World War I as the End of Civilization | Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1994)
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- "Since 1918, practically all indicators of high or rising time preferences have exhibited a systematic upward tendency: as far as government is concerned, democratic republicanism produced communism (and with this public slavery and government sponsored mass murder even in peacetime), fascism, national socialism and, lastly and most enduringly, social democracy ("liberalism"). Compulsory military service has become almost universal, foreign and civil wars have increased in frequency and in brutality, and the process of political centralization has advanced further than ever before."
Recorded at the Mises Institute's "Costs of War" conference in May 1994 in Auburn, Alabama: mises.org/libr...
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, an Austrian School economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, is Professor Emeritus of Economics at UNLV, Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute, founder and president of The Property and Freedom Society, former editor of the Journal of Libertarian Studies, and a lifetime member of the Royal Horticultural Society. He is married to economist Dr. A. Gulcin Imre Hoppe and resides with his wife in Istanbul.
I would rate this a 10/10 on a "thought provoking talk" scale.
WW 1 was a war between " Christian" nations.
00:26 🌍 World War I marked the transition from the monarchical age to the Democratic Republican age, with significant implications for government structures and policies.
03:20 💼 Distinctions between privately owned and publicly owned governments lead to predictions about economic incentives, resistance to rule, debt, income redistribution, and foreign policy approaches.
09:34 🔄 World War I resulted in the downfall of monarchies, leading to the rise of Democratic Republics globally, marked by universal suffrage and changes in government structures.
16:31 💸 Post-World War I, there was a notable increase in government taxation and employment, reflecting a shift in economic policies and an expansion of the state's role. -21:39 📈 The Republican age saw a departure from the historical trend of falling interest rates, with a continuous increase and a shift toward a paper money standard.
25:42 🏛 Legal inflation and welfare spending increased significantly during the Republican age, impacting family values, birth rates, and contributing to a rise in crime rates.
31:21 ⚔ Republican Wars tend to be ideologically motivated and total, contrasting with limited and objective-focused wars of the monarchical age, highlighting a shift in the nature of conflicts.
32:28 🌐 Wars post-1918 involved mass conscription, contrasting with limited, objective-driven monarchical wars.
34:40 💼 Since 1918, indicators show an upward trend in short-term government orientation, leading to communism, fascism, and social democracy.
35:21 📈 Democratic republicanism caused rising taxes, debts, public employment, destruction of the gold standard, inflation, protectionism, and migration controls.
35:50 💔 Welfare legislation harmed marriage and family, reducing childbirth rates, increasing divorce, illegitimacy, and abortion.
36:20 🧠 Cognitive decline: Political elites' intellectual prowess decreased, public education quality declined, and crimerates rose.
36:45 🌍 To prevent decivilization, delegitimize democratic rule, emphasizing private property, contractualism, and individual responsibility.
37:42 🔄 Transition to democratic rule was a change in public opinion; delegitimize democratic rule, promoting the legitimacy of private property.
Thank you.
Thanks a trillion homie
Magnificent, so to speak
An exploration of a possible "private law society" by means of a comparison of monarchial and social democratic systems of government..?.
Sounds good to me!
Why do you need someone to oversee you - authority? Are you not a grown adult who follows Natural Law & knows the difference between right & wrong & has self responsibility?
@@OurFreeSociety Quite so. But don't tell me, tell THEM!
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Quite so. But don't tell me, tell THEM!
The removal of the sacred from rulership (the replacement of anointed rulers by democratic/populist forms, that is, republics, fascism, and socialism) was the greatest sequela to come from World War I. World War II continued this by emasculating Japan.
Our present internationalist, Jewish overlords couldn't enslave us while our traditional, national elites were in place. So, they got rid of them.
6:27 so to speak.
Put it on 1.5x playback and he actually speaks at a bearable pace.
Good for you, but I think speeding audio up is unbearable.
@@FL_Cottonmouth - I agree. One guy did that to my VMs on TG & he thought I was a man LOL
Maybe you need to question why you need something at a fast speed. Are you young where you need everything at a toxic microwave pace? I too am impatient when it comes to low IQ people, but I'm not that bad.
You know it's unhealthy to want everything now & being anxious & hyper all the time.
I would look into this b/c this is a health issue.
I can help you if you want, just reach out.
Monarch don't impose taxation on its subject ?
The taxes were much lower because the governments were much smaller. Tarriffs also played a big part. No American voted for or wanted a federal income tax.
As far as imperialism, the Cold War and Monroe Doctrine were imperialist, spreading democracy is also imperialism because you're removing a monarchy from a country (like Hawaii) and forcing democracy and allegiance to your state.
The end of imperialism.
limited and objective-focused wars of the monarchical age, that is mindless conservative talk.
I've heard that point a lot too, some even going as far back as the goths and people like that supposedly waging 'limited wars' instead of all out conflicts, do you know of any good books or articles that go into that point? I'd like to learn more about it
It really isn’t though. The scale of destruction caused by Post-WWI war is virtually on a scale never seen prior (in the West).
To put this into perspective; the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) lasted around 116 years and resulted between 2.3-3.3 million deaths. WWII (1939-1945) lasted 6 years and resulted in 70-80 million deaths. If you think that’s cherrypicking; the Korean War (1950-1953, 1.5-4.5 million dead) and Vietnam War (1.3-4.3 million dead) would like a word. Medieval wars that killed millions of people tended to last 50-100+ years (outside of China). So the statement “pre-modern wars were limited as compared to today” is by-and-large a correct one. Now the argument of those being more objective-focused is less certain, but also has grounds in reality I’d say.
@@brianfrommars oh, mr mars, you are so right. because 13th century earth had a population of 13 billion people, compared with about one billion in the 20th century.. where was my mind? it is those damn screens that twist my mind. i need to put my mask on in case covid-22 strikes on.
@@brianfrommars Mostly because of the technological developments, not purely the system of governments. Crazy Monarchs of yesteryear would’ve been happy to launch nukes if they had them. There’s a point to be made in contrasting the incentives under long vs short-term stewardship- but those death tolls are more or less shoddy logic
@@johnkane2026It is throughly a misconception that war _as we conceive it_ was rampant and devastating throughout the Middle Ages.
Firstly, feudal polities were far smaller than today. Kings who would grant land to Dukes, who’d grant land to Counts, who’d grant land to Barons or Lords. This created a system of decentralized governance, and as a byproduct, decentralized war. Many, probably a majority, of the medieval conflicts were in actuality skirmishes between lower royals or “organized banditry” set up by a lord and his knights. Attrition played the biggest factor in large scale conflicts, which is why peasant villages were often raided and looted.
One would also have to imagine the idea of “crazy monarchs of yesteryears” falls on “shoddy logic” as well. These nobles were raised from birth with the intention that they would one day rule or support an allodium (hereditary property). They received an elite education, even by today’s standards, followed the footsteps of their parents and would raise their kids to do the same. Modern day politicians have no such institution. Instead they are lessees, temporary tenants, who gained their status by being “electable”. I think we’d live in a strange world if long-term, hereditary stewards were more actively ready to engage in mutually assured destruction than short-term, nonhereditary “trustees”.