

00:33:58.020 Schools

00:33:58.620 should not

00:33:59.040 make

00:33:59.240 classroom

00:33:59.660 attendance

00:34:00.200 compulsory.

00:34:02.040 Well,

00:34:02.680 again,

00:34:03.240 this assumes

00:34:04.060 the entire

00:34:04.560 Prussian

00:34:04.980 model of

00:34:05.900 schooling,

00:34:07.100 which is a

00:34:07.440 20th century

00:34:08.120 invention

00:34:08.580 meant to

00:34:09.420 indoctrinate

00:34:10.100 students

00:34:10.840 into blind

00:34:13.300 nationalism.

00:34:14.840 Not the

00:34:15.680 positive

00:34:16.280 organic

00:34:17.000 nationalism,

00:34:18.100 but it's

00:34:18.400 meant to

00:34:18.680 regiment them,

00:34:20.860 to separate

00:34:21.360 them from

00:34:21.820 their parents,

00:34:22.580 to tell them

00:34:23.240 what they're

00:34:23.560 supposed to

00:34:23.920 think and

00:34:24.280 what they're

00:34:24.560 supposed to

00:34:25.000 believe.

00:34:26.580 And see,

00:34:26.860 before we

00:34:27.300 had this

00:34:27.680 system,

00:34:28.040 people were

00:34:28.400 far better

00:34:29.120 educated.

00:34:31.060 Overall,

00:34:31.600 back before we

00:34:32.320 had this giant

00:34:33.300 public school

00:34:33.960 system,

00:34:34.820 most people

00:34:35.220 could speak

00:34:35.600 Latin,

00:34:36.480 most people

00:34:37.000 could do

00:34:37.700 calculus,

00:34:39.220 people were

00:34:40.020 better educated

00:34:40.800 even though

00:34:41.320 they were

00:34:41.640 poorer

00:34:42.120 back then.

00:34:46.420 So,

00:34:47.100 schools should

00:34:47.680 not make

00:34:48.240 classroom

00:34:48.640 attendance.

00:34:48.860 I'm going to

00:34:49.240 strongly agree

00:34:49.820 with this one

00:34:50.200 because I

00:34:50.400 don't think

00:34:50.620 the government

00:34:50.960 has any

00:34:51.520 business

00:34:52.000 being in

00:34:52.660 the educational

00:34:53.640 field

00:34:54.060 whatsoever.

00:34:54.720 All people

00:34:58.500 have their

00:34:58.900 rights,

00:34:59.320 but it is

00:34:59.600 better for

00:34:59.960 all of us

00:35:00.500 that different

00:35:00.940 sorts of

00:35:01.520 people should

00:35:02.180 keep to

00:35:02.540 their own

00:35:02.880 kind.

00:35:05.560 Now,

00:35:06.040 what is

00:35:06.420 this saying?

00:35:08.220 You know,

00:35:08.500 the simple

00:35:09.300 fact of the

00:35:09.940 matter is

00:35:11.340 that people,

00:35:12.280 by their

00:35:12.600 very nature,

00:35:13.860 will stick

00:35:14.420 to their

00:35:14.720 own kind.

00:35:15.960 In fact,

00:35:16.380 you have to

00:35:16.740 go out of

00:35:17.340 your way to

00:35:17.880 force people

00:35:18.880 to be

00:35:20.620 diversity,

00:35:21.660 to hang

00:35:22.160 out with

00:35:22.440 people different

00:35:23.000 from them.

00:35:24.720 You know,

00:35:25.400 people with

00:35:25.760 the same

00:35:26.020 culture,

00:35:26.480 with the

00:35:26.660 same

00:35:26.860 language,

00:35:27.960 and yeah,

00:35:28.600 and a lot

00:35:28.880 of that's

00:35:29.120 connected to

00:35:29.520 skin color

00:35:30.040 as well,

00:35:30.960 like to

00:35:31.440 hang out

00:35:31.780 with people

00:35:32.200 like them.

00:35:33.300 There are

00:35:33.760 exceptions.

00:35:35.020 You know,

00:35:35.320 sometimes cats

00:35:36.060 and dogs

00:35:36.400 can get

00:35:36.680 along famously,

00:35:38.140 but should

00:35:38.500 you be

00:35:38.780 forcing them

00:35:39.320 together?

00:35:41.900 So what

00:35:42.740 is this

00:35:43.100 saying?

00:35:44.680 Is it

00:35:45.240 better for

00:35:45.820 all of us

00:35:46.200 that different

00:35:46.500 sorts of

00:35:46.860 people should

00:35:47.260 keep to

00:35:47.540 their own

00:35:47.840 kind?

00:35:50.320 Although it's

00:35:50.960 what people

00:35:51.700 do,

00:35:53.600 but it's

00:35:53.940 saying they

00:35:54.240 should.

00:35:54.820 Are you

00:35:55.440 asking me

00:35:56.000 should they

00:35:56.600 pass a

00:35:57.160 law

00:35:57.520 demanding

00:35:58.820 this?

00:36:00.880 I think

00:36:01.400 people should

00:36:01.820 have freedom

00:36:02.440 of association.

00:36:03.360 I mean,

00:36:03.540 that's being

00:36:03.820 taken away

00:36:04.440 now.

00:36:05.060 You no

00:36:05.360 longer have

00:36:05.820 freedom of

00:36:06.200 association.

00:36:07.600 And yeah,

00:36:08.040 you know what?

00:36:08.480 Sometimes freedom

00:36:09.120 of association

00:36:10.080 is going to be

00:36:10.680 a little bit

00:36:11.160 unfair.

00:36:12.100 Guys like

00:36:12.480 Eminem might

00:36:13.040 have a lot

00:36:13.520 of trouble

00:36:13.840 getting into

00:36:14.280 the rap

00:36:14.620 field because

00:36:15.180 of that.

00:36:17.240 But should

00:36:17.520 we pass it?

00:36:18.560 I'm going to

00:36:19.140 put disagree,

00:36:19.940 because this

00:36:20.140 seems to imply,

00:36:20.880 the should

00:36:22.360 implies that

00:36:23.260 we are

00:36:23.540 forcing people

00:36:24.700 to segregate.

00:36:27.120 We're not

00:36:27.380 allowing them

00:36:28.060 to segregate,

00:36:28.660 we're forcing

00:36:29.280 them.

00:36:31.640 So I'm

00:36:33.120 going to put

00:36:33.520 disagree.

00:36:35.160 I think people

00:36:35.840 should be allowed

00:36:36.480 to self-segregate,

00:36:37.500 but that forcing

00:36:38.660 them to is a

00:36:41.240 very bad idea.

00:36:42.520 Although I'm

00:36:43.080 very much on

00:36:44.240 the borderline

00:36:44.800 with this.

00:36:45.720 It's a really

00:36:46.120 hard question to

00:36:46.760 answer because I

00:36:47.300 don't know the

00:36:47.700 context it's asking

00:36:48.760 it in.

00:36:49.300 Of course,

00:36:49.840 I know I'm

00:36:50.160 supposed to

00:36:50.500 say strongly

00:36:50.980 disagree,

00:36:51.700 that's what

00:36:51.880 we've all

00:36:52.180 learned,

00:36:52.600 but it's a

00:36:53.860 poorly worded

00:36:54.440 question.

00:36:56.780 Good parents

00:36:57.260 sometimes have

00:36:57.980 to spank

00:36:58.360 their children.

00:37:02.160 Strongly agree

00:37:03.200 with that one.

00:37:05.360 I know what

00:37:06.660 Stefan Molyneux

00:37:07.420 would say about

00:37:08.100 this, but if

00:37:09.560 you catch your

00:37:10.880 kid playing with

00:37:11.640 scissors or

00:37:12.280 running in

00:37:12.660 traffic and you

00:37:13.940 flip out and

00:37:14.460 spank them,

00:37:15.800 it will be

00:37:16.560 such a strong,

00:37:17.860 it will stick

00:37:19.280 with them,

00:37:19.580 it will really

00:37:20.140 get their

00:37:20.760 attention.

00:37:21.660 If you spank

00:37:22.140 because you're

00:37:22.440 scared because

00:37:23.100 they nearly

00:37:24.440 killed themselves

00:37:25.240 just now,

00:37:25.920 yeah, it'll

00:37:26.860 get their

00:37:27.200 attention.

00:37:29.000 That's not

00:37:29.660 child abuse.

00:37:32.300 It's natural

00:37:32.720 for children to

00:37:33.400 keep some secrets

00:37:34.100 from their

00:37:34.520 parents.

00:37:35.420 Well, yeah,

00:37:36.460 strongly agree

00:37:37.060 with that.

00:37:37.540 It's part of

00:37:38.220 the developmental

00:37:38.680 process that

00:37:39.580 a child begins

00:37:41.200 to separate from

00:37:41.920 their parents and

00:37:42.600 have privacy.

00:37:43.600 It's an

00:37:43.820 important step.

