AMA & Hangout with Contributors (Nov '23) | Yaron Brook Show
Channel: Yaron Brook
Date: 2023-11-04

00:00 Intro
01:04 November 4th
05:30 Draft
07:33 Role of Envy in Antisemitism
12:13 Can US leave UN?
17:13 Can you still be optimistic?
30:08 Does Israel need walls & conscription?
34:30 History of Middle East 
35:45 Relationship of Altruism to current events
46:46 Tribalism
51:05 What should Israel do after defeating Hamas?
1:01:00 Elections in Poland

1:07:38 Part 1) Recently ARI has made a big deal out of reaching 100,000 subscribers on Youtube after 16 years of posting videos. Contrastingly, MrBeast passed 100,000 subscribers after 2 years and 200 million subscribers after 12 years. If no one is asking what the essential differences are, they ought to be...
1:08:16 Part 2) In essence, MrBeast provides mass-market entertainment value; ARI does not. One can write this off as being an impossible goal to achieve for ARI, but Ayn Rand herself achieved mass-market entertainment value by writing fiction novels...
1:11:22 Part 3) Ideas are absorbed into the zeitgeist from art, not from text books. They come from TV shows and movies, not lectures. In rand's words, "Art is the technology of the soul".
1:13:15 What is the latest with Daily Wire making Atlas Shrugged?
1:13:37 Yaron took the words right out of my mouth (and did a better job) Jewish people are a culture of learning NO ONE is going to end up in hell or any kind of eternal damnation simply because they don't believe that theres a G-d
1:14:00 Something positive: You gave me a virtual "slap in the face" on the show 18 months ago after I expressed a lack of interest in anything. I've since quit my job, started my own business, & am happier, more productive & financially successful than ever. So thank you!
1:14:53 I've come to realize it isn't so much that people evade or are dishonest when engaging with Objectivist ideas, they don't even think long enough to recognize that ideas matter to begin with. We've got a LONG way too go.
1:15:11 Did you see the pink haired college professor in New York ripping off the posters of kidnapped Israeli children? I wonder why kidnapped children get them so mad? She should take that pink hair to Gaza.
1:17:11 Would you say that "hypergamy" is an anti-concept? I think the term attempts to put together Dagny Taggart and Laura Bradford, in the same non-essential way that "socialization" puts together Howard Roark and Peter Keating.
1:20:50 One thing that is getting more glaringly evident is: There are so many people that "think" they are thinking, but are really just feeling. Do you also see this, and do you know of a way to make them aware of this/wake them up

1:22:17 Forgiving yourself
1:25:20 How to talk to people with crazy ideas?
1:27:45 Attitude towards risk in Europe vs US
1:35:45 Jamming of surveillance system in Israel
1:38:17 Is US falling behind in technology?
1:43:08 What to do about universities
1:46:06 Violence

1:54:26 Do you see any influence from Plato's laws in Islamic law, whether peripheral or direct?
1:55:16 Rationalizations I've heard from leftists regarding Israel/Palestine: 1. "You're ignorant of the history if you haven't read any Palestinian authors" 2. "Israel funded the creation of Hamas".
1:57:06 Is the mixed economy an unspeakable evil?
1:57:17 Have a great show everyone. I should be there today but I can’t! ❤️❤️❤️
1:57:30 Watching all these pro Hamas protests outside my window, for the first time in my life I decided to purchase a piece for self protection.
1:57:54 "A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval" -Mark Twain.
1:58:05 Is everyone who has read Rand and doesn't become an Objectivist fundamentally dishonest?
1:58:24 This is a test (of faith?) God, are you there?
1:58:35 Are the only cultures in history who have valued the mind, the Greeks and the Jews?
1:59:17 Can IDF collapse Hamas tunnels from the surface?
1:59:39 Jews make up 2% of the American population, but account for 60% of the hate crimes.
1:59:49 When I talk to Israeli's I get a strong sense their altruism has been burnt up. They don't have a problem killing civilians to destroy Hamas. They've had enough.
2:00:35 See pinned comment for timestamps of additional questions

2:23:57 Outro

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