WATCH: Niall Ferguson Stuns World Leaders at ARC Australia - "Are we the Soviets now?"

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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @DrProgNerd
    @DrProgNerd 15 часов назад +251

    99% of my human interactions are peaceful and without coercion. I exchange my money with people for their products. I wait my turn in line and at traffic signals. I help people when I can. I accept help when I need it.
    Why is it that the majority of the time I feel coercion or threat of force is when I encounter the government - that ostensibly works for me - or people claiming a moral right to the shame they demand of me?
    People *know* how to get along with one another. We do it all the time. The pressure to drink/drug oneself into oblivion does not come from the live-and-let-live folks. It comes from the pseudo-virtuous and the State.

    • @Exit-West
      @Exit-West 12 часов назад +18

      Well said

    • @danielpye7738
      @danielpye7738 11 часов назад +23

      Spot on.
      Pseudo virtuous, great term.

    • @thegeneralist7527
      @thegeneralist7527 11 часов назад

      Psychopaths have no conscience and thus do not experience guilt. They weaponize guilt to take control of organizations, institutions and businesses. When governments are controlled by these psychopaths all manner of evil becomes possible.

    • @evabyrne-kr1fz
      @evabyrne-kr1fz 11 часов назад +7

      YEP.

    • @JohnWilliams-iw6oq
      @JohnWilliams-iw6oq 10 часов назад +8

      Well said, getting the great unwashed deplorables to understand this is one heck of a challenge.

  • @WisdomFromAshes
    @WisdomFromAshes 11 часов назад +90

    That 20-minute talk explains just about everything going on in the US today politically. Excellent, professor Ferguson.

    • @stephenlock7236
      @stephenlock7236 6 часов назад +8

      Not just politically but economically, socially and legally as well. The US led West is indeed less liberal in all aspects than the USSR ever were. This is most prominent is how they treat and deal with the rest of the global community, where the democratic values which it claimed to abide by were thrown out the window at its whims and fancies.

    • @Mikexception
      @Mikexception 4 часа назад

      I think he is overestimating some particular evidence - like question of age. Does he want us to believe that younger presidents and PM like mr Trudeau and mr Macron shall realy make good change? Many nations now afford for experiments with younger gavernors because they feel secured by USA
      The same with mlitary expenses - opposite to bliefs these expenses fall down due to differnt approach - high tech electronic and software spared expenses for building advantage over enemy with hugh number of military - one rocket, dron can do what for one jet does , one jet stands for 10 in IIWW , one aircarrier for many ships, one soldier for few Every piece of arms requieres constant maintenance the same as paying to keep big army readiness - these costs could be reduced now.and funds could support loans.

    • @somozasi
      @somozasi 4 часа назад +2

      But its happening not only in the USA !!!!

    • @martinliehs2513
      @martinliehs2513 2 часа назад

      ​@@somozasitrue....in many ways, Canada is leading the way, sadly.

    • @stanleyshannon4408
      @stanleyshannon4408 2 часа назад

      ​@stephenlock7236 as a veteran of the Cold War, I am often struck by this. I put on a uniform in 1972 to defend a Christian republic from an atheistic super power. Today I live in the atheistic globalist superpower.

  • @paulmalcolm1081
    @paulmalcolm1081 14 часов назад +162

    In 1971, as part of a school boy water polo team, I travelled behind the Iron Curtain to Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania. My one overriding memory was that there were “rich communists and poor communists”, and that the rich were members of the Party.

    • @ralphsimpson4593
      @ralphsimpson4593 13 часов назад

      The rich Soviet Party equivalent in the West are now the rich political donors . In the US other Countries hold more influence and whose interests are being prioritized over it's own citizens.

    • @amraceway
      @amraceway 13 часов назад +4

      That seems fair.

    • @Rexhunterj
      @Rexhunterj 13 часов назад +31

      Feels that way to me, as a 33 year old Australian, in reference to Australia.
      Everyone with property is 'in the party - by proxy' while the party steals from everyone, impoverishing the youngest generation the most, even before they are born.
      All I hear when I talk about these problems is bored middle classers who just don't care because they can afford their car and house repayments and their coffee on the way to their slave wage job.
      Everyone is so caught up in their own, empty, vapid world, so much so that they cannot care about our communual shared space, Australia.

    • @knowahnosenothing4862
      @knowahnosenothing4862 12 часов назад +11

      @@Rexhunterj All of Western culture. Aussies are the last in my opinion as a Kiwi you guys are our rich cousins and it's even starting to bite you guys badly now.

    • @amraceway
      @amraceway 12 часов назад

      @@Rexhunterj Welcome to capitalism 2024. And it only going to get worse. There is nothing communal about Australia. That finished in 1788.

  • @alijames180
    @alijames180 15 часов назад +58

    This information is great to be heard because it’s crosses all borders. America, UK, EU, Canada Australia etc…

    • @GazGuitarz
      @GazGuitarz 14 часов назад +10

      Which are all UN/WEF/BIS centric. They are now moving rapidly into South East Asian nations too. Thailand has never been colonised .. until now! Soon there will be nowhere to run.

    • @dianastevenson131
      @dianastevenson131 7 часов назад

      ​@@GazGuitarzWhat is the BIS?

    • @mongolike513
      @mongolike513 7 часов назад

      You mean white people of the world ?

    • @paul756uk2
      @paul756uk2 7 часов назад

      ​@@dianastevenson131Bank of international settlements.

    • @johnkeane1419
      @johnkeane1419 4 часа назад

      No, only the Anglosphere.

