His book "The Dying Citizen" is absolutely fantastic. If you truly wish to understand what's going on around us today, it is one of the essentials. VDH is an astute scholar and a brilliant writer.
36:24 ...a society that has a hatred of the middle class is in end stage development.” Victor Davis Hanson - I cannot heap enough accolades on this man. 👏👏👏
There’s absolutely no question. His innate ability to eloquently convey the mindset of the bicoastal progressive elite is unmatched. These are the people who live their entire lives in the abstract rather than the concrete. They couldn’t change a car tire or paint a house, our affluent leisured elites that depend upon working class patriotic Americans for their miserable narcissistic existence.
The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. As government becomes more powerful, the citizen becomes the subject. Soon, we will be back to being ruled by capricious monarchs, where the rulers own everything, the subjects own nothing, and the law is whatever the State says it is. This has been the state of man for the majority of history, save for this brief period of self-rule. I am angry that the populace was too weak and too frightened to hold onto freedom and self-rule. I think the people have gotten so weak that freedom scares them, and so they run to the "protection" of those who lie to them and tell them they can trade their freedom for being ruled over. This has never worked out well. If we ever get our freedom back, we need to make sure that the populace never gets this stupid, this weak, and this frightened again. Education is the key. We lost the war on education this time around. If we get another chance at freedom, we can't let that happen again.
"A service based economy who's chief export is management consultants." 16:59-17:47 This is what disgusts me about modern American culture and economy- it's mostly hot air. It is a nation full of salesmen, hustlers, and bureaucrats. I know this from 35 years of first hand experience.
(10:40) _There's always been a struggle between equality of opportunity and equality of ends and the equality of ends always leads to totalitarianism; The equality of opportunity always leads to freedom_
I want to remark that the false priority of the task of distribution of goods over the task of producing them mentioned by prof. Hanson is also obvious in the Marxism-communism (and is driven by some sort of atavistic psychology).
California Degradation ... 34:36 47th in high school test scores 34:40 ranked 49th in infrastructure 34:45 1 out of 3 people in the United States on public assistance lives in California 34:51 22% below the poverty line 34:57 the highest income tax 35:02 the highest basket of sales taxes 35:06 the highest gasoline tax
There are many who complain about the high cost of Real Estate, both residential and commercial, how is that not controlled by supply and demand? The only influence that is imposed on any free market product is taxes and regulations by Government. I value Real Estate by return on investment and cost of construction.
The challenge with "capitalism" is, and always will be, the level playing field. The EU did not play fair with raisins by having tariffs and subsidies. US officials said, well, tough luck, man. We played this game for decades and we, too, impose tariffs. Yet, when Big Tech gets regulated in the EU, we complain, even though the regulation is a tariff of sorts, limiting the data Big Tech can collect and how they collect it. As always, it's about whose ox gets gored. The little guy? Can't hear you. The big guy with the lobbyists in DC spreading the wealth? He gets an ear. Crony capitalism. We never try real capitalism, either.
@@ari123621 No. The worship of money and all the greed that underlies it. There is no fear of God, nor for that matter any knowledge of God or right and wrong anymore. The Bible, you know? And God will eventually send nations like ours into slavery, just like He did with ancient Israel repeatedly. Everything in the universe, including you and me, actually _belongs_ to God and He will do with us as He sees fit, whether we like it, or believe it or not is irrelevant. It is going to _happen._ And when people die horrible deaths because of it, then _maybe_ God can finally bring us to be spiritual people in the 2nd resurrection who obey Him and can be trusted with and given eternal life as part of His family.
@@ari123621 no. Capitalism prioritizes business interests over national, or Davos over Jerusalem, in our case. Globalism is a natural development of capitalism, as it's cheaper to move your factory to China, for example.
@@ari123621 in the long run, capitalism is the best system, considering the alternatives. But still, it's not perfect, and sometimes it needs adjustments.
I like Victor and think he's a smart guy, but that makes it even stranger that he really believes that people without religious faith "have no natural compassion, so they outsource it to the state". It's almost a childish analysis completely ignoring our psychological composition, from where our religious instincts obviously also stems from.
It's an ancient known fact that conservatives donate to charity much more than..."non-conservatives". Instead, the later delegate that responsibility to the state.
