Thomas Sowell on American collapse: Chapter 3 of 5

[hennypenny247]

I would like to see Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams speak publicly and jointly with Herman Cain to spread knowledge of how markets work. An educated public cannot be tyrannized.

[NinkasiDelight]

I think most people lack the intellectual caliber to sit and listen to this let alone understand.

[WiltTheStiltThirteen]

Can someone build a time machine and grab Thomas Sowell 30 years ago, put him in office and get rid of term limits?

[Ravengaurd6]

@WiltTheStiltThirteen if we did that he would step down,because it was wrong.

[jesterevilyn]

We need to get these videos out there. Everyone help me get these viral on facebook.... More people need to watch these.

[carlindelco]

" ..Became social theorists and social propagandist.." LOL yup that's what happened. I think there is strong evidence between crime and educational failure.. drop out rates go up so does crime.. I bet the interest in charter schools and real education have been a contributing factor in the revitalization

[dskillz1]

859 views. You have to be kidding me. I'd bet if Robinson interviewed Snookie there'd be 859,000 views. This is how a society collapses.

[johnlorican]

@dskillz1 ....you hit the nail on the head.  I've watched the Hoover Institution interviews with Shelby Steele - one of the brightest men alive - many times. I think in the 22-month period that the interviews were recorded, only several thousand people have watched it....I've commented to others that Lady Gaga would get several million views.

Things are pretty sad right now...

[Califacience]

@johnlorican

The world has always been like that. If Youtube had been around at the time, Sinatra's  videos would have far more views that Russel Kirk's.

The issue is, how did we go from Sinatra to Lady Gaga. :/

[sethwmd]

"It's insane." You bet!

[ThePatriotrocker]

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS MAN! Can you imagine if we had a brilliant man like this in the white house? I would love to see him run for president.

[Saakshe]

A voice of reason, backed with intellect and principle. His comments regarding education in the 70's/80's reminded me of my public school experience then, when after my sophomore year, all Honors courses and Literature were removed from our school, because it was considered "unfair" to offer "advantages" to a select or elite group of students. We were all put into regular classrooms with vocabulary word lists, etc. It is still hard to believe that this happened.

[bacarandii]

Sowell is the embodiment of the superficial idealogue avoiding personal responsibility. He speaks only in generalizations, unable to cite evidence or actual examples to support his case (just personal anecdotes), or even to name the gov't principles he says are being dismantled. Yes, speculators caused the financial collapse and made money off it. How? No mention of derivatives or credit default swaps, which made it inevitable. He doesn't build an argument, just tosses out unsupported opinions.

[TsugaC]

The financial disaster of the government-instigated mortgage fiasco has made a mockery of contract law. If your legal obligations become 'optional', then on what are we to order our society?

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Clone Thomas Sowell and populate Congress with men of principle, not the opportunistic scum we have there today.

[woodins2008]

@TsugaC

I couldn't agree more. However, what is painfully apparent just from this small excerpt, is that the environment and conditions that created someone like Thomas Sowell in the first place have been irrevocably destroyed and replaced :-(

[S0chan]

Such a badass. Telling it like it is, kicking ass and taking names.

[adamitshelanu]

Thomas, I have a different "theory." The first blacks to leave the South in the great Northern migration were the more intelligent and more resourceful.

Seemly you are not willing to discuss the _likely_ outcomes between the upper half and lower half of the "Bell Curve," expect for scattered references to the longitudinal tracking studies that you and Williams mention.

I've watched the arrivals from India for 49 years, only now sifting down to more ordinary talents. :^)



[joelsmades6]

I love Thomas Sowell