Looking Forward to 2023 | Yaron Brook Show
Channel: Yaron Brook
Date: 2023-01-03

00:00 Intro
02:15 Nikos on Thursday
05:00 Nothing new intellectually 
10:30 Objectivism is the only positive trend
12:38 Opportunity to attract new people
13:10 Intellectual dead end
15:30 Most ambitious conservatives
17:55 Left cannot connect with the people
18:44 Opportunities for Objectivists
20:38 Politics
34:19 Russia
38:49 China
42:30 Economy
45:31 BitCoin
46:49 Biotech
48:38 Housing
49:10 Stem Cells
49:40 Supreme Court

Live Questions:
51:54 Seems like leftist nihilistic intellectuals just want us to dei, whereas conservative christian thinkers are outraged by the concept. They want us to live and suffer for as long as possible. Suffering and misery are the more mature, adult options. Whereas suicide is immature and cowardly
54:59 I made the argument that "humans are amazing, we can build iPhones and satellites". I was met with the rebuttal: "Only a small percentage of humans can build those things, most people are too low IQ". Shouldn't we be grateful the gene pool produces some geniuses?
57:43 Reading Atlas Shrugged for second time since 20 years. “if to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.” The rest is metaphysics
58:53 Using January to rewatch all Yaron’s Rules for Life and focus on leading a value driven life in 2023. Even better the 2nd and 3rd times!
1:00:04 Do you get mad at people who don't get Objectivism after you've explained it to them perfectly? It's like, how could you not understand this? You forced me to waste all this energy casting pearls before swine!?
1:03:01 Who has been the “best” opposition to Objectivism? Best by the standard of “Has the most knowledge and understanding about objectivism”. I haven’t heard of someone who has taken on OPAR and then opposes Objectivism afterwards
1:04:12 The astounding success of your New Years Eve show convinced me the Objectivist movement has reached a new level. Not sure how to classify it, but something is happening. The next 10 years are going to be very interesting.
1:09:18 For this year I am picking up a new instrument: soprano cornet! My question: what thoughts do you have about the odd "left" nationalism that Canada has? Language laws in Quebec, Ottawa banning foreign residential purchases...
1:11:52 Hitler was voted in to "help the poor". Every time "the poor" are used as trojan horses. It's always a coverup for dictatorship. Is that why blue states are enacting policies to rev up the number of visible homeless?
1:15:02 What are you predictions for Iran?
1:20:22 What do think of inspirational Objectivism replacing religion: "the conscious integration of reason and emotion," along with spirituality. It's a difficult but worthy ambition.
1:21:30 Is environmentalism intellectually integrated, or just an outgrowth of guilt? Does environmentalism fit intellectually with the Christian nationalists or just a potential add-on to embrace in order to gain power?
1:23:35 Was listening to Handel's Xerxes today. Do you like that one?
1:25:25 It’s frustrating that Sam Seder still has you labeled a libertarian on his YouTube channel.
1:25:46 What did Ayn Rand mean when she said: "The cult of uncertainty is a revolt against reason"?
1:26:55 Is it legitimate to speak of people as "fully rational"? Even if you've integrated Objectivism properly, your subconscious is always going to send you irrational fears and ideas?
1:27:52 Have you read anything by American biographer Robert Caro? Currently reading “The power broker” about Robert Moses. Know for is exhaustive research and detail
1:28:15 You notice pundits often write or say "conservatives and libertarians", not just "conservatives" anymore? Harry Binswanger thinks this is Ayn Rand's influence slowly creeping into politics.

1:30:06 Outro

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