Jordan Peterson, Freedom & the Problem w/ Conservatives; Idiocracy Review | Yaron Brook Show
Channel: Yaron Brook
Date: 2022-12-11

00:00 Intro
03:15 Inspiration for this: Jordan Peterson
06:06 What is the Conservative's agenda?
07:09 Conservative's challenges
08:08 JP gets that Subjectivism can't work
08:56 Political pathologies
10:13 False Dichotomy of Subjective vs. Intrinsic Theory of Values 
13:05 Ayn Rand's Objective Theory of Values
13:28 Conservatives don't mention reason
13:58 Religion inescapable for Conservatives 
14:14 Religion is whim worship
15:11 There is no revealed truth
16:03 Revelations are subjective opinions
17:00 Ayn Rand's criticism of Barry Goldwater
17:55 Religion is central for Conservatives 
19:02 YBS arguing against false dichotomies
20:00 Consciousness actively discovers truth and values
20:35 Objective alternative to Subjective and Intrinsic
22:33 Objectivism views mind as active process
23:26 Humans don't have values encoded 
23:36 ... which allows being creative about surviving

24:50 Newt Gingrich segment
26:26 What should Conservatives offer to young
27:40 Biblical Exodus
28:40 Meaning of freedom in Exodus
31:15 God punishes those who do not serve him
33:35 No freedom of speech in Exodus
34:40 Not freedom of whim, but to pursue proper goals
35:28 What are proper goals?
36:52 Core of the issue
38:00 Declaration of Independence mentioning the Creator
40:15 God or Government as only sources of Rights for them
41:55 False Dichotomy of Wisdom & Virtue vs. Hedonism
43:50 Pursuit of Happiness
45:56 Alcoholics Anonymous
46:48 No Freedom for Atheists

47:35 Mike Johnson segment
48:50 God created us to serve
49:01 Improvement in JP's view of Self-Interest
50:17 Freedom so that you can serve God
51:18 Greatness by servitude
52:03 Family as the first unit
54:20 Service to community

55:05 Josh Hawley segment
56:10 Rights given by God
57:14 Rights rationalistically derived from Bible
58:51 Rights involve responsibilities
1:00:32 Right to follow conscience
1:01:31 Left's view of Rights as Entitlements

1:02:30 Summary - Modern Right
1:03:45 Policy Implications
1:04:50 Economics Perspective
1:05:50 Josh Hawley's caricature of the Left's view
1:06:11 Most on Right also don't acknowledge Rights
1:07:05 Josh Hawley doesn't value computer programmers
1:07:50 Robots will take over 100s of millions of jobs
1:08:07 They have Marxist view of labor

1:09:38 Live questions, see pinned comment
1:25:02 Idiocracy Movie Review
1:33:38 Live questions, see pinned comment

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