00:37:44.640 possessing

00:37:46.780 marijuana for

00:37:47.360 personal use

00:37:47.940 should not be

00:37:48.420 a criminal

00:37:48.700 offense.

00:37:49.480 Possessing

00:37:49.980 marijuana for

00:37:50.660 sale should

00:37:51.300 not be a

00:37:52.820 criminal offense.

00:37:54.340 Whenever you

00:37:54.800 try and make

00:37:55.200 something, when

00:37:55.680 the government

00:37:56.380 tries to

00:37:56.820 overstep its

00:37:57.740 bounds, when

00:37:58.820 the government

00:37:59.180 tries to turn

00:38:00.220 a victimless

00:38:00.860 crime into a

00:38:02.360 criminal offense,

00:38:03.700 they turn it

00:38:04.400 into a violent

00:38:05.240 crime.

00:38:06.880 No sane

00:38:07.880 monarch would

00:38:09.200 be trying to

00:38:11.100 do this.

00:38:11.600 We have too

00:38:12.260 many examples of

00:38:13.640 how badly this

00:38:14.440 turns out for

00:38:15.100 everybody.

00:38:15.780 Just look at

00:38:16.220 prohibition.

00:38:17.680 You know, it's

00:38:17.980 like, yeah, it

00:38:18.440 would be good if

00:38:18.940 fewer people used

00:38:20.060 marijuana.

00:38:20.780 It's a bloody

00:38:21.340 thing that causes

00:38:21.760 schizophrenia.

00:38:23.440 But locking

00:38:24.400 people into

00:38:25.060 cages for it is

00:38:26.140 not the solution.

00:38:28.740 The prime

00:38:29.440 function of

00:38:29.880 schooling should

00:38:30.400 be to equip

00:38:30.900 the future

00:38:31.380 generations to

00:38:32.740 find jobs.

00:38:35.040 Now, I'm

00:38:35.780 going to agree

00:38:36.340 with this.

00:38:38.060 You know, if

00:38:38.720 we're talking

00:38:39.040 about public

00:38:39.540 schooling,

00:38:40.380 definitely.

00:38:41.600 You know, I'm

00:38:42.140 sorry, if you

00:38:43.560 it's bad

00:38:44.540 enough that

00:38:45.240 cultural

00:38:46.160 institutions

00:38:47.240 could be

00:38:47.540 taken over

00:38:48.040 by left-wing

00:38:49.240 Marxists.

00:38:50.360 That's bad

00:38:51.020 enough.

00:38:51.920 But with

00:38:52.180 schools, you

00:38:52.620 get the raw

00:38:53.840 young brains

00:38:54.720 that you can

00:38:55.240 manipulate and

00:38:56.300 destroy and

00:38:57.300 separate from

00:38:57.880 their parents in

00:38:58.580 the Prussian

00:38:58.980 system.

00:39:01.500 So those are

00:39:02.340 the last people

00:39:03.040 you want

00:39:03.420 transmitting

00:39:03.960 cultural values.

00:39:05.700 Now, it is

00:39:06.860 important that

00:39:07.720 people learn

00:39:08.300 about their

00:39:08.720 culture.

00:39:10.120 But this

00:39:10.620 should, again,

00:39:11.400 this should have

00:39:11.820 more parental

00:39:12.520 involvement.

00:39:14.180 You don't want

00:39:14.760 your kids getting

00:39:15.260 brainwashed into

00:39:16.020 a religion at

00:39:16.680 school, especially

00:39:17.700 not if that

00:39:18.540 religion is

00:39:19.380 Marxism.

00:39:20.560 So, yeah, there's

00:39:21.240 cultural elements,

00:39:21.980 that's important,

00:39:22.720 but generally,

00:39:24.680 agree for that

00:39:26.660 one.

00:39:27.940 You know, really

00:39:28.400 difficult questions

00:39:29.080 to answer because

00:39:29.680 there's so many

00:39:30.420 assumptions that

00:39:31.120 go into all of

00:39:31.760 this.

00:39:32.900 It assumes that

00:39:33.840 we're at the end

00:39:34.560 of history and

00:39:35.160 that liberal

00:39:35.500 democracy is just

00:39:36.420 how things are

00:39:37.180 now.

00:39:37.540 people with

00:39:41.220 serious,

00:39:41.740 inheritable

00:39:42.060 disabilities

00:39:42.640 should not

00:39:43.080 be allowed

00:39:44.180 to reproduce.

00:39:49.080 Now, as

00:39:49.700 things stand,

00:39:50.140 we have

00:39:50.500 dysgenic

00:39:51.420 policies when

00:39:52.200 it comes

00:39:52.520 towards breeding.

00:39:54.180 The best

00:39:54.960 and brightest

00:39:55.480 women that

00:39:56.120 we have,

00:39:57.440 we send

00:39:57.920 them to

00:39:58.200 university,

00:39:59.340 get them

00:39:59.720 massively in

00:40:00.400 debt, and

00:40:01.020 then force

00:40:01.500 them to be

00:40:01.880 a corporate

00:40:02.660 slave for

00:40:03.560 the next

00:40:03.860 ten years

00:40:04.300 during their

00:40:04.680 most fertile

00:40:05.460 period.

00:40:06.180 Whereas the

00:40:07.960 most criminally

00:40:10.140 inclined and

00:40:12.140 stupid women,

00:40:13.200 we subsidize

00:40:14.100 them on

00:40:14.400 welfare and

00:40:14.960 give them a

00:40:15.340 bonus whenever

00:40:15.880 they have

00:40:16.320 children.

00:40:16.800 So we've

00:40:17.220 got dysgenic

00:40:18.100 policies right

00:40:18.860 now.

00:40:19.740 You know,

00:40:20.040 it's certainly

00:40:20.920 soft eugenic

00:40:23.460 policies.

00:40:24.480 Promoting

00:40:24.980 intelligent,

00:40:26.720 morally

00:40:27.260 responsible people,

00:40:28.260 promoting them,

00:40:29.940 promoting children

00:40:30.580 amongst them,

00:40:31.120 that's probably

00:40:31.740 something worth

00:40:32.400 looking at.

00:40:33.160 You know,

00:40:33.340 we're not

00:40:33.540 talking death

00:40:34.080 camps here,

00:40:34.660 but we're

00:40:34.860 talking,

00:40:35.580 you know,

00:40:35.960 if you have

00:40:36.940 an education

00:40:37.560 or if you,

00:40:38.900 whatever,

00:40:39.340 we're going

00:40:39.540 to make it

00:40:39.900 easier for

00:40:40.820 educated people

00:40:41.540 to have

00:40:41.860 children.

00:40:43.280 That might

00:40:43.820 not be a

00:40:44.200 bad idea.

00:40:45.600 But this

00:40:46.280 is talking

00:40:46.720 about allowing

00:40:47.700 them, you

00:40:49.220 know, that we

00:40:49.940 should take

00:40:50.440 away their

00:40:50.900 right.

00:40:51.500 And quite

00:40:51.800 frankly, the

00:40:52.220 government is

00:40:52.780 not smart

00:40:53.480 enough to

00:40:54.600 really figure

00:40:55.720 out what

00:40:56.480 inheritable

00:40:57.420 disabilities

00:40:57.980 are.

00:40:58.960 You give

00:40:59.520 them that

00:40:59.900 power, and

00:41:01.060 they're going

00:41:01.380 to start

00:41:01.660 abusing it.

00:41:02.680 So strongly

00:41:03.740 disagree that

00:41:04.800 the government

00:41:05.400 should be

00:41:05.840 banning

00:41:06.400 anybody

00:41:06.820 from

00:41:07.120 reproducing.

00:41:08.380 And you

00:41:09.240 also need

00:41:09.680 biodiversity

00:41:10.100 for crying

00:41:10.800 out loud,

00:41:11.360 okay?

00:41:12.200 You know,

00:41:12.600 trusting any

00:41:14.940 sort of utopian

00:41:15.780 with this

00:41:16.160 power,

00:41:17.140 there's a

00:41:17.720 fine line

00:41:18.300 between having

00:41:18.880 policies that

00:41:19.580 favor certain

00:41:20.200 types of

00:41:20.620 behaviors and

00:41:22.280 outright bans

00:41:23.520 and manipulation.

00:41:24.480 There's a

00:41:24.760 very fine line

00:41:25.440 between the

00:41:25.820 two of those.

00:41:26.300 things.

00:41:28.240 The most

00:41:28.520 important thing

00:41:29.160 for children

00:41:29.720 to learn is

00:41:30.740 to accept

00:41:31.400 discipline.

00:41:34.800 Now, oh

00:41:35.720 God, what

00:41:36.300 does a

00:41:36.620 liberal

00:41:36.860 democrat mean

00:41:37.760 when they

00:41:38.280 say discipline?

00:41:40.940 See, when I

00:41:41.760 say discipline,

00:41:42.460 when I use the

00:41:43.120 word discipline,

00:41:43.680 I'm thinking

00:41:44.200 about self-control,

00:41:45.820 self-discipline.

