Michael Shellenberger on America’s Cultural Crisis
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Journalist and author Michael Shellenberger explains the crisis of faith currently facing the West. From the medicalization of children to the breakdown of law and order, Michael highlights how cultural decay and dogmatic liberalism have eroded our basic values. He contends that without a moral framework, religious or otherwise, societies end up encouraging destructive behaviors in the name of “progress.” Michael believes that the pragmatic spirit of America will eventually prevail against this crisis and reassert pro-human and pro-civilization values, such as meritocracy, law and order, and individual freedom.
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The darkness is undeniable. I no longer go into the marketplace as I used to do. I am afraid for my granddaughters and even afraid for other's grandchildren now. And worst of all, the darkness is intentional brought to us by rulers who hate us. Tragic. Shakespearean. Deadly. I cling to God in a quiet manner.
Damn, that’s well said.
...and to think, in all probability, its going to get worse. Much Worse.
This sounds like Shakespeare 😅 I know the feeling though, hard to even be in public and not witness/feel the evil
@@runswithraptors When others respond, I do not feel quite so alone. There is a comfort in knowing others are witnessing.
Lol America is responsible for its own problems. Stop blaming others because you cheer on the leaders here, and then cry about the consequences later. Grow up!
It's not collapsing, it's being taken down.
Uh oh, something alerted the analogy police...
Agreed. 10 years ago and even 20 things were different and liberalism wasn’t so toxic.
@@Belzedielwell ur just sitting there. thank God they're here
intentionally, deliberately....by design. its all part of an agenda.
Yes, by an assortment of foreign interference and globalist organizations & corporations. Open borders, carbon taxes, climate alarm all just part of the UN agenda.
‘’ Evil will become good and good will become evil.’’
Evil exists ehen Good People do nothing.
Out of the chaos of Orwell's 1984. We used to watch science fiction movies always saying unthinkable fictional scenarios won't happen in the real world.
And here we are wondering where our next meal is coming from. Wondering when the collapse and war goes off for a new order out chaos is their crazy new deal not in our favor.
We entered the Weimar Republic era a little while ago. Glad my children will be homeschooled once they get to elementary school age.
We were headed to it when the Federal Reserve act was passed. Money printer go brr ruins everythibg every time.
Well, yes, these times here do remind me of the end of the Weimar Republic. But that's a function of the rise of the far right-- just as it was in 1932.
@@pennyculliton378 The 'far right' rose as an opposition to the moral degradation and pedophilic evils of the Weimar era. History doesn't repeat itself but it does rhyme.
@@pennyculliton378 lol, ok.
@@pennyculliton378yes, because all our institutions and media and cultural icons are so deeply embedded by the “far right” 🙄
Countries are “rich” until they get overrun and consumed by bureaucrats.
and those bureaucrats always use the welfare of humanity as their alibi en route to becoming tyrants.
Michael Shellenberger is a true patriot.
We, as a nation, as a culture, assume that it was last forever but history shows time and again that nothing is permanent and everything changes with time. Maybe we should begin to acknowledge that 50% of the nation wants to live one way and 50% doesn’t. Both sides have positives and negatives but both are clearly incompatible
@@darkcircles1313 the irony is that the 50% of people who vote for democrats don’t really want to live the way they vote. They vote for progressive politicians that destroy the society for everyone else while they live in a wealthy enclave that doesn’t see the negative results of their own intervention. That’s why so many people are moving from blue states to red states. The problem is the progressives don’t understand that their compassionate policies create the worst possible incentives and that’s why they don’t work. So they point the finger and blame a scapegoat as to why the country is falling apart.
I wish we could go back to a time when men wore suits and women wore dresses not matter how poor, people appreciated living in America, teachers were respected, cops were respected, children were seen but not heard, and liberals were simply pro-union and not whatever they’ve degenerated into now.
What year or decade best exemplifies this time period for you?
I've been teaching for over 40 years and I have NEVER felt appreciated by being told how to dress or to wear a dress (which I DO most days because I find it more comfortable). What an asinine assertion.
