An Honest History of the Progressive Movement | Thomas Sowell

[@juniors878]

Imagine these guys lived long enough to find out Asians score the highest on their mental tests

[@jimalexander687]

​@Oners82 Leftists cannot explain why they believe as they do because their beliefs are based on indoctrination, not on exposure to objective truth. Those on the right can not only explain why they believe as they do, but demonstrate how conservative ideology has actually benefited humanity, and further demonstrate how leftist ideology has done nothing but bring about delusion, misery and destruction. Mr. Sowell has long done both in very specific ways. Anyone who can listen to Mr. Sowell and insist Leftist ideology actually benefits humanity is not basing their view on objective truth, but on indoctrination.

[@Evettecord]

@Oners82 honestly, progressives are not smarter. They’re just focused on subversion and no one else is

[@Evettecord]

@Oners82 disprove…

[@Evettecord]

@Oners82 You didn’t actually submit proof for your premise that liberals are intellectually superior to conservatives. So, the burden of proof is on you. You brought that idea up on your own, not me. And libs call anyone that disagree w/ them racists or conspiracy theorists. That’s why so many of us are losing respect for you. Many of us used to think destroyers are very smart but now we realize that you’re just on code. Not impressive at all

[@nosequiters]

and jews

[@mkosmala1309]

The scariest part of this to me is that eugenicists, while plainly doing things which are evil, seem to genuinely believe what they're doing is "good." That makes them even more dangerous. As C.S. Lewis put it, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." This means that they won't stop unless they wake up and realize they're doing evil.

[@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261]

That's why I found a new appreciation for corrupt politicians and leaders after learning more about the fanatics and ideologues, motivated to do "God's work". Great point! 👍

[@zap_sigma1]

Blaise Pascal once mirrored this sentiment when he said, "Evil is never done so completely & cheerfully, as when it is done from religious ferver." (paraphrased)

[@jackiechilds8047]

You can tell when a Liberal bot responds - 100 lines of almost no conclusion

[@chrisfreebairn870]

Those ideas did not exist in a vacuum; that they were so strongly held at that time was a reflection of their general acceptance. The 'problem' of ppl with very low intelligence, mental illness, physical deformity, the conquered, strangers etc was a human universal. How each society dealt with such problems depended on the resources they had available - including knowledge, & on the practical difficulties such things entailed. Those problems were probably often solved based on the simple practicalities, ie we can't carry a child that can't walk when we migrate to seasonal territory, therefore .. And, probably, some fancy justifications were devised by some ppls to assuage the pain involved, eg bad spirits, Gods will etc. You think only elites devise self serving justifications? Perhaps they're just better at articulating them, hence more influential? But ultimately, let's just say that in times of war & strife the elites probably didn't hold sway, whereas in times when the products of their ideas & mental abilities underpinned civilisational success, they had more influence? Bashing ppl based on a category you define, in this case intellectual elites, is the same shit, just with less convincingly articulated theories. Who was it that the Soviets killed first in Poland in 1939-40? The intellectuals. Why? Because they were the greatest threat to the ideological regime of the conqueror. And who did Mao & Pol Pot destroy for political purposes? Anyone with glasses or books. Then what happened? Economic disaster, general barbarity etc. Identity politics, defining ppl by groups, leads to bad things. Most ppl are inclined to do it, it's a big part of how we deal with the world - we create categories of things to simplify the complexity of the world - our senses/brain do this, otherwise the computational demand would fry our brain. Other ppl must be categorised too, since humans are nature's most dangerous animals. Try communicating with someone that doesn't understand your language or has minor hearing difficulty .. before long the frustration turns to "what's wrong with this person, they must be stupid." Civilization .. time to think, experience others without fear etc, allow us to understand things as never before, to learn etc; trade & conquest bring new ideas .. hence we learn not to fear others, tho the tendency remains because it has a deep evolutionary basis. That is, the neocortex v the amygdala!

[@michaels4255]

So what is your opinion of the dysgenicists whose policies, however popular, are effectively skewing changes in the gene pool year by year in the opposite direction of what the eugenicists wanted? Why is that better?

[@mchristr]

“Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth” Historian Paul Johnson

[@harrymills2770]

Nothing appeals to humans more than confirmation of their own superiority over those different from themselves, a fact they always sort of suspected, all along, anyway. - Harry Mills

[@dongaetano3687]

Excellent quote Miles, thx much.

[@xchen3079]

@@harrymills2770 This is particularly true to intellectuals.

[@budmckinney6824]

@@xchen3079 Intellect is self-understanding. Are you without intellect? God's laws. 1. natural selection. 2. survival of the fittest. 3. Might makes right. Mob rule or democracy. 4. Intellect rules ignorance forever. Those who understand themselves well enough to stay humble will not fall under the subject matter jurisdiction of anyone. My kingdom was created for my son at the time of my death. August 13, 1999. My spirit guides his fingers to type out this reply. He is a slave to my spiritual guidance and my words are evidence of the spiritual afterlife. Can a dead man reply? I am his public defender of private rights. I am the judge of all When he dies I will judge all that he has done. He is guilty and my jurisdiction is where he will serve out a life sentence.

[@danieljakubik3428]

Good quote!

[@Freedom17762]

Thank God for Thomas Sowell, he is truly one of the great minds of our time. I'm running a Cat 320 excavator at work while listening and learning.. doesn't get much better than this.

[@pikiwiki]

Yo. I see you

[@danlyson7681]

Haha, same here, philosophical excavator operators dig it!

[@keeponlivin81]

Same man, but running a loader.

[@icu8128]

A true modern man, taking advantage of technology, expanding his mind while toiling in the fields of his work; Ain't America great?

[@shonuff5297]

But progressives will say we are the uneducated. As general contractor I beg to differ. Let's see them build a house from footer to front door..

[@alexandermaccumber9021]

Thomas Sowell is the most criminally underrated philosopher of the 20th century.

[@Evettecord]

Many ppl know about him & we can share him in the comment sections

[@Evettecord]

@rik michael like who?

[@reven-docta79]

@rik michael There’s YT video of him debating other academics in the 1970s and 80s.

[@reven-docta79]

It’s planned. And, unfortunately, some of it is indeed racial. Imagine feeling intellectually and racially superior, then, a Black academic comes along and intellectually demolishes you. We can’t have a Blk academic giving black kids a sense of empowerment - it would destroy the victim industry.

[@harkyo]

He's an economist, not a philosopher per se.

[@carolynrogers373]

For those who blindly insist we follow the science, it is good to remember these ideas were science in it's own day.