  • @nickhanlon9331
    @nickhanlon9331 9 часов назад +31

    "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury.'' Alexander Tytler.....another bleeping Scot!

    • @paveli1181
      @paveli1181 2 часа назад

      Elites know that too. that's why they push all this "identity" agenda. "faction to liberty is like air to fire" James Madison, Federalist 10

  • @panzer00
    @panzer00 15 часов назад +56

    The Republican party has completely shifted. RFK Jr and Tulsi on the side of the MAGA Right gives me hope for the future of the Republican party as a whole.
    The Democrats are desperately holding onto their status quo - their "democracy"; it's blatantly obvious when they accuse their political adversaries of what they themselves perpetuate that they are crumbling.

    • @edwardburroughs1489
      @edwardburroughs1489 14 часов назад

      As a casual observer of US politics from the UK I simply cant understand why the Dems never picked Gabbard as their candidate. She ticks the female and ethnic boxes that they so love, whilst also being hot and not insane!

    • @amraceway
      @amraceway 13 часов назад

      MAGA supports the corporate elite 100%.

    • @user-kiwikind
      @user-kiwikind 12 часов назад

      But how can it be the future of the party when they can’t even trust their own system. Something like 70% of republicans don’t believe in the last election.

    • @robinalexander5558
      @robinalexander5558 5 часов назад +6

      RFK jr. is a nut case.

    • @amraceway
      @amraceway 5 часов назад +1

      @@robinalexander5558 Correct. Birds of a feather flock together. Also The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is a Liberal Party love-fest organization.

  • @zoltanrudolf
    @zoltanrudolf 10 часов назад +119

    I feel like a Soviet dissident in modern Australia because I am Christian, conservative, white, male and I have a sense of humour!

    • @malcolmmyself9653
      @malcolmmyself9653 8 часов назад +6

      How has your life been inconvenienced?

    • @richardyates7280
      @richardyates7280 8 часов назад +10

      ​@@malcolmmyself9653by the threat of the loss of one's livelihood.

    • @michaelgaskell1419
      @michaelgaskell1419 8 часов назад +7

      ​@@malcolmmyself9653
      Did you take the injection to save your privileges?

    • @noremac4807
      @noremac4807 7 часов назад +8

      Lost all my privileges for daring to question the safe and effective thing

    • @AdamMcLean-le4tw
      @AdamMcLean-le4tw 6 часов назад +1

      Entitled

  • @aerialpunk
    @aerialpunk 16 часов назад +33

    Very interesting. I k ow a few Canadians analysis's who seem to think we need to rely on the US to save everyone in the West, and it really grinds my gears. We can look at them for information just like with anyone else (such as in this case here), but we need to be taking responsibility for our own stuff to improve our countries. Just cos the US is the most influential and powerful Western nation doesn't mean we need to be like them, or that we're absolved of responsibility for our own people.

    • @miriistina
      @miriistina 13 часов назад +4

      Ahh yes, but don't you know that the US effectively owns your country? We've signed treaties, compacts, and accords. We couldn't go our own way, even if we tried. I think Whitlam found out the hard way, didn't he?

    • @danielpye7738
      @danielpye7738 11 часов назад +2

      The US was founded with a purpose of maximum freedom without government/authority interference.
      Now we all know it was not perfect as not everyone was free to start, but they got there at a heavy cost.
      It should also be said the WW2 and the nuclear era radically changed the US. Its limitations on government were thrown out the window and the creation of various security and intelligence agencies has definitely had a negative effect on the country. Despite the patriotism of its people and an ever readiness to defend it.
      I often say that the US kind of copied Nazi Germany with its various agencies that were created in the madness of the 1920’s-30’s with the creation of the CIA etc in the post war era.

  • @misterg2269
    @misterg2269 13 часов назад +45

    Just looking at the chart showing the political leaning of academia, I would say that we are doomed, because if you can't have diversity of thought in the sciences then differing opinions are not allowed, and it doesn't matter which side of politics holds sway. The same is happening right across the western world including my much beloved homeland of Australia.

    • @malcolmmyself9653
      @malcolmmyself9653 5 часов назад

      Perhaps educated people know more.

    • @robknight9406
      @robknight9406 3 часа назад +2

      @@malcolmmyself9653 yes. They also consume more propaganda & can be much more gullible, especially when the propaganda comes from a source with authority.

    • @ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw
      @ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw 3 часа назад +2

      @@malcolmmyself9653 Just because you know more does not mean you are smarter, or more deserving of deciding for other people. An academic degree used to mean that you made the academic way of critical thinking your own. What you studied didn't matter so much, most never ended up in their field of study anyway. But an employer knew that he could hire an university graduate on a mid level position and with only minimal tutelage they would be able to do their job. Not any more. Because critical thinking is now frowned upon, you must become part of the cult and think the same way. Academia has become an indoctrination facility. And I work there, I see it happen.

    • @malcolmmyself9653
      @malcolmmyself9653 2 часа назад

      @@robknight9406 More gullible???? So I should uneducate myself so that I am not gullible? Dumb down enough to agree with you?

    • @Rnankn
      @Rnankn Час назад

      Political values are not diversity. That concept describes ascribed traits like race, gender, and sexuality.

  • @MrRatclima
    @MrRatclima 12 часов назад +23

    Love it when he starts talking about Scotland... he starts reverting back to his Scottish accent :)

  • @deniserothwell6325
    @deniserothwell6325 14 часов назад +21

    Yes the west are the Soviets now have been seeing this since 2016. I have been to Russia and over the years witnessed the changes.