00:41:48.040 And that is

00:41:49.000 one of the

00:41:49.460 most important

00:41:50.140 things that a

00:41:51.100 child can

00:41:51.620 learn.

00:41:51.900 But see,

00:41:54.180 when a liberal

00:41:54.500 democrat,

00:41:56.220 when a leftoid

00:41:56.900 says discipline,

00:41:58.240 they mean

00:41:58.660 following orders,

00:41:59.900 doing what

00:42:00.300 teacher says.

00:42:02.300 It is so

00:42:03.120 bloody ironic

00:42:03.920 that these

00:42:04.280 people think

00:42:04.860 they're rebels,

00:42:05.980 and yet the

00:42:07.280 mental discipline

00:42:08.140 they show in

00:42:09.420 believing in

00:42:10.020 all of the

00:42:10.600 social justice

00:42:11.360 nonsense,

00:42:11.980 even the parts

00:42:12.500 that contradict

00:42:12.980 one another,

00:42:15.100 it's fascinating

00:42:16.920 to behold,

00:42:17.740 isn't it?

00:42:19.620 So what sort

00:42:20.540 of discipline

00:42:20.940 are we talking

00:42:21.520 about here?

00:42:22.520 Blindly

00:42:23.020 obeying

00:42:23.460 authority,

00:42:24.900 or self-discipline?

00:42:27.320 I guess I'll

00:42:28.080 put agree for

00:42:28.740 this, because

00:42:29.420 yeah, I don't

00:42:30.520 like being around

00:42:31.420 undisciplined

00:42:32.220 people.

00:42:33.120 They tend to

00:42:34.100 make a mess

00:42:34.680 wherever they

00:42:35.140 go.

00:42:37.600 There are no

00:42:38.540 savage and

00:42:39.100 civilized people,

00:42:40.000 there are only

00:42:40.480 different cultures.

00:42:42.120 I love how

00:42:42.940 those enlightened

00:42:44.400 prophets over in

00:42:45.500 the Middle East

00:42:45.980 cut off girls'

00:42:46.900 clitorises.

00:42:48.720 So I guess

00:42:49.220 that's more of

00:42:49.560 an Africa thing,

00:42:50.320 but still.

00:42:50.760 So yeah,

00:42:52.080 strongly disagree

00:42:53.060 with that

00:42:53.600 moose drip.

00:42:55.960 Those who

00:42:56.280 are able to

00:42:56.720 work and

00:42:57.360 refuse the

00:42:57.800 opportunity

00:42:58.320 should not

00:42:58.980 expect society's

00:43:00.160 support.

00:43:03.180 What a

00:43:03.880 straw man.

00:43:04.640 Does,

00:43:05.720 of course,

00:43:06.640 yeah,

00:43:06.840 strongly agree.

00:43:07.660 Does any,

00:43:08.140 what is,

00:43:09.100 I mean it's a

00:43:09.600 straw man in

00:43:10.300 that everybody

00:43:11.340 thinks this,

00:43:12.320 everybody agrees

00:43:13.060 with this.

00:43:13.480 What does this

00:43:13.960 possibly have to

00:43:14.720 do with anything?

00:43:15.260 When you

00:43:17.280 are troubled,

00:43:17.820 it's better

00:43:18.140 not to think

00:43:18.620 about it,

00:43:19.300 but to keep

00:43:19.800 busy with

00:43:20.400 more cheerful

00:43:21.280 things.

00:43:23.840 Well,

00:43:24.240 you shouldn't

00:43:24.460 be blindly

00:43:24.940 happy.

00:43:25.380 One of the

00:43:25.600 biggest problems

00:43:26.020 we have right

00:43:26.580 now is that

00:43:26.980 too many people

00:43:27.560 are on

00:43:28.160 antidepressants,

00:43:29.260 they're on all

00:43:29.580 this psychiatric

00:43:30.120 medication that

00:43:31.080 numbs them to

00:43:32.140 how incredibly

00:43:32.840 miserable they

00:43:33.540 are.

00:43:34.160 It just gets

00:43:34.880 them onto their

00:43:35.420 feet so they'll

00:43:36.000 go back to

00:43:36.580 work in the

00:43:37.100 morning.

00:43:38.440 You know,

00:43:38.700 and these people

00:43:39.240 should be saying,

00:43:39.800 why am I

00:43:40.180 miserable?

00:43:40.640 Maybe there's

00:43:40.980 something wrong

00:43:41.460 with the world.

00:43:42.080 Maybe there's

00:43:42.380 something wrong

00:43:42.760 with my life.

00:43:43.360 But instead

00:43:44.280 of fixing

00:43:44.680 themselves,

00:43:45.200 instead of

00:43:45.440 engaging in

00:43:45.940 self-improvement,

00:43:46.860 they just take

00:43:47.320 happy pills.

00:43:49.800 But you know,

00:43:50.160 the flip side

00:43:51.000 of this is that

00:43:51.640 you don't want

00:43:52.020 these negative

00:43:54.300 losers that

00:43:55.320 constantly blame

00:43:56.220 the world for

00:43:57.040 all of their

00:43:57.500 problems and

00:43:58.380 don't do any

00:43:59.220 self-improvement.

00:44:00.040 So yeah,

00:44:01.040 as a personal

00:44:01.520 policy,

00:44:02.540 cheer up,

00:44:03.360 life ain't that

00:44:03.900 bad.

00:44:04.820 But if you're

00:44:05.340 miserable,

00:44:05.780 acknowledge it.

00:44:06.360 So I'll put

00:44:06.640 agree for that,

00:44:07.520 but again,

00:44:08.660 very vague

00:44:09.200 statement.

00:44:10.180 It's all about

00:44:10.740 the context

00:44:11.320 with this stuff.

00:44:13.360 First-generation

00:44:14.540 immigrants can

00:44:15.640 never be fully

00:44:16.220 integrated with

00:44:17.540 their new

00:44:17.980 country.

00:44:19.620 See,

00:44:20.080 I'm going to

00:44:20.500 put agree for

00:44:21.100 this,

00:44:21.720 because part

00:44:22.340 of being a

00:44:23.480 citizen is

00:44:24.700 also understanding

00:44:25.560 all the values

00:44:26.540 of the country,

00:44:27.400 the rituals,

00:44:29.060 the foods.

00:44:30.580 It's knowing

00:44:31.480 the country.

00:44:32.760 And so in a

00:44:33.560 certain sense,

00:44:34.020 yeah,

00:44:34.180 it's very difficult

00:44:34.880 to become fully

00:44:35.660 integrated as a

00:44:36.400 first-generation

00:44:37.100 migrant.

00:44:37.780 But at the

00:44:39.140 same time,

00:44:40.900 some of the,

00:44:42.360 like,

00:44:42.660 it's new

00:44:43.380 converts can be

00:44:44.140 your strongest

00:44:44.740 converts.

00:44:45.960 There are certain

00:44:46.520 first-generation

00:44:47.200 immigrants that

00:44:47.880 just embrace

00:44:48.640 their new

00:44:49.060 identity

00:44:49.500 passionately.

00:44:51.700 And so I'll

00:44:53.660 put,

00:44:53.960 agree that it's

00:44:55.160 very difficult,

00:44:56.000 but there are

00:44:56.380 exceptions.

00:44:59.000 What's good

00:44:59.420 for the most

00:44:59.920 successful

00:45:00.340 corporations is

00:45:01.240 always,

00:45:01.880 ultimately,

00:45:02.460 good for all

00:45:03.180 of us.

00:45:05.360 Strongly disagree

00:45:06.120 with that.

00:45:07.040 Corporations

00:45:07.560 only think

00:45:08.180 in the short

00:45:08.720 term,

00:45:09.460 and they're

00:45:10.160 absolutely

00:45:10.620 manipulative

00:45:11.180 psychopaths.

00:45:12.480 You know,

00:45:12.780 they will burn

00:45:13.720 down an entire

00:45:14.280 forest to make

00:45:15.000 five bucks

00:45:15.900 if they can

00:45:16.540 get away with

00:45:17.120 it.

00:45:17.740 They are not

00:45:18.540 ultimately

00:45:19.140 rational by

00:45:20.660 human definition.

00:45:23.580 No broadcasting

00:45:24.280 institution,

00:45:25.320 however independent

00:45:26.140 its content,

00:45:27.280 should receive

00:45:27.940 public funding.

00:45:29.960 Again,

00:45:30.600 as I noted

00:45:31.100 earlier,

00:45:31.720 it is important

00:45:32.380 to transmit

00:45:33.080 your culture

00:45:33.660 to reinforce

00:45:34.380 your culture.

00:45:35.240 you know,

00:45:36.500 you don't

00:45:37.380 want to,

00:45:38.660 it can get

00:45:39.320 out of hand

00:45:39.960 and it is

00:45:40.660 out of hand

00:45:41.260 right now,

00:45:42.260 especially with

00:45:42.800 all the ugly

00:45:43.600 stuff that

00:45:44.340 museums are

00:45:45.420 buying.