[@fwcolb]

Eugenics was pseudoscience. Scientists still have no sure way to estimate the balance between environment and innate characteristics arising at birth. Thus, most will guess 50:50. Environment includes culture as well as physical components. And today, the science of epigenetics suggests that there is inter-generational carryover in gene expression, which acts as a confounding factor, clouding the mix of environmental and innate factors

[@Nurhaal]

Eugenics was never scientific. If you'd listen carefully, Sowell castrated Madison's work in 'Passing of the Great Race' for not being scientific whatsoever as it presents no evidence at all. In fact, obvious evidence at that time did demonstrate the fallacy of eugenics. Instead, Madison relied on technical speak to sound smart - a fitting definition of Madison fulfilling the Dunning-Krueger effect.

[@gregsmith7949]

There are countless examples of people following the science over the last 100 years that had disastrous results. Herion was prescribed as a cure for morphine addiction. Smoking was promoted because it was good for your lungs. Countless Rx drugs that had to recalled because of deadly or disastrous side effects, yet at the time they were "following the science".

[@hurricanesteve65]

Erased replies !

[@jeanalice4732]

For some it still is. Only it has a different twist on the deception.

[@3ngi_n33r]

TS is like the mailman. He always delivers.

[@tommyodonovan3883]

He always brings his A-Game.

[@user-sf7og5ke7p]

I could listen to this man all day - such wisdom!

[@SomeCanine]

The mailman only wishes he was as reliable as Sowell.

[@jesuslopez4113]

I wish Thomas Sowell books were mandated in schools everywhere. Straight up facts

[@marynewsham9896]

that would mean teachers would have to be exposed to real knowledge & understand it well enough to teach it. doubt many could

[@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069]

Nothing should be mandated from the top down to all students. You would know this is Sowell's position if you had read more of his books, or dare I say, any of them perhaps

[@mustbtrouble]

You like him as a useful source to excuse your shitty beliefs .

[@clintonrobinson8070]

The problem with the higher education system is that it more closely resembles a system of ideological indoctrination than a system that teaches people how to think as opposed to what to think.

[@pilarpinedo9792]

I GOT FALSELLY IMPRISONED FOR ATTEMPTING TO THINK***!!! SO WATCH OUT***!!!

[@brendawilliams8062]

@@pilarpinedo9792 😂

[@mattiemathis9549]

You are SO right!!! There was no way I was going to be able to go to college. I joined the military instead. But when I joined up, I KNEW I was going to be indoctrinated. That was what I wanted. I don’t think most people going to college in the US realize they are being indoctrinated….

[@str.77]

​@@mattiemathis9549 That you knew that were indoctrinated only meant anything if it helped you withstand it. (Not assuming anything about you, but most people I saw on YT have fully succumbed to such, especially those that underwent Marine brainwashing.) On the other hand, you didn't learn anything intellectually worthwhile there.

[@chrish5791]

When our institutions of higher education no longer brook the free exchange of ideas, but limit their discourse to their intellectually approved side of an issue they’re only going to produce ideologues well indoctrinated into groupthink. When our institutions used to allow free debate so that ideas rose or fell on their merit those that attended learned how to think to separate the wheat from the chaff in the marketplace of ideas.

[@bjccook1352]

Thanks Prof. Sowell...studied the shameful history of eugenics in university. Wish you had been my teacher as I would have learned the depth of depravity and voted differently. GOD bless you and keep you!

[@ih82r8]

It's a safe bet that whatever you're "taught" in universities is patently false and not good for anyone.

[@geneticsmatter3834]

Shameful? How can you look around at America today and tell me these men were wrong? This nation is a dysgenic abyss.

[@brucehitchcock3869]

@@geneticsmatter3834 So the Nazi's were right too ? Although the crime rate went down 18 years after legalization of abortion that doesn't mean abortion is good or should be legal. Same with forced sterilization.

[@search4omniscience]

@@geneticsmatter3834 genetics aren’t the cause🤯🤯🤯

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

@@geneticsmatter3834 we’ve been dumbed down. Purposely. As to be compliant. Look at the immigration act of 1919. The ability to deport those who opposed those in power. Healthy, working, and compliant. We fight each other while those in power give themselves more power. Education is controlled. Everything is controlled. Politicians control some aspect of every aspect of life

[@Danaluni59]

Progressivism informed and inspired National Socialism. The relationship between these twin ideologies could not be clearer.

[@SandfordSmythe]

Hitler had the moustache.

[@usafvet100]

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was a leading figure in the eugenics movement. Her racial views were indistinguishable than those of Himmler or Eichman. Feminists and abortion rights activists who hail her as a heroine are at some pains to keep her racial views out of the public eye.

[@geneticsmatter3834]

Well in that case I've got a newfound appreciation for progressivism.

[@ChollaRanch]

@@geneticsmatter3834 Aww, you just took a shine to that tiny mustache and thus emulate accordingly. 🤣

[@geneticsmatter3834]

@@ChollaRanch Imagine thinking that you can have a complete absence of eugenics without creating a dysgenic population. Eugenics or dysgenics. Pick one.

[@fwcolb]

Many thanks for this. Eugenics was a truly evil theory. I have worked as an economist and demographer in 18+ countries over 50 years on all continents except Australia and Antarctica. Regions included, 5+ years in Africa and 30+ years in Austronesia. I regard human racial differences as merely cosmetic. Cultural differences are what count.

[@TeaParty1776]

Not Antarctica?! Are you anti-snow?!

[@fwcolb]

@@TeaParty1776 Definitely never Antarctica. Missed Australia too, but would have emigrated there when I was younger, if I had I been offered a job.

[@Dude0000]

Austronesia? What’s the difference between that and Australasia?

[@fwcolb]

@@Dude0000 Try Wikipedia.

[@albionicamerican8806]

So how can a medical examiner determine the race of a human skeleton? That was the premise of the effort to find and exhume the alleged "mass graves" of all the blacks allegedly murdered in Tulsa's 1921 riot.

[@KM-nj3cm]

What's so eye opening for me is, the left really have not changed one bit. Don't let them fool you.

[@mercerholt8299]

The only things that's changed is the words they use.

[@mariodatguy4988]

Its interesting how vision of the anoited sums up technocrats like Fauci and I never really would have thought about this had 2020 not happened. But Mr. Sowell did

[@ih82r8]

Exactly. Amazing how little of the left's paragons and heroes are never fully communicated for their views and involvement. History is just on endless repeat...

[@pilarpinedo9792]

I HAVE ALWAYS KEPT THEM AT ARMS LENGTH

[@Shiro_Amada]

You should look up Fauchi's record on AIDs in the 80s and 90s. Quite the pre-game show for the 2019 pandemic.

[@nonyabusiness8731]

Dr. Sowell really is the great social anthropologist of this era.

[@bryanprillwitz2394]

Thank SF 4 that social sexual anthropology

[@brainwashington1332]

Did u mean Nyonya?

[@davidmcdonald1469]

The progressive and Eugenics movements have a lot in common with the woke and critical race theory today.

