America vs. Americans by Leonard Peikoff

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  • Опубликовано: 2 ноя 2024

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  • @Avidcomp
    @Avidcomp Год назад +9

    A must re-watch, especially today.

  • @kalidesu
    @kalidesu 4 года назад +37

    Anybody else watching this in 2020 thinking this is just as relevant as it was in 2003?

    • @seand2562
      @seand2562 4 года назад +1

      kalidesu watching this now. And yes! I started watching based on recent conversations on Yaron Brook’s show and because he shared a link of this old video earlier today on Facebook.

    • @seand2562
      @seand2562 4 года назад +1

      Especially when they discuss the supporting of students who are protesting the existing regimes.

    • @vonziethenmusic
      @vonziethenmusic Год назад

      even more now .... november 2023

    • @science212
      @science212 10 месяцев назад +1

      I'm here.
      In 2023.

    • @justinwolf5312
      @justinwolf5312 9 месяцев назад

      2024!

  • @joshuagould548
    @joshuagould548 2 года назад +4

    Love this speech. It's a sad account of the attitude of Americans, but Dr. Peikoff also presents solutions and why those solutions will work. Dr. Peikoff and Dr. Brook are a force to be reckoned with.

  • @justinwolf5312
    @justinwolf5312 27 дней назад +1

    Listening to this again - 1 yr post Oct 7th massacre. The free world is still paying for the broken moral compass of America.

  • @spyman3000
    @spyman3000 8 месяцев назад +1

    Can't believe he was almost 70 here! What a guy.

  • @aviramvijh
    @aviramvijh Год назад +2

    One of the great thinkers of our times.

  • @GopinathSadasivam
    @GopinathSadasivam 6 лет назад +10

    starts at 5:10

  • @Gorboduc
    @Gorboduc 2 года назад +2

    Fascinating to observe how far the military (along with everything else) has moved from the D1 altruism and skepticism of the Bush years to the D2 nihilism of 2022. Peikoff called it!

  • @ssoonnyymm
    @ssoonnyymm 4 года назад +3

    15:47 Wow, that made me tear up a little.

  • @tomservo75
    @tomservo75 3 месяца назад +1

    I do want to point out one difference between FDR and GWB's speeches, Piekoff said Bush should not have apologized to "moderate" Muslims and I agree. But Pearl Harbor was an attack by the nation of Japan, so obviously for FDR to express sympathy with "Japanese friends" would have been absurd. 911 was not an attack by a nation or religion per se. There could be Muslims on our side after 911, there could not be Japanese on our side after Pearl Harbor.

    • @AlphanumericCharacters
      @AlphanumericCharacters 25 дней назад

      You completely misunderstood the entire lecture.
      The religion is the enemy. Bad philosophy is the enemy of goodness. Religion is bad philosophy. The moderating force within a “moderate Muslim” is good philosophy. They have merely tempered their evil with good. Therefore calling out the entire religion is appropriate. The religion is anti-everything good about America.

  • @MrOreoman11
    @MrOreoman11 9 месяцев назад

    Such a great talk. They’re so confrontational with the question askers at the end. 😂

  • @rockchartrand8005
    @rockchartrand8005 4 года назад +4

    This is fucking brilliant

  • @Raelspark
    @Raelspark 4 года назад +2

    Yaron made an interesting statement ---- "I do not believe in democracy if those are
    the kind of leaders it elects." ---- referring to a dictator who is democratically elected
    by the people.

    • @OPIXdotWORLD
      @OPIXdotWORLD 7 месяцев назад

      democracy is just "majority rules"...and that is dangerous..

  • @joshuagould548
    @joshuagould548 Год назад

    1:04:25 Dr. Peikoff has been successfully predictive of America's future with his books, so to hear him say that "there is still time to change our direction, but not a lot of time", is actually scary.

  • @libertarian100
    @libertarian100 2 года назад +1

    Awesome

  • @alexanderscott2456
    @alexanderscott2456 5 месяцев назад

    Can someone explain Dr. Peikoff's hostility to the questioner who asked about the violent nature of Islamic doctrine and practices? I understand that Peikoff's point is that faith as such must lead to barbarism, but I am certainly not against directing particular emphasis on the barbarism of Islam, particularly today.
    The questioner did go on an extended rant rather than ask a question though, so I don't know how much that factors in to Dr. Peikoff's incredulity.

  • @areez22
    @areez22 2 года назад +2

    41:14 The USA bombed anti-Iran Iranian fighters. What villainy.

    • @jacksonstone246
      @jacksonstone246 4 месяца назад

      Being in Wrong place at the wrong time is a very unfortunate situation but whose fault is that? If I died because of my countries leaders mistakes I’m not gonna blame the attacking country as much as I would the mistakes of my leadership. People should be enraged at incompetent leaders because it does get deadly.

