The mood, acoustics and overall pace and atmosphere of the conversation was rarely relaxing thus much needed in this world. Maybe a fundamental step toward such authentic self recognition and resilience against interventions, is to simply introduce more silence and calm manners as done in this video.
@StephenGrew
Жыл бұрын
Spot on
@magictom8
Жыл бұрын
A conversation rather than an interview, thoroughly enjoyable - and very pertinent.
@Laurencemardon
Жыл бұрын
Yep seems like it. I like the statement around minute 23.
@paulantonio740
Жыл бұрын
When Crawford talks about the allure of riding & fixing motorcycles, the perils of self-driving vehicles, and the encroachment of bureaucratic safety-ism, I listen. Thank you for this interview, Freddie.
@LTVoyager
Жыл бұрын
I think a topic that Unherd needs to explore is what created the environment where people actually believe all of these emergency proclamations. I know there is no one answer, but I think a big part of it is our educational system. We have evolved over time from education entirely from one’s parents and one’s life experiences, to public education that encouraged critical thinking to our current education system which is more akin to indoctrination than education. This indoctrination is what allows one or possible two generations of people who are susceptible to anything they are told to accept and they simply don’t even question it.
@Being_Bohemian
Жыл бұрын
I agree with you. John Taylor Gatto's books are a pertinent read, e.g. 'Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling' and 'Dumbing Us Down'. His book titles are so fitting, and support your theory.
@Being_Bohemian
Жыл бұрын
From the description of his Weapons of Mass Instruction book, on Amazon: 'Gatto demonstrates that the harm school inflicts is rational and deliberate. The real function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common population manageable. To that end, young people must be conditioned to rely upon experts, to remain divided from natural alliances and to accept disconnections from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged from developing self-reliance and independence.'
@sofly7634
Жыл бұрын
The purpose of the drill Measure compliancy among the sheeple
@1LaOriental
Жыл бұрын
Read the Trilateral Commission's report: The crisis of democracy... it's all in there.
@aeasthouse316
Жыл бұрын
@@Being_Bohemian indeed. Also saw a talk (cant remember who it was) showing that the more educated we are, the more we specialise in one field -the field we work in. All other aspects of life get's "outsourced" to other experts. Since we don't have time for anything but our own expertise, we now holy rely on others for everything else. So we completely trust others, say with our health, or our finances, or building our houses, or producing our food, or producing our energy, or whatever it is. Therefore the more educated we are the less likely it is that we question others as we are completely reliant on them and blindly have to trust them.
@jmwoods190
Жыл бұрын
There is a Chinese phrase 趁火打劫(prounounced: chènhuô dâjié) which translates to: "Robbing during a fire", in which the 'fire' is the metaphor for any kind of crisis or emergency. Once you identify who the robbers are during all these so-called 'emergencies', everything will make sense!
@si0054
Жыл бұрын
Also known as disaster capitalism
@jmwoods190
Жыл бұрын
@@si0054 I refer to both stakeholder & disaster capitalism as 'the bad kinds of capitalism' to distinguish it from the healthier kinds of capitalism. And ironically many of the self-proclaimed 'socialists', most notably Dan Andrews of Victoria, Australia (not sure if Trudeau actually called himself a socialist) have been practicing disaster capitalism in the last 3 years.
@OceanFrontVilla3
Жыл бұрын
@@jmwoods190 Trudeau claims to be a "Liberal" but he functions as a communist dictator.
@faza553
Жыл бұрын
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” The authorities' intend to leach our centre if gravity from it's divine fortress residence: within us - ♫ ♫ Don't you let them! ♫ ♫
@ProtectMyLiberty
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@EricM_001
Жыл бұрын
Good to see Matthew here again. Freddie had an excellent conversation with him on this channel a couple years ago on the dangers of safetyism, highly recommend.
@beecat9951
Жыл бұрын
Didn't see this at the time so many thanks for the recommendation!
@ОлегПаньків-ь5к
Жыл бұрын
What I like about this channel is that they are truly ready to listen to different positions and ideas, without giving up on their own ones. Polite manners that come from respect and dignity! So unusual from the mainstream )
@123gillam
Жыл бұрын
There are those that want to enslave you, and those that resist. Some of the resistance is to show people their choices. Perception is reality. The battle is for the mind. The truth , always choose the truth.
@Mark-hc8ek
Жыл бұрын
I'm happy to hear Dr. Crawford mention several times HR departments being a force of this cult of crisis, since most of us work for corporations and HR departments are our firsthand experiences with what we encounter in crisis culture. My HR department mandated vaccines and racial sensitivity training all in the same year during lockdown with a bombardment of social and political messaging that continues near daily, and has adversely affected me in ways I try not to think about. I detest these do-gooders. They are liars and they know it. Sorry I can't be as diplomatic as Dr. Crawford.