00:45:47.560 But that

00:45:48.240 doesn't mean

00:45:48.800 it's an

00:45:49.780 entirely bad

00:45:50.640 idea.

00:45:51.060 This is actually

00:45:51.440 something conservatives

00:45:52.200 need to get

00:45:52.720 away from.

00:45:53.560 Just because the

00:45:54.300 left has taken

00:45:54.920 over all of

00:45:56.240 the cultural

00:45:56.720 transmission

00:45:57.300 doesn't mean

00:45:57.960 that you throw

00:45:58.620 the baby out

00:45:59.260 with the bath

00:45:59.760 water.

00:46:00.920 You know,

00:46:01.220 attack the

00:46:01.720 problem,

00:46:02.360 not the

00:46:02.720 concept.

00:46:03.260 So now

00:46:06.840 we have

00:46:07.520 page 4 of

00:46:08.540 6.

00:46:09.260 How do I

00:46:09.640 see the

00:46:10.020 wider society?

00:46:12.140 Our civil

00:46:12.560 liberties are

00:46:13.180 being excessively

00:46:13.880 curbed in the

00:46:14.760 name of

00:46:15.140 counterterrorism.

00:46:17.260 Strongly agree.

00:46:18.600 And at the

00:46:18.940 end of the

00:46:19.220 day,

00:46:19.860 taking away

00:46:20.440 fundamental

00:46:21.100 rights and

00:46:21.640 freedoms from

00:46:22.160 people does

00:46:23.520 very little

00:46:24.440 to help

00:46:25.140 combat terrorism.

00:46:27.080 In fact,

00:46:27.540 quite the

00:46:27.920 opposite.

00:46:28.800 It trains

00:46:29.640 the intelligence

00:46:30.380 agencies not

00:46:31.760 to think

00:46:32.160 creatively,

00:46:32.940 not to

00:46:33.280 really go

00:46:33.680 after the

00:46:34.260 actual bad

00:46:35.120 guys,

00:46:35.780 but to

00:46:36.300 become lazy,

00:46:37.420 to treat

00:46:37.840 everybody like

00:46:38.600 a bad

00:46:38.940 guy.

00:46:39.340 And when

00:46:39.520 you do

00:46:39.780 that,

00:46:40.500 everyone

00:46:40.740 becomes

00:46:41.180 bad

00:46:41.480 guys.

00:46:42.340 You know,

00:46:42.560 all civility

00:46:43.240 is lost.

00:46:45.680 A significant

00:46:46.100 advantage of

00:46:46.700 one-party

00:46:47.680 stays that

00:46:48.120 avoids all

00:46:48.780 arguments that

00:46:49.300 delay progress

00:46:49.980 in a

00:46:50.260 democratic

00:46:50.700 political

00:46:51.140 system.

00:46:52.740 Again,

00:46:53.380 the assumption

00:46:53.860 of a

00:46:54.180 democratic

00:46:54.580 political

00:46:54.980 system.

00:46:55.920 Now,

00:46:56.100 strongly agree.

00:46:57.140 You know,

00:46:57.440 you want the

00:46:58.260 honorable opposition.

00:46:59.140 A good

00:46:59.920 leader wants

00:47:00.660 criticism from

00:47:01.540 their subordinates.

00:47:02.820 You know,

00:47:03.000 who's smarter,

00:47:03.860 the sergeant or

00:47:04.540 the platoon?

00:47:05.640 The platoon,

00:47:06.400 because there's

00:47:06.800 30 of them.

00:47:08.120 Ultimately,

00:47:08.520 they all need to

00:47:09.060 do what the

00:47:09.600 sergeant says,

00:47:10.660 but a good

00:47:11.180 sergeant is

00:47:11.860 going to want

00:47:12.400 feedback from

00:47:13.260 them.

00:47:14.520 So,

00:47:15.000 absolute

00:47:15.460 nonsense.

00:47:18.260 Although the

00:47:18.640 electronic age

00:47:19.320 makes official

00:47:19.880 surveillance easier,

00:47:21.040 only wrongdoers

00:47:21.860 need to be

00:47:22.320 worried.

00:47:24.040 Strongly

00:47:24.600 disagree.

00:47:26.100 Privacy is

00:47:27.040 a fundamental

00:47:28.320 necessity

00:47:29.360 psychologically

00:47:30.560 for us.

00:47:32.100 You know,

00:47:32.340 the conversation,

00:47:34.720 your conversations

00:47:35.480 with people

00:47:36.140 vary depending

00:47:37.240 upon who's

00:47:37.900 there.

00:47:38.620 You're going

00:47:38.940 to be a

00:47:39.780 different person

00:47:40.340 speaking to

00:47:40.860 your mother

00:47:41.200 than speaking

00:47:41.900 to your

00:47:42.240 girlfriend.

00:47:45.400 And if

00:47:46.020 your mother

00:47:46.400 and girlfriend

00:47:46.840 are in the

00:47:47.260 same room,

00:47:47.700 you'll be

00:47:48.200 still a

00:47:48.840 different

00:47:49.140 person.

00:47:50.300 If there

00:47:50.840 is no

00:47:51.740 privacy,

00:47:52.540 then we

00:47:52.740 can never

00:47:53.200 trust another

00:47:54.400 person.

00:47:54.720 We can

00:47:54.900 never learn

00:47:55.520 to trust

00:47:56.360 another

00:47:56.660 person.

00:47:57.140 We can

00:47:57.300 never build

00:47:57.940 strong bonds

00:47:58.820 between people.

00:48:00.020 Permanent

00:48:00.360 surveillance

00:48:00.920 destroys

00:48:01.600 civil society.

00:48:04.220 The death

00:48:04.600 penalty should

00:48:05.220 be an

00:48:05.560 option for

00:48:06.620 the most

00:48:06.980 serious

00:48:07.380 crimes.

00:48:09.320 Now,

00:48:09.840 I'm going

00:48:10.120 to agree

00:48:10.480 with this

00:48:10.800 because I

00:48:11.100 have no

00:48:11.740 problem

00:48:12.080 with the

00:48:12.320 death

00:48:12.500 penalty

00:48:12.860 for

00:48:13.700 certainly

00:48:16.080 rape,

00:48:17.200 murder,

00:48:18.280 treason,

00:48:19.200 these sorts

00:48:19.640 of things.

00:48:21.180 But at the

00:48:21.920 same time,

00:48:22.440 I don't

00:48:22.680 really trust

00:48:23.320 this incompetent

00:48:24.340 legal system

00:48:25.020 that we

00:48:25.280 presently have

00:48:26.080 with administering

00:48:27.020 the death

00:48:27.660 penalty.

00:48:28.540 There's a

00:48:29.080 disturbing

00:48:29.600 number of

00:48:30.100 people that

00:48:30.580 have been

00:48:31.360 proven innocent

00:48:32.440 after being

00:48:33.200 put to

00:48:33.620 death.

00:48:34.620 So,

00:48:35.260 agree in

00:48:36.560 principle,

00:48:37.780 but in

00:48:38.720 practice,

00:48:39.760 not so

00:48:40.360 much.

00:48:42.660 In a

00:48:42.940 civilized

00:48:43.260 society,

00:48:43.760 one must

00:48:44.100 always have

00:48:44.600 people above

00:48:45.760 to be

00:48:46.040 obeyed and

00:48:46.900 people below

00:48:47.420 to be

00:48:47.720 commanded.

00:48:49.160 Now,

00:48:49.540 yeah,

00:48:49.780 I'll put

00:48:50.080 agree,

00:48:50.680 not strongly

00:48:51.280 agree,

00:48:51.760 but agree

00:48:52.200 that you

00:48:52.960 need order,

00:48:53.840 you need

00:48:54.240 regimentation.

00:48:55.580 When there's

00:48:57.660 an emergency

00:48:58.100 situation,

00:48:58.880 somebody needs

00:48:59.440 to be in

00:48:59.840 charge.

00:49:00.940 But this

00:49:01.260 doesn't mean

00:49:01.640 that you

00:49:01.860 have this

00:49:02.400 calcified

00:49:03.040 system where

00:49:03.660 nobody can

00:49:04.380 ever escape

00:49:05.020 it.

00:49:05.740 You know,

00:49:06.100 you want a

00:49:06.600 system that

00:49:07.160 is fluid,

00:49:08.340 that changes,

00:49:09.160 that adapts.

00:49:10.500 But yes,

00:49:10.940 you do need

00:49:11.360 hierarchy.

00:49:15.040 Abstract art

00:49:15.820 that doesn't

00:49:16.200 represent anything

00:49:17.080 shouldn't be

00:49:17.620 considered art

00:49:18.500 at all.

00:49:20.880 Strongly agree

00:49:21.760 with this one.