    • @R-zi2bc
      @R-zi2bc 3 часа назад

      and China is the US now

  • @jaynebuchanan4612
    @jaynebuchanan4612 17 часов назад +47

    Thank you Niall. Well thought out and spoken!

    • @frankyyaggabot6222
      @frankyyaggabot6222 9 часов назад +1

      Niall plays both sides of the Fence - 20 years ago he was championing DEI in US Universities while feathering his nest there. The winds must be changing!

  • @socratesrocks1513
    @socratesrocks1513 16 часов назад +24

    Excellent talk. Thank you

  • @matcole1975
    @matcole1975 17 часов назад +44

    This is true.
    I trust ARC.
    It is common sense.
    Who trusts the WEF?

    • @ML6103
      @ML6103 9 часов назад +1

      Is there somewhere in the speech he talks about the WEF? Minutes and seconds if you have it

    • @zorbakaput8537
      @zorbakaput8537 7 часов назад +4

      @@ML6103 Phobia alert - The OP made a statement and posted a question he did not state the reference was in the speech, your diversion is disappointing and a shallow response.

  • @unclepete100
    @unclepete100 12 часов назад +17

    I’m watching Ferguson on RUclips…
    Not all social media is lost…

    • @jamesclark6487
      @jamesclark6487 5 часов назад

      RUclips removes "right wing" comments constantly using AI. We have no insight into what is widely said.
      Not to mention YT videos and self censorship. A crime documentary about a serial r-word-ist, muted every time the offence is mentioned. And so on.
      The Iron curtain is there, waiting.

  • @gregorylumpkin2128
    @gregorylumpkin2128 10 часов назад +15

    Wow! What an excellent presentation of a dire situation. One that we must face head-on and not back down.

    • @trackdusty
      @trackdusty 8 часов назад

      Yes. More Green policies!

  • @garryrichardson4572
    @garryrichardson4572 7 часов назад +14

    I really hope and pray Donny boy gets to listen to all of this. I am Australian and I realise that US politics affects the whole world. Our government are pretty much the same ( Albo is no where near understanding what’s going on)

  • @denniskatinas
    @denniskatinas 19 часов назад +38

    It’s far worse, we are material for the deepest parts of hell for what we’ve allowed to happen to children. So let’s not flatter ourselves. Time to stop talking interestingly, and time to be the men that God needs us to be.

    • @wattlebough
      @wattlebough 16 часов назад +1

      What kind of men does God need us to be? I have my views. What does that mean to you?

    • @jollymoonman4796
      @jollymoonman4796 16 часов назад +2

      The men that love our enemies unto death and embody Christlike, non-grasping humility?

    • @Humanaut.
      @Humanaut. 15 часов назад

      @@wattlebough How can you hate your views when they are probably the easiest thing about yourself to change?

    • @Raymond-d2l7n
      @Raymond-d2l7n 14 часов назад +4

      I'm currently reading a biography of Ernst Junger (author of Storm of Steel) by Gebard Loose and came across this quote, not Junger's, Gebard Loose's. I find it very significant in the light of where we are now in the West.
      "He who swears only by man and human wisdom, must not, as a judge, pass sentence; must not as a teacher, guide; must not as a physician, cure."

    • @wattlebough
      @wattlebough 12 часов назад +1

      @@Raymond-d2l7n Doesn’t the Christ himself say not to swear at all, but to “…let your yes be yes, and your no be no…”?

  • @normanmoffatt9707
    @normanmoffatt9707 6 часов назад +34

    I went to Australia in 2017, stayed for 6 months. Went back again in 2023, stayed 4 weeks, there was a stark change in every level of the society, and not for the better. I'd imagine that the people living there can't see these changes because they are gradual, slow creeping like a cancer. One of the many things that stood out is the fact that Australians live with 2 national flags, the only country that does. Living under 2 flags is evidence that this is a divided country, and a divided country has a short lifespan.

    • @DEadSpaCE211
      @DEadSpaCE211 5 часов назад

      The telios of the left is to elevate the native flag and pull down the aussie one. As have different rights to natives and 'colonists'.

    • @subaruadventures
      @subaruadventures 5 часов назад +4

      No mate we know

    • @GeorgePapadopolous
      @GeorgePapadopolous 4 часа назад +6

      It's three national flags. Feel free not to come back.

    • @GeorgePapadopolous
      @GeorgePapadopolous 4 часа назад

      ​@@subaruadventuresDivision in Australia is driven by the LNP, Gina Reinhardt's IPA, One Nation and Murdoch's News Corp.

    • @melpomenethalia3142
      @melpomenethalia3142 4 часа назад +3

      How would having an aboriginal flag mean division? after Australia’s violent history you’d think a meagre flag is deserved to represent their people

  • @andrewwalker1131
    @andrewwalker1131 Час назад +2

    Very sobering talk. Thank you.

  • @elle.w.p
    @elle.w.p 5 часов назад +5

    Outstanding presentation, thankyou

  • @evolutionnotrevolution4475
    @evolutionnotrevolution4475 4 часа назад +2

    Sobering and refreshing. Thank you for sharing! This type of analysis is deliberately not seen in any, ANY, MSM channels in Australia, especially the ABC so it's wonderful to see, yet again, alternative media spaces leading the way to bring about a more enlightened perspective on world events.

  • @LeeGee
    @LeeGee 18 часов назад +12

    Thanks for sharing.

