How Universities Silence Truth-And What We Can Do About It | Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Dallas-Fort Worth on 3 October 2015. Includes an introduction by Jeff Deist. Special thanks to Klaas and Anastasia Talsma for making this event possible.

[@Fortress333]

Watermelons, green on the outside and red on the inside. Hahah. Another amazing video.

[@aretlev]

Okay. I need to listen to more from DiLorenzo.

[@dirt_mcgirk]

Same here. I found a couple that were years and years old. Very informative and educational!

[@francisd2386]

I love DiLorenzo's no-nonsense, rash approach. It makes me chuckle sometimes. Give "Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government" a try, it's pretty much written in the same style :)

[@velvetpaws999]

Well, thank you for mentioning this. That's what I was just pondering to comment about before finding your post. So, here is my take on this in a nutshell: Organized crime controls the American Government at almost all levels, and the politicians are their puppets and facilitators. Almost, because there may be honesty at the grass roots level of politics, because that is a good thing, as it gives the whole structure a smack of "normal" for the eyes of the public. I say this not because I read it in a book, but because I have lived here now for almost 30 years, and this is my very personal conclusion from watching and analyzing what is happening here year in year out.

[@thejames2211]

More relevant now than ever

[@furyofbongos]

Tom's one of the greats. Not sure why he's not more renowned.

[@BobWidlefish]

30:35 “The word 'truth' itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to believed in the interest of unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.” -F. A. Hayek

[@tabletalk33]

Outstanding lecture! Well done, Dr. DiLorenzo!

[@chomnansaedan4788]

KZbin just recommended him to me based off of what I watch. Thanks! This is a boon.

[@will27ns]

"The dogma that the State or the Government is the embodiment of all that is good and beneficial and that the individuals are wretched underlings, exclusively intent upon inflicting harm upon one another and badly in need of a guardian, is almost unchallenged. It is taboo to question it in the slightest way. He who proclaims the godliness of the State and the infallibility of its priests, the bureaucrats, is considered as an impartial student of the social sciences. All those raising objections are branded as biased and narrow-minded." Ludvig von Mises

[@greenman5555]

Dr. TDL brilliant!!!

[@georgiegingersnap8129]

And everything he laughingly predicted in this speech ACTUALLY CAME TO PASS! "Safe rooms" are now the "norm". And libelling and slandering conservatives and libertarians is now 'de rigueur' for leftists.

[@tirthapaddas141]

Great speaker. One of my favorites. Thank you for sharing this!

[@ForgottenMan1]

As on who foundered on Samuelson Shoal in the mid seventies, God bless this man for his description of the content of that book, I still have a clear vision of his name emblazoned on its spine in what seemed, in my failure to detect anything comprehensible within, a silent reproach. I wish I had been lucky enough to have found the Austrians back then, but fat chance of that at San Francisco State (there was still a whiff of tear gas in the air).

[@BillM1960]

Wonderful speech, very smart and witty man. Right on point. I agree with him on everything, start to finish! Would like to hear more from Dr. DiLorenzo.

[@golightly2204]

This video needs to be shared on all other social media outlets. I intend to do so.

[@chilesauce7248]

Please share this one too. Yuri Bezmenov of the KGb told us in this lecture from the early 80's, how the far-left are subverting society to acheive a #socialist take over. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5jRoXanqL14bsk stop the #socialism scam and the #communist con

[@cyndimahoney567]

You my man are awesome

[@economics4014]

lol. Been in it 25 years. So true.

[@thatguynicky1979]

I love it, "diversity is the mating call of academia"

[@tomservo75]

This problem won't be solved until the big donors to these universities turn off the spigot and parents wake up and refuse to pay tuition to them.

[@dianaekman7161]

weallbfree well said.

[@LogicalRobot]

Great lecture, love Dr. DiLorenzo! But I saw the thumbnail and for a moment thought Kane was back LOL.

[@lizgichora6472]

Thank you for this lecture ( confusing the Truth with Mathematics ), and Political Correctness.

[@joemann4643]

Thanks for link full talk 👍

[@BobWidlefish]

28:10 “[Totalitarian propaganda is] destructive of all morals because [it] undermine one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and the respect for truth.” -F. A. Hayek (Road to serfdom)

[@lotstolearn5350]

In the current year, parents paying university fees for any course other than engineering or computer science are deluded.