00:49:22.500 butter dance

00:49:23.580 is not

00:49:24.160 art.

00:49:24.920 Jason Pollack

00:49:25.560 paintings are

00:49:26.240 indistinguishable

00:49:27.120 from an

00:49:28.040 artist's

00:49:29.140 apron.

00:49:30.320 And the

00:49:31.520 amount of

00:49:31.860 disgusting stuff

00:49:32.560 out there

00:49:32.980 that's being

00:49:33.900 called art

00:49:34.660 when it's

00:49:36.120 just ugliness,

00:49:37.580 no,

00:49:38.200 no,

00:49:38.460 that's not

00:49:39.360 art.

00:49:41.120 In criminal

00:49:41.480 justice,

00:49:42.000 punishment should

00:49:42.580 be more

00:49:42.980 important than

00:49:43.760 rehabilitation.

00:49:45.420 And I'm

00:49:46.120 going to put

00:49:46.420 disagree.

00:49:47.120 As I was

00:49:47.620 saying with

00:49:47.980 the eye for

00:49:48.640 an eye thing,

00:49:50.080 you know,

00:49:50.360 punishment,

00:49:50.900 yes,

00:49:51.160 it's necessary.

00:49:53.460 But ultimately,

00:49:55.120 if we eye for

00:49:56.020 an eye,

00:49:56.660 you can do

00:49:57.060 more evil in

00:49:57.720 five minutes

00:49:58.220 than the

00:49:59.080 amount of

00:49:59.400 good you

00:49:59.660 can do in

00:50:00.000 your entire

00:50:00.360 life.

00:50:01.320 You know,

00:50:01.700 forgiveness,

00:50:02.680 moving forward,

00:50:03.440 these are

00:50:04.040 fundamental.

00:50:06.120 There are

00:50:06.560 cases where

00:50:07.080 somebody's done

00:50:07.600 something that's

00:50:08.100 so beyond the

00:50:08.660 pale that,

00:50:09.140 yeah,

00:50:09.360 put them to

00:50:09.700 death,

00:50:10.340 hang them,

00:50:11.060 draw and

00:50:11.340 quarter them.

00:50:13.360 But generally

00:50:14.140 speaking,

00:50:15.600 rehabilitation is a

00:50:16.760 far better

00:50:17.200 option.

00:50:17.740 And it's far

00:50:18.240 more efficient

00:50:18.940 if we can

00:50:19.700 reintegrate these

00:50:21.020 people back into

00:50:21.740 society rather

00:50:22.660 than spending

00:50:23.100 all the money

00:50:23.760 keeping them

00:50:24.580 in prison.

00:50:26.180 Doesn't mean

00:50:26.740 I'm particularly

00:50:27.760 soft on crime.

00:50:30.160 It means that I

00:50:30.980 have a moral edge

00:50:31.760 to me.

00:50:33.360 It's a waste of

00:50:34.320 time to try and

00:50:35.000 rehabilitate some

00:50:35.980 criminals.

00:50:37.240 Again, I'm going

00:50:38.000 to agree with

00:50:38.840 this, that's a

00:50:40.260 true statement,

00:50:41.340 but how do you

00:50:42.620 determine the

00:50:43.240 differences between

00:50:43.900 those criminals and

00:50:44.880 the ones that can

00:50:45.400 be rehabilitated?

00:50:46.880 Quite frankly, it is

00:50:47.700 good for us, in a

00:50:49.140 moral sense to

00:50:49.880 try and rehabilitate

00:50:51.060 even if they

00:50:52.460 probably can't

00:50:53.400 be.

00:50:55.220 The business

00:50:55.940 person and the

00:50:56.500 manufacturer are

00:50:57.240 more important than

00:50:57.980 the writer and

00:50:58.780 the artist.

00:51:00.400 Strongly agree.

00:51:01.680 You know, our

00:51:02.160 soul is in music,

00:51:04.040 in art, in

00:51:04.720 writing, that's

00:51:05.840 where the human

00:51:06.300 soul lies, and

00:51:07.120 these are vital

00:51:07.720 things.

00:51:08.900 But if you

00:51:09.460 can't eat, if

00:51:11.200 you don't have

00:51:11.600 clothing or

00:51:12.220 shelter, then

00:51:14.060 you can't enjoy

00:51:14.620 art.

00:51:15.780 And anybody

00:51:16.580 can become

00:51:18.100 an artist.

00:51:19.300 Anybody can

00:51:20.100 play an

00:51:20.540 instrument.

00:51:21.620 And so even

00:51:22.120 during a

00:51:24.640 depression, you

00:51:26.640 might not have

00:51:27.280 enough money to

00:51:27.720 go buy a CD, but

00:51:29.080 you can play an

00:51:29.900 instrument yourself.

00:51:31.660 So writing and

00:51:34.160 artistic industries

00:51:35.100 are wonderful

00:51:36.160 luxuries to have,

00:51:37.600 but food and

00:51:38.780 clothing are more

00:51:39.380 important.

00:51:41.800 Mothers may have

00:51:42.680 careers, but their

00:51:43.580 first duty is to

00:51:44.580 be homemakers.

00:51:46.580 Note that it

00:51:49.580 didn't say their

00:51:50.240 first duty is to

00:51:51.360 raise children.

00:51:55.440 This is, again,

00:51:56.380 this atomized,

00:51:58.000 replaceable cog

00:51:58.820 society, where

00:52:00.500 this is asking,

00:52:02.040 are you sexist

00:52:02.980 that you would

00:52:03.460 hold women down?

00:52:04.920 No, the answer

00:52:05.940 is that I view a

00:52:07.400 married couple, a

00:52:08.120 man and a wife,

00:52:09.500 as one flesh.

00:52:11.260 They are now a

00:52:12.220 team.

00:52:13.080 They are doing

00:52:13.640 the same thing.

00:52:14.580 So typically, the

00:52:16.640 typical organization

00:52:17.540 of it, is that

00:52:19.260 the man has a

00:52:21.560 career because

00:52:22.300 generally you have

00:52:23.560 to go outside the

00:52:24.580 home to have a

00:52:25.160 career these days,

00:52:26.460 while the woman

00:52:27.840 stays home because

00:52:28.460 she needs to raise

00:52:29.080 the babies.

00:52:30.360 And she doesn't

00:52:30.840 want to import

00:52:31.980 some slave from

00:52:33.400 Mexico to raise

00:52:34.340 her children for

00:52:35.140 her.

00:52:36.640 And so as a

00:52:37.660 team, the man's

00:52:39.060 career, him being

00:52:39.940 the primary bread

00:52:40.700 earner, is the

00:52:41.800 family's career.

00:52:43.160 So he's earning

00:52:47.000 the money, but

00:52:47.560 the wife is doing

00:52:48.280 the support role

00:52:49.220 to enable him

00:52:50.840 to earn money.

00:52:51.560 They're part of

00:52:51.960 the same freaking

00:52:52.580 team, okay?

00:52:54.200 The Marxists want

00:52:55.340 to drive men and

00:52:56.100 women apart.

00:52:56.760 They want to turn

00:52:57.300 everybody into a

00:52:58.020 replaceable cog.

00:53:01.660 But they should

00:53:02.460 be...

00:53:03.160 So this is

00:53:06.080 homemaker.

00:53:07.940 Well, homemaking

00:53:08.940 can be a

00:53:10.500 wifely duty.

00:53:11.160 It can be what

00:53:14.100 she needs to do,

00:53:14.720 but what if he

00:53:15.280 gets laid off?

00:53:16.280 Or what if he's

00:53:17.040 working on a

00:53:18.300 patent or an

00:53:19.080 invention that's

00:53:20.440 going to make the

00:53:21.160 family a lot of

00:53:22.400 money?

00:53:23.640 You know, and she

00:53:24.080 needs to go out

00:53:24.620 and work then.

00:53:25.160 Then her wifely

00:53:25.800 duty is going out

00:53:26.740 and getting a job

00:53:28.420 to earn for the

00:53:29.340 family.

00:53:31.800 Okay, because

00:53:32.140 the husband and

00:53:33.920 wife should be on

00:53:34.420 the same side.

00:53:35.200 This assumes that

00:53:36.420 they're not.

00:53:36.960 This assumes that

00:53:37.640 they're just

00:53:37.960 roommates who have

00:53:39.120 sex with one

00:53:39.840 naming out there.

00:53:43.060 But you know

00:53:43.620 what?

00:53:43.820 I promised I was

00:53:44.380 going to try and

00:53:44.800 be honest with

00:53:46.100 this.

00:53:46.600 I mean, it's a

00:53:47.040 completely bullshit

00:53:48.620 question.

00:53:50.660 You know, it

00:53:51.100 presupposes the

00:53:52.460 feminist attitude

00:53:53.220 towards marriage,

00:53:54.200 which is that it's

00:53:54.760 dating plus one.

00:53:55.920 And I think marriage

00:53:56.620 is a hell of a lot

00:53:57.460 more than that.