  • @simply_complex_42
    @simply_complex_42 5 часов назад +3

    Great speech. Very revealing and thought provoking. Let’s hope people left the hall with a serious concern of what happens if they don’t actively contribute to making things better and the will to do so, rather than the easier thing to do - smile and reassure each other in the car on the way home that “it wont happen here…”

  • @debrahumphreys9305
    @debrahumphreys9305 16 часов назад +31

    Thank you. An important speech

  • @marttivallila
    @marttivallila 12 часов назад +25

    A brilliant talk! From a brilliant mind.

  • @gregorschoner9682
    @gregorschoner9682 18 часов назад +40

    Important arguments for perspective taking. However, the Democratic party is not the only part of the elite that has lost contact with reality and with the experience of vast portions of the population. Large corporations pursued their radical outsourcing that rapidly destroyed manufacturing under a political framework supported by both parties. Right-wing media like the Sinclair Corporation destroyed the local media that had connected to people's experience. Both parties were and are heavily influenced by massive corporate interest whose influence was bolstered by legislative and juridical maneuvers of the Republican party. The Republican party fell first under the onslaught of Trump populism, but it hs continued to pursue this agenda even as it pretends to serve a new cause (just look at the tax cuts that accelerated the deficits). This is not just important for political judgement, but also when looking at how things can be changed. Electing the other party definitely fixes nothing.

    • @ms-jl6dl
      @ms-jl6dl 14 часов назад

      Democrat party and its ideological brethren all over the west own and control 95% of world's media (newspapers,radio,tv,magazines,websites) ,98% of education,majority of investment funds and Big Business but you're still trying to equate the guilt?
      You've lost the plot completely.

    • @diggeroldmate8122
      @diggeroldmate8122 11 часов назад +6

      Thank god someone here has some perspective.

    • @zorbakaput8537
      @zorbakaput8537 7 часов назад

      You obviously didn't absorb the presentation what part of gerontocracy, elite and largess did you not get? The corporations are their for their handouts just like the rest of the people who think the government owes them something ( preferably for free). Your bias is showing. The Internet and soft budget inflation destroyed local media.

    • @johnkeane1419
      @johnkeane1419 4 часа назад +1

      Hollywood and the lamestream media have also lost touch with reality.

    • @somozasi
      @somozasi Час назад

      @gregorschoner9682 both parties are not alike. Some Republicans shift to the left as a way to get some of their constituents' needs met.

  • @AlexthunderGnum
    @AlexthunderGnum 15 часов назад +19

    Ha-ha-ha! 20 years ago or so, I was arguing that USA is the same as USSR with some minor variations. I knew USSR very well at the time, as I was born and raised in it, and also experienced its collapse from inside. I didn't know USA that well, but as I was learning about it, I was discovering that it is more and more look like a mirror picture of USSR. You know when you flip the video you watch it normally until some writing appears and only then you see it was flipped. That is how similar USSR to USA were then to me. Now I hear this lecturer... well... what can I say - it took some time for you to realize. I wonder if you will be able to realize what is next for USA, or do you need me to tell you?

    • @Eric-tj3tg
      @Eric-tj3tg 12 часов назад +2

      Luke, I am your father.

    • @monaliza3334
      @monaliza3334 9 часов назад +4

      They will never be like USSR, never. They think, they heard about it on TV but they still have no idea.
      The Soviet Union built 168 million free apartments for its population in 1962( rememberin was just 7 years after the WW2), and built 2 million free housing every year.
      Kindergartens, schools, universities, holiday trips for children were free, everything was paid for by the state. Low crime, everyone had a job, there were no homeless people or poor people lying on the street. Any citizen of the country could choose between living in the city or outside the city, buy a house with land and grow vegetables, fruits and keep pets.
      Ow, the transport. It's still the best in the world. It was with USSR, now with Russia. You don't need a car, it's cheaper to move around by bus, train, or metro. Medical care was free as well, any hospitalization, surgery, dental care...
      What did they get for free in their capitalists countries ???
      Capitalists without capital?
      I got my masters degree for free, and during USSR the government paid me to study.

    • @AlexthunderGnum
      @AlexthunderGnum 9 часов назад +7

      @@monaliza3334 You are eitherdreaming, or you are lying. I was born and raised in Soviet Siberia. I have first hand experience of all these wonders you describe. It was all a lie, unfortunately. The rapid economic growth of the USSR has been achieved at unaffordable cost to the people and the nature. We lost pretty much the entire population of peasants and villagers during the initial phase of industrialization, then again during the war, then again during post-war "recovery". The dream for a few was a nightmare for many. I was one of those many, and so were my poor parents, and their parents. So please, tell the story of "great achievements of the USSR" to somebody else. I have seen what it really was myself. I still remember the number of my Komsomol Member ID. That is how good the memory of it still is in me. No need for a secondary witness, sorry.

    • @paul756uk2
      @paul756uk2 7 часов назад

      ​​​​@@AlexthunderGnumthis is a word for word comment she made on another channel,
      'Solgenizin was selling his books for $$$. MOST OF IT IS BS AND pure lies. Traitor for money...This guy was too young to know anything about USSR. haha...but he's ok for gullible western ppl'.
      Yeh, she's lying.

  • @vivianoosthuizen8990
    @vivianoosthuizen8990 17 часов назад +22

    Humans have 15 years of childhood 15 years of of youth 15 years of adulthood 15 years of getting old 15 years of being old if you go past this it’s slow dying for 15 years and that’s that.

