Can Classical Liberalism Survive Wokeness? with Tim Urban

[@yolobuck2553]

We are never going to be able to go back to the 90s. Your version of liberalism is in the past. Liberalism is always moving

[@scurvydog20]

If your philosophy has to be an anomoly to survive it pretty much definitionally cant be the best system because it was tested and found unsustainable.

[@doh917]

Erik gets a better camera (kudos!), proceeds to have the worst lighting setup lol. Keep up the good work!

[@Pachacu-Tech]

It will take another year to get the lighting right 😂🤙

[@Ryanrobi]

Life is inherently unfair idk why adults still think it can be otherwise, thats childish. You can play around on the edges and make it more fair with less freedom thats about it. By far the largest advantage a human has in the world is being born in a rich country especially America the amount of opportunity here is just ridiculous. I grew up as poor as you can in America with a single mom who was disabled and welfare with five kids no dad and all of us now in our 30s are young professionals with top 10% incomes and starting families and buying land/homes. Its actually pretty easy to go from the bottom to the top in America most people on top love a scappy person who will do more faster with a good attitude and youll move up fast. If want to see life on hard mode Go visit a poor developing country like go to the Congo see just how impossible it is to really get ahead there.

[@Mary-Mar]

I personally loved this conversation! I know to some in the comments this is a trite topic with "obvious" reasons why things are inherently unequal, but that doesn't dispute the fact that this IS an issue in modern society. If we don't talk about it, we will never figure out the way forward, and both political parties will continue to become ever more polarized, and most people in this Ameican social experiment will lose except the monied elite. Second comment: I especially like the thought brought up that equal opportunity still leads to unequal outcomes, and we have to figure out once and for all if we are going to do anything about that in the US? The way forward for most minorities in America was to marry someone, have children, and focus on getting those children a better life. You, as a parent, just grinded and worked 2-3 jobs to make this happen. It was a luxury to be a parent AND have dreams for yourself. Now, we have those children going to school with, and working along side people who didn't have parents who did that. These people can afford to have personal dreams while building a family, but those whose parents who didn't do that are at the bottom. The problem is due to the advent of the internet, those who didnt have the advantage of parents like that no longer see the point of living an adult life of sacrifice without personal dreams. Essentially to do for their children what was not done for them. So, these people have little interest in finding and mating with each other, having children, working low wage jobs, forgoing any personal dreams for themselves. Especially with a large percentage of These people having college degrees, themselves. It's like having more than your parents ever did, but still ending up in similar place they did. So, in some ways we are at a bit of an impasse when it comes to equal opportunity and inherently unequal outcomes, IMO.

[@ilevakam316]

Conservatives should play by the rules, regardless of their opponents do. 🤔

[@yolobuck2553]

Yep...

[@VitaSineLibertatenih]

The world is not a resort. It's a place where only the fittest survive and thrive. If you get fucked by a power or an ideology, you are not the fittest one. Whatever that power or ideology is. These low-IQ convos are really tiring.

[@yolobuck2553]

If people were actually inherently rational they would realize this but...

[@NamelessKing1597]

Don't say low IQ, it's the midwits, delusion really is a bell curve. Low IQ people have to believe that might makes right because they can't come up with anything outside of what they see directly in front of them, and high IQ people are faced with too much evidence that it simply is the case, Only a midwit would create a fantasy as an alternative and try to make that square peg fit in a round hole. Unless you seperate it from the real world via an afterlife and/or dissociate through prayer or meditation, that works, that's why christian liberalism works but secular liberalism doesn't, the realisation that the world will never be fair but your creator wants you to try anyway is perfectly viable, if you actually sincerely believe it but as a society we just can't anymore. We will return to monarchy in all but name kicking and screaming just like the Romans and Russians.

[@D3r3k2323]

Classical liberalism has been dead for a long time. That's why it's called "classical".

[@josephwong2832]

please stop posting old content

[@chrisalton1]

hopefully not