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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2csgEWHqoAk&t=2413s
Earlier this week…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2csgEWHqoAk&t=2413s
Earlier this week YouTube disabled Carl Benjamin's Google account and left him unable to access his popular Sargon of Akkad video channels. Carl Benjamin, popularly known as Sargon of Akkad, joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss the continued push for censorship from the radical left, the challenges of being a content creator, the failures of totalitarian government intervention, the problem with purity testing and much much more!
1st Topic covered - They discuss and agreement on how to discover what is true. One has to be honest about reality and evaluate and discuss the evidence in good faith. Differences in conclusions will occur but can be ironed out over time using more honest communication
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Freedom of speech
2nd Topic - The Youtube Purge
Multiple banning Youtube accounts by google. Google do not give any reasons, they do not respond to emails etc. People put masses of time and effort and even support their families and this can be taken away with no right to appeal.
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Many people who have investing everything in their alternative media presence have The sword of damocles held over them by google etc because they do not agree with google's views
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Getting banned from youtube would be inconvenient but Sargon would find another and he found working in an office more stifling and unpleasant than youtubering on borrowed time.
Stefan Tech companies have the ability to stop freedom of speech. The temptation to censor people must be overwhelming as it feels like to right thing to do...
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3rd Topic - Stefan draws a parallel between how communism/central planning is doomed to failure due to the complexity of reality how the intention to centrally plan correct communication is equally doomed to failure. He predicts that the liftist will be overwhelmed by the multitudes of people who wish to speak their minds and use reason in search of the truth
The protected opinions are not challenged, the arguments get lazy and weak and are unable to support their claims
Stefan 2nd point Censoring speech causes two problems. The censored spech is not debated openly and therefore the weaknesses are not exposed, it goes underground where it will be more harmful and spreads due to lack of challenge.and so are not discarded. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Stefan says the failure of the left to be humble in the collective human endeavour of truth arrogance is absolutely apuling. The stupidity of the left to think they can push and pull levers and think they are doing anything other than reck a really complicated social engine
I think that only the foot solders think this will make things better for everyone. The people in charge know they plan to make things better for themselves.
How many times in the middle east etc have the communists joined with the Islamists to over through aelites only to find they are the first people to be shot?
Sargon:- We are being ruled over by platonists who think they can engineer the perfect society which is the opposite of what is even possible or desirable. Giving people freedom and the tools to be good human beings, have good critical faceties and self esteem, to empower them.
Sargon This is why I hate victim culture. No I'm not the victim of anything. Jordan Peterson resonates, 'clean up your room is really good; Start with your local environment. Rather than ignorant managerial types thinking they can make a perfect world
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Stefan The lefts purity tests are a really dangerous idea to bring to any society. The Nazis & communists had them too and are used to attack people and this led to mass slaughter. The leftist regularly fail their own purity tests. Purity tests are being used as a substitute for rational debate. Humans are messy and life is imperfect and so is getting to the truth.
Sargon:- The ridiculous search for perfection. Perfection is the enemy of the good. It will ruin something which is working perfectly well. The product of utopian thinking
Purity test are just a way of increasing the status of the person doing it. It isn't and search for truth
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If you can control your own emotions you will try to control everyone else. Microaggressions are a way of controlling everyone else's behaviour.
I think burkas are part of the same philosophy. Men can't control their urges so women have to be controlled.
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5th Topic The use of Pray/Meditation to allow humans to commune with their self conscious and deal with adversity.
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