@jayjaydubful
Жыл бұрын
Don't forget EDI departments - in my sector most of the madness springs from there
@mogznwaz
Жыл бұрын
It creates an atmosphere of self censorship
@mogznwaz
Жыл бұрын
@@jayjaydubfulyes their jobs rely on grievance existing and they all egg each other on with who can spout the most vacuous pamphlet guff
@jayjaydubful
Жыл бұрын
@@mogznwaz exactly, they are witch hunters. They need to find the witches to get paid
@DrAlexVasquezICHNFM
Жыл бұрын
I agree with your comment that he’s too diplomatic and unable to access the necessary visceral response that this stupidity requires
@therealglena
Жыл бұрын
A population in fear is easier to control. After they take your rights away you never quite get them back. Don't give them up under any circumstances.
@lifeintheolddog5768
Жыл бұрын
Just reading his books now, his thoughts and discussion of the impact of automation on humanity and what it is to be human is fascinating. As he says, everybody dies, but not everyone lives…
@TheSwissChalet
Жыл бұрын
Never was any emergency...
@blaisemorris1301
Жыл бұрын
Not an emergency, but clearly a Pandemic of Fear !
@bidencrimefamilymottof-cky953
Жыл бұрын
@@blaisemorris1301 the cult of safe.
@gedofgont1006
Жыл бұрын
Hence the use of the media, to create the perception of an emergency.
@davidloftus300
Жыл бұрын
Love Matthew Crawford. Always gives a fantastic interview Many thanks Freddie
@andrjsh
Жыл бұрын
Emergencies also present the illusion that the government is doing something beneficial for the populace.
@charlenefrench5404
Жыл бұрын
Desperate to stay relevant.
@LettyK
Жыл бұрын
Invoking the Hegelian dialectic.
@lifeintheolddog5768
Жыл бұрын
And that fouling up the response was the fault of necessary urgency.
@carlasabotta3750
Жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation.
@suecooper9011
Жыл бұрын
This was brilliant, thankyou. Crawford speaks to how we're feeling, "the language of emergency" whereby we're living in a perpetual state of fight or flight. Crawford touches on how most of us want to be left alone - exactly. However, there's a type of militancy to this entity that's hell bent on reforming every aspect of life. Agree, people are recoiling from that. Freddie concludes "if people could take back more control of their own lives and were better at defending against the incoming information that they didn't want and could protect themselves emotionally, you would get a more resilient society where those forces, by necessity, were pushed back". Agree, enough suffering by us and we might just get there. Crawford say's - "you don't get an option to disengage from this stuff, it's in every aspect of life". He sums up "there has to be some actual political power exercised in reining in these Messianic transformative social engineering initiatives." These Politican's and Corporations, whilst intelligent, require wisdom and wisdom comes from awareness. Until we get that, we'll only ever create the same.
@Laurencemardon
Жыл бұрын
I’m going to vote for the next politician that promises to put the paper format transit schedules back on the wall and to allow me to get mail or send parcels without using my phone!!
@Steve197201
Жыл бұрын
This channel is like a sane version of NPR. I love it!
@heathersmith5237
Жыл бұрын
I know, right? ❤
@AvantNoir
Жыл бұрын
How can you even compare the two? NPR is garbage
@janetclark5668
Жыл бұрын
@@AvantNoir A sane version. How it used to be. A long time ago.
@LaLumina
Жыл бұрын
Dreaming of a world when this kind of openess and authenticity of The Self will become normal and not a precious gem. So calming and empowering simuntaneously. Thank you🙏.
@antonyliberopoulos933
Жыл бұрын
Enlightening account of today's crisis. This conversation was a gem.
@tomatobrush3283
Жыл бұрын
Never let a good crisis go to waste, especially not a crisis that was set up to be exploited in the first place.
@ProtectMyLiberty
Жыл бұрын
I can easily imagine conversing with Mr. Crawford for hours on end. Wise and interesting fellow. Great interview, Freddie.
@garysarela4431
Жыл бұрын
Crawford used to work for a fossil fuel industry think-tank called Marshall Institute. He states: "part of my job consisted of making arguments about global warming that just happened to coincide with the positions taken by the oil companies that funded the think tank."
@dark-o
Жыл бұрын
Problem, Reaction, Solution sounds very familiar now...
@LettyK
Жыл бұрын
Yep, the old Hegelian dialectic continually in play ..
@deadreckoning6288
Жыл бұрын
Yep. Now we must get rid of our gas stoves.
@ianducane2145
Жыл бұрын
I did not acquiesce....I continued as normal....I am a rower and I continued to row even though my club was undemocratically and arbitrarily shut down....it meant I had to tow my boat from my home to the sea 3 times a week.....I even wrote to my MP and forced her to confirm that I was behaving legally....I also took a lot of flack from my dimwit sheeple club mates. It dumbfounds me how week minded and gullible the average person is......indeed the vast majority of citizens are born slaves.