  • @johnl5316
    @johnl5316 16 часов назад +14

    The virus did not kill almost anyone who was economically viable, btw

    • @GazGuitarz
      @GazGuitarz 13 часов назад

      Not even those economically unviable. I was expecting (considering the large amount of tent cities and the homeless crisis which is touching most western nations) that those caught in homelessness (who generally have poor health and underlying conditions) would have been dying by the truck full.... but nope! Without Bill Gates, Fauci and the WHO, there would have been no damn pandemic. Shame small/medium business can't sue government for destroying them due to the totalitarian lockdowns.

  • @user-tj9bg6tz2p
    @user-tj9bg6tz2p 7 часов назад +16

    I like to listen to Ferguson and have read most of his books but I always take a deep breath when a man educated at Cambridge with a Phd from Oxford who is a Fellow at Stanford sneers at "Ivy League elites"

  • @BravoCharlie
    @BravoCharlie 4 часа назад +2

    I adored Niall’s book ‘The Square and the Tower’ - this is fascinating and I appreciate it being online. Thank you!

  • @alijames180
    @alijames180 15 часов назад +22

    Please speak about the WEF the Un and WHO

    • @amraceway
      @amraceway 13 часов назад +4

      All products of the USA.

    • @greggregson9687
      @greggregson9687 11 часов назад +2

      No need. They are just other wings/organisations of The Party.

    • @amraceway
      @amraceway 11 часов назад +2

      @@greggregson9687 There is no party just asset managers.That is how capitalism works.

    • @ML6103
      @ML6103 9 часов назад

      'please confirm my conspiracy theories for me please please please I need it'

    • @MrBallynally2
      @MrBallynally2 2 часа назад

      Niall steps out and back in w the Davos crowd..

  • @greggregson9687
    @greggregson9687 11 часов назад +24

    I have a Ford Falcon, a leather jacket, a cattle dog and I am ready for the Western Apocalypse.

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno 9 часов назад +2

      Do you have a Mullet?

    • @subaruadventures
      @subaruadventures 5 часов назад +2

      @@Johnconno Mad Max reference so i doubt it

  • @Exit-West
    @Exit-West 12 часов назад +7

    I wonder how many ordinary citizens can see this. I feel many intuitively know something isnt right, but are too crushed by debt and distractions to give it the necessary thought

    • @paul756uk2
      @paul756uk2 7 часов назад +4

      That's always been very much my thoughts. People know something is wrong but can't figure it out. When you're a slave to the system, all you want to do is come home from work and turn on the TV, and therein lies the problem. It's another advantageous by-product to those who rule over us.

    • @Exit-West
      @Exit-West 7 часов назад +3

      @paul756uk2 well said

  • @bonniebluebell5940
    @bonniebluebell5940 10 часов назад +15

    . Great presentation....Nothing like a cold hard dose of reality.

  • @richardsaunders3743
    @richardsaunders3743 15 часов назад +8

    Good point, especially on the matter of connexion between academia and US Democrats.
    For one is at times reminded of comments by former ministers of social democratic type governments in Continental Europe, to this effect:
    ‘All the (sic)worker's parties of Europe now care more about Palestine than the proletariat, more about migrants than manufacturing, and more about homosexuals than housing’.
    There would likely be a similar story on the matter of Labour in UK and Australia, et al.

    • @frankyyaggabot6222
      @frankyyaggabot6222 9 часов назад +1

      Obvious for decades but beware the Messenger who only lately has started singing this song for his supper: Niall played Academic games for decades. He massaged his way through Universities by bowing and scraping, by advancing the careers of Academics that were of the right 'type' and allowing History to be distorted and falsified. The man has a personal history of his own that is far from distinguished. That he elected to butter his bread at the expense of his own field of endeavour tells you everything you need to know about his principles. I would wager this is a paid performance and he adjusts his cadence and message for his Paymasters. Trust him at your peril.

  • @deborahsmith8871
    @deborahsmith8871 12 часов назад +5

    Fascinating delivery.

  • @NJIT22
    @NJIT22 12 часов назад +18

    Social trust is dropping across the board. Including middle class, which is a backbone of society. Cannabis legalized, and now other drugs on the table, to dumbed down the population

    • @ExpatZ266
      @ExpatZ266 4 часа назад

      Drugs are not to dumb them down, that has already been done as evidenced by your comment.
      They are there to distract, bread and circuses.

  • @dougsherman1562
    @dougsherman1562 12 часов назад +16

    Brilliant. Thank you for a wonderful talk.

  • @LS-xs7sg
    @LS-xs7sg 4 часа назад +3

    At the level of cultural debate I suspect Britain is less free than Russia in many respects

  • @williamh2594
    @williamh2594 4 часа назад +2

    I want the preso slides - they say it all with the help of the almost always spot on Niall - a pitch perfect and concise summary of where we are in the USA ...

  • @comancheflyer4903
    @comancheflyer4903 7 часов назад +2

    What a presentation. Danke you. Greetings from 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

  • @nickhanlon9331
    @nickhanlon9331 9 часов назад +6

    This why we must study history. So that we can predict the future with some kind of clarity. People who don't study history are like the punter who turns up to a racetrack without a form guide.

  • @jameswebb4593
    @jameswebb4593 9 часов назад +3

    I moved to Thailand from England 8 years ago . Back in blighty always voted Tory , though sympathetic towards the BNP. Would never describe myself as a political animal . That thought process changed when I lived in rural Thailand. With nothing better to do , scanned Utube for anything of interest. It was during that period when I first became aware of the Council on Foreign Relations , an institution that started from a think tank shortly after WW1.
    Its membership is predominately millionaire Democrats . Every US President since the end of WW2 has been a member , with one exception Donald Trump . The Pariah of American politics.
    George kennan , one of the nine that formed the Think Tank that advised Harry Truman . He and his team formulated the Marshall Plan in 1948 . It was he , being the teams Russian expert , that convinced Truman that Stalin had expansionist plans for conquering Europe . Which arguably started the cold war. Needless to say Kennan denied that was his intent and his views were taken out of context.