The rise of active narcissism and personal irresponsibility.
But why? That doesn’t just come from nowhere. Humans are not inherently selfish, as evidenced by the fact that we survived for hundreds of thousands of years, relying only on each other and nature. Something changed, and it wasn’t four years ago or ten years ago or fifty years ago or a thousand years ago. Always ask “why?” Where is this suffering coming from? Why are human beings so miserable?
Except when you say “the rise of” it sounds kind of organic.
“Weaponization of active narcissism” would be more apt.
@@katieandnick4113 i think its got to do with the extremely rapid economic and technological development of western societies in the last few decades. Theyve became super rich and this produced a sense of complacency and an hedonistic narcissist culture that despises religion and tradition.
@@katieandnick4113Well, let’s start with your erroneous premise that humans are not inherently selfish. Actually, humans are absolutely selfish. There is nothing observable over the millennia that says anything different. Of course we have the ability to do unselfish things and make personal sacrifices, and frequently do on smaller scales. But humans are self-centered beings to our very core. It’s also erroneous when people say, “I believe people are basically good” yet nothing suggests that people are inherently good. Again, observation and historical evidence suggests the opposite. These blanket premises of unselfish and good people simply are not true. Human nature is to be selfish and do bad things. It doesn’t necessarily mean that each and every person cannot do good and unselfish things, but on the whole that is not the case. The answers to your question in the latter portion of your post is in front of all of us. The ‘why’ is because it is our nature - and the suffering we create is due to that nature. We are miserable (and empty) because we are selfish and there is only one way to overcome our nature.
Thats really it. Its the acceptance of narcissism and profoundly disingenuous social behavior for an ulterior motive. The American worker has been pimped since the 70s, export all the jobs and bring in migrants for low level jobs here, entire industries, construction, restaurant work, its all illegal immigrants now. Its just a business. The core of the American people have a gov that sold them out decades ago, they dont mean anything to anyone other than themselves, and are openly reviled. Your politicians not only failed you, but actively sold you out, used fear to marginalize your economic interest and health at every turn.
This is a wild time y’all, but just know I love you fellow humans and we’re in this screwed up mess together. Even as we struggle and worry right now we need to hang onto our humanity. Please help each other and be kind to one another right now, love your loved ones and show them the best times you can right now.
It's a problem to set morality standards without Judeo Christian values. That is what all of Western legal and cultural norms are based on. You can't have the civilisation we are accustomed to without the morality of these two religions.
No, we can’t. It’s impossible to have and enjoy the freedoms our country was founded upon without morals. We kicked God out of our country in the 1960’s and we started losing the very morality that this form of government is dependent upon. We broke the covenant with God.
How did shintoism, buddhism, and confucianism manage to work?
Christian values, yes. The (((jew))) part is what is destroying the West.
Ask the Chinese how that worked out against communism @@skylinefever
@@terryvalentino3112 I don't know, I was too busy asking how it led to South Korea making KPop and Japan animating hit movies.
Yeah. We’re done.
Actual Justice Warrior has been covering how we're soft on violent crime, but go hard on self defense. The activist ignore the violence.
Give YOU? Give me the money....
@@D-Fens_1632???
@@bianchaesson1441if you know, you know.
@@tessahall797nice
@@D-Fens_1632 I can hear her voice just reading that.
If you approach the question of how to make civilization work from the assumption that it has to work for every group, then you’ve already doomed your civilization. Not all cultures are compatible, and maintaining a civilization is dependent on maintaining its cultural standards.
that is a very important perspective.
That’s the very reason we have so many different cultures on this planet. We all can’t just get along together as one. Separately letting each culture have their own space and not forcing others into agreeing with you works. We can trade and share but it’s much better when we don’t force cultures to exist together when it’s better when they each have their own spaces. People used to come to America and assimilate but that stopped somewhere along the way. It’s sure not working now.
Agreed.
This is why I joke about the "Intersection of gay rights and ending Islamophobia" to mock the stupidity of modern leftism.