00:53:58.020 It's a building

00:53:58.560 block of society.

00:54:00.420 But this assumes

00:54:01.400 it isn't.

00:54:02.200 This assumes that

00:54:02.820 it's just dating

00:54:03.320 plus one.

00:54:04.360 And that I'm

00:54:05.320 such a terrible

00:54:06.500 person that I want

00:54:07.320 to force women just

00:54:08.360 to be domestic

00:54:09.000 servants, as

00:54:10.820 opposed to I

00:54:11.600 want to have a

00:54:12.180 successful, happy

00:54:13.040 life with a wife

00:54:14.260 to share it with

00:54:15.040 and children that

00:54:16.640 were raised well

00:54:17.640 and have better

00:54:18.840 opportunities than

00:54:19.620 I had.

00:54:21.060 No, I just want to

00:54:21.660 hold women down.

00:54:22.380 So I'll put agree,

00:54:24.920 since it does

00:54:25.960 restrict it to

00:54:26.600 just homemakers,

00:54:27.380 doesn't mention

00:54:27.840 raising children.

00:54:28.820 It's absolutely

00:54:30.560 ridiculous.

00:54:32.340 Multinational

00:54:32.800 companies are

00:54:33.580 unethically exploiting

00:54:34.520 the plant genetic

00:54:35.260 resources of

00:54:36.600 developing countries.

00:54:38.160 Oh, heck, and

00:54:39.340 they're doing it

00:54:39.760 for developed

00:54:40.280 countries as well.

00:54:41.200 Strongly agree there.

00:54:42.260 Monsanto is a

00:54:42.940 terrible company

00:54:43.700 that should be

00:54:44.160 disbanded.

00:54:45.540 Genetic modification

00:54:46.460 could potentially be

00:54:47.640 a wonderful

00:54:48.220 technology.

00:54:49.880 Monsanto is

00:54:50.640 absolutely abusing

00:54:51.720 it, though.

00:54:53.980 Making peace with

00:54:54.960 the establishment is

00:54:55.840 an important aspect

00:54:56.800 of maturity.

00:54:59.100 Agree.

00:54:59.760 This reflects what I

00:55:00.720 was saying about

00:55:01.260 leaders earlier.

00:55:02.740 No leader is going

00:55:03.580 to be perfect.

00:55:04.200 perfect, and

00:55:05.100 it's easy to

00:55:06.180 Monday morning

00:55:07.160 quarterback and

00:55:08.260 complain and

00:55:09.440 whine and refuse

00:55:10.380 to become part

00:55:11.320 of the system.

00:55:13.180 Actually trying to

00:55:14.060 make things better

00:55:14.820 and making mistakes

00:55:15.920 along the way,

00:55:17.200 you eventually

00:55:17.700 learn a bit of

00:55:18.220 humbleness.

00:55:18.760 You learn not to

00:55:19.560 be quite so

00:55:20.160 self-righteous and

00:55:20.980 judgmental of your

00:55:22.300 leaders when you

00:55:22.900 do that.

00:55:23.360 So yes, making

00:55:23.920 peace with the

00:55:24.640 fact the

00:55:25.000 establishment will

00:55:25.740 never be perfect

00:55:26.680 is an important

00:55:27.820 aspect of maturity.

00:55:28.840 astrology accurately

00:55:33.900 explains many

00:55:34.900 things.

00:55:36.760 Oh, good lord.

00:55:38.800 Five of six.

00:55:40.100 Propositions on

00:55:41.180 religion.

00:55:44.280 Astrology accurately

00:55:45.420 explains many things.

00:55:45.980 This is a scientific

00:55:46.860 question, isn't it?

00:55:49.880 I mean, what if I

00:55:50.960 reject modern

00:55:52.640 astrology but I

00:55:53.640 follow Egyptian

00:55:54.960 astrology?

00:55:56.560 What does this

00:55:59.080 question have to

00:55:59.880 do with anything?

00:56:02.360 I'm going to put

00:56:03.180 strongly disagree

00:56:04.220 because it's

00:56:04.780 retarded, but

00:56:05.760 so many assumptions

00:56:10.780 go into this.

00:56:13.160 You cannot be

00:56:13.900 moral without

00:56:14.520 being religious.

00:56:19.880 And I'm going to

00:56:21.040 go disagree with

00:56:21.900 this.

00:56:22.060 In fact, I think

00:56:22.600 nowadays with how

00:56:23.280 far the church has

00:56:24.240 fallen, it's probably

00:56:25.000 easier to be moral

00:56:26.240 if you aren't

00:56:27.220 religious, if you

00:56:28.220 don't adhere

00:56:29.280 strongly to one

00:56:30.520 heresy that's

00:56:31.740 being promoted.

00:56:33.080 You know, it's

00:56:33.600 easier to get

00:56:34.260 closer to the

00:56:34.840 truth with how

00:56:35.780 far the church

00:56:36.500 has fallen

00:56:37.020 lately.

00:56:39.640 Charity is

00:56:40.180 better than

00:56:40.640 social security

00:56:41.460 as a means of

00:56:42.440 helping the

00:56:42.960 genuinely

00:56:43.340 disadvantaged.

00:56:45.660 Strongly

00:56:46.220 agree.

00:56:49.020 Bureaucracies

00:56:49.580 tend to breed

00:56:50.380 parasites.

00:56:52.020 You know,

00:56:52.280 whereas charity

00:56:53.260 demands personal

00:56:54.980 connections and

00:56:55.920 relationships, and

00:56:57.760 really the best

00:56:58.680 thing you can do

00:56:59.180 to help somebody

00:56:59.980 on hard times is

00:57:00.840 give them an

00:57:01.360 opportunity, as

00:57:02.860 opposed to just

00:57:03.380 throwing money at

00:57:04.120 the problem.

00:57:05.240 So, yeah, back

00:57:06.200 when we had

00:57:06.680 charity, I think

00:57:08.480 the thing was a

00:57:09.100 lot better off.

00:57:11.320 Some people are

00:57:12.120 naturally unlucky.

00:57:13.900 You know, every

00:57:15.360 day, thousands of

00:57:16.800 people fly to Las

00:57:17.620 Vegas to

00:57:18.880 intentionally lose

00:57:20.060 money in slot

00:57:21.220 machines.

00:57:21.640 and all those

00:57:22.840 people blame all

00:57:23.660 their problems on

00:57:24.460 bad luck, when

00:57:26.340 they chose to

00:57:28.120 throw money at a

00:57:29.080 bad bet.

00:57:30.220 Luck is what you

00:57:31.000 make of it, and

00:57:31.960 whether something is

00:57:32.660 good or bad, it's

00:57:34.320 really how you

00:57:35.020 respond to it.

00:57:36.780 So, strongly

00:57:37.620 disagree with that

00:57:38.800 defeatist attitude.

00:57:41.400 It's important that

00:57:42.220 my child's school

00:57:43.200 instill religious

00:57:44.660 values.

00:57:45.280 Now, again, this

00:57:50.280 assumes that we

00:57:51.560 have government

00:57:52.460 institutions,

00:57:53.640 government

00:57:53.920 institutionalized

00:57:55.100 schools, which I

00:57:56.440 don't think we

00:57:56.920 should have.

00:57:58.000 And right now, they

00:57:58.900 are instilling the

00:57:59.840 religious values of

00:58:00.960 leftism, which I

00:58:02.300 despise.

00:58:02.860 So, I would prefer

00:58:03.520 if they just taught

00:58:04.700 the, you know, the

00:58:06.400 reading, writing,

00:58:07.600 arithmetic, and

00:58:09.640 left the social

00:58:11.600 values out of it.

00:58:12.480 I will take care of

00:58:13.580 that.

00:58:13.840 Social and

00:58:14.480 religious, I will

00:58:15.100 take care of that

00:58:15.820 as a parent.

00:58:19.000 Now, final page.

00:58:20.640 A look at sex.

00:58:24.060 Sex outside of

00:58:25.280 marriage is usually

00:58:26.900 immoral.

00:58:29.540 I'm just going to

00:58:30.380 say strongly agree

00:58:31.820 with that.

00:58:32.480 Certainly, I'm no

00:58:33.800 moral paragon, but

00:58:36.040 the whole free

00:58:37.620 sex casual sex

00:58:38.620 culture does a lot

00:58:39.880 of damage to

00:58:40.940 people.

00:58:41.560 It makes it very

00:58:42.260 hard to pair bond

00:58:43.400 and it's being

00:58:44.880 treated like a

00:58:46.000 toy, like candy,

00:58:47.340 as opposed to

00:58:48.340 something sacred

00:58:49.460 that creates

00:58:50.020 another human

00:58:50.580 life.

00:58:51.840 Sex is far too

00:58:53.100 important to

00:58:54.560 waste it upon

00:58:55.620 casual sex.

00:58:58.040 A same-sex

00:58:59.080 couple in a

00:59:01.080 stable, loving

00:59:01.580 relationship should

00:59:02.340 not be excluded

00:59:03.100 from the possibility

00:59:03.900 of child adoption.

