Cancelling the Cancellers - The Dilemma of the Right ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with political philosopher, author, philosopher, and philosopher-turned-activist, Dr. James Ayn Rand Paul, to discuss a variety of topics related to the cancel culture movement and its impact on our society.
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if you're a and we aren't this but if you are a right-wing think tank or organization or
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politician and you see the the left having done this and gotten away with it for years and having
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pretty stunningly successful results in establishing control over many political
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social corporate institutions do you not sit back and say well the fact that we could win
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and re-establish control of these institutions that we lost and start to run them better and
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more in line with our principles you know does do the ends justify the means basically thoughts well
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you can kind of kind of justify it but depending on how you word it is it sounds more logical than
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others like well to create a society without cancel culture we must first cancel those who are
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propagating the cancel culture so we can establish a cancel free culture under our own terms so it's
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like if you word it like that then it's not a savory but in the same way i i i've seen a few
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few commenters mention that since the it's institutional control is in the left's hands
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right now until the institutions are revised you you will keep on losing they the amount of power that
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they wield is disproportionate and they will maintain that power unless you fight with whatever
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extra power you have to be able to um to fight with so i can understand the balance right yeah
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but yeah i think there's merit to it but it's it's sort of like it's sort of like what smith said where
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he's like you know this like this isn't good for your soul you know like maybe maybe it's effective
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but as a long-term strategy i don't think it is and this is where you this is where you
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shift i think where you know ethically you have to shift from a uh you know utilitarian mindset to
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more of a deontological one where you say listen like just like you said do you want to establish
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a society where you know we're a high trust society we we believe in our institutions we we believe that
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people act you know people in uh positions of power act generally in good faith uh well then it's it's
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pretty hard to go back from okay but how did you get here you know that old there's a there's a saying
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in the uh in the dating scene james where they say if and this applies to he or her but in our case
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if she'll cheat with you she'll cheat on you and so maybe that's a similar thing here how do you
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you know if you have a bunch of politicians or a bunch of you know political influencers who have
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gotten there through unsavory means can you ever really trust that you know if they if they won
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and they got they got into the positions of power that they wanted can you trust that that now no
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actually now we are working in you know we are being forthright and we are working in everyone's
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best interest now we're not lying anymore we're not canceling anymore yeah where does the checks and
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balance exist in this scenario of like this is where if you go to first principles of like well
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cancel culture is fundamentally a corrosive force that dissolves trust and erodes away at um at free
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speech and erodes away at our democracy if that's the underlying principle then that would be the
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balance but if you say we must use whatever we can to establish to win so we can establish that in
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if you're already playing with those tools and you you truly believe that you are correct
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and your ideas are the correct ones and they they must be implemented then why would you stop using
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the tools where is the self-correction going to happen uh in this case so this is where like
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the checks and balances have to be woven in at a principle level or it just gets thrown out along the way
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yeah yeah like a uh you know a true winner you know like a real winner isn't afraid of a fair fight
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basically yeah and troops should like it should rise to the top no matter what like if you have to force
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a truth then it's not it's not the truth like it should be able to shine through and you should be
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able to like point at it and it should be able to defend itself uh along the way so um i'm skeptical
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of anything that if somebody plays dirty for the right reason ultimately that's gonna undermine
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maybe not now maybe it's a little bit later it's gonna undermine either somebody's values or somebody's
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perception of your values if you're playing that game um so ultimately it's not