[@ozdavemcgee2079]

They are the same. Read into Eugenics. See it morph into different names. Look at the founders and early members, look for their offspring. Youll find them in all the modern funding of NGOs in different Globalist groups. Look into WEF klaus schwab. Bill gates who was his dad what did he believe. And of course read the rockefeller foundation beliefs programs. Read into that think it over see where you get too.

[@vidard9863]

they are literally the same, and literally came from the same sources and philosophies. the only exception is the eugenicists had to hide in the wake of WWII, but it is inherent to their philosophies, thus in wokist crt it is coming out as a desire to see... the melanin challenged blotted out.

[@richardtuholsky4028]

100%

[@isrberlinerin4063]

@@ozdavemcgee2079 absolutely true !

[@mariodatguy4988]

And now that CRT has proven unliked in virginia they will likely soon ditch the name just like they did back with eugenics

[@GabrielleTollerson]

I am a simple woman: I see Thomas Sowell video,I click

[@ifesoks8447]

Me too and I can confidently say, I love you

[@joewaren508]

Lol , I like your response

[@dickrichard5579]

I appreciate your willingness to learn and understand in a world where it’s easy to scoff and sneer at such topics

[@GabrielleTollerson]

@@joewaren508 thank you 😄 hehe

[@Hambond477]

A giant of a man, an honest man, a rarity today.

[@Fife_knight]

This man spared no one and took no sides.

[@jimbarrofficial]

One of the best academic lectures I've heard in years. Parallels can be drawn to today's progressives. Both seem to believe that gov't involvement in people's lives should be promulgated. Both have warped views on the pitiful nature of "lower" races (today's progressives believing in "victimology" and attributing all racial issues to prejudice and racism). Amazing what you can learn when you study these things as Dr. Sowell and his researchers have done.

[@michaels4255]

Competition and conflict between races (and also cultures) are inevitable when diverse races live under the same government. Diversity creates conflict as surely as night follows day. However, these conflicts can be minimized by replacing democracy with an iron fisted autocracy like the Roman Empire did. When the Soviet Union abandoned Communism for multi - party democracy, its leaders realized that they also had to break up the Soviet empire into a number of independent states with dominant ethnic majorities. Ukraine never did that but was divided into two large ethnic groups, West Ukrainians and Russian Ukrainians in the east, and we see the result of that. Yugoslavia also tried to survive as a multi - ethnic democracy, but fell apart. Switzerland holds together only dividing itself into ethnically homogenous cantons which each manages its own affairs and by remaining strictly neutral and isolationist in foreign policy.

[@TheArcturusProject]

Parallels? A straight line cannot be parallel with itself. There has been no change, they have continued on in a straight line since before the civil war.

[@marksauck8481]

This needs to be shown every where and often. Schools especially.

[@anomietoponymie2140]

I love that you spelled "everywhere" as two separate words, "every where." Makes me think about how the idea of everywhere came to be and how we could also say "everywho, everywhat, everyhow, everywhen," though I'm not quite sure what some of those words would mean (everybody and every one, every thing and everything and all things, every way and every which way, whenever, intemporal, at all times, forever...).

[@reven-docta79]

Imagine if public schools taught Thomas Sowell. Heck, imagine if public schools taught actual history instead of the dystopian tripe they’re trying to get kids to believe now.

[@barryon8706]

When people see other people as just cogs to be shaped into a perfect society, they can at times persuade themselves of a great deal.

[@franksespool8150]

To this day people can talk them selves into anything, lower case genocide , well ... That's not too bad right

[@jimwerther]

@Barry On Very good comment

[@barryon8706]

@@jimwerther Thank you!

[@jimwerther]

@@barryon8706 And thank you for your comment. Very insightful.

[@usafvet100]

Thus our Marxist friends speak casually of breaking eggs to make an omelet. Make no mistake, authoritarian ideologies are dehumanizing at their very core. Both Das Kapital and Mein Kampf refer to ordinary citizens as "the masses," not to mention Imperial Japan's description of them as the "shinbin" (those who obey orders), mere objects to be manipulated at the pleasure of the elites in order to achieve some fancied lofty goal.

[@tommore3263]

Mr. Sowell is a blessing.

[@abdiomarmohamed1103]

God bless him!

[@idleobserver7211]

Sweden instituted aggressive eugenics programs through the mid seventies. Sweden produced Gretta Thunberg a mere twenty five years later. Clearly eugenics is not a cure-all.

[@tommyodonovan3883]

I do not think that people with low IQ should be raising children, if they're too stupid to take care of a cat/dog I don't want them anywhere near a child. I believe that most of societies dysfunction is directly attributable to childhood abuse. If society could stop all CHA, there would be utopia on earth in 30yrs, one generation.

[@CONEHEADDK]

@@tommyodonovan3883 Not utopia, but there would be less suffering - perhaps. But if you are born with a very low IQ, you will never become a genius. Or as someone once said: "No matter how well you treat and train a pony, you will never end up with a derby winner - at best you'll have a healthy fast pony.

[@przemyslawsadowski]

@@tommyodonovan3883 let me ask you: are you married, do you have kids?

[@chernobylcoleslaw6698]

Oooft

[@DingoHammer]

Greta Thunberg appears to be of normal intelligence. Are you saying that because you don't agree with her she is genetically defective?

[@EricDPeterson56]

Evil always disguises itself as intelligent.

[@marksauck8481]

Very true.

[@paraconsistentjojo]

And compassionate.

[@ajb.822]

Yep. Like Satan in the garden of Eden with Eve. It's not that Eve needed to only ever just turn her brain off and be on automaton of loyalty to her wonderful Creator, but what she did know and had experiences so far were all on the side of being loyal and obedient, in spite of Satan's argument, and had she took some time, talked with Adam, talked with God, meditated on known truth, she could've grew as a person while avoiding sin and "learning the hard way " . Realizing things such as how much God deserved her trust and loyalty and obedience and who is this serpent anyways ? Even without knowing any evil, having suspicion etc., they were perfect and humanity at it's finest, and adults, so .. had brains. So, I imagine she could have done those things, had she chosen to obey God in that moment of persuasion to disobey.

[@ih82r8]

And as "light".

[@DanielVoyles]

I wouldn't necessarily call it evil. I would say misguided. Intelligence often breeds arrogance, which blinds people from their own ignorance. No matter how smart someone is, they only offer one perspective of a situation. They often only place themselves with like-minded people, so they often do not have their ideas challenged or their ideas are so new that no one can yet challenge them. Even when an idea is challenged, one's arrogance prevents them from seeing the faults in their thinking. Not surprising, as most ideas have deep roots.

[@juliesteimle3867]

The very phrase "unwanted souls" is utterly repugnant. Clearly they do not understand the worth of a soul.