@PabloGarcia-hc8xq
Жыл бұрын
You are a leader. Me too. Except my escape was the freedom of my motorcycle. Dont change. 👍
@sofly7634
Жыл бұрын
We need a Savior
@janetclark5668
Жыл бұрын
Similiar. I disengaged from 7 yrs of weekly Tai Chi sessions and from church where everyone besides me accepted masking without hesitation and looked forward to a vaccine to save them. I've always had a hard time with cognitive dissonance and feeling alone in my thinking so in the pandemic circumstance I knew I had to opt out.
@kimjohnson8471
Жыл бұрын
My husband calls this phenomenon Panic Porn.
@thomasgill223
Жыл бұрын
The first pivot was universal masking. Once you got the populace to embrace this without debate, dissent, or scientific evidence, the game plan was set.
@timfallon8226
Жыл бұрын
The warm up act for the faux vaccines.
@nuttall47
Жыл бұрын
They want you to panic and not to think for yourself.
@cjlaity1
Жыл бұрын
Time to stop the criminals from wearing masks.
@AnthonyKellett
Жыл бұрын
It's all very well for individuals to be cognisant of the over zealous catastrophisation of issues, but governments are taking it upon themselves to dictate that we surrender our freedoms to their authoritarian rule. Of course, this is facilitated by a weak, pathetic majority, who will shed individual responsibility at every opportunity. In fact, this is even reflected in politicians, themselves, who do the same by 'following the science' in order pass the buck, rather than shoulder any responsibility. They leap from fence to fence, sitting on every one. The chance of political power being wielded, to reign in this nonsense, is virtually nil. I cannot see this ending well.
@celiacresswell6909
Жыл бұрын
Na we’ll be fine …. but it might get rough for a few hundred years 😬
@AnthonyKellett
Жыл бұрын
@@celiacresswell6909 - You're right... I was being overly pessimistic 😊
@panamareg
Жыл бұрын
There is always a reason for the public to submit and obey those claiming authority.. This is how you train the new serfs of the world. You will own nothing,do what you are told, and remain silent.
@ohsweetmystery
Жыл бұрын
We will own everything and you will be miserable. -- Klaus Schwab
@marion4549
Жыл бұрын
Yes, yes, yes, we see the psyop. It's now time to discuss how to stay sane in a mad, mad world. Thanks.
@chloemartel9927
Жыл бұрын
First turn off the TV.
@jmwoods190
Жыл бұрын
@@chloemartel9927 I don't even own a TV myself!
@chloemartel9927
Жыл бұрын
@@jmwoods190 I turn mine on for an hour a week for a specific show.
@deadreckoning6288
Жыл бұрын
Good question. I'd like to know because I'm losing it.
@no-one-knows321
Жыл бұрын
Look, this is a Western crisis, not a world crisis. Big differences in where you live. Compare Florida and New York for example over last 2 yrs. Sanner places in the world exist.
@tanyakruyt5122
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! This is an important topic!
@michaelsinclair2510
Жыл бұрын
This also brings to mind the very well known Solomon Asch 1951 experiment in social psychology dealing with the individual and group dynamics. How hard it is for an individual to rationalise within groups of majority thought - that well over 75% of people will agree with majority opinion at least once, knowing it to be wrong. My feeling is that a mixture of obedience and acquiescence has given us this ‘perpetual’ state of emergency, the current plethora of societal issues caused by lockdowns, all under the umbrella of MC’s safetyism. Perhaps obedience is really the problem, as Howard Zinn (A Peoples History of the United States) says “our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country”. Also, as to ‘knowingness’, (climate change etc) Betrand Russell in 1959 asked future generations to "deal only with the facts" - five years later we had Marshall McLuhan's ’The Medium is the Message’. There are, and always have been, a garden of facts out there, some gathered, others left in order to support whatever narrative. Perhaps it is the choice of facts that we need to always question, as we should self question. A really good interview.
@SGI999
Жыл бұрын
Great comment
@djonfonsteen6331
Жыл бұрын
Nice, thank you. Slightly surprised that I'm allowed to read this. I must take notes from your choice of wording and writing skill. I agree also It's important not to point fingers directly at those responsible, as they seem to manage all social media activity too.
@zogy628
Жыл бұрын
Another good discussion i keep sharing interviews like these in the vain hope that more and more people start to think clearly
@evolassunglasses4673
Жыл бұрын
A small well organised minority rules over a disorganised majority.
@JohnSmith-oe4ci
Жыл бұрын
oy vey
@sue.F
Жыл бұрын
To make sense of the current events, I keep coming back to this.
