Just Right… with Bob Metz and Robert Vaughan

426 – Campus of the damned / The failure of success

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Nov 122015

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00:03 Campus blahs: Yale campus disturbance, inter-cultural affairs committee letter on Halloween costumes, theory vs practice
13:10 Progressive deformity: zero tolerance for free speech on campus, John Dewey, Ayn Rand’s Comprachicos,deformity for political suppression, disconnecting the mind from reality through progressive education, anti-cognition as the standard of education, from structure and discipline to chaos and disorder, student activists as the modern comprachicos, abandonment of reason in favour of force
28:25 The failure of success: Harry Dent’s great re-set, predicting economic crashes, engineered destruction of capitalism in America, David Stockman, ‘Irrational Economics Summit’, government enterprises as successful failures
40:50 The success of failure: the economic re-set, no political re-set, inflation’s attractions, irrational fears of deflation, the relativity of inflation, quantitative easing, recognizing the crisis, system of socialism vs conditions of capitalism, ends and means 55:18 : END — promo to 59:42

425 – Mission: Just Right / Smile when you say ‘freedom’ / Trust but verify / Common trust

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Nov 052015

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00:07 Mission Just Right: co-host trust issues, WBCQ 5.110 MHz, Paul Lambert, American and Canadian culture, eternal issues of humanity
13:15 Smile when you say freedom: Marni Soupcoff’s Sunny Side of Liberty, vaping for freedom, pitfalls of selling freedom, partisan and non-partisan freedom movements
26:25 Busting the trust culture: GOP Debate – Ted Cruz, fourth estate, biased media, declining trust in the media, Democratic media, trust issues, trust but verify, how government can be trusted – according to its nature, moral and cultural relativism
44:00 Common trust: intuition as cognition, trust in the commons, cultures of mistrust, clergy, politicians, media 54:27 END – promo to 59:42

424 – Left and right – A comparison / Our political culture of corruption

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Oct 292015

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00:03 Left and Right – A comparison: characteristics of the left, media reaction to Canadian federal election results, leftists vs rightists, contrast in print – Toronto Star vs National Post
15:25 Star of the Left: Toronto Star editorial on Harper’s electoral loss, assertions of ‘misgovernance’, the left’s expressions of revulsion against Harper, characterizing the left as petty and vindictive, the left has no class
32:30 Our political culture of corruption: the West’s crisis of corruption, Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne and the teachers’ unions, forms of corruption, consequences of corruption, against what standard, examples of systemic corruption in political practice
48:30 Voting for corruption by corrupting the vote: the ideology of the non-ideological, contradiction as corruption, ‘war of ideology’, solving the problem of Canadian democracy, majority rule as an end rather than means, pragmatism, ideology matters, choosing between right and wrong, the contradiction of ‘non-partisanship’ and proportional representation 1:04:58 END

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
1:00:23 END

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

421 – Focus on pornography

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Oct 082015

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00:07 Pornography – Toronto’s location dislocation: pornography news updates, porn debate heats up again, prostitution, Bill C-36, Canadian content porn requirements, money for sex, porn industry avoids Toronto, regulation vs prohibition, Montreal as Canada’s porn center, Brazzers
20:32 PornNO: children and on-line pornography, parenting, addiction to porn, re-defining porn as violence, porn as infidelity, anti-porn activists, the missing discussion
39:00 PROnography: more pornography news updates, Western University porn study, attitudes towards women, myths about porn
47:26 Don’t just blame porn: right-leaning states lean to porn, Archives of Sexual Behavior, top porn search terms – teen – ebony – pov, socially conservative beliefs, teens and moms, MILFs, consistencies in sexual behaviours, erectile dysfunction and porn
57:39 END

420 – Voting in good conscience / The lesser of evils / Uber – The taxi wars

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Oct 012015

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00:07 Voting in good conscience: voting dilemmas, voting on principle, feedback on voting dilemma, voting preferences and priorities, power of a moral argument, moral leadership, Marc Emery Prince of Pot, effecting democratic change
18:35 The lesser of evils: political legacies, weakening one’s own position through compromise, dangers of a single issue focus, the voter’s real choice, justifying your vote
39:10 Questionable motives: motives reconsidered, Ontario Bill 53 Protecting Passenger Safety Act, feedback on Uber, chaos vs freedom, good law vs bad law
54:25 Uber – Same tale of two cities: feedback on Uber, Toronto-London comparison, taxi licence rental, taxi plate ownership, Section 232 of Municipal Act, taxi monopoly costs to drivers, influx of drivers and riders, pricing as market mechanism 1:01:26 END