  • @JamesBenedictFitzGerald
    @JamesBenedictFitzGerald 8 месяцев назад

    great speech, maybe the presupposition that terror was due to belief is wrong, maybe it was due to negligent intervention on the USA’s behalf? using 1941 is not a good example comparison - different times call for a different analysis

  • @VicTicklish
    @VicTicklish 7 месяцев назад

    Today 2024 our country is being destroyed! What is the thought on economic collapse, censorship online and otherwise, & transgenderism?

  • @johnwayne6646
    @johnwayne6646 3 года назад +2

    The war in Afghanistan has finally ended. Over 17 years after this recording...

    • @alexanderscott2456
      @alexanderscott2456 Год назад +2

      After a cowardly, humiliating surrender to the Taliban whom we should have mercilessly crushed 20 years ago.

    • @OPIXdotWORLD
      @OPIXdotWORLD 7 месяцев назад

      @@alexanderscott2456 u really missed the point...the war was a sham, like alll wars...

  • @VicTicklish
    @VicTicklish 7 месяцев назад

    Why was Kennedy killed?

  • @MasterofFace
    @MasterofFace 5 лет назад

    54:18 Turns out only a few years.

  • @marius6086
    @marius6086 5 лет назад +1

    The "Not for Profit" for Profit...

  • @tomservo75
    @tomservo75 3 месяца назад

    It's interesting seeing Yaron Brook in this Q&A from long ago when I've only known who he was recently. I saw a different side of he and Dr. Piekoff here. I've always associated him with the libertarian type movements, and I never pictured these two would be as hawkish as they are here.

  • @specex
    @specex 3 года назад +1

    I read this essay back in the day and thought it was amazing. It still resonates. I can't reconcile Peikoff's support for Hillary in 2016 against his utter rejection of the existing Marxist Academia. It's a contradiction a philosopher shouldn't make.

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 3 года назад +4

      Purpose is not method. Voting Hillary was a strategic method for a long range purpose. Trumps anti-reason consistent Pragmatism was more immediately dangerous to individual rights than Hillarys long range Leftism. Trump has severely damaged respect for principles and long-range thinking. Mans method of using his mind is more influential than his ideas. Political philosophy is not the same thing as the practical politics, inc/temporary compromises, needed to get ones ideals.
      For The New Intellectual-Ayn Rand
      DIM Hypothesis-Leonard Peikoff

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 3 года назад

      @@theanalyticsyntheticdichot4404 The Yaron Brook Show has been reporting this in grisly detail. Ayn Rand identified the trend in the 1960s. People are literally losing their minds. Brook warned against white moderates accepting the Leftist claim that race is the basic political fact.
      New Fascism-Rand, in her Capitalism
      Return To The Primitive-Rand
      Ominous Parallels-Peikoff
      DIM Hypothesis-Peikoff

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 3 года назад +1

      @@theanalyticsyntheticdichot4404 All are anti-ideological, Pragmatic fascism.

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 3 года назад

      @@theanalyticsyntheticdichot4404 Peikoff thinks it will be a religious fascism, unlike the 1940s.

    • @OPIXdotWORLD
      @OPIXdotWORLD 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@TeaParty1776 they both actors...do u see it yet??

  • @guilhermesilveira5254
    @guilhermesilveira5254 4 года назад +2

    Chistopher Hitchens supported Iraq war,

  • @Barnstormer1611
    @Barnstormer1611 Год назад

    It’s sad to hear how many times “Christianity” is “characterized” by “the (bloody) Roman Catholic Church” 💔📖
    “Biblical Christianity” (as a whole) NEVER encourages in “crusades/inquisitions/theocracies”
    ✔️📖

    • @jacksonstone246
      @jacksonstone246 4 месяца назад

      Where’s your master? You seem to be lost. go read your Bible and shut up. You’ll find all your answers in your book.

    • @Barnstormer1611
      @Barnstormer1611 4 месяца назад

      @@jacksonstone246
      Amen; “case in point” (plus; “say no to drugs”)
      ☝️🥳📖

  • @reneolazatin745
    @reneolazatin745 7 месяцев назад

    iraq war was a joke

  • @kirkbowyer3249
    @kirkbowyer3249 4 года назад

    2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4
    FOR THERE WILL BE A TIME WHEN THEY WILL NOT ENDURE SOUND DOCTRINE BUT, ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN DESIRE, THEY WILL HEAP TO THEMSELVES TEACHERS, HAVING ITCHING EARS: AND WILL INDEED TURN AWAY THEIR HEARING FROM THE TRUTH, BUT WILL BE TURNED UNTO FABLES.
    THE APOCALYPSE 3:15-16
    I KNOW THY WORKS, THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT. I WOULD THOU WERT COLD NOR HOT.
    BUT BECAUSE THOU ART LUKEWARM AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WILL BEGIN TO VOMIT THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH

  • @jamesv1642
    @jamesv1642 9 лет назад +2

    The nostalgia for WWII-type killing insanity in this talk shows me a Joker-style absolute psychopath.
    A supreme psychopath.
    Someone who lives, hides and is shielded by the decency of a once beacon nation.
    This man-shape made of dust has venom enough to poison a few, granted, but the TOD for the USofA has been called by its own, given the insane expense of killing over 1 million Iraqis, shooting farmers in dirt poor other countries, showing the World that "signature strikes" are ok.
    And the true cancer of all of the conflicts, the tail that is wagging the dog, is only so briefly mentioned let alone properly blamed.
    Well done, hollow skeleton, voice to the sheeple what will keep them dumb and blind.
    Some, perhaps many, are not.

