Okay, I'm curious someone who does not live in America.
If you see anything unique about America.
I'm mainly referring to the founding documents like the
Declaration of Independence saying we hold truths to be
self-evident. Truth is objective.
All men are created equal endowed by a Creator rights to
life liberty, The Pursuit of Happiness, the right, to abolish
government, freedom of speech, the right to bear arms.
Do you see these as you know, really you Unique things that
were really good ideas for the 1770s or do you think it's just
a bunch of nationalist nonsense that we'd buy into if we were
born in Bangladesh? No.
No, it's, those are very unique features.
And that's the reason I have a flag of America in the back of
my studio. It's not that I'm American.
It's that I totally identify with this culture of thinking
that America is exceptional. And I think the things you
listed, there's some meaning Lesson there, like everyone
created equal. I think it's being
misinterpreted by the left in modern times.
But certainly this ID of the First Amendment free speech and
the Second Amendment freedom to bear arms.
Those are the unique aspects of America that are not quite
reproduced. Anywhere else.
I'll do you will have people arguing that there are
equivalents, but the reality is, the way, they are friend in
America and the way they are applied by the Supreme Court are
quite unique. And yes, they are the
ingredients of success of America.
But America has also left some moles in its farmers.
And these others are currently being exploited by the rise of
leftism. And the thing is, although you
have guaranteed, this Liberties, all of the Liberties you have
forgotten about our, all the Liberties that are now subject
to the overtake of communist. So are until Liberty wasn't
mentioned in the Constitution and it causes big problems.
Problems in family courts and CPS services.
And in the hospital's medical Liberty, not mentioned in the,
the Constitution. And now what do we have a rise
of first vaccination? Or at least highly socially
pressured vaccination. So, although the fourth
amendment is typically recognized as limiting, the
state's ability to do it. So, there are some Rises and
also the third Liberty that was on protected is PSI.
Size of government just overall and so you have a government
that's growing. It's not involving.
It's not impeding on your Liberty to speak but it's taking
up on every other aspect of your life.
And so these three things are things that I would add to the
American Constitution to make it quiet, almost, perfect.
No, there is something deeply unique and valuable, in those
words in those documents. And I can say that as a Swede,
you know, the the people who started the classical liberal
Revolution, the free market revolution in Sweden, 150 years
ago. They always talked about the
American Founders and the, what an inspiration day were to them,
how we can start a country, a new Based on ideas, not on
Bluetooth important or an ethnicity or religion, but based
on freedom and individual ownership to yourself larger one
yard at the famous newspaper, man, who led the classical
liberal revolution in Sweden. He had on his office wall, a
painting of returnable of the signing of the Declaration of
Independence because he thought that was the most beautiful
principles that you can use. So those documents.
Are important and they are important because they ended in
the longer run chattel slavery. They were the words used by all
the the heroes that fought against slavery and all the
remnants of the traditional World, which was based on
slavery and on, on feudalism, that all men were created equal
and they had the right to life liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. With those words.
You couldn't uphold that inconsistency in the long run.
We're us. If you talk about off Medina
Jarred and and Putin. I mean countries like Russia and
Muslim dictatorships. They upheld slavery as late as
the 20th century so they don't have that much to brag about.
I think there is a very unique. I'm a big fan of the founding
documents of the United States. I think they are quite unique.
I think the American Constitution, and some of the
finding sort of papers are really, very exciting.
They kind of inspire me, even though I'm not American to this
day, you know, sort of, I think your first amendment is a
wonderful sort of piece of legislation.
I think the To do America, is that a very often, doesn't live
up to these ideals and there's always a continuous process of
undermining it. I notice, for example, this the
near of times is projects where it kind of has this history
project, which tries to redefine what the funding has meant, you
know, sort of is the most grotesque example of trying to
call into question the Beauty and the and and they kind of
intellectual Drive. That was behind behind what the
founders were doing. Very often.
People find a lot of excuses as to why the first amendment is no
longer relevant believe in a complex.