[@EvilSanta482]

Unfortunately it's not far off the mark. Lots of kids are born these days and subsequently ignored by the parents who never wanted them but only wanted to party and live a hedonistic lifestyle with nary a thought to the consequences of such. They then grow up and go on to largely do the same. Ultimately they are the true victims of this story, of the selfishness being bred into their parents and everyone else these days.

[@ggsexquisitedesserts9446]

"Unwanted souls" is a godless perspective.

[@jimwerther]

@Julie Steimle Is that a picture of yourself from the 1970s?

[@Evettecord]

No, some souls are unwanted, esp if they are violent

[@biozesuck]

Would you prefer oxygen wasters?

[@jonathandewberry289]

We throw the term 'living legend' around too much but Thomas Sowell really is a living legend. It can make an atheist believe in God that Sowell keeps on staying alive and well but intellectually sharp into the era he's most desperately needed and via channels like this so generously shared to so many.

[@ThomasSowellTV]

Thank you.

[@tefilobraga]

Thomas Sowell, great man. Without any appeal to emotion or to the accusations of "heresy" that racial "science" purportedly entails, Sowell systematically debunks it purely based on rational arguments.

[@chrisfreebairn870]

No, based on lots of solid data .. & sound interpretation .. as district from data poor & ideologically driven interpretations.

[@michaels4255]

He doesn't actually debunk it, merely shows how sharply the attitudes of our ancestors contrasted with the fashionable opinions of our own day, and points out a few anomalies while ignoring the explanations for them. Sowell is a fine economist, but neither population genetics nor animal husbandry are his forte.

[@B88-h6n]

I'm so happy to have found this channel. Absolutely amazing stuff.

[@BohemianBeatster]

The writings of Thomas Sowell should be required reading in all institutions of learning, not so much as to fulfill a persons future degree or eventual station in the work force. But to enlighten ones total mind saturation of our past misnomers, as well as its insights and advancements to better understand the intelligence, societal equality and acceptance and celebration of the diverse qualities of all human-beings.

[@bryanb.386]

The "worthless eaters," Klaus Schwab head of the World Economic forum.

[@user-sf7og5ke7p]

Klaus Schwab is the most frightening person in social media - if it were up to him us, mere lowly people would be done away with.

[@GazGuitarz]

@@user-sf7og5ke7p Absolutely, however his top advisor Prof. Harari (Historian and avid supporter of transhumanism) has a cunning plan to hack the human biological system and indeed evolution itself, which aims to create an Uberperson who has no Free Will. Both Schwab and Harari scare the heck out of me, as do the political, corporate leaders and celebrities who are members, attendees and "graduates" of the WEF. It's no surprise to learn that Klaus Schwab's mentor was one Heinz Alfred Kissinger, better known to the world as Henry Kissinger.

[@brendawilliams8062]

I think he is looking at what nature terraformed will do on it’s own momentum. He wants the steering wheel and it’s Control and took his best shot. We all have freedom of choice or should

[@Rippel0000]

His thick german accent isn’t making it any better as well lol.

[@edwinamendelssohn5129]

@@brendawilliams8062 🤡

[@hoponpop3330]

Actually as the son and grandson of Italian peasants who made up the largest percentage of immigrants of that time. I’m not offended by this ignorance. The peasant system in Italy made upward mobility almost impossible. The could only get 3 years of education and it wasn’t mandatory. If you father needed you to work the land frequently you would be kept out. In 3 generations my family has produced amazing results . Engineers, Nurses, Lawyers, University President ,and business leaders . Mayors and other political leaders . One cousin who became a mayor became the head of a commission that oversaw a joint town reservoir ironically it was the same system his immigrant grandfather was employed as a maintenance worker.

[@gillesandfio8440]

"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors."....Ayn Rand

[@michaels4255]

If Ayn Rand were correct, then even rocks could potentially attain intellect and character. "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." -- Ayn Rand

[@gillesandfio8440]

@@michaels4255 If you ever bothered to read what Ayn Rand wrote, you would not be making a fool of yourself in public trying to smear her character. "Man is a rational animal"...Ayn Rand. Rocks are not animals....Sigh.

[@cherimolina2121]

I've not read her works. But the saying goes "I can do all things thru a verse/paragraph taken out of context". Our media does it all the time.

[@mikeb5372]

​@@michaels4255What kind of idiocy are you trying to pass off?

[@allensharp-to4cq]

This is why the American left dislikes Ayn Rand. She was a champion of meritocracy not racial stereotypes.

[@Orpilorp]

I thank God for Mr. Sowell. Most of society just wants to get along, care for their families, and love their neighbors. But in every society there are those who feel they are better than " the masses." They are full of knowledge, but lack discernment, compassion or common sense. Those of us who desire community are truly blessed by the wisdom of people like Mr. Sowell. Thank you sir, for your hard work.

[@Nyorane]

Incredible work, thank you Mr. Sowell. I can feel my brain strengthening whenever I listen to your work.

[@edgabel6814]

Have Progressives really changed? The methodology may have changed, but the ideology and policies of modern Progressives seem virtually the same.

[@IAmTheRealBill]

They really haven’t. They are rooted in collectivism. They are so rooted in it that a gay person doesn’t have the right to marry someone who chose them because they are an adult individual, but because of their biology. The right answer is that all rights are individual. The progressive answer is that group membership determines rights, among other things.

[@harrymills2770]

@@IAmTheRealBill They've changed, somewhat. They used to push a regressive return to top-down ordering of society because the average person is stupid. Now they push a regressive return to serfdom because the average person is evil. I always pose the question "If people are so evil and/or stupid, why would you give more power to the few who actively seek it?"

[@kenbowser5622]

No, they haven't. They changed their name to liberal when nobody would vote for them. A recurring ordeal recently. I'm a real liberal and today I have more in common with a conservative than the left.

[@kenbowser5622]

@@harrymills2770 and, why would they encourage immigration? Cause the native born won't vote for them anymore.

[@dw5523]

@@IAmTheRealBill They are also rooted in the surety of their own superiority - both moral & intellectual. I think that's ultimately what allows them to justify such blatant evil. It's not evil if they do it, because they are doing it for the ultimate good of humanity. They can't help but play God because, in their mind, they might as well be.

[@tagsoneveryting]

Very interesting. This is the kind of information you never hear in the mainstream today.

[@junacebedo888]

Mere human intelligence is not enough. Man must be divinely inspired by God to be peaceful and prosperous

[@AnthonyEvelyn]

👍🏾🙏🏾

[@deewesthill1213]

Which "God" are you talking about?

[@garysuarez9614]

Coercive Philanthropy is a great description.