70 years of planned obsolescence in automobiles which economists do not talk about while ignoring the depreciation of durable consumer goods is so civilized!
What is Net Domestic Product anyway?
Adam Smith wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" multiple times in Wealth of Nations. When have economists suggested mandatory accounting in the schools?
Our economics got replaced with line go up next fiscal quarter is gud thing.
Wasn’t nietzsche, it was Dostoevsky who said in the Brother’s Karamazov, if there is no immortality then there is no more nobility and thus everything is permitted.
I heard someone say this, and it struck me as a perfect synopsis of our times..."no one is asking for forgiveness, or mercy, anymore. Everyone is demanding permission for anything."
It’s not even a demand, they expect the world to curve to their way.
I don’t even think they are asking for permission. It’s more like they are telling you to like it or else.
Asking permission? Nah bro, they're telling
Sounds like Shellemberger didn't read TS Elliot's book on Christian Society. "The inevitable result of Liberalism, in the end, is Totalitarianism.
Auron McEntyre's The Total State book does a better job.
The fact that so many crimes are no longer considered crimes, isn’t that the definition of a collapse?
Correction. In 2023, US women aborted 1,026,700 babies😢
Shellenberger certainly has a firm grasp and understanding of the evils that permeate of society today...he is spot on with his views!
The only way to improve behavior is through hardship. Nothing else will convince people to do what they don't want to do.
agreed. People will always take the easy way out.
Don’t worry it’s coming.
@@ecleveland1 that's what I'm hoping for. And I'm going to laugh until I piss my pants.
I returned to my Catholic faith once I was able to understand this ideology.
You’re exactly right. Societal collapse is enabled when we continually lessen the cost for being stupid and self destructive
In 2023, US women aborted 1,26,700 babies 😢
You're missing a digit
Find a way to make people actually want those babies.
Just banning abortion causes communist Romania.
I wonder the the abortion ban states are just going to have masses of hated children turning into dysfunctional adults, like communist Romania did.
So, I don't care. There already aren't enough resources, loving parents, food, and housing to go around.
It won't matter for there isn't enough housing, food, drinking water, adequate schools, infrastructure, and loving parents for the kids that must endure.
Yes….it is collapsing!
WHEN YOU EXALT SATAN OVER JESUS THEN OF COURSE THE NATION WILL PLUNGE INTO HELL, DESOLATION, OPPRESSION, AND POVERTY.
Love Shellenberger's pragmatism.
He just rambles
When you get 200 bodies laying in a pile at a funeral home.civilization has collapsed.florence colorado
What happened?
Brilliant discussion, I enjoyed listening to that
Thank you both !!
Thank you gentlemen!!
The smoke from the fires makes it feel like civilization is collapsing.
It was Dostoevsky who wrote, "if there is no God, then everything is permitted"
God permits everything- that’s how men justify the most atrocious atrocities like the genocide we’re committing today - God gave America control over the world - God also gave Zionists power over Palestinians it’s very confusing
But who or what is this”god”?
You are god, and god is you, just everyone else is.
We are not to harm each other.
When we do we also harm ourselves, we harm “God” in both ways.
Then one is no longer god, no longer human.
@@robertholland7558 shellenberger attributed the quote to friedrich nietszche. I just wanted to point out the error, i'm not trying to make a point.
@@robertholland7558 Ooo, so progressive and free in your thought. Except that I've been reading the same mushy crap since the 60's, and here we are, everybody is their own little universe.
@@nnotny we are and are part of the universe at the same time.
That you have been reading that for over 60 years, and still not realise this is sad .
Calling it mushy crap indicates you have not experienced reality in its entirety.
Jesus Christ is the answer. Just because Christians disagree about some things does not invalidate the faith. Without Jesus mankind will always fail and suffer.
Why is it that our elected leaders refuse to have these kinds of public conversations, with the goal of improving our society and culture?
Because democracy isn't about sustaining civilization.
It's about dismantling civilization and selling off the remains.