@arupsarkar2509
Жыл бұрын
" Fear not that can kill your body, but fear that can kill both your body and soul!" Come Lord, take us home, this world is not our home.
@LettyK
Жыл бұрын
"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind .." 2Timothy1:7
@OceanFrontVilla3
Жыл бұрын
In Canada you can choose MAID.
@deadreckoning6288
Жыл бұрын
This is where I've come to. I have no home in this world anymore.
@timfallon8226
Жыл бұрын
No one is coming to save you, you need to save yourself. Waiting to be saved is infantile.
@oliverdevine
Жыл бұрын
Always good listening to Freddy interview
@williamtyndale1402
Жыл бұрын
In the October 2022 version of the FAA Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners, the FAA quietly widened the EKG parameters beyond the normal range (from a PR max of .2 to unlimited). And they didn’t widen the range by a little. They widened it by a lot. It was done after the vaccine rollout
@gavinmetzler858
Жыл бұрын
Do you mean this bit : "First-degree AV (atrioventricular) block with PR interval less than 300 ms (0.30 sec)" Can you explain what that means? I have no idea have EKG works.
@williamtyndale1402
Жыл бұрын
@@gavinmetzler858 your question would suggest that you do know but a simple Internet search gives the following. A very long PR interval may lead to AV dissociation requiring permanent pacing. A PR interval over 350 ms and an exaggerated prolongation of PR per given decrease in heart rate may indicate a high risk of AV dissociation, hence the need for permanent pacing.
@gavinmetzler858
Жыл бұрын
@@williamtyndale1402 Thanks for the reply, I really don't know, I just did a search for EKG in the guide from the FAA website, and cut/pasted that bit out. Unfortunately, I still am none the wiser because I don't know what PR interval, AV dissociation or permanent pacing mean :( I guess I don't know if the FAA change was suspicious or not. I suspect it was because I'm a big tin foil hat wearer, but I like to try and verify these things so I don't fall for another fake conspiracy theory again.
@williamtyndale1402
Жыл бұрын
@@gavinmetzler858 So many " conspiracy theories " have since turned out to be facts. Sadly the are we are now living in is reminiscent of 1930s Gernany..look up Dietrich Bonhoeffer or Platos Cave on youtube. In a nutshell the FAA have for some reason amended the EKG / ECG limits and as the extract states an extended PR interval could necessitate a pacemaker.
@glennmitchell9107
Жыл бұрын
If a problem doesn't require very loud and annoying sirens, it isn't an emergency.
@pacoshuman7642
Жыл бұрын
In the 'West' or greater west...not in MOST other parts of the world. Some places actually allow humans to live. Can you imagine? Allowing someone to just live is most definitely not a goal/idea of westerners, Bill Gates, Claus Schwab, etc., etc.
@hrvad
Жыл бұрын
The strange attraction people have to this solidarity is no mystery at all. It's all laid out in the descriptions of Mass Formation. Look up professor Mattias Desmet and Mass Formation, lots of great interview. Of all the explanatory frameworks I've seen Mass Formations describe best what we went through. Edit: just real short intro to Mass Formations: when negative emotions such as fear, anxiety and loneliness surge people feel bad. Then the leaders construct a collectivist narrative and create certain rituals around it. Then when the anxious begin to worship the collectivist narrative and engage in the rituals they immediately have their anxiety reduced. They are, as the slogan in Denmark was, "together, each on their own". That is, they are not together with people, but together with the Narrative. As personal relationships deteriorate loneliness increases and makes the narrative much like a drug. You can't get off it. Which is why dissidents are HATED. Critics role the narrative and people feel the rush of negative emotions return, thus associating those feelings with the critics. Mass formations are also striking in their narratives often being false. This like any cult they furnish it with a corollary fake logic and fake morality. For covid: Fake reality: Covid is very dangerous and unlike anything we know so no ordinary measures are enough, this is a crisis. Fake logic: wear masks outdoors; and not when you're sitting at a table, but if you get up you must mask up. Fake morality: of you don't you'll kill Grandma. Etc.
@watchingvideosnow
Жыл бұрын
Yes, great summary! Thank you for the effort and sharing!
@williamtyndale1402
Жыл бұрын
George Orwell predicted this in his book 1984
@GCSengineering
Жыл бұрын
It wasn’t a prediction, it was a warning
@jeffreyhill3592
Жыл бұрын
Has anyone noticed that not a day goes by without some agency issuing a warnings about changes from the day before. Example, warnings about heavy rain, cold or hot temperatures or that it will be windy. I don’t know how I would manage to keep living without all this guidance, why do governments want us all to be so risk averse?
@deadreckoning6288
Жыл бұрын
Now it's gas stoves that are going to kill us. Insane clown world.