[@adamjam9541]

These are the lectures we all missed in college scholarship at its highest

[@danielcollins9628]

Eugenics is a taboo subject at universities

[@douglasbullet6456]

I didn't go to university but I managed to learn a lot from Thomas Sowell for free😂

[@cdc3]

What those who believe themselves to be "intellectuals" fail to appreciate is that intellect is merely a tool to be used in the service of the goal of life, that of loving God and fellow men in true unity with them. By itself, it is a cruel, ruthless and implacable tyrant.

[@warpnin3]

OUCH!!😁

[@MR-dm1gx]

Fascinating! As southern European I feel no envy to Western Europe or the Nordic tribes. We are the cradle of civilization of such depth that the Intelectuals mind can't grasp, and with that uses the Super Ego, which is impenetrable ignorance. I am grateful for stumbling up on this viedo and will look for more.

[@Ggaia-d9z]

The Middle East is the cradle of civilization.

[@rikki-tikki-tavi2456]

The Era may change, however, intellectual arrogance is timeless and most profound.

[@Dude0000]

Secular priests, like Druids, Witch Doctors etc that have access to wisdom not available to everyone else…but they live in the realm of possibility and concept, not the real world which is unfathomably complex.

[@brendawilliams8062]

Archeological sites are not completely excavated. Why? Every generation thinks they are the most capable and educated. Slavery comes in many forms.

[@danielmeegan6259]

Great Timeing Thomas God be with you

[@tinabarrette963]

I love history and common sense. Respect from Northern Canada.🙏🏻❤️

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

Be careful. I’ve noticed history being revised for over a decade now. Read old books. Wikipedia has become nothing more than a leftist mouthpiece

[@fatimas2067]

Professor we need you now more than any time in history, we're LOST, thank you very much 👏❤

[@robertabell9182]

I always enjoy watching you Debunk the Narratives. The far left always think that their way is so much more Intellectual 🧐 and more Morel than God himself. Thank you 🙏 Thomas Sowell. Bless you in this coming Holidays. Have a very Blessed Thanksgiving in Christ Jesus Name Amen 🙏. All day long Yahoo

[@Dude0000]

Maybe because the left have a childish view of God. They just dismiss it outright and don’t understand the nuances of the archetypes, history and the way people in the past saw and therefore lived in the world. They’re very materialistic, in general, and God is a concept that is beyond human apprehension however much we try, we will never understand as by definition, God will only reveal Their self how and where One wishes (trying to not gender God as all humans are in the mage of God). However, without God, what separate us from animals and where do we get morals? Easy to say it’s obvious not to kill, rape etc, but for 90%+ of human existence, it wasn’t. In fact it was good to do so to conquer other tribes, kill the men, or enslave them, and rape the women, which is more evolutionarily advantageous as to widen the gene pool and stop inbreeding. Survival of the fittest requires murder and rape in a pre Christian God world. That’s why it was so revolutionary. Jesus taught ‘another way’ by ‘loving thy enemy’ thus trading with them, befriending, then merging through marriage to make a larger more diverse community.

[@robertabell9182]

Appreciate y’all all day long. Yahoo

[@marksauck8481]

The left has mastered the art imaging compassion and getting away with that phony facade and with so much help from the media and entertainers for so many years, it’s no wonder it’s an insane world today.

[@cowlico]

Thomas Sowell one of the greatest intellectuals of our time!

[@theauthor8901]

Brilliant, simply brilliant, sir, well done , indeed! God bless and keep you, may he give you the gates of your enemies.

[@DemitriVladMaximov]

I shared this on Facebook in hopes that it will open some eyes.

[@EnlightenedHeart01]

I shared it on Facebook now as well

[@Didleeios88]

"If science is to be something more than an incantation invoked to buttress an ideology and silence it's critics." Beautifully articulated and more relevant than ever.

[@headpump]

Eugenics in 1920, CRT in 2020

[@scottevans9454]

John VW That is quite absurd. There is not a single connection between CRT and eugenics. Please explain how you arrived at that idea?

[@scottevans9454]

Are there literally 18 people who don't understand the English language enough to see there is no connection between CRT and eugenics? 19 people that show why Donald Trump won the last election.

[@headpump]

@@scottevans9454 There is a connection. They're vile.

[@AnotherDebtSlave]

The pendulum swings. From one ignorant misrepresented extreme to another.

[@edwinamendelssohn5129]

@@scottevans9454 1920 they wanted to kill blacks, 2020 whites

[@mosespray4510]

This puts a spin on H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" that I had never previously realized. In the year AD 802,701 humanity has split into the beautiful but listless Eloi living above ground, and the brutish, ugly Morlocks living below ground, who farm the Eloi for food. Knowing that Wells was a fan of eugenics takes a lot of the fun out of that story.

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

Noticed that too huh. Learned decades ago about hg wells. Metropolis 1927 has an interesting point. 2 classes of people. The rulers son asks the ruler if he ever worries about the workers rising up. 1927. Before nfa 1934 after the Great Depression 1929. Buck v bell 1927. Without firearms we are nothing more than peasants with pitchforks

[@warrenhall7060]

HG WELLS WAS AN ANTI CHRIST AND EVIL HUMAN BEING WHO KNEW...

[@natmanprime4295]

"listless", exactly. The problem of hell is pain, the problem of heaven is boredom. Not as big of a problem, but still a problem. This is why judicious cross pollination is so important for life

[@SonOfTheLion]

Rothbard's book on the progressive era is also quite informative.

[@themeadowlarkminutewithpau8184]

The Progressive Era?

[@shivasirons6159]

Ive the great mans books, im re reading , " the vision of the annointed" Tom Sowell has videos going back decades, ive seen many of them, the man has simply never been wrong!

[@davidhunt7427]

His book *_Knowledge & Decisions_* 2nd Ed, 1996 is well worth reading as an irrefutable argument that empathy + violence can never equate in value to actual authentic information. Or as folksy common sense says,.. _Wishing can't make it so! _*_Even with Government Force to back you up!_*

[@harrymills2770]

I guess you missed the parts where he writes about his socialist youth.

[@davidhunt7427]

@@harrymills2770 Yeah,.. but he never published anything from his Marxist era,.. and later changed his mind. His book, Marxism, is one of the best analysis of why Communism can't work that I have ever seen,.. principally because he once believed this nonsense himself. *_Knowledge_*_ rests not upon truth alone, but upon _*_error_*_ also._ ~ Carl Jung

[@kenbowser5622]

One of our greatest shining minds in our history.

[@donaldkershaw6371]

Thank You

[@ExMachina70]

I rest well knowing Thomas Sowell exists.

[@TheArqadesh]

These are the people that shaped our higher learning institutions. This is just evil. Our founding fathers said that we had to have a moral people to keep this nation. I am learning daily how very important that is.

[@michaels4255]

Declining gene frequencies for intelligence and conscientiousness are producing a society that is increasingly less moral.

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

This kind of stuff has been going on for over a hundred years. Real history is disturbing. Been studying it for almost 50 years.

