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423 – Election 2015 – First impressions / Freedom culture / Putting Uber unter

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Oct 222015

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00:04 No electoral shock: better a Liberal majority than minority, implications of proportional representation
08:35 Cultural MisAppropriation: defining Canada’s culture, quantifying the common social traits of Canadians, common ways of life, national diversions, transitory cultures, multicultures as evidence of freedom of choice, freedom is what defines Canada’s culture, England’s seeds of freedom, a freedom culture, Magna Carta
26:00 Freedom culture: principles independent of space and time, CBC as a vital part of Canadian culture, sect 27 of Charter of Rights and Freedoms, multiculturalism vs a single culture shared by all, cultural change at Playboy Magazine
47:35 Putting Uber Unter: taxi monopolies threatened, London England’s Uber equalization plan, nature of literal equality, public interest, why the sharing economy isn’t about sharing
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422 – Cultural appropriation / All that’s left of Western Civilization

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Oct 152015

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00:07 Dreadlocked out: voting, casting a losing vote, Elections Canada’s prohibition of ‘ballot selfies’ made public, last chance for democracy, irrational political manifestations, political Islam, sinister left, group identity, Western University’s O-week ban on cultural appropriation, dreaded dreadlocks, keeping cultures segregated
21:50 Inappropriate appropriation: cultural appropriation ban, mental health challenges of foreign students, Western University soph guide dress code
30:00 All that’s Left of Western Civilization: Naomi Klein’s Leap Manifesto, anti-capitalism, conservative failure to defend capitalism, government intervention in the marketplace, the left is winning the war on ideas, the right has turned left
44:10 Who’s left for the right? Nazis are on the left, being for vs being against, why the left prefers force, the challenge of persuasion, cooperation – forced or real, repressing the totalitarian urge, Quebec’s Bill 59, Islam and Muslims, what the left is winning, ISIL, evil uncomprehended, understanding irrationality, pronouncing moral judgement, freedom and capitalism as the standard of good 1:02:20 END

419 – Conservatively speaking / I’m migrant / Crony capitalist pigs

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Sep 242015

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00:07 Conservatively speaking: Conservatives, war on drugs, Liberals indistinguishable from Conservatives, immigration is the distinguishing issue for Conservatives, cultural clashes with Western values, Pew Research Center, closing borders to Muslims as a security measure, reported numbers adhering to Islamist roots and Sharia law
16:05 I’m migrant: immigrants not refugees, staged photo op on Syrian crisis, mainstream media knee-jerk reactions, welfare shopping in Europe, the good and bad of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives
30:15 Will the real capitalist pigs please stand up? capitalist pigs vs capitalists, political pigs at the trough, crony capitalism, the Uber controversy in France
46:00 Pigging out on capitalism: the Uber controversy in London Ontario, denying the monopoly while defending it, the fixed pie theory, the fixed trough theory, a list of pigopolies, the private interests behind every government monopoly, 58:13 END

399 – Cash flow / Fiddling with tradition

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May 072015

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00:07 Prescription for description: symbolism and abstractions, market mechanism, water flow as a market analogy, prescriptive vs descriptive laws, law of supply and demand, law of gravity, natural gravitation, social gravitation, profit and loss, natural vs unnatural
18:55 Smart economy – smart phone: rationing, artificial pricing, economy as best deal for lowest price, technology, smart economy, smart phones, flow of capital and cash
30:25 Traditional Harmonies: social harmony, family, social bonds, fellowship, voluntary co-operation, common culture, changing tradition, force strains social bonds, discomfort and upheaval of change
39:40 Trading Traditions: John Macmurray on traditions, religion as organized shared world views, family, fellowship, capacity for reflection, religion and the fellowship of communion, continuity of culture through time, nature worship and intentionality, shared rituals, common intentions through representation, creating a persistent vision of community, breaking with tradition, traditions maintained by mutual consent, loss of tradition accompanied by loss of knowledge, when traditions fail 57:30 END

381 – Enoch Powell was right / The Islam virus / God of the machine / Poverty of the machine

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Dec 182014

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00:07 Condolences: Enoch Powell was right, far right, opposition to open immigration, BBC socialist broadcasters, racist label, socialist pyramid schemes, de-population bomb, social safety net, opening immigration to fund socialism, cultural clashes, failure by design, a history of British immigration, 1969 Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech, domination over assimilation
14:35 Taboo: resisting the racist label, taboo topics, the ghost of Enoch Powell, Muslims in isolation, Muslim ghettos in London England, Islam as a social virus, Islamist record of violence, unfathomable ignorance of left wing media, a call for no immigration from Muslim countries, absolute values and judgements, death cults
26:58 God of the machine: something for nothing, studying poverty, not studying wealth, psychology of self-destruction, unearned power, politicians and the lust for power, robbing Peter to pay Paul, capitalism, the god of the machine
51:30 Poverty of the machine: municipal social housing plans, Vancouver Downtown Eastside, poverty dominated by social services, wealth is a process 59:50 END

380 – White guilt / Male guilt / Sex sells / Spam sells

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Dec 112014

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00:07 White guilt: collective guilt, being white a transgression, white guilt a political construction, Western ideals under attack, liberal abandonment of intellectual argument, spread of Western culture, attributing achievement to colour, official multiculturalism
13:10 Male guilt: race on television comedy and drama, comply or explain, bending corporate gender rules, consequences not defined, criteria not defined, chess rules, means and ends for more women on company boards, male guilt
28:28 Sex sells: Bill C-36 now law in Canada, sex workers, demanding no demand, prostitution, consent, Kathleen Wynne to investigate Bill C36, using sex to sell cars, female models as sex, political correctness, sexualization of products, rejection of sexuality, gender egalitarianism, sex appeal
45:40 Spam sells: Canadian anti-spam legislation, expected Charter challenges, Oakes test, follow the money on spam and prostitution laws 56:16 END

378 – Bill Cosby – Separating the artist from the art / Objectivism’s Catch-22

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Nov 272014

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00:07 Bill Cosby – art vs artist: boycotting Bill Cosby, confusing the art with the artist, personal lives of actors, boycott injustice
14:30 Just beCos: allegations against Bill Cosby, Spanish fly, taking allegations seriously, victim responsibility, court of public opinion, the court of due process
34:30 CULT-ivating a rational philosophy: cult vs philosophy, Objectivism as a cult, Ayn Rand, followers
40:03 Objection to Objectivism?: Simon O’Riordan commentary, Federal Aviation Authority, Ayn Rand Institute, philosophy of Objectivism, Leonard Peikoff, cultish view, Catch-22s, truth and bromide, Randroids, cults that aren’t, Who is John Galt? 58:16 END