Cay Hehener Ph D, 12-30-08 You Tube Compression

Cay Hehner Ph.D, is Director of the Henry George School of Social Science, New York, NY.
Selected Quotes from A brilliant speech, defending and advocating for a Georgist perspective on the Human condition, delivered at the banquet of the Council of Georgist Organizations conference held in Philadelphia, 6 August, 2005, Titled Realizing Utopia or Sundry Reflections on the Future of Georgism (Link to full text: Cay Hehner / Realizing Utopia or Sundry Reflections on the Future ... )
"After all the rest has failed you shall find within yourself the key to perfect change" Sri Aurabindo

Selected quotes from a brilliant speech defending a Georgist perspective on the Human condition: John Dewey said in his famous appraisal of world philosophy that from Plato down there are only about ten social philosophers of the first magnitude and he counted Henry George amongst them. We concur entirely. There are only about one, two handful of philosophers who have throughout the vicissitudes of the ages not lost sight of the horizon for humankind.......The conundrum that so baffled Malthus is indeed a vexing and serious one: why do with increasing material and technological progress increasing numbers of people are forced to a race to the bottom below the level of sustainable subsistence rather than being engaged in a leisurely walk to the top of wealth and comfort for all?....... For about the last century and a half Marxism monopolized progressive thought to such a degree on a global scale that it made it all but impossible to continue activism along Georgist lines without constantly having to defend oneself the reproach of impracticality and the condoning of social injustice from the left (of not expropriating all the means of production), and of being a kind of totalitarian socialism in itself from the right.The fourth answer to what is hindering the realization of a Georgist economics is of course the question of ownership. If we continue to monopolize Henry George's analysis and economic insights and fail to put it at the disposition of the world in face of the most serious global threats the planets has ever faced on a global scale we make ourselves complicit to its destruction rather than - as was originally intended by George -- to contribute to its peaceful continuation and solution of its problems. In other words we have to open our discourse to the world rather than staying in our comfortable parochial little corner.
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[roserh6]

harold channer is sooo annoying

[HenryGeorgeSchool]

People can learn more about Hanry George's teachings at HenryGeorgeSchool org

[michalchik]

This video ended just as the video started to get to the meat of the matter. The georgists need to explain how they will deal with issue of the concentration of wealth the depends very little on natural resources but on the use of other peoples labor and the multiplication of labor by machines.

[DivaAnnFisher]

While you guys think about how to share the wealth in a new economic system, feel free to play my video. I call it "My Answer to Bernie Madoff". I am sure you guys realize that Mr. Madoff was NOT the exception to the Ponzi scheme rule. With increasing population, financial system crises, we need to re-engineer, maybe synthesize the best of all previous/failed systems.

[8151872]

Thank you for your comment. It is true that Nietsche is not an "ethnic supremacist" as such. However in his "Lebensphilosophy" or Vitalism there is a clear hierarchy of beings. You could call that an "aristocratic worldview". He shares this perspective with Social Darwinism and thinkers like Malthus or Spencer. To call him a democrat would be false To sum up my research one could say: You can imagine Nietzsche without Hitler, but you cannot imagine Hitler without Nietzsche." Cay Hehner

[WilhelmDrake]

How could there have been a complete exile in 70, when in 135 there was another revolt? Obviously only the elites of Isrealite society left, the majority staying on the farms. There were Jewish communities all through the ancient world well before 70 AD, the result of proselyzation, the "hangers on" at the temples, and migration of both people and the religion.

[DefenceSpeech]

Nietzsche's philosophy of the ubermensch had nothing to do with racial superiority, in fact Nietzsche was fervently against racism, and nationalism. I don't know if there was some miscommunication on Hehner's part due to not speaking English fluently, or he really is that uninformed. If he is, that' pathetic considering he spent 12 years studying this topic, and has a PhD. the collective guilt of New Germany is pathetic. If you cannot take pride in your heritage, fine, but don't be ashamed of it

[ytertyu]

incredible ..this dumbfuck blaming Nietzsche for holocaust ??  eat shit and die you stupid motherfucker

[jeepndesert]

land value tax and sales tax on resource-based goods can be used to pay every citizen a montly dividend check. justified welfare because everyone gets an equal check to spend as they see fit based on the taxes of all the land and natural resources they use.

[JoshuaRVincent]

I do believe Dr. Hehner hits the nail on the head.