[@grannyninja3253]

Our founding fathers... Been researching History myself. These Not so secret societies... in particular Free masonry. Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike. Albert Pike predicted WWIII and the NWO. "Whenever the people need a hero We shall supply him." Pike Quote. PG 321 refers to Lucifer as Spirit of Darkness. Encyclopedia of Freemasonry by Albert Mackey. The Lost Keys of Free masonry by Manly P Hall. Pg 76 he talks about the energies of Lucifer!? They also talk about other deities like Mithras. What do these elites have in common.. these orgs. Their gang signs, the easiest to see is the Hidden Hand. In my 62 yrs I have never seen a normal person do it. Those who have posed for the camera...in school I saw Napoleon, Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un, Prince William and Harry adds the devil horns to his. Most US police officers are Masons. Many major city police stations are right next to temples. These creatures have been Manipulating humanity for a very long time. Lower level masons may be ignorant to the higher masons agenda but they are their stooges non the less. I'm Agnostic btw..... My research into religions has left a bitter taste in my mouth. Another tool for conflict and division. Our true history has been stolen in my opinion.

[@TATitans]

He inspires me to change my thinking then get involved.

[@GeorgeSemel]

Gee's none of these guys could be trusted to pump the proper grade of gas into a car. At that period of time a Russian Jew immigrated to the US and well he became a composer and well he wrote a few songs 1200 + altogether, God Bless, America and White Christmas comes to mind the United States got the better end of the deal when Israel Beilin choose to Make the United State his country. Oh, he is really better known as Irving Berlin. He was not the only one to come in that period of time and made valued contributions to our National Life. Never mind the low regard these geniuses would have for Dr. Thomas Sowell! BLM and Antifa are just rebranding of the same Marxist - Progressive crap.

[@kathleenking47]

in the 1st half of the 20th century, Jews wrote 80% of songs, vocalists did..they also were in jazz That genre seems afro-semintic over anything

[@michaels4255]

I assure you that Antifa and BLM are fanatically anti - eugenic. Also, "these geniuses" of the past certainly would have held Dr. Sowell in high regard. You have failed to understand their argument.

[@Ggaia-d9z]

Progressivism started out in the Christian Social Gospel movement.

[@sheevamatimbas4300]

Thomas Sowell, my life Guru👍❤️💯

[@johnpatterson7033]

This is the hardest most difficult and disgusting narrative I’ve ever had to endure listening to. The truth hurts, I have felt and sometimes allowed some of these thoughts to influence my opinions and feelings towards my fellow brothers and sisters. May the Lord forgive me….I repent, May the Lord forgive me.

[@danm8747]

Thats the beauty of life Brother. You live, you learn, you can change. If you ever find yourself thinking ill of someone ask yourself why? I was a conservative living in a liberal area. But I had friends all across the board. Because I found people who looked at each other’s character. I can completely hate your views and ideals, but if we can find common ground as humans than we can find friendship. People get too caught up in people’s differences, and not enough on what we have in common. A great lesson is to watch kids. They don’t care who other kids are, what color or nationality they are, or how much money their family has. They care how someone treats them. We could all learn a lot from that

[@pilarpinedo9792]

THATS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT! SO ONCE YOU OPENED YOUR EYES AND FIGURE IT OUT, DO NOT CLOSE THEM. ITS NOT EASY! LETS HOPE WE GET THROUGH THE PLANDEMIA***!!! AND THEN WILL SEE.

[@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261]

@@danm8747 "People get too caught up in people's differences and not enough i what we have in common" - which is quite A LOT. Well said!

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

I’ve spent a lifetime studying this and all aspects of nazi germany and its similarities in the US. Buck v bell,1927. Carrie buck was white. So was anne cooper Hewitt

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

@@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261 politicians and media seem to focus on differences. Differences divide and similarities unite

[@olenaz8624]

I just wanted to add that Marx’s ideas on Slavs were in line with the opinions described in the video.

[@Danaluni59]

Marxists are every bit as evil as their National Socialist counterparts. All varieties of Progressivism are couched in totalitarian domination and mass murder.

[@imonlyamanandiwilldiesomed4406]

"Spirit gives life, the flesh counts for nothing; these words that I have spoken are full of the spirit and life, yet there are those among you who do not believe" -Christ

[@Lamplighter4712]

Thank you Thomas Sowell ,🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@arthurwright8827]

Read “Eugenics and Other Evils” by G. K. Chesterton for more info on the subject.

[@billbartley3007]

It seems we are in a "eugenics" moment right now; except it not very well defined, as if they wanted to do away with the bulk of the world's population or something...

[@SG-js2qn]

It's what you do when the 1% decides to reduce the 99%.

[@billbartley3007]

@Herro, I am trying to decide what level of sarcasm you are implying...

[@billbartley3007]

@Herro, do you mean it when you say "Klaus Shwab is a good man"?

[@billbartley3007]

@Herro, thanks for defining your position. I have seen very similar ones that I can't believe someone would actually make, only to find out when I question or comment to them, I realize that they are serious! There truly are insane/evil people in the world!

[@digitalnomad9985]

@Herro I am no scholar in the German language, but I believe "Juden" is plural. And I am one Gentile in favor of Jews protecting themselves in light of historical events.

[@davidanderson6055]

Excellent video. The juxtaposing of papers, pictures and graphs accompanying the clip, are excellent and getting better and better. Much appreciated. I got "Intellectuals and Race" and will read it soon.

[@ThomasSowellTV]

Thank you sir.

[@brainkill7034]

TLDR: - racism is ignorance - knowledge is power - education is paramount Takeaway: You can achieve anything you set your mind to, but you can only set your mind to possibilities that you as an individual believe to exist. Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. I hope for true education and critical thinking to be prolific, as it once was. That does not mean participation trophies, but quite the opposite: those that apply themselves and learn from their own mistakes as well as others’ will be the ones that lead society towards an inclusive and more prosperous society. Thank you for sharing. I agree with a number of other comments on this video stating that Thomas Sowell is greatly under appreciated for his persistent work that has been for nothing more but to improve the standing and quality of life for every individual. Amen.

[@nco_gets_it]

what IQ tests cannot measure is the impact of culture on education outcomes. If the parents do not value learning, it won't happen. If the broader culture does not value education, parents will not. The reasons why any given culture may or may not value learning varies quite a bit, but at the heart of the issue is a set of common values that are often imposed externally by political and religious leaders. So, when your "greatest" leaders do things like call history "his story" you get the outcomes we find in the world today. In Silesia, digging coal was how you earned a living. How much "education" in school is necessary to dig coal? Why would parents value schooling when digging coal was the key to survival?

[@CONEHEADDK]

Because digging coal sucked big time.

[@christophersleight19]

Educated people have dug coal. Ditches, racked leaves, stacked sand bags to prevent flooding. One of the most traditionally "educated" men I have ever met, was a custodian.

