The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty,
irresponsible sex and crime, derived, primarily from society,
rather than, from Individual choices and behavior to believe
in personal responsibility, would be to destroy the whole
special role of the anointed whose Vision casts them in the
role of Rescuers of people treated, unfairly by Society.
Welcome to Keith's. My don't try it on anyone in the
Aryan Institute. Here is a brief summary of the
book. The Vision of the anointed
self-congratulation as a basis for social policy by Thomas
Soul. Now everyone knows someone who
is a little bossy or a little controlling but some people want
to be so controlling and have so much influence over the lives of
so many people that they occupy positions of government where
you don't have the recognized right to opt out of its laws or
chipping in to it. Certain Endeavors.
He says, in order to get people to justify things that the
anointed already want them to believe in.
They have this very recognizable pattern of how they explain
problems in the world. So why should you give some
people so much power? Well because there's all of
these problems he says here are four things you need to watch
out for one assertions of a great danger to the whole
society, a danger to which the masses of people are oblivious.
Yes, Step 2 an urgent need for Action to avert impending
catastrophe, step 3, a need for government to drastically
curtail, the dangerous behavior of the many in response to the
Prussian, conclusions of the few.
Finally, for a disdainful dismissal of arguments to the
contrary as either uninformed irresponsible or motivated.
By unworthy purposes. Thomas Soul goes on to expand on
those four. Breaking them into Stage, has a
very distinct pattern has emerged repeatedly when policies
favored by the anointed, turn out to fail.
The pattern typically has four stages stage one, the crisis,
some situation exists, those negative aspects.
The anointed proposed to eliminate such a situation is
routinely characterized as a crisis, even though all human
situations have negative aspects and even though evidence is
seldom asked or given to show how the situation at hand is
either uniquely bad or threatening to get worse.
Sometimes the situation described as a crisis has in
fact already been getting better for years stage to the solution
policies. To end.
The crisis are advocated by the anointed who say that these
policies will lead to beneficial result.
A critics say that these policies will lead to
detrimental. Result Z.
The anointed dismissed, these latter claims as Surd and
simplistic, if not dishonest stage 3, the results.
The policies are instituted and lead to detrimental result Z
stage for the response. Those who would tribute
detrimental result Z to the policies instituted or dismissed
as simplistic for ignoring the complexities involved.
As many factors went into determining the outcome.
The burden of proof is put on the Takes to demonstrate to a
certainty that these policies alone were the only possible
cause of the worsening that occurred.
No burden of proof. Whatever is put on those who had
so confidently predicted Improvement.
Indeed. It is often asserted that things
would have been even worse. Were it not for the wonderful
programs that mitigated the inevitable damage from other
factors. So what the anointed tend to do
was put themself in a situation where Our position is
unfalsifiable. Everything falls into two
categories, either, it works and they were right, or they
underestimated how, right? They were, and they need more
funding. So it either works or needs more
funding and no situation. Could they be wrong?
The examples. He uses the war on poverty, sex
education, criminal justice in all of these cases.
These were programs that the government sold to us as if we
engage in a war on poverty. Poverty will decrease didn't
happen as a result. If we have sex education,
teenage pregnancy will go down. That didn't happen.
If we engage in these criminal justice, reforms there won't be
any crime or crime will drastically.
Decrease didn't happen in all of the empirical examples of you.
He has a great quote says have. We reached the ultimate stage of
absurdity or some people are held responsible for things that
happen before they were born. While other people are not held
responsible for what they themselves are doing today.
I was thinking about, if I could add to this list of what falls
under the category of Crisis solution, results response, and
it turns out almost everything today is sold to us as a
terrible crisis. That only a really really big
government could possibly solve Also, things that fall under
this category are racism. Sexism global warming, climate
change, inequality deregulation, overpopulation pollution, the
ozone layer. Melting covid-19 the Delta
variant repeal of Roe v-- Wade, abortion access ignorance,
funding to State education, homelessness Healthcare,
crumbling infrastructure, Donald Trump brexit and the repeal of
net neutrality. What are the chances that the
solution to all of these alleged crisis is having a bigger.
Government that in America already gets five trillion
dollars every single year in alternative hypothesis is, could
it be that the group government that monopolizes compulsory
education has made the masses believe that all ills of society
are the result of the all-omniscient state, not having
enough power. Finally.
I will end with my favorite Thomas Soul quote, the very same
people who say that government has no, right?
Right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting
adults. Believe that the government has
every right to interfere with economic activity between
consenting adults. Thank you for watching Keith
Knight. Don't tread on anyone and the
libertarian Institute.