Panel discussion with Mark Steyn, Tom Switzer, Janet Albrechtsen and John Roskam
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- The panel discussion following Mark Steyn's speech at the Institute of Public Affairs-The Spectator Australia event with more than 500 people in Sydney on Wednesday 29 February 2012.
Featuring Mark, Spectator Australia Editor Tom Switzer, columnist with The Australian Janet Albrechtsen and IPA Executive Director John Roskam.
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What a thrill to see that Mark Steyn rhetorical flourish at the end. Bravo!
Mark is almost incomparable in his ability to explain the glory of the enlightenment, in all of its Anglo and Scottish glory, with a touch of his embraced American belligerence. He's not chauvinistic, he's simply being empirical and witty. He's clearly a child of the Crown, but as an adult planted his flag in the New Hampshire woods. It's not for everyone, but the message is always potent:
* Culture matters
* The West is the best
* Read your Thomas Paine, understand why you're a free person
'Anticipatory surrender' - yes, well-worded. Sums up Western courage, currently.
Bloody attractive woman.
"even in our cowardice we congratulate ourselves"
Bravo
Wish we had an American like Mark Steyn.
As you get older you start to lose your range of motion. For example you look in the rear view mirror instead of turning your neck when backing up your car. The only way to retain this range of motion is to stretch your limbs to their full limits regularly. Free speech works the same way.
Great closing statement from Mark Steyn.
Mark is a true champion of free speech. A courageous and intelligent person piecing together fantastic insights.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Oh crap... I was just starting to enjoy it, and then it finished
This video is 5 years old and it only gotten worse. Were the hell are e.g. district attorneys prosecuting against these infringements on basic freedom rights?
Things sure have snowballed since then.
The turning point came when too many *individuals*, coalescing together louder than the rest, adopted the maxim, "I will not serve" as it related to our foundational Judeo/ Christian values; preferring their own empty 'experientialism' simply borne out of the drugged up sexual revolution, putting themselves as number one, "I did it my way" self congratulatory narcissism. The economy now depends on the majority adopting such a consumerist regime, and the advertising industry confirms it. Greed is still good but not as good as leftist empty headed moralising like what is offensive language or 'Marriage' equality ...
....but, how do we deal with the legacy of massive miseducation over the years?
Take that is a funny ironic argument. Yes he is truly amazing.
I actually don't find him pompous at all and I have a pretty week stomach for pompous - sure you may find it hard to get by the Patrician accent but if Mark Steyn is acutely pompous to you - well, what isn't?
I like how this starts with an semi-intelligent discussion and then descends into the weeds of blame leveled at this concept of an illiberal Left. An obscure attempt to drive a wedge between liberalism and left-leaning thought. Social liberalism is widely recognised to be a Left-Wing ideal in most countries including U.S. & Australia. Liberalism rolls of the tongue nicely in Australia (not so much in the US), so the temptation for the IPA to try to argue it is a right wing ideology is understandable. As far a freedom of speech goes, both Right and Left have sensitivities - Right-wing tend to try to sensor certain forms of art and expression that are incompatible with their value system and the left aren't so keen on suspected racism and bigotry.
Not quite so fast there... the left liberals in the arts have done a marvelous job at keeping out the kind of artistic genres that don't fit the convenience of *their* narrative about avant-gardism. Here in Britain, and indeed in the North America, the Arts-Councils and publicly funded arts quangos are a virtual Cosa Nostra of conceptualism.
Mohammad in NOT a God. He is a Prophet.
usa-- very good-- majority needs to get back basic control...but..
i do believe as a guy...that valentines day be kept clean..no
dirty style comments from dr guy...he should have ..deserved a
whack for that...i dont like anybody slopping up our nice holidays..
pure propaganda why use labels like right and left; that causes distraction ..a obvious aim of ipa..stick to substance of argument..those patronizing persons at abc on jane were probably half centre right the other centre left; hardly a discussion worth salt but shes entitled to her opinion piece.
davidmarrisapompousgit
Mark Steyn is trying to be a poor man's Christopher Hitchens, but he's half as literate.
+Aaron Typhoon I don't see it. Hitchens would constantly bang on about religion. Mark seems to bang on about the economy, the western empire and demographics 90 percent of the time.
+Aaron Typhoon Hitchens was a marxist. The only conservative leanings he ever had or tones he adopted came near the end of his days and only in so far as trying to spirit a defense against pan-Islam nationalism. Even later in life Hitchens began expressing some hesitation in so forcefully going after christianity. He said numerous times near the end, that if given the chance to eradicate theology, he wouldn't. Much to the dismay of Dawkins, who even himself, i think, has become almost non-vocal on christianity just in the last 2-years.
ghost writer C I like Steyn and take back what I said about him being a poor man's Chris Hitchens. I like that he is a vocal critic of bullshit (even if he isn't always right in that criticism). He at least makes an attempt to be logical and honest.
The only people Hitchens hated more than himself were everybody else.