    • @dougpridgen9682
      @dougpridgen9682 8 лет назад +9

      Because self defense is equivalent to assault, retaliatory force is equivalent to the initiation of force. Ignore crucial distinctions much?

    • @jeviosoorishas181
      @jeviosoorishas181 7 лет назад +2

      Clearly a person who doesn't understand anything, or has never had to fought for something before.

    • @MasterofFace
      @MasterofFace 5 лет назад +2

      The only reason to enter a war is because people have come to kill you, they offer death, and you can only return in mutual trade their own death.
      The only way to go to war is with a voluntary army. No psychopaths could control an objectivism army.

    • @marius6086
      @marius6086 5 лет назад +1

      Psychologizing; Circumstancial Ad Hominem; Petitio Principii (as thinking passed the sale); Aggressive Ad Hominem; Irrelevant Conclusion

  • @grayman7208
    @grayman7208 7 лет назад +1

    first; don't confuse all religions ... second; islam did NOT enjoy a high level of civilization in the middle ages ... third; and no christianity did not make the west barbaric.
    both of those comments are nonsense.

    • @MasterofFace
      @MasterofFace 5 лет назад +10

      You are wrong on all counts.

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 4 года назад +3

      Jesus invented the Internet.

    • @grayman7208
      @grayman7208 4 года назад

      @@MasterofFace if you are talking to me.
      no, i'm not.
      i am 100% correct.

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 3 года назад

      Liar! Al Gore invented it!

    • @grayman7208
      @grayman7208 3 года назад

      @@MasterofFace i am 100% on all accounts.

  • @jamesv1642
    @jamesv1642 9 лет назад +1

    From 1:22:00 to 1:25:00 the two at the head table make a great argument for genocide.
    I reject the arguments, I recognise the insane hate in these individuals and I further recognise that they are as evil as any dictator/torturer/war criminal that has ever been documented or prosecuted.
    This talk is a great example of how free speech is used to create hate to deliberately cause war.
    I reject these people and everything that they stand for.

    • @Thindorama
      @Thindorama 8 лет назад +9

      +James V so instead of killing the enemy and winning you want to let them come and kill you in the name of justice? how unjust!

    • @CheckYourPremises
      @CheckYourPremises 8 лет назад +16

      Insane hate of what? Hate of the enemy? Yes, indeed. Hate of enslavement and dictatorship? Again, yes. Hate towards horrible acts of terrorism? Of course! And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that!

    • @ju2067
      @ju2067 8 лет назад +6

      Hate is a morally acceptable emotion if directed by reasonable thinking.

    • @shooter8663
      @shooter8663 8 лет назад +3

      And yet no one cares.

    • @jeviosoorishas181
      @jeviosoorishas181 7 лет назад +1

      Once again, you've never been involved in a war or understood how it ends.

  • @DavidSharp2201
    @DavidSharp2201 9 лет назад

    Only 18 mins in and man... This guy has no comprehension of the decentralisation of islam or the extreme hierarchical organisation of imperial japanese society/govt.

    • @diegomorales8616
      @diegomorales8616 4 года назад +9

      They share one essential thing in common: they are both movements that value coercion over individual rights. More importantly, I don't have to understand a gang of thugs to stop or kill them, make their movement non-threatening, and discredit their goals. The Union did not need any scholars of Confederacy in order to end the threat from the Confederate movement.

  • @wallykaspars9700
    @wallykaspars9700 10 лет назад +1

    I bet most of the audience are loyal Fox News viewers and believe that Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter are great authors. I bet that most of them are little more than the lump sum of their possessions.

    • @AnthonyMazzarella
      @AnthonyMazzarella 9 лет назад +4

      AD Hominum !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 9 лет назад +6

      Reason-guided Objectivism is _radically_ different from conservative religious mysticism and Leftist social mysticism. But, within your hidden, blood-drenched, Marxist economic determinism, you are correct.

    • @BuyTheDip627
      @BuyTheDip627 6 лет назад +3

      Wally Kaspars Unfortunately, your comment is as erroneous as your thinking.

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 3 года назад

      @@theanalyticsyntheticdichot4404 ?

    • @TeaParty1776
      @TeaParty1776 3 года назад

      @@theanalyticsyntheticdichot4404 Explain.

  • @ThatGuitarGuy1988
    @ThatGuitarGuy1988 9 лет назад

    This dude is an insane