@@mutabore7 In the US "conservative" usually means something including religion, but it doesn't quite in the same way in the rest of the world. Here in Europe I'm quite sure (being a non religious but politically conservative-libertarian type myself) that most charities by far are run and volunteered by socialists (some religious some not). But I have heard the same about american religious conservative's charitable nature and that's a very good thing, but that's a far way away from saying that non religious people "have no natural compassion" which I think is close to a disgraceful, or really dumb, uttering depending on the wisdom of the person saying it😉
@@dkvikingkd233 I'm pretty sure that I saw statistics, that generally Americans donate way more than Europeans (pick a country), which again, correlates with religiosity. Correlation isn't causation, but still. European socialists are more likely to volunteer for some sort of "socialist" cause, like environmentalism. I agree with you that 'compassion' remark was too harsh.
@@mutabore7 I would imagine that being true because of historically less state involvement so individuals in america has taken more responsibility (hence donate more), but people who helps drug addicts and other abusers here are often socialists, it wasn't environmentalism I was thinking about. It was too harsh, absolutely, but it's also not true and surely Victor knows this! The inclination to help other people in need (empathy or compassion) obviously isn't a binary product of whether or not you have a religion, but is a genetic instinct in all humans. Culturally that instinctual seed can be grown or diminished, and I think you're right that some religious denominations have a good tradition or healthy focus on helping people and hence induce the growth of this instinct:)
His book "The Dying Citizen" is absolutely fantastic. If you truly wish to understand what's going on around us today, it is one of the essentials. VDH is an astute scholar and a brilliant writer.
'Fantastic' is a good word to use, defined as "seeming more appropriate to the imagination than to reality".
Excellent program - conversation of two brilliant people
So refreshing
36:24 ...a society that has a hatred of the middle class is in end stage development.”
Victor Davis Hanson -
I cannot heap enough accolades on this man.
👏👏👏
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Excellent conversation. Thank you.
That Victor Hanson is a real mensch!
VDH is utterly god like in my mind with his wisdom
There’s absolutely no question. His innate ability to eloquently convey the mindset of the bicoastal progressive elite is unmatched. These are the people who live their entire lives in the abstract rather than the concrete. They couldn’t change a car tire or paint a house, our affluent leisured elites that depend upon working class patriotic Americans for their miserable narcissistic existence.
The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. As government becomes more powerful, the citizen becomes the subject. Soon, we will be back to being ruled by capricious monarchs, where the rulers own everything, the subjects own nothing, and the law is whatever the State says it is. This has been the state of man for the majority of history, save for this brief period of self-rule. I am angry that the populace was too weak and too frightened to hold onto freedom and self-rule. I think the people have gotten so weak that freedom scares them, and so they run to the "protection" of those who lie to them and tell them they can trade their freedom for being ruled over. This has never worked out well. If we ever get our freedom back, we need to make sure that the populace never gets this stupid, this weak, and this frightened again. Education is the key. We lost the war on education this time around. If we get another chance at freedom, we can't let that happen again.
"A service based economy who's chief export is management consultants." 16:59-17:47 This is what disgusts me about modern American culture and economy- it's mostly hot air. It is a nation full of salesmen, hustlers, and bureaucrats. I know this from 35 years of first hand experience.
They have a name for what you'e describing, Post-industrialism. Look it up. By the neo-marxist theory, it's a natural and welcomed historical stage.
(10:40) _There's always been a struggle between equality of opportunity and equality of ends and the equality of ends always leads to totalitarianism; The equality of opportunity always leads to freedom_
Very interesting!
I’m gonna buy that book he wrote.
Now I am become progressive, the destroyer of worlds.
Insightful
ראיון מדהים איש מדהים קאוליין מדהימה חכמה ועוצמתית
I want to remark that the false priority of the task of distribution of goods over the task of producing them mentioned by prof. Hanson is also obvious in the Marxism-communism (and is driven by some sort of atavistic psychology).
California Degradation ...