Tell the truth about how bad the cops are. Thats not demonizing them. It's simply the truth. Grow up!
There is no benefit to this man to speak the truth. It will only hurt his economic opportunities. His sacrifice, viewpoints and courage are acknowledged and appreciated.
verb: prosecute; 3rd person present: prosecutes; past tense: prosecuted; past participle: prosecuted; gerund or present participle: prosecuting
1.
institute legal proceedings against (a person or organization).
"they were prosecuted for obstructing the highway"
institute legal proceedings in respect of (a claim or offense).
"the state's attorney's office seemed to decide that this was a case worth prosecuting"
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take to court
bring an action against
take legal action against
accuse
cite
summons
sue
try
bring to trial
put on trial
put in the dock
bring a charge against
charge
prefer charges against
bring a suit against
indict
arraign
impeach
have the law on
do
jug
implead
Opposite:
defend
let off
pardon
(of a lawyer) conduct the case against the party being accused or sued in a lawsuit.
"Mr. Ryan will be prosecuting this morning"
2.
continue with (a course of action) with a view to its completion.
"they sensed a unique opportunity to prosecute their policy agenda"
ARCHAIC
carry on (a trade or pursuit).
"waiting for permission to prosecute my craft"
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carry on
conduct
direct
engage in
work at
proceed with
continue
continue with
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go ahead with
fight
wage
Opposite:
give up
verb: persecute; 3rd person present: persecutes; past tense: persecuted; past participle: persecuted; gerund or present participle: persecuting
subject (someone) to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or their political beliefs.
"his followers were persecuted by the authorities"
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abuse
victimize
ill-treat
mistreat
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discriminate against
punish
inflict pain/suffering on
tyrannize
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harass or annoy (someone) persistently.
"Hilda was persecuted by some of the other girls"
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give someone a hard time
get on someone's back
make it/things hot for someone
get/stick the knife into
heavy
noun
noun: fugitive; plural noun: fugitives
a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution.
"fugitives from justice"
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escapee
escaper
runaway
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quick to disappear; fleeting.
adjective: fugitive
"he entertained a fugitive idea that Barbara needed him"
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flitting
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momentary
short-lived
short
brief
passing
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fly-by-night
here today and gone tomorrow
fugacious
Opposite:
permanent
long-lasting
queer
verbDATED•INFORMAL
gerund or present participle: queering
spoil or ruin (an agreement, event, or situation).
"Reg didn't want someone meddling and queering the deal at the last minute"
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damage
impair
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threaten
put at risk
undermine
prejudice
be prejudicial to
be disadvantageous to
play havoc with
be deleterious to
compromise
botch
blow
put the kibosh on
noun: prisoner; plural noun: prisoners
a person legally held in prison as a punishment for crimes they have committed or while awaiting trial.
"a prisoner serving a life sentence"
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convict
inmate
trusty
jailbird
con
lifer
(old) lag
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transport
a person captured and kept confined by an enemy, opponent, or criminal.
"200 rebels were taken prisoner"
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prisoner of war
POW
hostage
captive
detainee
internee
a person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or set of circumstances.
"he's become a prisoner of the publicity he's generated"
Phrases
take no prisoners - be ruthlessly aggressive or uncompromising in the pursuit of one's objectives.
WoW definitely documented that censorship. lol Eat ----- and suck ----- you're the one who's implying innuendo
@@SpasmodiusHyperFantasia this would be badass if it wasn’t cut and paste. Not here for the grammar.
@thereissomecoolstuff when it comes to the text book example it is as it states
@thereissomecoolstuff that's why
it's because I'm a cut and paste guy
when it comes to most of what I say
It's chill but not for the lay
And for the right of way
on what to say
Just come and look this way
The dictionary is the passage to way against the context is not without pay now this is not scripted so how's that for a rhyme
Absolutely 💯
Civilization preexisted America by thousands of years, and it will survive long after the American empire dissolves. And all empires are doomed. There has been no exception. That is macro-history.