[@harrymills2770]

... and what eugenics can't explain is why genius parents typically produce mediocre offspring.

[@christophersleight19]

@@harrymills2770 eugenics or evolution?

[@fwcolb]

@@harrymills2770 Spot on! Regression to the mean.

[@Chancey464]

Eugenics are alive&well today.

[@MrFlintlock7]

Have to give props to the billionaires. They finally convinced the population to delete themselves "to save the planet", leaving more of EVERYTHING for the billionaires.

[@Ggaia-d9z]

Can't your "god" recreate you?

[@MrFlintlock7]

@@Ggaia-d9z That's relevant becauuuuuse?

[@MrFlintlock7]

@@Ggaia-d9z That's relevant becauuuuuse?

[@jamesrichie3105]

My father introduced me to T. Sowell in the eighties as a teenager. It all started with ‘Basic Economics’ followed by ‘Applied Economics’. I now know why he did it. Truth always ages well. Liberalism…progressivism? Well, history has judged it and we didn’t learn. They veil their identity politics covertly under the guise of anti-racism and DEI.

[@gladysrodriguez5498]

Please,it is necessary subtitles to read. When the Sowel'books go to traslate to Spanish. There are not in the libraries. He is very important for us, hispanoamerican in USA and all countries. Please. Subtitles in English if you can not in Spanish. I love him!

[@TheRagingPlatypus]

That was amazing and will take more than one viewing to digest fully.

[@dongaetano3687]

These longer vids on Progressivism in the West, though I haven't had time to view them yet, are a great part of the venue for those with the time and or patience to learn in the longform format. Your shorter videos and the very brief points of a minute or two make the site a complete set of helps for people with differing learning habits. All that to say - Thanks guys

[@harrymills2770]

People who proudly proclaim themselves "progressives" are either malign or ignorant.

[@dongaetano3687]

@@harrymills2770 Can't disagree Harry.

[@QsynYo]

Thank you so much for creating and uploading this. Extremely important. I am thankful to have found your channel.

[@anomamos9095]

The statement by the Muslim scholar who said that the further north you go the skin gets lighter and the temperament gets more brutish may have been on to something but not what he thought he was on to. The further north you go the colder it gets and the less sunlight there is, this results in more effort being put into survival than that in warmer climates so there’s little time for being intellectual, the lack of vitamin D may have also played a role in the perceived intellect and disposition of the locals he encountered and then there’s xenophobia. Xenophobia is linked to the survival instinct either innate or learned, it is not wise to be too welcoming of a stranger as strangers often bring dangers. They can be scouts for invading forces or raiders etc. So the further north he went he encountered more distrust and hostility because the more of a stranger he became. Don’t confuse xenophobia with racism. Xenophobia is linked to the survival instinct and can easily be overcome as its basis is fear. Racism is learned hatred backed by fear and xenophobia, it’s harder to overcome because it’s not about accepting and trusting someone different, it’s about re-educating learned beliefs similar to converting someone to a different religion.

[@friendlyone2706]

Excellent explanation.

[@vd1721]

Interesting analysis

[@MolecularArts]

I like the use of visuals to complement the audio. Good job!

[@williammurray1341]

The roots of the founder of Planned Parenthood.

[@SandfordSmythe]

100 yrs ago?

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

@@SandfordSmythe sir francis galton coined the term eugenics in 1888. So it’s been going on for over a hundred years. Buck v Bell 1927 legalized involuntary sterilization in the US. Carrie Buck was white as was the rich heiress Anne Cooper Hewitt. True eugenics was about the human race. Others would corrupt it. Such as sanger. Gives pause for thought to HG Wells “The Time Machine”. Or “The Black Stork” with Harry Haiselden and baby ballinger, who in reality let baby ballinger die in one of the 5 forms of euthanasia simply by refusing treatment of his patient using baby ballinger as the poster child for it.

[@richardschneider294]

Thank you.

[@davidhunt7427]

Once one believes in the perfectibility of Humanity,.. there can be no moral objection to whatever may be supposed to further that goal. Communism didn't murder hundreds of millions of people in the 20th Century by means of mere *_innocent_*_ mistakes._ If you believe otherwise,.. you are probably part of the problem and not the solution. So long as there is Free Will,.. there will be, at least, the possibility of evil; from this many good people conclude that Humanity would be better off without free will and the accompanying responsibility. Consider the question of whether virtue can be made mandatory,.. and, yet, still remain virtue?

[@germaniatv1870]

Nice.

[@davidhunt7427]

@@germaniatv1870 *_I believe that an atavistic longing after the life of the noble savage is the main source of the collectivist tradition._* ~ Friedrich von Hayek Humanity has forever lost the ability to survive upon the basis of an automatic, equal, and sufficient _instinct for survival,_ and _wokeness_ deeply resents this,.. and always will.

[@germaniatv1870]

@@davidhunt7427 Well, Hayek claimed to be pacifist, yet joined England and therefore the War. Liberals, so freedom-loving, yet, always ready for war.:-)

[@davidhunt7427]

@@germaniatv1870 Well,.. even Jordan Peterson believes that Humanity needs to be fully capable of being dangerous,.. and then to choose not to be, if not attacked. Or let me ask you,.. could true sentience, sapience, self-awareness, and a genuine will to survive happen without the competitive pressures of predation. It's cruel,.. but could it really be avoided? If not,.. then maybe every human virtue has only come to us through the spilling of oceans of blood, horror, and terror through out the creation and modification of life. I am a rather eclectic, autistic, Deist, Daoist, minarchist Libertarian who has taught myself to find questions more precious than answers and to allow myself to enjoy cognitive dissonance on the proposition that, if I can refrain from panicking,.. I may actually learn something truly new and unique,.. at least for me. *_Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us._* ~ Jordan B. Peterson, _12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos_ *_What is it that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea ~ to discover a great thought._* ~ Mark Twain *_No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation._* ~ Douglas MacArthur *_The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction._* ~ Douglas MacArthur *_Wars are caused by undefended wealth._* ~ General Douglas MacArthur *_As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms._* ~ Tench Coxe, _Philadelphia Federal Gazette,_ June 18, 1789

[@crhseahorse9092]

Free will comes from God. How does this compute into supposedly facts?

