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would respect a monarch i don't get what's interesting about a monarch i i don't get what's cool about being a monarch i think it's pretty ridiculous i so i don't get the whole thing as i zero nothing um i i believe very much that the monarchy represents all men are not created equal all men are not equal equality before the law i mean equality of rights they they above us and and so i've never liked their aristocracy and i've never liked and i know i ran as a certain romantic view of aristocracy uh literally at least uh as as portrayed in her in um in her novels i get what she's getting at i get that that sense of nobility and but with their aristocracy historically i don't know that it was earned and uh with particularly with queens and kings all right so the other question is is relevant to our discussion so tyler uh skyler wants to know it would be proper for a or i to create its own news service to become a news organization to provide news or and maybe maybe what you really mean is to filter the news to get to go out there and to filter the news and to provide a service of providing what we believe is objective and accurate news because it's two different things to be a real news service one would have to have reporters uh one would have to have people out there going out for stories and and going and doing investigative reporting but also going out and and uh and being in the places where the news is happening and uh asking questions and doing interviews and actually engaging it there's a whole it's all profession journalism is an entire profession and uh it's not it's not a trivial profession so and i don't think that would be appropriate i don't think that would be appropriate for um for the i mean institute to do we are not a news organization and we're not going to hire journalists and uh what's a comparative advantage other than a good epistemology but then you have to find a bunch of people good epistemology i mean one of you should do it right one of you should start the objective news room or the objective newspaper and uh it's a great name right for a newspaper and go out there and and deliver the news and remember the news is the news it's not opinion it's not slanted it's what's happening in the in in in the world right now good guys bad guys things that are going on that you think are important now the filtering of what you think important is a lot of what a news organization does and a lot of what's important about a news organization but no i don't think that's appropriate and in terms of filtering the news again i just don't think that's what the institute is about the institute is about philosophy um it's about commentary on the news it's not about providing you with news so um i do think there is room for a um an objectivist who knows what they're doing uh that's really important to uh you know maybe in a blog or something like that to create a website like drudge or something right that filters the news that provides a source that people can go to where they have a certain level of trust and confidence in what they are reading and and i think that would be a great value because most people don't have the time to filter through what is true and what is false but then more than that it's it's what is slanted and how it's slanted maybe this person who put this website together could actually give a little commentary on each piece not not not an analysis but a little commentary this is from a leftist news source you know it's it's a little slanted but there's some really interesting things here it's worth reading or this is from a right wing source so this is this is you know give a little bit of just just orientation but uh it would filter for both truth and you know in a certain level of bias and or or or filter against that level of bias that is uh and warn people about the bias in a particular piece and where it's coming from and teach people to be good consumers of news which i think people i used to think they were pretty good at but it's turned out they're not very good at at all uh so that would be interesting i mean that would be interesting for somebody to do uh it would have to be like a news junkie you could probably make money doing it you could sell advertising you could sell subscriptions there's a number of different things uh number of different things that uh that you could do about that and i don't talk about some way that analyzes it philosophically or chats about it i'm just talking about a news website that gives quick things and and it does it on all the news and it does it every day in an in an intensive way i don't think there is such a thing certainly nothing like this run by an objectivist i think drudge with a little bit of commentary um i i actually think that would be i mean an objective drudge right i don't think drudge is objective at all but um that would be that would be really interesting and i think that would be really valuable and uh somebody somebody should actually do it and i actually know some people who might be willing to put money into it if if you if you would like to do it and you'd like to meet some money people uh maybe this could be a good startup to to do and maybe there's some clever technology you can use to to make it particularly effective but i really think that is a real service that one can provide not just objectives but generally for people out there who are looking for a more objective view of the news for somebody to filter the news somebody to filter the news for you that takes out all the garbage in a sense of in a sense of things that are news i don't know the equivalent of cat videos that you know that sometimes the news organizations focus on and and at the same time also filter out the stuff that's just not true but also that's so so biased that that is uh uh that it can be done so uh that would be that would be a lot of work you'd have to build a whole organization around it this is not something