World free speech is not something that, you know, we can
all laugh, you know, sort of, with us, some kind of restraint.
I think in America, especially in universities people spend far
more energy and avoid for more of their resources to limiting
Free Speech rather than to expand it.
Make it more. So I think that's that seems to
me to be a really really important problem.
And it seems to me that you got this incredible document.
This incredible kind of political contribution.
The whole founding process just never happened anywhere in the
world, and there's nothing like it anywhere in the world and you
know, a lot of Americans particularly in Academia or
committed to undermining it the corroding.
Gets kind of radical revolutionary impact.
And I think that to me is a, is a really big tragedy and
verified that it's happening. So fast, in America actually
means that the very Soul Of America.
It's kind of historical soul, is being threatened by it.
This is a passage from equal is unfair by Don Watkins and yaron
Brook. I was not lucky enough to be
born an American citizen. I became an American citizen by
choice. I am a grated to this country.
I was born and raised in Israel. I served in the Israeli military
where I met my wife of 27 years and when we got married after we
had fought for our country, we sat down and said, you know you
only live once and we want to make them.
Of Our Lives. We want to be someplace where we
can enjoy Freedom, where we can make the most of the life that
we have, where we can pursue our happiness, where we can raise
our children, to the best of our ability, and we looked around
the world. We weren't committed to any
particular place. So we looked around the world
and we said, where are we going to go?
We chose this country because America is the greatest nation
on Earth and really is the greatest nation in human history
of all the Ian's yaron considered before he made his
decision. One that never came up was, how
much economic inequality there was an America like Millions
before him. Yeah.
Ron came to America seeking, to make a better life for himself
and his family. He wanted to experience the
American dream in which he would be free to set his own course
and Rise as far as his ability and ambition would take him.
Would that put him in the top 1% or the bottom ten percent of
income earners in America, it never would have occurred to him
to ask and if someone had asked him, his answer would have been,
who cares? You're on is not unique in this
regard. Polls consistently show, that
inequality is very low on Americans list of concerns.
Even people who live in rural Michigan and struggle to make
their mortgage payments. Apparently don't care that
hundreds of miles away in New York, a handful of hedge fund,
managers fly on private jets and die.
At Nobu, what we do care deeply about is the opportunity to make
a better life for ourselves. And we are more likely to
celebrate the fact that this allows some people to succeed
beyond their Wildest Dreams. Then lose sleep over it, and is
1931 book. The Epic of America, James
truslow Adams, introduced the phrase, the American dream into
the Lexicon, or referring to that dream of a land in, which
life. Life should be better and richer
and Fuller for everyone with opportunity for each according
to Ability or achievement. The American dream is about
opportunity, the opportunity to pursue a better life.
Where one success, depends on nothing.
More and nothing, less than one's own ability and effort and
we're as a result innovators can come from nowhere to spearhead
Limitless human progress. This is an excerpt from
democracy. The God That Failed by
german-born. Hans Hermann.
Hapa chapter 13 on the impossibility of limited
government and the prospect for revolution.
In a recent survey people of different nationalities were
asked how proud they were to be American German French Etc and
whether or not they believe that the world would be a better
place. If other countries were just
like their own, the country's ranking highest in terms of
national pride were the United States and Austria.
As interesting as it would be to consider the case of Austria
here. I shall concentrate on the US
and the question whether and to what extent the American claim
can be justified in the following.
I will identify three main sources of American national
pride. I will argue that the first two
are Justified sources of Pride. While the third actually
represents a fatal error. Finally.
I will go on to explain how this error might be repaired the
Source of national pride is the memory of America's not so
distant, Colonial past as a country of pioneers.
In fact, the English settlers coming to North America were the
last example of the Glorious achievements of what Adam Smith
referred to as a system of natural Liberty, the ability of
men to create a free and prosperous Commonwealth from
scratch. Contrary to the hobbesian
account of human nature home. Mo homini, lupus assess the
English, settlers demonstrated, not just the viability, but also
the vibrancy and attractiveness of State list anarcho-capitalist
social order. They demonstrated how in
accordance with the views of John Locke, private property
originated naturally through a person's original appropriation
his purposeful use and transformation of previously
unused, land Wilderness. Furthermore.
