Love the Socratic approach by this brilliant people's philosopher, Professor Sandel.
@AdolfoLeija-id3tz
4 ай бұрын
Democracy gives people the right to be stupid if that is what they want. The right to choose, even if they are wrong, lets them at the end live with the consequences of their decisions.
@nicholassmith3719
Ай бұрын
Yes but they hurt other people too
@AdolfoLeija-id3tz
Ай бұрын
@@nicholassmith3719 You are right. That is the problem of making decisions. Group decisions don't benefit everybody all the time. The consequences could be bad for lots of people. Some democracies sometimes choose dictators, slavery, etc.
@ianmccorriston2902
Ай бұрын
And hurt people hurt people. @@nicholassmith3719
@miltonkawatak5659
2 ай бұрын
. (1:02:10) The Washington Consensus imposing an end to national borders on capital and commerce brought a distortion of the perception of the world. . All military analysts in the mainstream neoliberal media were wrong to bet that Russia would not invade Ukraine in February-2022. And then they were wrong again saying that Ukraine would not resist the Russian army for a week. . The neoliberal West believed that there would be no more wars with the end of the Soviet Union and the Washington Consensus became a dogma to be followed blindly and they believed that countries like Russia and China would do the same as beneficiaries of globalization. By mistake, China pretends to be neutral in the war in Ukraine, but if NATO proves weak, the Chinese will also demand the incorporation of Taiwan because it is inhabited by Chinese. . That's why many Europeans and Americans are enchanted by the Ukrainian people who have not yet been indoctrinated by neoliberal ideology, which implants exacerbated individualism and narcissism. Its people were busy with the collapse of the USSR and soon after with Putin's Russia.
@user-ue1hu9nk6j
20 күн бұрын
University education is not the problem. The problem is university funding and related political influence. Money can corrupt the mind and skewer the truth.
@robinhood20253
Ай бұрын
I have to partly attribute our problems to the practice of teaching children from a young age to accept concepts without evidence and education leads you away from god. Critical thinking is ver umderestimated .
@JoePalau
Ай бұрын
Sandel argues against neoliberalism and its excesses however the power of wealth in neoliberal America controls these matters today and their power is hard to defeat by unorganized voters working hard to make ends meet. In fact, the majority of Americans don’t understand political economy and think of economic systems are created and controlled by nonhuman or extra human forces as are weather systems or the forces of gravity. The forces and concepts of political economy are alien to the American mindset. I am American and I am college educated and I know these things from personal experience among friends or from social gatherings. Oligarchy is a problem because America is impressed by material wealth and think wealthy people are superior human beings. Moral Character has nothing to do with wealth or education. That should be obvious but it is not. Why this is so is a long story; perhaps a Protestant one but is the way things are here today. Neoliberalism is both the cause and result of this belief system. It seems all too obvious to me but it is a mystery to most Americans.
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