you can do by yourself this is a lot of work because you'd really have to be putting your name out there you'd be you'd be uh and it's not just selecting a few pieces of news this would be their news which is dozens of of items a day um yeah i mean i think that would be terrific i think that would be exciting i think that would be uh there would be something really really valuable not for you right to do that's not our job but for one of you right one of you this is you know you can apply for an objective venture fund grant to do it so there's money to be had an objective venture fund grant i can you know i'd support that if if you were somebody credible and and had the epistemological skill to be able to do the work i don't think the work is is is is easy um but again i i don't i don't know that any of the newsletters or any of the the bulletin board type things or discussion groups really do this it's just one thing you just look at the news and you you know uh show it you link to the actual news and you you have a little bit of of minor commentary about it so all the power to you go you know somebody should go do this all right um let's take uh one quick other call and then i want to get to this uh the topic of today hi you're new on book show who's this hey hello let's do it how's it going yep yeah no absolutely uh so so stood is talking about globalism versus americanism okay stood i'm gonna i'm gonna take you off thing and i'm gonna talk a little bit so let's talk a little bit about this idea of globalism versus americanism before i get to a discussion of more of the of the media and false news and all of that because i started i wanted to do this last time a couple of weeks ago and didn't really get an opportunity because i and i'm afraid i might miss out on it today as well if i don't handle it head on so i always took globalism to mean kind of globalization uh the the open open trade um open immigration open travel but not not open immigration to solely you know open borders i i don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon but just the the the greater flow of people the free flow of capital the free flow of goods across the world relative free trade well you know relative hospitality hospitality or something to immigrants and a free flow of capital and just a general sense that hey the world's a cool place traveling is good going to see other cultures is good doesn't mean all cultures are the same western civilization is superior and indeed western civilization is taking roots in places like japan to some extent certainly in china and in other countries not perfectly but then again it was never perfect in the west so the idea that that that uh every individual in the world has individual rights that uh the sanctity of life is is true everywhere that i don't you shouldn't expect me to sacrifice somebody across the world i don't sacrifice to my neighbor either don't expect sacrifice period uh and don't expect me to respect uh foreign cultures much as i respect the culture of of you know that is the foundation of the west but at the same time a curiosity about other cultures and an interest in the virtues of other cultures when they have those virtues and some cultures do have virtues a general openness to the world a curiosity and openness and embracing of the world that's how i always use if you globalism not in a multicultural sense of all countries are all cultures are the same i've never never believed that and and i didn't think globalism referred to that but it turns out that the way and i guess i don't know if this is coming from the alt right and it certainly the alt right has embraced us and has really pushed the idea that that's not what globalism is you're on globalism is the idea of global governance the idea of world government the idea of inflicting on the entire world a sudden leftist ideology a leftist ideology that's very multiculturalist so globalism stands for multiculturalism and the quality of all cultures or indeed the superiority of any culture other than the west that the west is the inferior the colonizing the the the the the one that is uh is evil and um so the idea so the idea of globalism is now morphed the way it's being used by by people even by donald trump i think when he talks about globalism or people around donald trump or people on the right generally it's it's now this idea that there's a vast conspiracy to subjugate the united states to global rule and usually the global rule is going to be from the un and you know this is connected to agenda 21 which is this environmentalist agenda and and that is trying to that it is being pushed by the left and it really is being pushed into local governments in the united states and everywhere so there really is a problem um but is it a problem so the idea is there's a conspiracy and and this is articulated in place like info wars by the way a despicable place i mean i don't know if you've ever gone to info wars dot com but wow anybody who takes info was seriously anybody who consumes any kind of media from info wars i mean that's nutty people that is nutty those guys are crazy nuts i mean they think uh 9-11 is conspiracy so and so i mean that's just it doesn't get any nuttier than that um anyway so globalism has taken on this this uh it's a package deal and it's a package deal that that has packaged together the idea of free trade the idea of free movement of capital the idea of more immigration or some freedom in immigration with the idea of global governance with the idea that there's a conspiracy to take over the world whether through the un or some other entity it depends on the particular conspiracy you're involved in it's the idea that they are trying to impose their will on all on government in the united states that hailey clinton was part of this and that's why would it be the end of america if she had won uh that so this is the package deal right of things that are really global that are good that are involved in what has