Unfortunately this point will be missed by hundreds of millions of occidentals who bought into Fukuyama's delusion and proceeded to de-civilize their own houses and homelands.
Top of the list in western countries is each country should hold referendums on immigration, it's tearing it apart
Too scared of the radical pinks hats so you scapegoat immigrants lol.
Correct. Him adding at the end that immigration is needed was like slipping in some poison.
@@HonorableHombre Silly normies, still don't get it do you? They're using these illegal immigrants as weapons against us they're using them like ponds.
They want us to fight a Civil War but there don't want to get their hands dirty. So they've hired mercenaries. A tale is old as time it's called domicide.
@@HonorableHombre Sorry I explained it to you but RUclips does not allow the truth I guess you'll have to just figure it out for yourself good luck.
@@Etymon-jt3zw , you aren't scaring anybody lol
it started with the first big wave of immigration in the 80s, we had season american workers Who worked across America and spent money propping up short term rentals at motels and other places. They also had a competitiave wage because they would do lawn care for 30 bucks a day
I understand people who deem humans as a sort of parasite on the earth. Problem with it is it's abjectly cynical, which is why I dont agree with it, nor do I think it's constructive in even the most remote sense.
Parents mostly to blame. They getting played.
Kali yuga, great tribulation. Call it whatever you like. It's peak civilization followed by societal collapse and the end of an age.
Slight correction: I believe he meant to say Dostoyevsky not Nietzsche. Still remains an important truth.
no it was Nietzsche
It’s in The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, though Nietzsche certainly argues for the same idea.
According to Peterson Nietzsche said something like God is dead. We killed it, you and I. And there is no water in the world to wash away all the blood. He lived before the Nazis. Dostoevsky was a Russian author before communists. He is said to write about commies but I didn't read in Бесы
Yep, we are far gone, no doubt.
They said the same thing when slaves got free, same thing when blacks got equal rights. Someway we’ll all be the older generation having a disdain for the younger generations making a way out of this bs we thought was burning.
Amen, we're fucked.
Take God out of the equation and something will fill the void
Would love to see Shellenberger in conversation with Daniel Schmachtenberger. #WhenBergsCollide
The world has had 2000 years to consider the message of Jesus and that has a time limit. God describes the end times as what you are beginning to experience now as the world turns to satan. Soon, the antichrist and the tribulation will be here. Believers in Christ are removed...
16 "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord."
1 THESSALONIANS 4
For profit culture is doom
We can't be the Netherlands because we pay for their defense
I think they've woken up to reality and are acting accordingly. They've considerably raised army, navy and air force expenditures, bringing them from 1.4% of GDP pre-Ukraine-War (2021) to 2.15% this year. They say it will tick higher to 2.22% in 2026.
I wish you would stop that.
@@aleaiactaest8354 👎Asinus arroganter respondit.
That’s what fusion of cultures leads to.
As a further point regarding the ethnic and cultural homogeneity of Scandinavia working in their favor, Sweden let in so many migrants that 20% of the country is foreign-born and now Sweden has a massive crime problem
Despite all the financial struggles I and my family faced, everything is finally falling into place! $47,000 weekly profit and riches I'll always praise the Lord
Do you invest with a professional broker? I would appreciate it if you could show me how to go about it.
Thanks to Mrs. Elizabeth Regina Nelsen's time in my life, which had a profound impact on me.
Wow! Kind of in shock you mentioned expert, Elizabeth Regina Nelsen. What a coincidence!!
Elizabeth Regina Nelsen has really set the standard for others to follow, we love her here in the UK as she has been really helpful and changed lots of lives
Life is easier when the cash keeps popping
in, thanks to Elizabeth Regina Nelsen's services. Glad she's getting the recognition she deserves
F the IRS
Liberalism has nothing to do with the opioid crisis .This guy is full of it. Now if he’s talking about neoliberalism, that’s a different story.
Thanks!
