Glenn Beck Presents: F.A.Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" (Part 3)

[theseanze]

Ever read Kant? Oscar Wilde? New Testament?

If you want total, unadulterated personal freedom, go live in the woods. If you're going to live in society, ACT like you're in a society and show that you understand that it only exists because people choose to cooperate for mutual benefit. THAT is what the point of socialism is. Wealth and power become concentrated when this fact of society is portrayed as evil ideology. The American right seems to have no qualms making liberals a second class.

[soorayHOMS]

@theseanze agreed, but i think Kant would say we are free due to his whole idea of the autonmous will and its relation/ justification for the categorical imperative

[theseanze]

@soorayHOMS -- Perfect illustration of how you can't take moral authority literally. It's hard enough to do that with Kant because he was such a terrible writer, but you're right. The categorical imperative is a great ideal when it remains ambiguous, just like utopianism. The problems start when you think that there is some such thing as a categorical imperative or single "final solution." That doesn't mean we can't talk about truth or morality, it's just that the conversation has to be open.

[paulstroie]

REGISTER AS REPUBLICAN TO GET RON PAUL IN THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE... GOD HELP US..

[cedricalien]

Glenn Beck is a joke.

[guyinkentucky1]

Can someone tell me who that Congresswoman was from 4:31-4:51 was? And also did she say what i thought she said?

[icfnord]

@guyinkentucky1

Her name is Maxine Waters and next to Oprah Winfrey, she is probably the most evil woman who ever lived.

[LogicalFlawDetector]

@icfnord

Oprah? What did she do? Why is she evil?

[haveswordwilltravel]

0:59 "A normal person doesn't make these promises. A normal person thinks about the future." Here Hayek is talking about our leaders and yet what does that say about all of us "Normal people", who elected these leaders?  It would seem that there is some greater consciousness of idiocy going on.

[Nintendomanwill]

Check my comment in the (part 1) version of this very video to see why this 'greater consciousness of idiocy' is indeed going on. Intellectuals love to create pseudo-science that proselytises for State control so they gain influence in controlling we plebeians. So they warp our minds RE property. I talked to a bureaucrat whose reprehensible comments are on youtube 4 all to deride-'public spending is needed 4 bigger capital formation' meaning we should be forced to glorify our alleged benefactors

[Nintendomanwill]

States & their pliant intellectual Radicals (who are all for creating commissions to enforce societal change in dissent from property rights) gains much of its persuasive power because of our impressed awe at 'Leviathan'-we think Deus Ex Machina will produce welfare that we know cannot be produced so demagogues come to power on outlandish economic promises.

On that note-"too big to fail" companies that are bankrupt NEED to fail so that society ceases to maintain large Loss-making investments.