been always called globalization which by the way has resulted in massive exports of western civilization to the rest of the world and a vast fantastic improvement in their standard of living um globalization which is trade immigration and capital and and free movement of people tourism the Berlin wall coming down people being able to travel around the world without visas i mean all or relatively easy to travel with visas like like relatively easy to get a visa to china or even to russia or places or brazil or places like that for an american that a legitimate form of globalization with the illegitimate world governance world control leftist ideology you know statist leftist collectivist ideology crammed down our throats by a world government which is obviously a bad thing so am i for globalism or not for globalism well i'm not for the package deal i'm for all those things i mentioned that are positives and all those other things are insane and of course i'm not for so and some people accuse me of being globalist they're accusing me i realize now it took me a while i'm slow i'm slow but i'm learning you guys are teaching me i'm learning slowly that what they're really accusing me of is being a proponent of world government which is insane which is insane but it's the package deal and the package deal creates real real uh cognitive distance it creates real difficulty in holding onto the truth it's hard to tell what am i talking about i don't know what i'm talking about right so you know many of the racists talk about jewish world government or other world government but the idea is that there's a conspiracy out there to take over the world and look this is the thing with some of these conspiracies they're elements of truth in them right so there is no question that the left would like the u. n to have a bigger role in governance in the united states there's no question that there are people out there that would like it to the reins of united states government to be taken away from people like george w busch who they consider a warmonga and given to the u. n and have all the important decisions passed by the u. n there's no question that the people would like uh a a coordination of all environmental policies across the entire globe and that a lot of the trade deals have done that and and are motivated by that right it's it's not a major feature of them it's not what's important about those trade deals but it's part of it um it's uh it so it's true that there are intellectuals out there who believe that the the states should be eliminated in favor of a big super state that is run purely democratically and that the united states need to redistribute all its wealth to the rest of the world because we exploited everybody else and that's how we became rich all of that exists all of those ideas are out there that's not what those of us who believe in free trade believe in and and it's dishonest to claim it is it's the other way around but it that we do believe in it but you see so there needs to be a term for these conspiracy theory and these advocates for world governance for global governance but it's not globalism in the sense of free trade right it's not globalization and many of those people you know don't believe in free trade between individuals they don't believe in free trade at any level you know it's it's it's really really um these are leftists who uh who uh all they want is to constrain our freedom to constrain our ability to trade so to lump them in with free traders is absurd and ridiculous and discredits anybody who makes these claims so globalism is a is a is a package deal it means nothing it's stupid uh and it just it's just meant to confuse it's just meant to confuse free trade is good let me say that again free trade is good unequivocally good unapologetically good and what we have today in america is is today we have the lowest tariffs we've ever had in american history the closest we have ever had to free trade this is a good thing this is a wonderful thing this is something to be celebrated not to be lumped in with some conspiracy theory nuts or or lumped in with leftists who would like to have world government who don't care one iota about trade you've got to separate the two things out a global integration on an economic level is good in that sense the european project the european union if it it's stuck to no barriers no barriers to goods capital or people open immigration across all members of the european union free movement of capital all across the european union free goods free movement of goods all across the european union if they stuck to that and not try to establish european governance in a sense of common regulations and common currency and common a bunch of other things it would have been a beautiful project it would have been one of the greatest achievements ever and indeed to the extent that there is free movement of people free movement of capital free movement of goods in the european union the european union is a success and has benefited everybody who's participated in it to that extent the danger comes from Brussels that wants to govern these countries and you know if they wanted to govern it well all right that'd be fine but they want to govern it the governance that they want to impose is a governance of of of statism of socialism of government intervention of crushing economic success and that's why brexit was good i i wish brexit the british could keep the free trade of goods labor and people and just eliminate the regulations and the governance that comes from Brussels but i i don't think i don't think they can separate the two unfortunately Brussels won't let them and i don't think they want to they don't want real free trade i wish they did the world since world war two the world including the united states of america has benefited enormously economically from free trade including nafta and the in the wto and all these so-called conspiracy theories and it could have to be better absolutely