Thomas Sowell on American collapse: Chapter 3 of 5

Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and author of Dismantling America, tells Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson that a loss of personal responsibility is at the heart of the decline of American society.

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• collapse
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• democracy
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• Constitution
• responsibility
• accountability

[joelsmades6]

I love Thomas Sowell

[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 :-(

[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.

[Ravengaurd6]

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

[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?

[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

[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. :/

[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...

[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.