852 – Topics

00:03 Apolitical: truth does matter in politics, apolitical is a political ideology, no freedom without politics, progressive conservatism

13:15 Prime movers: primacy of consciousness, primacy of existence, freedom singularity vs variant tyrannies, ideology as a cult, ideology as the primacy of consciousness, Left and Right

31:40 Consensus: conscious of existence, altruism, hardwired to reality, capitalism, democracy, freedom, Putin wins Russian election, Russian democracy, American democracy, majority rule, consent of the governed

44:50 Freedom and Democracy: David Pengelly on freedom and democracy, Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, freedom and democracy as majority rule, oligopoly, monarchy, democracy, negative limit to democracy, positive limit to democracy

59:42 END