@TourmeisterTWT
Жыл бұрын
It is one thing to have a group of people acting in a way that might seem to be a conspiracy to those outside the group simply because the insiders are acting in concert whether they realize it or not. This is called parallelism in legal terms. You will see it when people have a shared worldview or values so they tend to act in similar ways when faced with similar circumstances. This does not require a conspiracy in the sense that most people think of the term. However, when you have a group of people that are actively engaging in intentional deception, not innocent ignorance, that is a whole other creature. Coordinated deception is almost certainly conspiracy. It doesn't require that ALL people participating in an activity know about the deception, only that those that are directing the activity know. For instance, a directive is sent out by those at the top to push one version of a story and those on the bottom just do as their told without really giving it any thought. I think we saw a LOT of this in the medical industry with respect to Covid, suggested directives for dealing with it early on, in the media with regard to enforcing an official narrative and crushing any opposing narrative, and also with the vaccines. As was mentioned in the discussion, there was a lot of aggressive marginalizing of anyone that sought to honestly question the official stories, some of which may have been out of innocent desire to do good, but also some of which may have been pushed by actors that knew better. The recent release of emails from Fauci et al in the first weeks of the "pandemic" are revealing in this regard.
@celiacresswell6909
Жыл бұрын
I have yet to meet anyone with a university education who is comfortable with the term ‘conspiracy ‘applied to themselves. I think we equate it with paranoia and unsophisticated/irrational thinking. You will see people doing backflips to avoid it - see above where both agree that the pharma industry regularly conspires with government, in secret and openly, against the interest of the people, but it’s not a conspiracy! A dangerous Achilles heel.
@djonfonsteen6331
Жыл бұрын
@@celiacresswell6909 agreed. When respected and globally influential professors are told to be re-educated due to a purely political attack, we have to question what education is. To me, education in all its differing qualities, hss been used as another tool to perpetuate ignorance, conflict and an archaic class system. A class system that also leans towards conflict. This is something we don't need when robots are now the new slaves. Have we become superfluous?
@celiacresswell6909
Жыл бұрын
@@djonfonsteen6331 there is an underrated KZitemr called rogue scientist you might enjoy!
@gitastudygroup1628
Жыл бұрын
Excellent for subject and level headed conversation. I wonder if it will awaken those who seem to be brainwashed and compliant. Hope it does.🙏
@fb2500
Жыл бұрын
Excellent and philosophical! We need more of these deep conversations about moral and ethics
@edwardevans5194
Жыл бұрын
Top notch Freddie
@bsmithhammer
Жыл бұрын
That was great and worth every minute I devoted to it this morning. While I've thought a lot about the self-serving agendas that benefit from the perpetual 'culture of fear,' this talk has also caused me to think a lot more about all the personal, emotional boxes that it checks for people as well - from the messianic, to the purposeful, to the moral superiority it provides to its adherents. Much to ponder...
@BiggusDiggusable
Жыл бұрын
That kind of approach can have more than one locus. Have a little think about the self serving agendas of the groups and individuals who seek to tell everyone that there is no problem at all....or that if there is a problem we can't do anything about it.
@bsmithhammer
Жыл бұрын
@@BiggusDiggusable Of course it can. Either extreme has its extreme faults. But there is an entire, largely reasonable, ground in the middle. But I don't think that a mentality of "there is no problem at all" is what is being promoted here.
@BiggusDiggusable
Жыл бұрын
@@bsmithhammer Unless there is an explicit or clearly implicit acknowledgement that there really is a problem (which I missed) then I'm pretty sure that is an underlying aim of these talks.
@bsmithhammer
Жыл бұрын
@@BiggusDiggusable The point, as I see it, is to be critical of over-reactions, and perpetual "crises." Also to be aware of the impacts of that on society as whole, and how crises can be used for self-serving agendas. That doesn't imply whatsoever that the opposite is true, and that there is no problem at all - it simply means that we should be aware and responding reasonably, while also not buying into the idea that we are in a never-ending series of overlapping disasters.
@fernandodimeo7419
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Freddie ….we need to be more aware what some lunatics may have in store for us.
@liam3553
Жыл бұрын
It’s the fundamental fight between good (confidence, optimism) and evil (fear, restriction).
@lesliecunliffe4450
Жыл бұрын
The paradigm shift that Matthew Crawford is groping to articulate has already been identified in Frank Furedi's (2004) book Culture Therapy. Over the last sixty years, western culture has gradually moved away from a shared, moral understanding of persons towards a therapeutic and subjective view of personhood. With the latter comes a whole consolation of values and beliefs: fragility, trigger warnings, safe spaces, the erosion of resilience, hate speech, self-esteem, health and safety legislation, vulnerability, risk-aversion, etc., that western governments are opportunistically exploiting to extend their authority and control. Canada is a good example.
