Just Right… with Bob Metz and Robert Vaughan

303 – From Aesop to Captain Kirk: Boldly moralizing / TV shows that deserved to be cancelled / Mars: from fiction to reality

Jun 062013

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00:07 The Story Of The Moral: stories, fairy tales, morality, pinnacle of thought, need for arts and entertainment, culture’s focal point, sense of life, Star Trek, Rob Ford, sacrifice, Aesop, fables, moral of the story, The Dog And The Wolf
14:45 From Aesop To Star Trek – The Moral Of The Stories: The Coyote And The Jackrabbit, Rocky And Bullwinkle, Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s sayings, favourite stories, Star Trek’s moral messages
26:28 Still Seeing Red – From TV Frustrations To Martian Distractions The Forgetful King, cancelled TV shows, Caller Scott: An Aesop Fable, needs of the few vs needs of the many, TV story endings, TV stories – good and bad, TV shows that killed themselves: Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Mars Attracts – Martian Books and Movies – a history, Jules Verne
50:15 Once Upon A Tale – At Least Ten Stories Tall: [An Original Rob Ford Fairy Tale] 55:51 END

302 – My, Me, Mine: The virtue of selfishness

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May 302013

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00:07 Journey Into Selfishness: Dr. Yaron Brook, capitalism most moral system, sacrifice, individual pursuit of happiness, rational self interest, socialism, morality, Ayn Rand, cronyism
09:26 Capitalism Works – So Socialists Lie: capitalism in decline, from poverty to plenty, socialism, fascism, self evident truth that capitalism works, Paul Krugman lies, salt-water economists, government and economy, lying as a weapon, lying philosophy, socialists lie, sharing for sharing’s sake, conditioned for slavery, Montessori instruction, lying is the tool of the left, selfishness
28:25 Just Sad: A Society Built On Sacrifice: JP Morgan, 1907 financial crisis, banking, selfishness, federal reserve, Alan Greenspan, selflessness, elevator regulations, disinterested bureaucrats, robber ethics, altruism, sacrifice, self interest, degrees of fascism, reason, good, evil, thought, productive work, the good, first paycheque
41:45 Saints Alive! Bill Gates Or Heaven’s Gate? moral revolution, group behaviour, morality of service to others, best of both, trading societies, moral credit, Saint Bill Gates, the benevolent society, forced benevolence, cultural revolution through stories, stories of sacrifice, stories of heroes, selfishness is love of humanity, examples of positive stories, work 56:02 END

301 – Political philosophy and the many shades of red

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May 232013

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00:07 Insufficient Philosophy: technology, science, political knowledge, social knowledge, capitalism, moral foundation, Yaron Brook, Ted Harlson, reality, reason, self, consent, neo-conservatives, Ayn Rand, collectivism, socialism, fascism, communism
20:26 What’s Black And White And Red All Over? left wing, right wing, left and right, political spectrum, TV news media, capitalism, polarization, Adam Smith, pursuing self-interest, nobility, virtue, philanthropy
32:10 Just Grin And Polar Bear It: Why ‘Socialism’ Really Is A Dirty Word: polarization, media, medicare, socialism, politics, force, left, right, choice
47:00 Creating Interest In Self Interest: capitalism works, Hong Kong, ethics, morality, the good, sacrifice, selflessness, self interest, Saint Bill Gates, suffering with socialism, self interest is virtuous, Dr Yaron Brook, economist, philosopher, selfishness, arrested moral development, capitalism 57:32 END

300 – Totally self issues

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May 162013

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00:07 Conversation: Objectivist – Subjectivist – Intrinsicist personal, religious intrinsicism, nihilistic subjectivism, morality, good, evil, selfishness, altruism, morality, libertarians are the gun control advocates of politics, rational, irrational, anti-life, value, knowledge, punishment, moral choice
16:10 Reality Check: God, Man, Or Underwear? reality check, Shadows and Fog, intrinsicist view, suicide, punishment, karma, right to own life, destiny, reality, theocracy vs democracy, supernatural, Satan, God, hell
30:10 Judge Mentals: Good/Evil – Moral/Immoral – Right/Wrong frightened of freedom, impulses, laws, false gods, divine matters, God, death and dying, Superman, morals and ethics as weakness, Faust, science, knowledge, superstitious, pigeons, moral codes, good and evil, morality and immorality, right and wrong, Cleveland kidnapping, Tim Bosma murder, just a truck, mob, rights, judgment, intentions, action, reality, knowledge vs understanding, John de Ruiter, Pamela Gellar, anti-reason
49:19 Totally Selfish happiness, self hate, need to help, totally selfish, self-sacrifice, duty, altruism, love, generosity, Just Right web site 57:26 END

