874 – Topics

00:03 Socialism’s success: support for socialism despite record of failure, socialism’s success equated with capitalism’s ‘failure’

14:10 Head games: Marxism is a religion, living entirely in your head, primacy of consciousness, primacy of existence, axioms not subject to proof, the Left believes in a metaphysical nothing, commanding nature, nature as deity, religious resistance to reason, deconstructing reality

33:00 Altruisn’t: politicians catering to envy laziness incompetence and entitlement, religious conflicts, Catholics against capitalism, unresolvable conflict between altruism and individualism, papal encyclicals against capitalism, Catholics for communism, global rule by force, contradiction of altruism, beneficiary criteria of morality is altruism

47:25 Aristotle: Aristotle as founder of Western civilization, Aristotle versus Plato is conflict between reason and mysticism, the fear factor, the trust factor, pen mightier than sword

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