[@kellyowens1868]

+Lots to Learn + You do have more to learn, if you are not aware that the cultural marxists, have engaged in insidious efforts to undermine engineering as an academic discipline. The C.M. ideologues did not go for gainful employment in practical engineering, or a related field, upon graduation. Keep in mind, these people play dirty, and sometimes prefer it. The graduates, with their Cultural Marxist agenda to push, headed for the graduate schools, and the few institutions that specialize in the TEACHING of engineering, at the grad. and post-grad. level. I have already seen stories pointing towards the new "Feminist Engineering", and it's eager reception by government officials in English speaking countries. I think it is safe to assume that the same contagion, has infected many other European nations. I am certain, that most, advanced, asian nations, ...... ie: China, Japan, S. Korea, and India, for the most part, are virtually immune from this flawed, faith-based, form of thinking.. It might be ironic, if the Chinese society was inoculated against C.M, by the original dose of strict communist doctrine, injected shortly after the birth of the people's republic. The authoritarian governmental structures, may prevent any acute outbreaks, or slow the spread dramatically. Even in the case of computer science, the avenues that are, or soon will become invasion routes, are easily identifiable. The gamer-gate scandal, is an example, of manipulation of media companies,and related publications, by coordinated outside forces, utilizing culturally Marxist theories, and intimidation. You may be a well trained, and highly competent coder, but your end product can be co-opted, to purposes, over which you have no control. The organization, hiring, operating philosophy, or mission statement of monopolistic, hegemon, GOOGLE, is deeply influenced, by this erant thinking, as the James Damore memo revealed. His rapid termination, is a classic instance of Marxisms intolerance, and harsh retributions, inflicted on those expressing oppositional voices. I used to think, like many others, that certain careers, fields of study, or cultural structures, ie. "the Hard Sciences etc., could withstand, or avoid the corrosive influences, of this intellectually-bankrupt, power-hungry, foreign-born social-suicide pact. If they set their well-washed-minds to taking over, or casting aside a culturally, or socially relevant institution, there seem to be few effective means of RESISTANCE. KOut

[@U2GuitarTutorials]

Fantastic!

[@BobWidlefish]

28:47 “[...] in the disciplines dealing directly with human affairs and therefore most immediately affecting political views, such as history, law or economics, the disinterested search for truth cannot be allowed....These disciplines have, indeed, in all totalitarian countries become the most fertile factories of the official myths which the rulers use to guide the minds and wills of their subjects...." -F. A. Hayek

[@williampaulo832]

the same is happening in Brazil and things are getting worse.

[@TheSkoaler10]

Hahaha a safe room! That is hilarious.

[@AnarchistMetalhead]

you want to abolish the entire government? SUPPORTER OF THE STATUS QUO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sladwig4094]

Dr Szasz might have a few words about the campus safe rooms. Politicalisation of hurt feelings. Offering some pharmacy drugs and therapists for the trauma. Fair enough. Elvis has left the building.

[@elainwilliford9808]

+misesmedia Where may I find the best opposing arguments

[@oldsachem]

Googol is the road to searchdom!

[@jeffersonianideal]

34:50 As it applies to my wife, work and sex are synonymous.

[@thatguynicky1979]

Has Alexandria ocasio-cortez heard this yet? Perhaps she has and she's making her playbook from it ... in reverse.

[@martinavaslovik3433]

Equality of outcomes is necessarily tyranny.

[@konberner170]

Tom must be a horrible person to send those poor people into their safe room. What a monster ;)

[@longbeachboy57]

Joseph Goebbels got nothing on the MSM of today...

[@oldsachem]

Free soil for grave cadavers!

[@dks13827]

I discriminate every time I look for a cashier. Anyone else ? I select the older person, not the kid.

[@velvetpaws999]

"No need for logic, debate and free ideas, for Marxism provides the answers" by Marcuse, and Al Gore's "settled science" are both really nice examples of perfect oxymorons! And this in the USA, the country of the Brave and the Free!

[@lv4077]

Wasn’t it,Marcuse who wrote the song sung by the police that says “ money for nothing and chicks for free”?

[@shyama5612]

"Diversity, = Quotas: Mating call of the academic admins" - Haha, so true! Not just admins, even virtue signalling executives in big tech companies. Smaller tech companies are more meritocratic - out of necessity to be competitive.

[@dks13827]

how's it going in 2020 ????

[@ingridarvidsson7597]

This is what I always thought: - the crimnals and I have gone to the same school. So, maby they should stay in school. Stay there till they make it right.

[@comesahorseman]

"The Road to Serfdom" should be required reading for *every* college student before graduation. Even better, a required course!

[@xingyuzhou1891]

This very statement is anti-liberty. I recommend you read "Education: Free and Compulsory" by Rothbard.

[@dirtyharrycat6639]

19:06 and of course, TRAUMA EXPERTS

[@richardday8843]

I was half expecting to hear that the safe space would be generously stocked with oral pacifiers.

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

Yes, they’ve captured mental health as well. Look at the APA’s guidelines on “toxic masculinity” and Christine Blasey-Ford’s university website. They’re making experts in biased “science” to forward their totalitarian aims.

