The Left's De-Growth Agenda | Yaron Brook Show
Channel: Yaron Brook
Date: 2024-02-28

00:00 Intro
00:50 The De-Growth Agenda
14:20 Where does it come from
20:45 What do they want
31:20 How do you pay for all of this
35:45 Rehashed Communism
36:43 Evil Ideology

Live Questions:
54:47 From my experience, leftists are far more second handed then people on the right. If you don't have a PHD they will not listen to your chain of logic. You see this in their attacks on Alex Epstein for only having a bachelors in philosophy.
57:37 What degree of liberty do you think you'll see in your lifetime? A flat tax? decriminalization of all drugs? Abolishin of the minimum wage?
1:00:36 What did Rand mean when she said "Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an absconded mind"? It strikes me that power lusters have very active minds. Always plotting to seize power and manipulate others.
1:03:06 "I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened" -Mark Twain. I think Mark Twain could have been an Objectivist had he been alive today.
1:03:53 Is being gay or having a warped gender psychology an inferior state of being, but not necessarily immoral?
1:06:24 How do you view the relationship between altruism and narcissism? Do you view them as oppositional or aligned? For example Trump, while he may not have a soul anymore, it’s hard to think of him as self sacrificing.
1:08:39 Does a primacy of consciousness and zero sum view of the world lead to the type of rampant narcissism we see everywhere?
1:09:38 How would you respond to the following: "most of the immigrants crossing the border are low-skill labor that takes all the low-income jobs from Americans and that immigrants drive cost up and value jobs down"?
1:14:00 A great many people think they are thinking, when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. Moving words around like playing a game with Platonic forms. Never pointing to reality and saying "look!"
1:16:20 What do you think of the cultural impact of the Mad Max franchise (and others in the genre)? Some people seem to expect an economic catastrophe to occur.
1:18:50 I wish everyone who hated Israel and Jews for that matter would follow aarron bushnell's example
1:19:59 Why did South America have an easier time with capitalism than Africa? Africa doesn't have Catholicism holding it back.
1:22:20 When I walk through college campuses I see a lot of "queers for Palestine" signs. But I have yet to see any "Palestine for queers" signs.
1:22:32 When is your interview with Yeonmi Park? If your looking to grow viewership, that's a fantastic way to bring traffic to your channel.
1:25:22 Very interesting that Rand diagnosed anti-capitalism as anti-independence. The fear of independence is counterintuitive in the sense that mental dependence makes a person less safe. Thoughts on the causes of that fear?
1:26:38 How does the "leftist" "de=growth" movement relate to the "right's" back-to-the-1200s , dark-ages-denial pro-Christian-Theocracy stuff? I see Marxism as Christianity in secular paint; de-growth as secular paint peeling off.
1:29:43 Catholic Social Thought is very environmentalist
1:30:14 Is Milei still an altruist? Or has he rejected altruism to a large extent in order to be this passionate about liberty?
1:31:20 Do you think you can get on Piers Morgan?
1:31:38 In what ways are people trained in disintegration?
1:32:34 Is German philosophy dressed up barbarism? The Dark Ages presented as science?
1:33:14 What is the best way to express your love to a woman?
1:33:43 The most violent element in society is ignorance.
1:34:08 How do I get over a broken heart? 💔
1:34:32 Degrowth means -- people and planet, not profit.
1:34:50 Do you believe that eternal growth is possible? As inflated as the economy and money supply is, isn't some shrinkage of the economy necessary?
1:36:29 Your talk today maybe Earth in time of Star Trek.
1:36:40 Thank you for this episode but moreso for the show on pleasure and sex! Great discussion
1:36:52 My professor suggested that universal welfare programs would fix the inequalities from the legacy of slavery. What can remedy sin of slavery/Jim Crow?

1:37:10 Outro

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