00:59:04.820 child molesters.

00:59:05.820 The simple fact of

00:59:07.360 the matter is that

00:59:08.280 homosexuals are

00:59:09.300 100 times as

00:59:10.700 likely to be

00:59:12.300 child molesters

00:59:13.480 as straight

00:59:15.620 couples.

00:59:16.800 So, I'm going to

00:59:18.580 strongly disagree with

00:59:19.680 that.

00:59:19.980 And furthermore, a

00:59:21.500 child needs a

00:59:22.480 mother and a

00:59:23.320 father.

00:59:24.760 You know, a

00:59:26.160 widower, a

00:59:26.800 widower, that's a

00:59:28.400 very sad situation.

00:59:29.920 That's very tragic

00:59:30.760 because they just

00:59:31.260 lost one of their

00:59:31.960 parents.

00:59:33.260 But if you have

00:59:34.280 two gay men or

00:59:35.740 two lesbians for a

00:59:36.900 parent, you are

00:59:37.380 missing out on an

00:59:38.260 important role

00:59:40.940 model for your

00:59:42.300 life.

00:59:43.920 You know, can you

00:59:44.360 imagine a boy being

00:59:45.340 raised by two

00:59:46.000 lesbians?

00:59:46.520 Who will ever

00:59:46.960 teach him to be a

00:59:47.620 man?

00:59:49.420 No, you need a

00:59:50.800 parent of each

00:59:51.540 sex.

00:59:52.380 And if you don't

00:59:53.060 have that, it's an

00:59:53.800 extreme tragedy.

00:59:57.260 Pornography

00:59:57.700 depicting consenting

00:59:58.680 adults should be

00:59:59.260 legal for the

01:00:00.020 adult population.

01:00:01.960 Absolutely.

01:00:03.240 Now, on the one

01:00:03.740 hand, this is

01:00:04.100 identical to the

01:00:04.760 drug argument.

01:00:05.980 It's not the

01:00:08.060 government's place to

01:00:08.900 start trying to

01:00:09.680 regulate this

01:00:10.340 stuff.

01:00:12.220 Furthermore, if

01:00:13.720 you try and

01:00:14.400 regulate it, you

01:00:15.100 only make it

01:00:15.780 worse.

01:00:16.600 If you tried to

01:00:17.380 ban pornography,

01:00:18.180 you're going to

01:00:18.480 drive it underground,

01:00:19.600 and all the

01:00:20.080 abuses that we're

01:00:21.000 told exist in the

01:00:21.920 porn industry, most

01:00:23.080 of which are

01:00:23.440 completely made up,

01:00:24.680 would start to

01:00:25.260 become true.

01:00:27.800 It's, you know,

01:00:29.100 I might not think

01:00:29.960 it's the best, I

01:00:31.000 think people use

01:00:31.620 too much

01:00:31.980 pornography, I

01:00:32.720 don't think it's

01:00:33.060 particularly healthy

01:00:34.100 for you, but

01:00:35.300 that doesn't mean

01:00:35.720 the government

01:00:36.080 should be banning

01:00:37.400 it.

01:00:38.260 You know, it's,

01:00:40.700 and honestly,

01:00:41.940 where do you

01:00:42.240 draw the line?

01:00:43.080 As soon as you

01:00:43.640 ban some type of

01:00:45.080 speech that doesn't

01:00:45.760 have a demonstrable

01:00:46.780 harm connected to

01:00:47.780 it, an immediate

01:00:48.920 and direct

01:00:49.620 demonstrable harm,

01:00:51.060 then you're putting

01:00:52.220 all speech at

01:00:53.800 risk.

01:00:55.780 What goes on in a

01:00:56.600 private bedroom

01:00:57.120 between consulting

01:00:57.880 adults is no

01:00:59.360 business of the

01:01:00.220 state?

01:01:02.000 Strongly agree.

01:01:04.360 I might not, I

01:01:05.880 might not like it,

01:01:06.860 I might not

01:01:07.680 encourage it, but

01:01:08.760 ultimately, what you

01:01:09.860 do is your own

01:01:10.540 business.

01:01:11.380 And if the

01:01:11.720 government tries to

01:01:12.720 turn non-crimes

01:01:13.840 into crimes, then

01:01:15.700 things just get

01:01:16.440 worse.

01:01:18.420 No one can feel

01:01:19.260 naturally homosexual.

01:01:21.740 And strongly disagree

01:01:23.360 on that.

01:01:24.200 Now, there are,

01:01:25.260 obviously, there are

01:01:26.260 huge environmental

01:01:27.620 components that go

01:01:29.160 into homosexuality.

01:01:32.840 You know, certainly

01:01:33.480 there's a disturbing

01:01:36.740 amount, like the

01:01:37.840 number of homosexuals

01:01:38.800 that report being

01:01:39.800 interfered with

01:01:40.980 sexually as children

01:01:42.320 is vastly out of

01:01:44.120 proportion.

01:01:45.480 So, yes, there are

01:01:46.540 environmental aspects

01:01:48.780 to it.

01:01:50.480 But that doesn't

01:01:51.380 mean there aren't

01:01:51.960 natural inclinations.

01:01:54.080 You know, and there

01:01:54.500 seems to be a lot

01:01:55.240 of evidence that

01:01:55.800 some people are

01:01:56.500 more naturally

01:01:57.440 inclined to be

01:01:58.120 homosexual than

01:01:59.100 others.

01:02:01.380 Again, this is a

01:02:02.320 scientific question,

01:02:03.620 really, although we're

01:02:04.520 not allowed to

01:02:05.060 investigate this sort

01:02:05.880 of stuff these

01:02:06.440 days.

01:02:08.680 These days, openness

01:02:10.260 about sex has gone

01:02:11.280 too far.

01:02:13.020 Yeah, I'm going to

01:02:13.700 say agree, but not

01:02:15.480 strongly agree.

01:02:17.020 Because, you know,

01:02:18.020 prudishness is no

01:02:19.240 better.

01:02:19.620 Prudishness is its

01:02:20.340 own sort of obsession

01:02:21.500 with sex.

01:02:22.120 Yeah, and so the

01:02:23.440 modern environment

01:02:24.280 we have is, on

01:02:25.120 the one hand, as

01:02:26.300 obsessed with sex

01:02:27.280 as teenagers, but

01:02:28.840 also as prudish and

01:02:30.500 nervous about talking

01:02:32.380 about it.

01:02:33.060 And yet always

01:02:33.720 throwing it in your

01:02:35.200 face.

01:02:35.600 It's a very juvenile

01:02:36.580 approach to sex.

01:02:38.500 I think frank

01:02:39.560 discussion about sex

01:02:40.600 is absolutely fine,

01:02:42.160 but we approach it

01:02:45.160 in a very childish

01:02:45.860 manner these days.

01:02:47.400 So, now let's see

01:02:48.540 where I stand.

01:02:49.560 So, on the left

01:02:55.420 right of free

01:02:57.840 markets versus

01:02:58.720 communism, where I

01:03:00.500 stand extremely

01:03:01.580 strongly for free

01:03:02.560 markets, with one

01:03:04.360 exception, a couple

01:03:05.240 of exceptions.

01:03:06.440 Well, first of all, I

01:03:07.540 don't consider

01:03:08.020 corporations to be

01:03:09.040 naturally part of the

01:03:09.860 free market.

01:03:10.700 Corporations need

01:03:11.860 governments to

01:03:13.000 exist.

01:03:13.680 A government needs

01:03:14.380 to legislate a

01:03:15.820 corporation into

01:03:17.000 existing.

01:03:17.620 without a

01:03:19.580 government, you

01:03:20.240 don't have a

01:03:20.780 corporation.

01:03:23.760 There are

01:03:24.360 certainly times when

01:03:25.040 corporations could be

01:03:25.740 wonderful, but

01:03:27.820 anything the

01:03:28.320 government legislates

01:03:29.140 should be very

01:03:29.760 careful.

01:03:30.220 Any interference the

01:03:31.160 government makes,

01:03:31.860 they should be very,

01:03:32.720 very careful about

01:03:33.600 it, because most

01:03:35.200 times they'll do

01:03:35.860 more harm than

01:03:37.140 good.

01:03:38.180 And so that's on the

01:03:39.080 economic side.

01:03:40.040 I generally prefer

01:03:40.780 free markets, although

01:03:42.080 sometimes some

01:03:43.320 tariffs can make

01:03:44.140 sense, some

01:03:45.040 environmental

01:03:45.480 protection can make

01:03:46.420 sense, and some

01:03:47.480 standing up for

01:03:48.280 your culture can

01:03:49.480 make sense.

01:03:50.740 Ideally, in a

01:03:52.100 well-ordered

01:03:53.180 republic or

01:03:54.100 monarchy, this

01:03:55.560 should be 3-5%

01:03:58.040 of GDP that

01:03:59.400 you're spending

01:03:59.880 during peacetime.