299 – Islamic terrorism (We’re not listening!) | Salim Mansur

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May 092013

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02:05 The London Connection: Islamists Wearing Mosques GUEST: Salim Mansur, CJBKam1290 Radio, Andy Oudman, terrorist incidents, Dr Munir El Kassem, London an incubator for terrorism, London Muslim community, London mosque community is Islamist, cancer analogy, public record of El Kassem, Saudi-funded organizations in London, jihad, Muslims Facing Tomorrow
18:06 Issue At Root: Theocracy Vs Democracy RCMP community briefing, hostile response, Islamophobia, intimidating the police, fertile breeding ground for global jihad, GUEST: Salim Mansur, fear mongering, victim mentality, 10-15% solution, Muslims vs Islamists, theocrats vs anti-theocrats, western confusion, mosque community an organized minority, Lara Logan CBS News correspondent, false narrative, Taliban today, Afghanistan, not like Viet Nam, ignoring our enemy’s identity,
31:33 Media Myopia: Can’t Hear The Trees For The Forest City London Free Press, GUEST: Salim Mansur, multiculturalism over facts, Arab spring, veil of democracy, theocratic society based on Sharia, a free media, alternate media tells the story, mainstream media credibility shattered, Munir El Kassem, campus hotbeds of Islamic radicalism, prayer room radicalization
44:19 Asymmetry – 21st Century Vs 10th Century enemies of the West, journalism, Islamist motivation, not insurgency, wrong strategy, GUEST: Salim Mansur, state funding of terrorism, Lara Logan, Saudi Arabia the most retrograde system of government, global jihad, asymmetry, worst Canadian terrorist act Air India bombing, Canadian politicians support terrorists, Muslims vs Islamists, multiculturalism 56:49 END

298 – Guest: Dr. Yaron Brook – Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute

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May 022013

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00:07 Ideas In Conflict – Left And Right Vs Right finance, GUEST: Dr Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute, morality of capitalism, Free Market Revolution, schools, promoting ideas, left ideas winning, right is left in US, ideas to action, self interest
12:46 A Free Market Revolution – Re-teaching America Its Own Principles market relationship, trade relationship, GUEST: Dr Yaron Brook, negative portrayal of capitalists in art and literature, Other People’s Money, self interest seen as vice, businessman, capitalism about self-interest, socialist capitalists, Free Market Revolution, banking, faith in the invisible hand vs visible hand of government, there is no free market, economic stability board, central bankers, revolution vs baby steps, saving the enlightenment, individualism, re-teach America its own principles, art and reality on our side,
left and right are wrong
29:17 Self Interest As The Moral Ideal trading game, faith in the material continuum, GUEST: Dr Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute, invisible hand, self interest as a moral ideal, happiness and success, voluntary trade is win-win, Tea Party, fear of falling behind, decline of the middle class, political courage required, quick fix with political will, punishing the taxpayers for tax cuts, sequestering, media misunderstanding and propaganda
47:35 Foreign Policy? Or Foreign To Reason? GUEST: Dr Yaron Brook, foreign policy, United Nations, Israel, club for savage nations, UN a moral travesty, Canadian foreign policy, Keystone XL pipeline, private business under dictatorships, foreign policy failures, Israel is committing suicide 58:21 END

297 – Islamic terrorism / Causality and the continuant

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Apr 252013

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00:07 Ends Or Means? – Islamic Terrorism: Identifying The Problem terrorists, Islamic terrorism, Muslims and terrorism, sharia law, separation of church and state, Islamic theocracy, means and ends, terrorism and elections, eliminating democracy, religion of peace, prayers in the legislature, supremacy of God, unlimited authority, not to preserve democracy but to establish democracy
19:48 Ten Commandments For The Hero – Or How To Prevent Terrorism policing is not preventative, waging an intellectual war against theocracy, the false has no value, truth has value, protecting youth from theocracy, schools as a defence front, away from fact and values and toward uncertainty, cultural Marxism, pro-democracy values, integrity, turning villains into heroes, ten commandments for the hero
30:24 There’s No Such Thing As The Universe knowledge through experience, cause and effect, perception of causality, action, motion, change, sensationalism, law of identity, abstraction, the universe, events, limits of existence
40:26 Just Be Cause – Causality And The Continuant discontinuance, cause and effect, law of nature, entities, anthropomorphic, action, knowledge, reasons, causes, agents, events, change, action, theory, natural law, continuant, act vs event, nature is the continuant, ideal vs real, time, past, present, future, determined, indeterminate, action as the point of existence 55:30 END