@craigmccracken3104
Жыл бұрын
For anyone who hasn't read 1984, I'd recommend it.
@susanfrisby3762
Жыл бұрын
Listening to it right now - very pertinent
@schechter01
Жыл бұрын
Indeed... "WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"
@jardinekelso
Жыл бұрын
And the Handmaid's Tale , beware the cashless society
@markcampanelli
Жыл бұрын
Great perspective. Thanks!
@HiKasandra
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this particularly enlightening interview. Really learnt from this interview. Hope everyone at Unherd and its viewers have a great 2023 ahead. Yep and I do think it is kind of naive to think that nobody profits from all these. X
@gailclough1665
Жыл бұрын
First time I've heard this guest. Very interesting I'd like to hear more
@interestedparty8389
Жыл бұрын
Freddie the more I listen to your articulate views the more I agree with your very well put subtle points
@brendansherlock6442
Жыл бұрын
Population control, eugenics, fascism and transhumanism, these are the ingredients of our current predicament
@privaatsak
Жыл бұрын
Calm and reasoned brilliance. Thank you!
@LifeandLifeMoreAbundantly
Жыл бұрын
He's right, the modern mobs are aligning with the centurions not the weak and vulnerable.
@allanwilson8878
Жыл бұрын
This isn't new though. Western society has been said to be in crisis since the 1970s at least, perhaps since the late nineteenth century. If you're a Brit, just think about the NHS. Everyday since its foundation at least one newspaper article has been published claiming it is about to collapse.
@djonfonsteen6331
Жыл бұрын
Totally agreed. I've looked to history for some sense of comparison. Everywhere you look you see parasites feeding off suffering, other people hard work, stress, slavery and debt. These are not conspiracies, these are our lives. Action is needed. Group conversations without zoom, mobiles or pc's.
@texazwhyte2791
Жыл бұрын
Pretty much one of the best interviews I have listened to in a very long time. Nice one boys!! Or am I not allowed to say boys now??
@olafsigmundson2167
Жыл бұрын
Excellent interview. Thanks Freddie & Matthew.
@Jay...777
Жыл бұрын
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.” George Orwell
@mogznwaz
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been thinking this myself. It all feels a little too coordinated to me
@stephenscott6570
Жыл бұрын
Yep, pride goes before the fall. Pride is a poison. When my kids did something well and asked me if I am proud of them I said no. I said, I am happy for you, because that is something you, not I, did. Pride is about my own ego.
@benji523
Жыл бұрын
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." - Civ4 😉 This turned out to be another good interview! Its a slow burn but gets interesting.
@Laocoon283
Жыл бұрын
Someone described Rome's justification for its imperialism as a need to secure its border by conquering the land on the bors. The only problem being that everytime they conquer a new land they have a new border to protect lol. It's a positive feedback loop.
@ljt3084
Жыл бұрын
Academy of ideas Y.T channel. Mass psychosis video. Fantastic video explaining where this behaviour leads and who benefits.
@synergyb3926
Жыл бұрын
That is a great video.
@youcancallmeana
Жыл бұрын
I think the reason people get so righteous about masks is that it's a simple way for people to feel a sense of empowerment. It's an unconscious response, and it's been manipulated, as all good propaganda is, to give you a sense of safety in an unsafe world, and the minimal that any moral person would do for their fellow man...Fear and righteousness, really powerful stuff there.
@brezhnev89
Жыл бұрын
What a great calm conversation
@darthbicycle4365
Жыл бұрын
Thank you gentlemen. That was great. I think Crawford is really onto something. Part of the population in the western world seems to desire this ludicrous technocracy.
@Patrick-xc4ul
Жыл бұрын
I read shopclass as soulcraft What a relief.. restored some faith or hope in my humanity Thank you.
@hazchemel
Жыл бұрын
Our culture did indeed manifest extraordinary Beauty. Still now, the glorious creations of European medieval and later times are imbibed in awe and wonder. The skeleton of our society, and our ancient institutions today are that Christendom. What have we become, that our arts and magistri give birth to horror and despair ..
@damiancayer2003
Жыл бұрын
Something that occurred to me during the height of the lockdowns is that a state of emergency makes government officials and bureaucrats jobs a lot easier. They can act as they see fit with little to no pushback which I’d imagine, would be a relief from the endless committees and public outreach type stuff they normally have to do. “Just an email or two and we’re all going ahead with whatever ‘great idea’ I came up with in the shower this morning…” Way easier than 6 months of meetings listening to people drone on about their nit-picky problems with your plan. Everyone likes to make their lives a little easier if they can and hate it when they have to go back to the hard way. One more way we backslide into authoritarianism. Speaking of things that are hard, for citizens to maintain their democracy, it requires effort and attention. Silence on the part of the citizen is a vote for the status quo. You want your “rights “? It would appear that they are not so inalienable as we may have thought. At least not in this world.