    • @richardyates7280
      @richardyates7280 8 часов назад +1

      ....and you think Stalin didn't have expansionist plans?

  • @ValeryLevchenkoTurin
    @ValeryLevchenkoTurin 7 часов назад +3

    One small correction - price of vodka was not subsidized in USSR, the opposite is true. Government regulated (or better to say assigned) its price to a pretty high level in comparison to the median wage.
    Vodka usage in soviet economy is very interesting. It was an unofficial payment method for various services. It was a way of getting foreign cash in abroad trips (for those who went abroad). And even the Soviet Central bank used tailored supply of Vodka to control the amount of cash in a given region.

  • @SAMANDY1
    @SAMANDY1 4 часа назад +4

    Capitalism has almost consumed itself. We now have Oligarchy, the politics is almost irrelevant😢

  • @Cyberpunk9000
    @Cyberpunk9000 6 часов назад +2

    Absolutely outstanding.

  • @972vein
    @972vein 5 часов назад +2

    Excellent listen, thankyou.

  • @eliotgoodfellow7294
    @eliotgoodfellow7294 10 часов назад +9

    He's conflating died "with" and died "from". A glaring error.

  • @miffy2760
    @miffy2760 6 часов назад +2

    Ayan is so blessed to have him!

  • @christelberman8401
    @christelberman8401 5 часов назад +1

    Thank you for this outstanding explanation

  • @Kebous1
    @Kebous1 6 часов назад +2

    Brilliant talk!!

  • @chamberpot969
    @chamberpot969 8 часов назад +4

    'Are we the Soviets now?'. Yes, we are. Where are our freedoms?
    We have political prisoners; Julian Assange, Tommy Robinson, Steve Bannon, the January 6th protesters.

  • @johnmcgrath1929
    @johnmcgrath1929 4 часа назад +3

    So the historical problem stems from debt slavery. Having private bankers issue and control the currency supply of a country. And to who the nation pays interest.

  • @vivianoosthuizen8990
    @vivianoosthuizen8990 17 часов назад +9

    Retirement at 60 when brain deteriorates at accelerated pace should become the norm.

    • @alijames180
      @alijames180 15 часов назад +6

      Bullshit. Women in Australia cannot retire until 65 to access the pension of their retirement funds for men it’s 70.

    • @murraybates9266
      @murraybates9266 14 часов назад +5

      @@alijames180 In Australia it is currently 67 for both men and women.It was different for women before but not now.

    • @GazGuitarz
      @GazGuitarz 13 часов назад +12

      The tricked every one in the late 1980's into thinking the stats showed us having extended life spans. This led to governments (especially the Australian government) raising the retirement age incrementally to 70 years old. It used to be 65 for men and 63 for women. It is currently set at age 67 now for both men and women. Apart from the clever statistics manoeuvring, they failed completely to account for any change that may have or may not have occurred over the years. We are actually for the first time in history seeing declines in longevity. They also forgot to mention that much of the extended life spans they based their vile policies on did not mean an extended healthy life span for retirees, but rather more time spent on big pharma products, trips to the doctors and latent health conditions. So even if we were living a few years longer (for a short period of time) the quality of life can be pretty crap, especially as we are currently living with a homelessness crisis, cost of living crisis, ageism by employees and unaffordable "renewable energy" bills. FFS they won't even give us a decade or two to enjoy life in what should be a rich and prosperous nation if we stopped flogging off our coal and gas to China and used it ourselves. By the time I am ready for retirement the age will be 70. Politicians BTW can retire whenever they choose and their pensions are guaranteed by the Australian Future fund (as that is it's main purpose .. to protect the politician and public servant's fat pensions ..definitely not for the Australian people). I mean we plebs will be finally able to retire at age 70 so we can enjoy a few lousy years of our failing health (due to all the toxic crap in our food and environments and slow poisoning by big pharma.) Many people will also begin losing their partners around the same time, which will only add to their "enjoyment" of the few lousy years that our governments give us to enjoy life after probably 60+ years of paying taxes to these greedy creeps. Thanks governments. I think it should be compulsory to make politicians and public servants retire at the same age as we plebs and also to either allow pensioners to earn extra money without it affecting their pensions .. just like our ex pollies can do. The whole thing is a massive self serving rort.

    • @catcat5045
      @catcat5045 13 часов назад +6

      @@GazGuitarzwhen I checked last time, they said 67 and half is the age pension for man and woman in Australia. Sadly, they raise it constantly hoping that we will never get it or will make us work until we drop.

    • @petergoodall6258
      @petergoodall6258 11 часов назад

      I hope you are enjoying your apparent deterioration

  • @joshash5944
    @joshash5944 6 часов назад +2

    Pretty good. Many accuse Ferguson of being wrong, and making wrong predictions.
    But he's just got a habit of being early, not wrong.

  • @timkirkpatrick9155
    @timkirkpatrick9155 2 часа назад

    Excellent assessment of the current situation and summary of outcomes!

  • @honahwikeepa2115
    @honahwikeepa2115 5 часов назад +2

    Francis A Schaeffer wrote and lectured on the coming Soviet West from the 60's to his death in the 80's. The problem is Kant.