[@eliezra6098]

Incredible perspective spanning thousands of years and all the continents

[@wraithconscience]

Great stuff!! 😎 Odd that the Eugenicists speak of "superior nordic peoples". Illogical and ahistorical too, for it was the southern European Greeks who gave us Western culture (intellectual and artistic) as we know it: science, highter mathematics, logic, the diatonic musical scale, the concept of justice, poetry, drama, ethics, map making, sailing, navigation, equestrianism, chariots, scuplture, painting, physics, chemistry, medicine, political science and epic literature. In fact, it was the Ancient Greeks that give us the term "eugenics" (good creation)! And the Africans, who gave us geometry, taxation, architecture, lost-wax bronze manufacture and monotheism. I fear these Eugenicists were no "good creation". They seem to have never read a history book or visited the Acropolis Museum in Athens or the British Museum. They prove themselves rather stupid, certainly ignorant of history and thus intellectually more primitive than the groups they disparage. They have had elite educations but cannot reason. How exactly do you graduate Yale without having read a history book? That is as concerning as today's wokists. Oh, I see! These were the wokists of yesteryear. Yeeees! And while I do like red-heads, what important intellectual or cultural bequest did the Vikings leave to us? Nothng! This is precisely why no individual Vikings come to mind by name, in contrast to the Greeks (Homer, Apollonius, Euclid, Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes, Sophocles, Ptolemy, etc.) I guess you don't need higher mathematics when you're snowed-in drunk and shouting "skol".

[@gladysrodriguez5498]

Right!

[@maryhunt3083]

"snowed in drunk and shouting Skol!" , that's so funny! .

[@wraithconscience]

@@maryhunt3083 Thanks Mary! You are a woman of taste, beauty and prodigious wit. God bless!

[@harkyo]

Very many valid points! These Progressives did not use the scientific method in their research and writing. They are guilty of confirmation bias.

[@wraithconscience]

@@harkyo Confirmation bias? Scientific method? I wonder if eugenicists were even conscious. Intellectually deviant, derelict, lazy, they didn't even make it to the first step of deductive or inductive thinking. Like a child that learns evasion strategies in infancy, these blowhards didn't even make it to first base. If you've ever studied the works of true intellectuals, in detail, in the original language (Archimedes, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Pascal, Poincaré, Frege, Freud, Aeschylus, Clerk Maxwell, Newton), what you see is that these Eugenicists don't even count as lightweights. They aren't even in the ring. They are fakes, plain and simple. Posers, losers, charlatans. In the end, for all their superciliousness, they are victims of and completely controlled by a primitive emotion -- fear.. And if there is one thing that characterizes the great intellectuals mentioned above, it is courage -- emotional courage, intellectual courage and most of all, the courage of the imagination and of observation, the courage to pursue true mysteries no matter how daunting. Eugenicists seem not to have even mastered a basic book in history. Obviously they knew nothing of the development of mathematics. Eugenicists are the worst kind of cowards -- intellectual cowards. Take the case of eugenics fan, William Shockley. He contributed nothing to the development of the transistor, pushed his way in to the team using his managerial position, claiming credit for the work of others. Much like Jung did with Freud (which Jung admitted in his own writings).. Shockley, the great eugenics fan, didn't even have the decency to say, "my team did it. Aren't they great?" It was Bratton and Bardeen who were the geniuses. Bardeen, the quietest, most modest, most politically conservative of the Transistor team, proved to be the real genius and went on to win a second Nobel Prize in physics -- all on his own. Bardeen despised eugenics. Eugenicists are nothing more than the Al Sharptons of caucasians, proving every group has its losers.

[@kathyheavner3585]

Scholarship! What a beautiful sound

[@REwing]

Has become very political in New Zealand. The atmosphere is very unsettling because the population thought what we had was okay. !!!!!!!

[@brendaw.7597]

Excellent review!

[@dongaetano3687]

Listening again in pieces as I work around the house. Extremely interesting. Thankfully had time to listen to most of it in one sitting. Will have to begin a library of used books this year. Thanks again TS TV

[@juliestewart5707]

Really interesting and much appreciated, Dr. Sowell.

[@franksespool8150]

Whew allot to take in and show my progressive and Dem family members

[@houseofcharm4751]

LoL...don't ruin thanksgiving

[@truffles2721]

The screaming will echo all over.

[@JadyGrudd]

@6:36 "...if science is to be more than an incantation invoked to butress an ideology and silence its critics." Profound and applicable in the age of Covid19.

[@Year--1915]

Dr. Michael E. Jones has the best explanation of why propaganda and oldest cults and oldest cultures create this artificial divisions.

[@kayreid6912]

Hard truths that most are totally ignorant of........and so, here we are today. Fulfilling the eugenicist dream.......willingly!

[@amyMm]

I find it interesting and strange that eugenics focused on races and places. I believe people can be intelligent and a boon to society no matter their genetic makeup but I do feel there is an issue with different cultures. Some cultures produce better people and I think that should be discussed.

[@TeaParty1776]

> boon to society Thats the base of racism. People should be a boon to themselves.

[@hannannah1uk]

@@TeaParty1776 maybe to each other rather than themselves? Love thy neighbour AS thyself. Although firstly loving God as the most important (but least remembered) of Christ's two commandments "on which hang the whole of the Law and the Prophets".

[@davec484]

I can't help but think of "Boon" from Animal House.

[@TeaParty1776]

@@hannannah1uk >Love thy neighbour AS thyself. "blessed are the poor in spirit" These words of Jesus require Christians to despise each other. Basically, however, "Love thy neighbour AS thyself" is an evasion of morality as a guide to life. Christian "morality" is a guide to relationships among people, independent of life. These are morally destructive relationships.

[@deborahdean8867]

@@TeaParty1776the post modern ideology of being a boon to yourself, primarily, is exactly what degrades society and makes it fail. It also makes people unhappy

[@PopGoesTheology]

14:08 29:00 [29:50] *Irving Fisher* taught at Yale from 1890 onward - first as a tutor then after 1898 as a professor of political economy. He was one of the founders of the American Eugenics Society. [30:10] *Henry Rogers Seager* started teaching as assistant professor in economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1894. [30:35] *David Starr Jordan* served as president of Indiana University from 1884 to 1891 and then president of Stanford University after that. [31:07] *Edward Ross* was a professor at Indiana University (1891-1892), Cornell University (1892-1893), Stanford University (1893-1900), University of Nebraska (1900-1904) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (1905-1937). [33:04] *Professor Francis Walker* graduated in 1860 as Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in law. [34:21] *Richard Ely* was a professor and head of the Department of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1881 to 1892.

[@DingoHammer]

Correlation doesn't mean causation. But, if there is causation then there will be correlation.

[@nozack5612]

Intellectuals like Whoopi Goldberg do not become intellectuals by studying information as presented here, but rather rely on their ego and political ideology.

[@jcummins2177]

I knew someone who is related to well-known eugenicist from the turn of the century. They still have this superiority complex, as their kin did, generations ago.

[@firebirdstark]

This channel is on point. Great for sharing with my friends that don’t read 👌🏻

[@mustbtrouble]

@@firebirdstark 🤡

[@markharris1223]

A splendid lecture. Thank you.

[@treesaretasty]

I hope knowledge around how to think for yourself reaches more people thank you Thomas Sowell