These are the same kind of conversations about moral degradation we have been having for centuries. In a way, this is how our civilization functions. If you are looking to the civilization to give you a moral structure and raise your children, you are looking in the wrong place. If you believe your civilization’s lies, everything is very confusing.
Eventually we'll probably have two territories, reservations of sorts, perhaps in the South and central/upper Midwest, maybe the Northeast, where the remaining old world, historically Christian, European whites will settle. I'd speculate on the rest of the country but I'd rather my comment not disappear.
@@D-Fens_1632 I think that the federal government will quickly arrange to bring millions of more migrants to settle in those zones. People haven’t realized this is a class warfare and identity politics is just the avenue through which they are waging it.
I always loved the idea of making the leftists build their own diversotopias and Wakandas.
God is a requirement for the elevation of human beings above animals.
That is one of the many reasons why I believe in the God of the Jews, I am a Noahide.
Dostoiévski said “if God doesn’t exist than everything is permitted”, not Nietzsche.
Ivan Karamazov
Peterson said that Nietzsche said something like God is dead. We killed it. And there is no water to wash away all the blood... He was German philosopher before Nazis become a thing. Dostoevsky was Russian writer before communists became a thing. He actually wrote about communists. But I didn't read. Something in Бесы I guess
I read somewhere that America has gone from being a raw youth, a brash and noisy adolescent, to drooling senescence . . . .
WITHOUT any intervening period of societal maturity
Capitalism being born in the Netherlands is not totally wrong, but probably it is more precise to say it was born in Belgium, more in particular in Flanders and Brabant. It depends a bit on what you call the start of capitalism exactly (there were of course the city states in northern Italy), but the first real stock market was in Antwerp since 1531 (you can still visit it today 'Handelsbeurs'). Holland thrived after the Habsburgian low countries (not exactly, but more or less Belgium and Netherlands today) were split over catholic/protestant division (also leading to migration from south to north) between a protestant northern part (not exactly, but more or less Netherlands today) and then in Spanish catholic hands southern part (not exactly, but largely Belgium today).
Dutch painters demonstrated that artists did not need to be court pets to achieve greatness.
the philosopher Kathleen Stock Feminism Between
Right and Left gave a useful framework to view the take by right and left on liberalism
Why would someone want to take fentanyl? I don’t understand.
Yo Mike, on the decreasing test scores in schools, Charles Murray has a book you should read.
When he started blaming "the schools" I wanted to smack my forehead. It's not "the schools", or the "teachers", or the lack of funding. In Baltimore last year, 40% of the high schools did not have even "1" person who tested as "proficient" in math. Let that soak in for a moment. If that doesn't highlight the profound problem we have in this country, nothing will.
@@jaykay6387 and we just waved in 10 million 90ish IQ mesoAmericans who will further drag down school performance..but look on the bright side, Dwayne Aleizando Mountain Dew Camacho is now a lock for the presidency in the 2050s!!!
I often said if you could get the Idiocracy to quit breeding, you could get much better schools.
@jaykay6387 but math is racist.
1:30 Since when is fentanyl and meth just a "Liberal" thing to do?
Conservatives say that free market capitalism is great, therefore people should be allowed to buy genuine drugs.
They're the ones that permit it. Look at Portland Oregon and their stupid experiment with making every drug legal
They support it.Take Oregon for instance. And or open boarders with the drugs pouring in. 😮
Mr Schellenberger is an international treasure. I disagree with him on two points… The forces driving this culture war are not liberal in origin; that’s simply a guise. Also, while it’s really semantics, I feel it important to remind everyone that Covid did nothing to stifle the educational or social development of children. It was our response to the virus that added to the problem.
@@Helloitsme328 100%.
Gnosticism is the root of modernity. Eric Voegelin argued that communism, alongside other modern ideologies like National Socialism and progressivism, can be understood as a form of secularized Gnosticism, essentially claiming that communism acts as a "religion of Gnosticism" by mirroring key Gnostic beliefs in a political context; particularly the idea of achieving a utopian "heaven on earth" through revolutionary action, rather than through traditional religious practices.