[@michaelmcmedia]

Is that the same Timothy Snyder who wrote "The Real Reason Russia Is 'Helping' Syria"? Every time I think maybe the purveyors of various falsehoods are unconnected....

[@AlongtheFarClimbDown843]

When you find out that your boyfriend is a Pygmy you are shocked. Now you know why he needs a ladder to tie his shoes. Now you know why he can't say words that end in R. A jaundice bile pigment made me appreciate what a vile wig meant Caligula had a yanker-pen. Look out Lezzy! It's Dicky Wankerman! I care, but not much. I walk, without a crutch. I kill, just for the thrill. The wrong pill will make you ill. Tammy died for Tommy's sins. It ain't a catfish without the catfish fins.

[@seansingh8862]

17:58 monumentally ridiculous, hilarious and a little perplexing.

[@Bebop-vb8vv]

Good speech but… You misspelled Hoppe's name!

[@rayliz5426]

Rebien

[@ingridarvidsson7597]

Why could the criminals leave school?

[@chrisl442]

What can be done? Other than expressing our opposition through social media and laughing at the leftist nonsense, the only thing that can actually make a change is to vote for far right political parties without the fear of being called a bigot and a right wing extremist.

[@AlongtheFarClimbDown843]

You tried to kill me with the biggest west Brazilian killer bee, but I I was keen enough to duck from his deadly stinger all of a suddenly as I've opted to gaily live my rugged, badger-training life constantly

[@hamsterforever7670]

The state our education is in, is unbelievable... Starting with the higher schools triples down... It's more and more that when I come across an AM or BA I talk with a brainwashed, hiper sensitive, illogical creature with no knowledge, impossible to have any discussion with! People that would have problems with finishing a good primary school with a better score, nowadays leave universities with diplomas...

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

This was five years ago? It’s so much worse now and it’s been mainstreamed into politics.

[@TheEmptySki]

SPLC is considered an intelligence source by the FBI.

[@TheEmptySki]

BRWaldo97 I heard that recently (I'm sure we heard it the same place ;) ). I'm skeptical that I believe that, however.

[@TheEmptySki]

BRWaldo97 Thanks. I see my skepticism was well founded. Unfortunately, there are many just like the SPLC. They border on libel, in my opinion. They had the Mises Institute labeled as a neo-confederate hate group. The twisting and fallacious association of ideas is dangerous and 'hateful' to the extent that word can be applied, which is one reason why I was skeptical that the FBI is _actually_ ending their consulting relationship with them - it is just too useful to the establishment to have a bunch of fearful narcs out there constantly monitoring and distorting perspectives on things. All the 'ending of the link of the site' implies is that there is one more level of invisible standards being applied by law enforcement. I don't know why libertarians don't have a disinformation campaign going on somewhere.

[@smujismuj]

It is interesting that the same people who claim that government will always become corrupt, are the same people who do everything in their power to make sure that happens. What keeps Business/Private interests from taking advantage of consumers and workers and people in areas where resources are coveted under a 'libertarian' system?

[@richardday8843]

He described the process at 22:30 thru 23:35. In a word: competition.

[@josephsideman3699]

University's are part of the problem with the establishment corrupted by corporation. We, as a society, get ripped-off by the cabal who drain are governments of their financial resources and freedom of action. So those trans-national super corporation have slowly and surely taken the freedom and independence away from all the major and minor university and have imposed their philosophies. Their ways of history and paradigm. Are government are no longer in position to fully finance these schools and guaranties there independence. So big corporation finance the research at the university level and have to many chairs in the direction of those schools. If you do not follow the line established by big brothers, the corporations, you are out of grants for research. Company's have no right to control are governments and they should be taxed fairly and properly. We, the people, have this obligation to rule are destiny and protect the vulnerable and poor. No more loophole for these mega-corporations. They should be obliged to respect the environment and the people who works for them. Simply be good corporate citizen and pay their fair share to the society for the impact they impose on the planet Earth.

[@diarrhealatte2881]

17 brainwashed college freshmen want this to be censored.

[@waynecassels3607]

Boy, does this all sound so familiar. It's now called the far Left Democrat.

[@chibanga88]

Professor Thomas looks to have little to offer than strawman arguments, why should I believe him that "they" said all of those things from such a biased professor? Shouldn't a professor be unbiased in his teachings? Him, and the "they" he speaks of look to be anything but unbiased.

[@dks13827]

This is so stupid that it can't be true in the U.S. Or can it ?

[@Individual_Lives_Matter]

It is 100% true. Why do you think BLM and Antifa have been going bananas for 9 months? Where do you think the modern left’s identity politics came from?