@deadreckoning6288
Жыл бұрын
Well said. An apathetic and compliant populace that does whatever they're told does not help either.
@charlag569
Жыл бұрын
Phenomenal guest!
@sparkyaddison8324
Жыл бұрын
Teaching the next generation that ‘activism’ (pick your crusade) is THE validation of self worth & social validation is some what new and an additional catalyst in the modern context.
@StephenGrew
Жыл бұрын
Superb conversation. Keep going people and keep your free spirit or re find it....
@sniperactive1965
Ай бұрын
This is a recurring theme in history. When Michael Crichton wrote state of fear, he spoke about this in novel length form.
@katrinweigel3796
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your great talk.
@Cdarlosfletch58
Жыл бұрын
Words are so powerful ! We don’t realise how they can be used against us . Excellent interview !!
@albertcollins2725
Жыл бұрын
H. L. Mencken - "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
@richardabbot8724
Жыл бұрын
This is the nature of progressivism. People can never be persuaded toward endless progress, it had to be shoved down their throat, via ‘emergencies’
@michaelhenry4969
Жыл бұрын
That was brilliant.
@michaelmoskowitz3212
Жыл бұрын
For those interested in history, I found Hannah Arendt's original new yorker piece for free online...it tries to show that the holocaust happened not because of bad people, rather "normal" people in an authoritarian or totalitarian system. here is an excerpt: "Throughout the trial, Eichmann tried to clarify, mostly without success, the point in his plea of his being “in the sense of the indictment, not guilty.” The indictment implied not only that he had acted on purpose, which he did not deny, but that he had acted out of base motives and in full knowledge of the criminal nature of his deeds. As for the base motives, he was sure that he was not what he called an innerer Schweinehund-a dirty bastard in the depths of his heart-and as for his conscience, he recalled perfectly well that he would have had a bad conscience only if he had not done what he had been ordered to do-to ship millions of men, women, and children to their death with great zeal and most meticulous care. This last statement, admittedly, was hard to take. Half a dozen psychiatrists had certified Eichmann as “normal.” “More normal, at any rate, than I am after having examined him,” one of them was said to have exclaimed, while another had found that Eichmann’s whole psychological outlook, including his relationship with his wife and children, his mother and father, his brothers and sisters and friends, was “not only normal but most desirable.” And, finally, a minister who paid regular visits to him in prison after the Supreme Court had finished hearing his appeal reassured everybody by declaring that Eichmann was “a man with very positive ideas.” Behind the comedy of the soul experts lay the hard fact that Eichmann’s was obviously no case of moral insanity. (Hausner’s recent revelations-in the Saturday Evening Post-of things he “could not bring out at the trial” have contradicted the information given informally in Jerusalem. Eichmann, we are now told, had been attested to be “a man obsessed with a dangerous and insatiable urge to kill,” “a dangerous, perverted, sadistic personality.” In which case he would have belonged in an insane asylum.) Worse, it was just as obviously no case of insane hatred of Jews, of fanatical anti-Semitism. He “personally” never had anything whatever against Jews; on the contrary, he had plenty of “private reasons” for not being a Jew hater. To be sure, there were fanatic anti-Semites among his closest friends-for instance, Vitez Lászlo Endre, State Secretary in Charge of Political (Jewish) Affairs in the Ministry of the Interior, in Hungary, who was hanged in Budapest in 1946-but this, it appeared, was more or less in the spirit of “some of my best friends are anti-Semites.” Alas, nobody believed him. The prosecutor did not believe him, because that was not his job. Counsel for the defense paid no attention, because, unlike Eichmann, he was to all appearances not interested in questions of conscience. And the judges did not believe him, because they were too good, and perhaps also too conscious of the very foundations of their profession, to admit that an average, “normal” person, neither feeble-minded nor indoctrinated nor cynical, could be perfectly incapable of telling right from wrong." www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-jerusalem-i?fbclid=IwAR2E3FS--ekOpNIkSCtFwz05CQ0ovGRGpaP9Akrs1o9lApfOktZ6fqSwwMA
@anitab.1176
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. I will read this in its entirety.
@deadreckoning6288
Жыл бұрын
One could say human nature is inherently flawed.....perhaps terminally in the end.
@sofly7634
Жыл бұрын
It's the reason a Savior was sent Save your
@olly6828
Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@Laguna724
Жыл бұрын
The never ending search for truthful answers. Somebody knows exactly how to manipulate things into their agenda.
@SusanBreidenbach
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for a very interesting discussion. Pairs well wilh Robert Higgs' classic "Crisis and Leviathon." For me, this particular pair is worth a lot more than the sum of the parts.