34:36 47th in high school test scores
34:40 ranked 49th in infrastructure
34:45 1 out of 3 people in the United States on public assistance lives in California
34:51 22% below the poverty line
34:57 the highest income tax
35:02 the highest basket of sales taxes
35:06 the highest gasoline tax
Will the ebbs and tides of supply and demand control the economy of the middle class who are the producers of goods?
There are many who complain about the high cost of Real Estate, both residential and commercial, how is that not controlled by supply and demand? The only influence that is imposed on any free market product is taxes and regulations by Government. I value Real Estate by return on investment and cost of construction.
There is no constitution in Israel and a lot of problems we face are a reaction to that. It's a bit different than the situation in the US
The challenge with "capitalism" is, and always will be, the level playing field. The EU did not play fair with raisins by having tariffs and subsidies. US officials said, well, tough luck, man. We played this game for decades and we, too, impose tariffs. Yet, when Big Tech gets regulated in the EU, we complain, even though the regulation is a tariff of sorts, limiting the data Big Tech can collect and how they collect it. As always, it's about whose ox gets gored. The little guy? Can't hear you. The big guy with the lobbyists in DC spreading the wealth? He gets an ear. Crony capitalism. We never try real capitalism, either.
Victor Hansen is a brilliant and moral man, but he has just accidentally revealed the innate great flaw within Capitalism!
What is the flaw? Lack of equality?
@@ari123621 No. The worship of money and all the greed that underlies it. There is no fear of God, nor for that matter any knowledge of God or right and wrong anymore. The Bible, you know? And God will eventually send nations like ours into slavery, just like He did with ancient Israel repeatedly. Everything in the universe, including you and me, actually _belongs_ to God and He will do with us as He sees fit, whether we like it, or believe it or not is irrelevant. It is going to _happen._ And when people die horrible deaths because of it, then _maybe_ God can finally bring us to be spiritual people in the 2nd resurrection who obey Him and can be trusted with and given eternal life as part of His family.
@@ari123621 no. Capitalism prioritizes business interests over national, or Davos over Jerusalem, in our case. Globalism is a natural development of capitalism, as it's cheaper to move your factory to China, for example.
@@mutabore7 capitalism is good unless you harm your national interests... Everyone have more
@@ari123621 in the long run, capitalism is the best system, considering the alternatives. But still, it's not perfect, and sometimes it needs adjustments.
nice
האם יש תרגום לעברית?
אולאי דרך אתר אינטרנט של קרולין גליק?
תפעיל תרגום אוטומטי לעברית
VDH is really rather good at arguing for morally bankrupt positions.
I like Victor and think he's a smart guy, but that makes it even stranger that he really believes that people without religious faith "have no natural compassion, so they outsource it to the state". It's almost a childish analysis completely ignoring our psychological composition, from where our religious instincts obviously also stems from.
It's an ancient known fact that conservatives donate to charity much more than..."non-conservatives". Instead, the later delegate that responsibility to the state.
@@mutabore7 In the US "conservative" usually means something including religion, but it doesn't quite in the same way in the rest of the world.
Here in Europe I'm quite sure (being a non religious but politically conservative-libertarian type myself) that most charities by far are run and volunteered by socialists (some religious some not).
But I have heard the same about american religious conservative's charitable nature and that's a very good thing, but that's a far way away from saying that non religious people "have no natural compassion" which I think is close to a disgraceful, or really dumb, uttering depending on the wisdom of the person saying it😉
@@dkvikingkd233 I'm pretty sure that I saw statistics, that generally Americans donate way more than Europeans (pick a country), which again, correlates with religiosity. Correlation isn't causation, but still. European socialists are more likely to volunteer for some sort of "socialist" cause, like environmentalism.
I agree with you that 'compassion' remark was too harsh.
@@mutabore7 I would imagine that being true because of historically less state involvement so individuals in america has taken more responsibility (hence donate more), but people who helps drug addicts and other abusers here are often socialists, it wasn't environmentalism I was thinking about.
It was too harsh, absolutely, but it's also not true and surely Victor knows this!
The inclination to help other people in need (empathy or compassion) obviously isn't a binary product of whether or not you have a religion, but is a genetic instinct in all humans. Culturally that instinctual seed can be grown or diminished, and I think you're right that some religious denominations have a good tradition or healthy focus on helping people and hence induce the growth of this instinct:)