Some of the beliefs of Gnosticism include: The god of the Old Testament is the devil Jesus is trying to liberate people from the god of the Old Testament Humans are Gods who need to realize their inherent Divinity The material cosmos is the result of a primordial error by a divine being
@@sdrc92126 what you described, which I’ve become more familiar with over the past couple years, almost sounds like a perversion of the spiritual/religious notion that we are all of the divine. A notion that I’ve been intrigued by for awhile. “We,” not being a select group of people with the exclusion of (or “othering” of) others, and still bound by flesh with all its imperfections. When any group of people decides to worship themselves and each other while rejecting or demonizing anyone who challenges their beliefs, their “allyship,” or their egos, that group becomes dangerous. A paradoxical combination of collective corruption and submission.
@@sdrc92126 sounds like the gnostics got it right.
@@cameronhickey7771 It's a tool of the elite to justify killing -millions- billions. There is no limit to the amount of eggs that must be broken towards the great sacred omelette. But it never works, they gain more power
The flip way you dismissed people’s physical pain was disturbing. Have you ever had severe or chronic pain? People suffer so badly that they want to die, and so it’s a good thing to have well managed pain control.
He talked about back pain. You kill your backs by taking opioids. You fools
“Where there is a will there is a way “ If we know, things are not okay and we are heading to wrong direction. Why not we do the right thing for the future generation. Generation responsible to lead American and the world. Thanks.
It’s too late we are past that time. We just haven’t accepted it yet.
before we born we are dying anyway
At 7m, Shellenbrger raises the experience of the Dutch. The United Provinces of the Netherlands was thr first middle class nation in the world. But while Britain did this usung coal wnd stream power, the Dutch used water power -- dikes.
You can't call them that any more.
😁 big ferocious dikes.@@Belzediel
*The wisest thing that should be on everyone's mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that don't depend on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis around the world. This is still a good time to invest in gold, silver, and digital currencies (BTC, ETH...)*
I began investing in stocks and Def earlier this year, and it is the best choice l've ever made. My portfolio is rounding up to almost a million and I have realized that when a stock makes it to the news, chances are you're quite late to the party, the idea is to get in early on blue chips before it becomes public. There are lots of life changing opportunities in the market, and maximize it.
What opportunities are there in the market, and how do I profit from it?
You can make a lot of money from the market regardless of whether it strengthens or crashes. The key is to be well positioned.
I would really like to know how this actually works.
All you need is a good capital and the service of a professional broker, with those your investment will most certainly produce high yields.
But not going to say anything about the decades of case law saying that boys can consent to adult women? Marka Bodine, Shane Seyer, Nathanial J, Colleen Hermesman, Andrea Serrano, the legal definition of rape being gendered.
Everything good because XX but not XY.
2:44 forward. Excellent gen x mantra. Well said!
An "is" can show us what "ought" not to be.
Going back to Babylon….
What ?
Michael Shellenberger for president. I'm serious.
He would need preparatory experience, so he should get some first.
He's actually interested in entering politics. He ran for governor of California in the last election.
I couldn't get but a few minutes in. Allowing? Who do you think you are? We can talk about right and wrong, but "allowing" is an arrogance I can't be a part of.
Go back to Scandinavia, to Denmark to check. Our society is being more and more neoliberalized and is not at all The social democratic welfare State we used to.
Yes, but there's a great deal of ruin in a nation
I'm a 70 year old lesbian,so I felt ostracized and no place in society or religion. We need high technology manufacturing jobs.When I was young,I thought,someday, I'd have a robotic maid and a flying car. The infrastructure is collapsing everywhere, homeless people everywhere. Drugs truly are destroying lives.The government has abandoned this country,to make the wealthy,more wealthy. The people with power have no vision,and worse,no humility. Our founders were not religious,and didn't want a religious government. Our technology could have been so much more advanced,but for the greed of people with money and power. I agree, the left is too far left,and a lot is because of the Internet. The crazies have found each other, like nonbinary people can change their sex by wishing. Where's Qanon? Too many lies by media.