01:04:01.100 Maybe, maybe

01:04:02.260 10%.

01:04:03.100 Now, on the

01:04:05.400 authoritarian-libertarian

01:04:06.860 scale, I tend

01:04:08.640 to, like, order

01:04:10.280 is very important,

01:04:11.420 but you need a

01:04:12.200 fluid order.

01:04:14.000 Okay?

01:04:14.300 When you get

01:04:16.140 right down to

01:04:16.660 it, there are

01:04:17.640 three things that

01:04:19.200 justify a

01:04:19.940 government's

01:04:20.420 existence, you

01:04:21.620 know, in this

01:04:22.360 order of

01:04:22.960 priority.

01:04:24.800 First, the

01:04:25.840 highest role of

01:04:26.860 government, the

01:04:27.320 highest purpose of

01:04:28.080 government should be

01:04:28.740 to serve the

01:04:29.320 moral, spiritual,

01:04:30.320 and intellectual

01:04:30.920 development of

01:04:32.380 its citizens.

01:04:34.760 Next, persistence

01:04:36.500 and stability.

01:04:38.340 You know, as

01:04:38.760 Heinlein said, if

01:04:39.640 you're going to

01:04:39.940 discuss the moral

01:04:40.660 behavior of an

01:04:41.420 animal, an

01:04:43.100 animal that is

01:04:44.060 extinct, has no

01:04:45.360 moral behavior.

01:04:46.880 If a government

01:04:47.720 isn't stable and

01:04:49.300 predictable, you

01:04:50.620 know, if you don't

01:04:51.120 know what the laws

01:04:51.660 are going to be

01:04:52.080 next week, or if

01:04:53.660 it doesn't persist

01:04:54.260 into the future, if

01:04:55.480 it fails to

01:04:56.620 reproduce itself,

01:04:58.300 then there's no

01:04:59.800 government anymore.

01:05:00.780 There is no

01:05:01.300 society.

01:05:02.580 So it's already

01:05:03.640 failed.

01:05:05.080 And finally, the

01:05:07.020 third, if it's

01:05:08.200 doing all three,

01:05:09.620 is prosperity

01:05:11.560 and happiness.

01:05:13.380 These are the

01:05:14.020 least important

01:05:14.720 justifications of

01:05:15.600 government.

01:05:16.900 Certainly during a

01:05:17.680 depression, the

01:05:18.980 government should

01:05:19.440 not be spending

01:05:20.040 money on bread and

01:05:20.880 circuses to keep

01:05:21.640 people happy.

01:05:25.220 Now, the thing I

01:05:25.980 find with liberal

01:05:26.780 democracy is it

01:05:28.200 tends to get the

01:05:29.040 last one, prosperity

01:05:30.740 and happiness.

01:05:31.460 Sure, it does a lot

01:05:32.160 of that.

01:05:32.460 We have all the

01:05:32.940 license nowadays, but

01:05:34.220 we have no freedom.

01:05:38.040 Persistence and

01:05:38.600 stability, it is

01:05:39.600 doing a very poor

01:05:40.780 job of that.

01:05:41.280 The institutions are

01:05:42.380 pretty stable.

01:05:43.420 They're not going

01:05:44.060 anywhere.

01:05:45.160 But nobody knows

01:05:45.980 what the laws are

01:05:46.580 going to be next

01:05:47.220 week.

01:05:48.880 And certainly the

01:05:49.820 federal government

01:05:51.520 of the United

01:05:51.940 States, of Canada,

01:05:52.860 Britain, these are

01:05:53.940 going to persist

01:05:54.980 into the future.

01:05:56.760 But are they going

01:05:57.320 to be recognizable?

01:05:58.820 Because the native

01:06:00.080 populations are not

01:06:01.240 reproducing.

01:06:03.060 Just look at the

01:06:03.980 places that are

01:06:04.940 demanding Sharia law.

01:06:06.180 So, persistence and

01:06:08.360 stability, not a

01:06:09.240 very good job.

01:06:10.360 And as for the

01:06:10.920 moral, spiritual,

01:06:11.740 and intellectual

01:06:12.600 development of

01:06:13.300 people, this is at

01:06:14.940 an all-time low.

01:06:17.060 Our governments are

01:06:17.740 absolutely failing,

01:06:19.300 and they're spending,

01:06:21.460 what, 40% of GDP

01:06:23.180 right now is what

01:06:24.020 they're mostly

01:06:24.680 spending?

01:06:29.360 Beyond

01:06:29.800 unacceptable.

01:06:30.300 So, yeah, between

01:06:32.060 authoritarian and

01:06:32.820 libertarian, generally

01:06:34.180 best to err on the

01:06:35.120 side of libertarian,

01:06:36.200 because you do want

01:06:36.860 a fluid society, but

01:06:38.480 you also want to

01:06:39.560 acknowledge the

01:06:40.220 importance of

01:06:41.540 hierarchy.

01:06:42.240 You don't want pure

01:06:43.520 anarchism, because

01:06:44.520 pure anarchism is just

01:06:45.460 going to lead to a

01:06:46.620 stealth hierarchy, a

01:06:48.440 non-explicit hierarchy,

01:06:49.880 one that's very corrupt

01:06:50.780 and easy to manipulate.

01:06:52.240 So let's see where

01:06:54.020 this puts me.

01:06:55.920 And

01:06:56.480 I am

01:07:02.340 dead

01:07:02.980 center.

01:07:06.760 Now,

01:07:07.840 a couple weeks

01:07:08.920 ago,

01:07:09.700 a couple weeks

01:07:10.800 ago, Sargon

01:07:11.380 of Akkad,

01:07:12.280 great YouTuber,

01:07:13.080 took this test

01:07:13.960 himself, and

01:07:15.140 he got left

01:07:15.980 libertarian.

01:07:17.060 He was just a

01:07:17.800 couple squares

01:07:18.660 away from

01:07:20.100 me.

01:07:21.240 A guy that

01:07:22.320 thinks that we

01:07:24.140 should slash

01:07:24.880 government spending

01:07:25.800 by 90%,

01:07:27.120 and that the

01:07:28.940 entire modern

01:07:29.780 order, liberal

01:07:30.640 democracy itself,

01:07:31.920 is a terrible joke

01:07:33.020 that's controlled

01:07:33.660 by marketers,

01:07:35.360 where your vote

01:07:36.460 is worthless

01:07:37.140 when everybody

01:07:38.440 votes.

01:07:39.560 You know, I

01:07:40.140 think that we

01:07:40.680 should bring back

01:07:41.460 caning, and in

01:07:42.700 some cases, even

01:07:43.440 drawing and

01:07:43.960 quartering.

01:07:44.660 I support a

01:07:45.640 strong monarch or

01:07:46.760 a very strong

01:07:47.420 republic.

01:07:50.220 And as far as I'm

01:07:51.140 concerned, this

01:07:51.600 whole left-wing,

01:07:53.000 we're headed

01:07:53.600 towards the left

01:07:54.180 singularity, where

01:07:56.640 everybody eats

01:07:57.420 everybody.

01:07:58.640 And yet, according

01:07:59.520 to this, I am

01:08:00.600 smack dab in the

01:08:02.400 middle of things.

01:08:06.560 Which just goes to

01:08:07.800 show you, folks,

01:08:09.020 that your starting

01:08:10.000 assumptions are

01:08:11.340 going to determine

01:08:12.020 what your answers

01:08:13.060 are.

01:08:13.620 This entire test

01:08:14.920 is extremely loaded

01:08:16.680 and intentionally

01:08:17.600 biased.

01:08:19.720 Now, got the easy

01:08:21.020 video out of the

01:08:21.640 way, I've got some

01:08:22.960 Ireni's Insight

01:08:23.640 videos that I do

01:08:24.580 need to get around

01:08:25.180 to uploading, so

01:08:26.620 time for me to go

01:08:28.180 record those.

01:08:29.260 Thanks for listening,

01:08:30.500 and Ireni out.

01:08:31.340 etus.

01:08:33.700 Not sources.

01:08:35.400 Not twice.

01:08:35.800 Not twice.

01:08:36.500 Not oraz ireni.

01:08:36.900 Not twice.

01:08:36.960 Not twice.

01:08:37.680 Not twice.

01:08:38.600 Not twice.

01:08:38.700 Not twice.

01:08:39.220 Not twice.

01:08:40.940 Not twice.

01:08:41.300 And even if I can

01:08:42.500 cope with eliini, we

01:08:42.980 don't have to

01:08:43.520 10-10.

01:08:44.020 Not once.

01:08:44.580 Not twice.

01:08:45.120 Ireni out.

01:08:46.360 There are to be

01:08:46.580 licensed between

01:08:47.520 and for the

01:08:48.400 pike and

01:08:48.600 goats.

01:08:49.420 Not twice.

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01:08:53.680 So many more At-етр

01:08:54.360 same México.

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