@fernandodimeo7419
Жыл бұрын
Great crucial conversation.
@howardskillington4445
Жыл бұрын
Having read Crawford's books I am glad to have discovered this feature. I am curious to hear from Sayers, but was a bit put off by his effort to tie this issue up with a tidy bow at the end of his thirty minutes. Yes, it would be good for more individuals to make more of effort to push back at the recent shocking increase in state and corporate control, but the institutions behind that control are very powerful and skilled at forcing their agenda. Pushing them back and reclaiming our individual rights will require a political solution, if not catastrophic revolt that not of us should want.
@Mystery_G
Жыл бұрын
You must constantly be frightened so that only 'we' can protect you.
@jackiedelvalle
Жыл бұрын
...by selling you something. 🙄
@interestedpart2650
Жыл бұрын
Excellent
@sofly7634
Жыл бұрын
They did a state of emergency to the globe
@StephenGrew
Жыл бұрын
My same feelings. I think the conversation is very insightful......
@46metube
Жыл бұрын
Fear fatigue is tiresome, and leaves one feeling slightly anxious. It's a constant.
@deadreckoning6288
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant discussion. Really lays out what we're up against. And I really wish I wasn't around to live through this time.
@celiacresswell6909
Жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t miss it but then I’m a horror fan!
@sofly7634
Жыл бұрын
Being thrown to lions was no picnic. And how about the times when the sport of lynching was all the rage. I hear you though.
@SC-gw8np
Жыл бұрын
I’ve always wished that I lived before mid 1850s, ideally before the Enlightenment and French Revolution. The modern era is frightful to me.
@steveevans946
Жыл бұрын
I enjoy these slightly cautious conversations. I disagree that this could all come about without a steering force. That force is an elite who really do consider themselves to be wholly superior to the masses (us in other words). This elite has evolved but has been around for hundreds and probably thousands of years. To them, and yes, partly it is the WEF Davos crew, we really are cattle to be milked or sheep to be fleeced, corralled, injected and comprehensively controlled. The fake concept which was sold to slaves, was the idea that they could now be free..... Where previously, slave populations had to be expensively watched over with guards, sheltered and fed in order to serve and build, with so-called freedom, they do the same work without the need for a guard every 10 slaves. Furthermore, when, in return for their work, you offer them a coin, they will hurry about that work and compete amongst one another in order to pay for their food and shelter (and their own policing force etc). Indeed, the guards will also engage in the same work. Freedom is the perfect model of slavery with minimal cost and maximum profit for the slavers.
@celt456
Жыл бұрын
A thought-provoking interview. I would have liked to hear ideas that propose a balanced collective human response to real issues for humanity; for example, ensuring equal opportunities or addressing climate degredation.
@Mateo-et3wl
Жыл бұрын
Matthew is truly a "gift from God." His books are EXCELLENT, particularly The World Beyond Your Head.
@mattsmusic9361
Жыл бұрын
Weak questions, great answers.
@sygarth
Жыл бұрын
People are angry. All life is. Not *just* angry but anger is baked into its constitution. While there is balance, it evens out. We tipped the scale. We stepped outside the circle. There's nothing inherently wrong with that but we dragged all the luggage from 'before' with us. Stuff that just doesn't and just can't apply. If people were tied down, pumped full of truth serum, vast majority would ultimately confess they are angry with themself. Not an individual with society, state, race, species or any other tribal organism but each individual with themself. Of course, that is mindbogglingly shocking thing to come to. The realisation that huge swaths of problem-space they are facing has at least roots if not full blown trees within themselves is hard to come to terms with. "Fixing me is one huge step towards fixing the world." Except that is hard work. Very hard work. And so it is far more convenient to find somebody or something else to pin a blame on. Scapegoats are so damn handy. Because then possible solution is also out there. Ill-defined, and nebulous and always just out of grasp. Not to mention unstoppably spiraling towards becoming Somebody Else's Problem. There is no top-down solution. None. No amount of extraordinary leaders will fix the herd. Sure, short-term they make a difference but unless the herd learns to find watering hole by itself it'll be most of the time dying of thirst. Or paying dearly for a drop of water. Until we realize that a lot of code evolution wrote into us; because it operates on efficiency-first principle and if something worked for a single cell organism why the hell would you change that until you absolutely must, needs to be rewritten we're getting nowhere. We've expanded and improved hardware vastly while we are still running MSDOS.
@MarkKap
Жыл бұрын
Great interview. Matthew is very succinct and well balanced in his commentary, Freddie is a sensational conversationalist.
@abuyusef27
Жыл бұрын
In Scotland according to the BBC, we’re experiencing a “Pothole Pandemic”…
@deadreckoning6288
Жыл бұрын
Funny. We have the same pandemic here in Michigan usa. Roads are more potholes than not.
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