What do you even know about crazies?
Why, with the advent of AI and advanced automation is maintaining population seen as automatically good? If you ask me with less need for human labour a declining birthrate is not a bad thing and would result in higher standards of living.
You are slightly mistaken. There is no divide among Christians
There most certainly is lol. You forgot about Catholics/Orthodox schism and the reformation. You have fake Christians who twist the Bible into supporting things like gay marriage
@@jr2904 Thanks! My point is they are not real Christians, but in name only.
A subset of a longer interview
Every generation wants distinction & to shock the last one it seems, I don"t want to think about being more shocking to the woke.
gop talking points and tabloid rubbish
a serious conversation on this subject would be centered on how complex systems work and the dangers of reverting to a ordered system. it would be a scientific discussion about complexity, complex systems and adaptation.
How about you take care of your kids and don’t put them up with paying for school till rest of there life’s. Lol.
I agree. And if you can't afford it, don't have any kids.
“If God is dead then everything is permitted” is from Dostoevsky in the Brothers Karamazov, not Nietzsche.
Nietzsche had ethics which he based on “vitality.” No God involved, but he was still very to the right.
There is a channel on this platform, run by a foundation.
They play clips of talks, or often whole talks, given by a certain person (Utube will not allow me write his name).
This person was born in India in 1895 and died in 1984.
He often refers to himself with the first letter of his surname - - which is 'K'.
He spent virtually all of his adult life traveling the western world giving his 'talks'.
In the USA he would do it at Ojai - California - - there is a school there.
In the UK he would do it at Brockwood Park - - there is a school there.
Gstaad in Switzerland.
Several different places in India - there are schools there.
Australia.
South America.
France.
Etc Etc.
He actually talked to the United Nations.
He was respected profoundly.
The topics of his talks was essentially about the role of Thought and Thinking as the source of all humanity's problems.
The nature of Love and Time.
The nature of the ego.
The nature of tribalism.
The structure of consciousness.
Born before he died? That is impressive...
@@Belzediel
Sorry - - born 1895.
Edit.
Easy mistake.
What is more intriguing to me is why Utube will immediately disappear any comment I make when I write his name.
Especially considering that the platform hosts videos released by the foundation.
He is not some kind of dangerous quack.
He is the ultimate anti-establishment, as he had no time for politicians or gurus etc.
But simply stated that each individual had to think out these matters for themselves.
You only have to Google - - Brockwood Park School - - and it can be known who I am writing about.
#bestforkids
Big Red may need some attention.
I disagree with Shellenberger about liberalism. It doesn't follow that because a society legally permits a thing to be done that the thing will become a norm. Social engineering isn't included in the liberal toolkit. In fact, liberalism gives zero oughts. The ethics of liberalism gives society ought-nots. We need more than ethics to guide us, but liberalism never tried to fill that gap. It simply gives us the freedom to fill it how we choose.
What would that "more than ethics" be?
There’s a problem here though. That which is permissible will remain and that which you subsidize increases. This has actually happened with disability. When there was no money available to pay people with mental illness to not work, there were a lot fewer such disabilities. You coped and arguably got better because you had to. Nobody in 1910 was getting state benefits for being to anxious to work. So they worked. Now people go on state benefits for anxiety, don’t get better, and we have millions of NEETs playing video games at home even though they’re physically fine and not that mentally impaired.
@@TheresaReichley Let me clarify. I'm speaking of liberalism as in the classical liberal philosophy. This have been added to by modern libertarianism but the root of this philosophy is the same. It's all about ethics pertaining to legal theory. Subsidizing people via the state is anti-liberal. This idea is born of progressivism.
@@nnotny morality, spirituality, family
@@snizzypoosexcellentspooner2468 Yes.
go to some cafe or community gathering of in the backwoods of redoubt country and talk it up and let us know how it goes.
It kind of feels like it.
Ya think?
Peace and love (and civilization)
Fantastic.
🌺
The devil is running rampant in American society!