  • @francoluissotomayor3123
    @francoluissotomayor3123 13 часов назад +5

    Been asking that myself lately, love RUclips

  • @Utopia_YT
    @Utopia_YT 8 часов назад +3

    There is no "rapid economic growth" in the entire west, excluding Australia.
    Energy consumption has a correlation of over 0.95 with economic growth and it's flat/slightly declining in the US and Europe for over 20y.

  • @artinterhakopian9684
    @artinterhakopian9684 58 минут назад +1

    Exceptional! As a psychiatrist in the US, I've observed the decline and increasing despair for the last 20-plus years. Urgent social reorganization and pro-social measures can reverse these trends.

  • @dawnemile7499
    @dawnemile7499 11 часов назад +7

    Woke did it.

  • @jasonneugebauer5310
    @jasonneugebauer5310 4 часа назад +2

    The reason that we as American non elites are feeling dispare is because we believed in the greatness of America and the American dream and now we see that something has went horribly wrong in our country.
    America no longer is based on the fundamental values that we were taught to believe.
    What do you do, as a USSR or USA citizen, when you have to accept that you were sold the lie of exceptionallism to keep you working hard.
    The difference in attitude between the USA and most other western countries is that the USA was the dominant power after WW2 so we believed that we were the greatest society. Now we are losing that belief. People in other countries are more accepting of the wrongness of the modern paradigm.
    When I look at GB, Canada, and Australia, I see a people that have little control over the insanity that is government policy and those people accept their fate or are brutally punised for any true resistance.
    Examining our government efforts to do good, I see that government seems to try. But, the costs of government implementation of the good, are more than the benefits received. The man in the middle takes the profits of our services and works.
    Comparing NASA to SpaceX shows the ineffectiveness of our bureaucracy in spending our money wisely and accomplishing goals in a timely and efficient way.
    (Not to say SpaceX is a model of perfection on caring for their people. But, they do get results.)

  • @SinfidelityMusic
    @SinfidelityMusic 59 минут назад

    Brilliant and Brutally honest ✌️💪🙏

  • @colmwhelan9198
    @colmwhelan9198 Час назад

    Tks you sir

  • @JerryB-le8kk
    @JerryB-le8kk 10 часов назад +3

    Good speech Niall

  • @Orcsandelfs
    @Orcsandelfs 3 часа назад +1

    Не сравнивайте советы и Америку, в СССР у нас было бесплатное образование, медицина, садики и школы. Все были равны, одна оплата труда , давали бесплатные квартиры… были и минусы, конечно! Но мы были счастливы))) ели в были богатыми, да! Но где по другому???? У нас алигархи, у вас бизнесмены и корпорации
    Советский Союз не был злом, мы не нападали и санкциями никого не гнобили.
    Всем добра🙏❤️

  • @maxdavies5776
    @maxdavies5776 7 часов назад +2

    Well said

  • @dusancville
    @dusancville Час назад

    Fresh perspective matters. Good presentation.

  • @davidstevens5358
    @davidstevens5358 3 часа назад +1

    I thought i was the one who phrase this line..."we're living in a Soviet Union Government". Society behaviour is strikingly similar to that where people loves their government (bank of mom and dad). Always vote for the same at every general election. That's why corruption is at all departments.

  • @ikaustralia
    @ikaustralia 6 часов назад +2

    Pretty much: to a Soviet kid Australia looks like a flashback to a childhood 😅

  • @soundknight
    @soundknight 11 часов назад +6

    Watch Eric Weinstein's interview with Chris Williamson next, it explains the demographic control of power.

    • @soundknight
      @soundknight 11 часов назад

      ruclips.net/video/PYRYXhU4kxM/видео.htmlsi=P6R7p9WF963TaJy-

  • @wzsh31
    @wzsh31 7 часов назад +1

    finally speaks someone from the mainstream intellectual the truth. yes we are now the Soviets

  • @johnwright9372
    @johnwright9372 56 минут назад +1

    There is a spiritual malaise in Western style democracies, but Ferguson fails to identify the cause and has no particular solutions. Neoliberal economic political ideology heralded the era of thoughtless greed by corporate boards who only have a duty to rapacious shareholders. The USA and UK have been one party states since Thatcher and Reagan. The political pendulum has shifted inexorably to the right. All the capital, technology, expertise and skilled jobs were sent to the cheapest sources of production in authoritarian states which are inimical to democracy, rule of law, individual freedoms. China, Russia and other similar regimes are actively trying to supplant the USA and a rules based order. People have lost faith not because of the Democrats, the Republicans, like the British Conservatives ARE the wealth. The public have lost faith because their leaders have become the bought creatures of billionaire oligarchs and there is little honour, integrity or honesty in the governing system. Leadership is missing.

  • @henrikg1388
    @henrikg1388 2 часа назад

    I was there in the USSR in 1989 and these observations are spot on. The vibes today are eerily similar. Almost depressing. At times I wish I would never have seen it.

  • @YearofAquarius
    @YearofAquarius 7 часов назад +1

    This is it!!

  • @Hautemoeltoe
    @Hautemoeltoe 7 часов назад +2

    The amount of parallels is staggering. For example the term Soft Budget Constraint is in my textbook on Marxist economy (as one of the root causes why socialism does not work)

  • @Mark_Dyer1
    @Mark_Dyer1 4 часа назад +1

    One of the World's greatest 'public intellectuals': and what a wonderfully analytical lecture as a consequence. How many of those supporters of Gaza actually go to Gaza, to help out? How many of the Hard Left do more than shout, "in support of the poor"? How many of the Hard Left are providing food and shelter for those on the streets of our cities? But it is the parallel between the line-up of Geriatrics above the Tomb of Lenin - which as a 71-year old I remember - and the condition of politics in the USA which rams the message home. A complete disconnect between the elites of America, and the American People: rather like the UK really! The last person to state, "If they don't have bread, let them eat cake!" met a gruesome end. The Ceausecus did't fare much better, either. Just saying!