They demonstrated that based on the recognition of private
property division of labor and contractions.
Travel exchange men were capable of protecting themselves
effectively against antisocial aggressors.
First and foremost by means of self-defense, less crime
existed, then exist. Now, and as Society, grew
increasingly prosperous and complex, by means of
specialization IE by institutions and agencies, such
as property, Registries notaries lawyers judges courts juries
Sheriff's Mutual Defence Association.
Jeans and popular militias, moreover the American colonists,
demonstrated, the fundamental sociological importance of the
institution of covenants of associations of linguistically,
ethnically religiously and culturally homogeneous settlers
led by and subject to the internal jurisdiction of a
popular, leader founder to ensure peaceful, human
cooperation, and maintain Law and Order.
The second source of national pride, is the American
Revolution in Europe. There have been no Open
Frontiers for centuries and the intro European colonialization
colonization experience lay in its distant past with the growth
of the population societies. Had assumed an increasingly
hierarchical structure of freemen, three holders and
servants, Lords and vassals overlords and Kings while
distinctly more stratified and Aristocratic then colonial,
America. The so-called feudal societies
of medieval Europe. Were also typically stateless,
social orders a state in accordance with generally
accepted terminology is defined as a compulsory territorial
monopolist of Law and Order. And ultimate decision-maker,
feudal Lords and Kings did not typically fulfill the
requirements of a state. They could only tax with the
consent of the taxed and On his own land, every free man was as
much a sovereign ultimate decision, maker as the feudal
King was on his. However, in the course of many
centuries. These originally stateless
societies had gradually transformed into absolute
statist monarchies while. They had initially been
acknowledged, voluntarily as protectors, and judges European
Kings had at long last succeeded in establishing themselves as
hereditary heads of state. Stood by the aristocracy, but
helped Along by the common people.
They had become absolute monarchs with the power to tax
without consent, and to make ultimate decisions regarding the
property of free men. These European developments had
a two-fold effect on America. On the one hand.
England was also ruled by an absolute King, at least until
1688. And when the English settlers
arrived on the new continent, the Kings rule was Ended to
America. Unlike the settlers founding of
private property and their private voluntary and
Cooperative production of security and administration of
justice. However, the establishment of
the royal colonies and administration's was not the
result of original appropriation homesteading and contract.
In fact, no English king had ever set foot on the American
continent but of usurpation Declaration.
And in position on the other hand, the settlers, brought
something with them from Europe. Are the development from
feudalism to Royal absolutism had not only been resisted by
the aristocracy, but it was also opposed theoretically with
recourse to the theory of natural rights as it originated
with Scholastic philosophy. According to this Doctrine,
government was supposed to be contractual and every government
agent including the King was subject to the same Universal
rights and laws as everyone else.
While this may have been The case in earlier times, it
certainly no longer true for modern.
Absolute Kings. Absolute Kings were usurpers of
Human Rights and thus illegitimate, hence Insurrection
was not only permitted but became a duty sanctioned by
natural law. The American colonists were
familiar with the doctrine of natural rights and fact, in
light of their own personal experience, with the
achievements and effects of natural Liberty.
And as religious dissenters, who had left their mother country in
disagreement. With the king and the church of
England, they were partially receptive to this Doctrine,
Stephen in the doctrine of natural rights, encouraged by
the distance of the English, king and stimulated further by
the puritanical Center of Royal, idleness luxury and pomp the
American colonists, rose up to free themselves from British
rule as Thomas. Jefferson wrote in the
Declaration of Independence. Government was instituted to
protect life, liberty and the pursuit of Of happiness, it drew
its legitimacy from the consent of the governed.
In contrast, the Royal British government's claim that it could
tax the colonists without their consent.
If a government failed to do what it was designed to do
Jefferson declared. It is the right of the people to
alter or abolish it. And to Institute, a new
government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem
most likely to To effect their safety and happiness.