  • @shelbynamels973
    @shelbynamels973 5 часов назад

    I am both surprised and pleased that this quote from a Mitchell and Webb sketch is starting to get wider currency. It's a sign of maturity, I think.

  • @mark98768
    @mark98768 3 часа назад

    You so write Niall , I have been saying it for years.

  • @andybullock6848
    @andybullock6848 6 часов назад +1

    Niall Ferguson's makes an intriguing analogy of the present day US with the 1980s Soviet Union but doesn't explain why he blames the Democratic Party for social demoralisation in US society, rather than the Republican Party, the economic system, or other attributes of contemporary America.

  • @DIREWOLFx75
    @DIREWOLFx75 4 часа назад +2

    "Are we the Soviets now?"
    Oh no, it's much worse than THAT.
    We're the nass1s. And the very fact that i can't even say that without fluffing the spelling to MAYBE avoid getting censored?
    That really says everything.

  • @lynndonharnell422
    @lynndonharnell422 5 часов назад +1

    I knew I became an engineer for a reason.

  • @spotontheroad1
    @spotontheroad1 Час назад

    The whole polarity of politics has flipped 180° in the last 30 years. Very unsettling knowing that it won't end well.

  • @derekmoore2779
    @derekmoore2779 9 часов назад +3

    Only grow in U.S. is debt by goverment, which will be tax payers

  • @Ludus57
    @Ludus57 4 часа назад

    Niall has clearly read the book "Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail", by Abby Innes of the LSE. We are in that place and condition.

  • @leannevitale3228
    @leannevitale3228 5 часов назад +1

    Thank you, thank you. I hope they listen to you…….but I doubt it.

  • @unclepete100
    @unclepete100 12 часов назад +4

    What’s wrong with that audience?
    Ferguson is quite witty on occasion, a laugh now and again wouldn’t be out of place.

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno 9 часов назад +1

      Fearful Academics isn't it?

    • @williamtaylor9966
      @williamtaylor9966 3 часа назад

      The ‘audience’ may well be representative of who Ferguson was targeting?

  • @cdeford2
    @cdeford2 3 часа назад +1

    He made a good case but presented no solutions. Maybe because there is no solution at this point.

  • @michaelwhittaker7960
    @michaelwhittaker7960 9 часов назад +1

    yes we are, very clever of you

  • @MrMightyytau
    @MrMightyytau 10 часов назад +4

    brilliant lots of sheeple ( I mean sheeple not people)need to see this

  • @leighmurrell5494
    @leighmurrell5494 5 часов назад +1

    An excellent presentation of the current truth of the world. The US empire is crumbling and just what impact that will have on the world (either as a side effect or through violent US actions), will be fascinating. The world is slowly sucking in its collective breath, girding its loins so to speak, but we are essentially pawns in a momentous, historical event that has an obscured end game.

  • @pfrohwein
    @pfrohwein 9 часов назад +1

    Spot On ! Real Growth in the US END around 1980 ! That was the peak ! Today the US "economy" is service based. Bottom Line: The US manufactures VERY LITTLE of real value.

  • @helenesamuels7819
    @helenesamuels7819 2 часа назад

    Can't help thinking that this is slowly happening in South Africa too. The elites have no concept of citizens' everyday reality.

  • @tonykehoe123
    @tonykehoe123 4 часа назад

    The piper bangs The drum
    They thought that they were dancing in time
    To a melody pure and divine
    Yet the more that they turned and they spun
    Did they dance to the beat of a drum
    At first it was just to and fro
    For the piper was paid to play slow
    With a tune that the people could hum
    Unaware of the sound of the drum
    So on went the piper and flute
    In his wake went the crowd in pursuit
    And as they danced their way into the sun
    Slowly in crept the beat of the drum
    And once far away from the town
    From a bridge did the piper climb down
    Re emerging from where he had gone
    In exchange for his flute was a drum
    And it rattled and gently rolled
    Grew more fervent and ever more bold
    An indication of what was to come
    So much louder the beat of the drum
    Now no longer a rabble or crowd
    But an army of stealth and unbowed
    Headed back to the place they came from
    As their boots marched in time with the drum
    And now the town it lies quiet and still
    As if dying or seriously ill
    For no longer does it dance and have fun
    But falls deaf to the beat of the drum
    And the ghosts remain haunted in their silence
    Whilst on the street grows the spectre of violence
    For the town paid the terrible sum
    For not heeding the beat of the drum
    Kehoesongs ©️

  • @bmx13andit52
    @bmx13andit52 16 часов назад +6

    Why does everyone say Elon musk is the richest man in the world? He’s the richest person that WE KNOW OF

    • @chippyjohn1
      @chippyjohn1 8 часов назад +3

      Because he actually declares his income, so that is all they have to go on. There are people more wealthy than him for sure.

  • @lindadoherty9176
    @lindadoherty9176 8 минут назад

    Such sense he speaks. Please god these demos are listening

  • @sheenapearse766
    @sheenapearse766 3 часа назад +1

    A bit of a beat up . I won’t be waiting from Donald and Elon to “save “ us .

  • @antonius_006
    @antonius_006 5 часов назад +1

    Fiscal Policy big problems begun in the US with Ronald Reagan' s Reaganomics ?