Comments by "Elazar de Lusignan M." (@Elazar40) on "Thomas Sowell" channel.

  1. "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you." - Ronald Reagan
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  2. Indeed. There has been a loss of respect for the spoken word. Words - formidable formative powers - are a framing of thoughts. When thoughts become incoherent, so too will speech become gibberish, giving rise to entropy, chaos, division, and conflict. As a famous broadcaster announced immediately prior to an outbreak of hostilities leading to WWII, "All communication has broken down in Europe."
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  3. The welfare state produces dependencies and crime. If one defaults to and coddles criminals, doing the right thing will, in time, increasingly be perceived and treated as a liability. Whereas the welfare state GIVES a man a fish, freedom and human dignity call upon a man to learn HOW to fish. Whereas welfare may serve as a bridge, it should never be sanctioned as a permanent condition.
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  4. "Those who want equality and freedom, will have neither " -- Javier Milei
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  5. Senator from Tennessee Davy Crocket mentions this attitude by politicians towards 'free money' in "Not Yours To Give."
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  6. Restore the quality of Craftsman Tools and their lifetime guarantee.
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  7. Sowell is a great American. The people's historian of our times.
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  8. Whereas education has become more of a racket, it must be restored as a vocational endeavour, not a career path. It is important that people find their calling in life. Do what you love, and the MONEY and success will follow. Place the horse before the cart, and the cart will follow. Credentials too often fail to define functional capacities.
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  9. Note: The human family is an essential formative principle, not a lifestyle. The home must be restored. Not house, home on the range.
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  10. So... A "good teacher," then, is acceptable to the status quo, even when exposed as false.
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  11. Children must be allowed to fail. Otherwise, they will never know success. Too much that passes for education is aversion therapy. The best education is an education that inspires in a student a desire to learn.
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  12. The family is a formative principle, not a "lifestyle."
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  13. Youth should be a transient phase, not a fixed condition. Youth culture is too dominant, and this has supplanted what was once a more mature, adult orientation.
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  14. Note: One should not mistake intellect for intelligence.
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  15. Indeed. The politics of victimhood are an affront to both human possibility and potential. It is a victim mentality that is most damaging. For many, this begins with a mother who magnifies injury, especially in young boys who lack a strong intervening father. Once we were able to say, "Man up." This character building advice has been dashed upon the alter of emasculation and top down imposed political ideology. The nanny state is not a big brother, but rather, a big emasculating, intrusive, and manipulative big mother. A true brother is a protector and a friend.
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  16. A silencing of the lambs is a silencing of the conscience. Dehumanizing. Too many "accidental" conceptions wherein there is a failure to measure actions against the fullness of time. A sexualization of human culture has consequences. We are all diminished.
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  17. Many languish in the sins of the past to milk the slavery cow. The victim mentality that seeks to expropriate is destructive to self as well as others.
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  18. Well spoken. Valuable knowledge.
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  19. The book MONEY by James E. Ewart offers an excellent overview of the history of MONEY and currency in America. Fed Notes are interest bearing debt instruments, not MONEY. The DOLLAR is a measurement, not a value. MONEY is minted, currencies are printed. Whereas Notes were first issued as a Promise to Pay a specific quantity of MONEY to the bearer on demand, fractionalized banking has removed real MONEY from circulation. Crypto is a digitized form of currency that serves as a conveyance of a claim upon value. The minting of MONEY and a printing or digitization of currency is a public, not a Private Trust. Fundamentally, sound MONEY stabilizes and upholds the purchasing power of wages, earned savings and pensions. Interest on the national debt has debased (deflated) both MONEY and labor's role in a production of wealth.
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  20. When socialism runs out of other people's money, this is the end of its apparent benevolence."
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  21. In colonial America, a twelve year old boy was expected to be able to assume adult responsibilities. This expectation has passed with a prolonged childhood. George Washington was Virginia State surveyor at age twelve. But of course, average life expectancy was also shorter.
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  22. "Not Yours To Give." - Davy Crocket
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  23.  @TrumpCantRead  - The Coke Pepsi Challenge, was never intended to have one choose between Coke and Pepsi, but to have one choose one or the other. This was a charade to reduce market share of other colas. The Democrat, Republican 'choice,' is a similar charade designed for public consumption. A form of Hegelian Dialectic.
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  24. The source of equality in American political and social culture is derived from an equality of justice under the laws of the land, not an equality of outcomes predicated upon socialist ideology, which has too often become an injustice. A nation or a family cannot survive long in an absence of a shared philosophy of life and trust.
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  25. While on a visit to Papua New Guinea with my wife and two children, a young black girl approached my daughter and began stroking her hair while she softly repeated "kaboni, kaboni, kaboni." We were told kaboni meant spirit, meaning a black person who had died and returned as spirit. To be sure, we are all Spirit embodied regardless of skin pigmentation.
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  26. Note: Whereas the Greek school of rhetoric was more or less focused upon debate to ascertain the truth of a matter, Sophists were a breed apart who hired their services to the rich of Athens to teach the art of argument for the purpose of winning, most often regardless of truth. This is from whence an adulteration or a "sophistication" -- a misdirection of a matter -- is derived. Tactics like adhominem and non-sequitor are obfuscations of the Greek school of sophistry. In sophistry, the truth or substance of a matter is lost. Further, sophistry is what gives rise to moral pluralism, functional confusion, and a societal collapse.
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  27. Whereas the archetypal domain is one of perfection, prototypes are a cacophony of diversity. All prototypes are an expression of the Singularity, wherein an Infinite possibility and potential reside.
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  28. Indeed. Who reads Edward Gibbons' Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire today? Insofar as an apt description of an infiltration of vessels of apparent virtue to advance nefarious interests, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is also instructive.
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  29.  @sophsdtr  Well you'll recall when a bottomless cup of coffee was one silver dime. And the Nickel? This was one of the most popular coins in American history. A pocket full of nickles would buy you dinner and a night on the town. Remember the Nickelodeon and a 5 cent bag of candy? For fun, check out... The Million Dollar Nickel full shorts 1954.
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  30. Indeed! Break with the sound bites of selective editing.
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  31. In other words, they are lacking in functional skills.
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  32. @asburyclarkmahone9959  Note: Craftsman serves as a metaphor for the collapse of quality and its substitution with quantity in many areas of production.
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  33. Professor Sowell is doing America a great service.
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  34. Review Senator Patrick Moynihan's "Defining Deviancy Down." Substitute the word Deviancy for 'standards.' THIS... is what has been implemented in America. THIS... is what has produced so much dysfunction and adversity. Time to raise the bar. Rather than mediocrity, time for a renewal of standards Americans can grow into.
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  35. Goes back to the Kinsey Reports of 1948 and 53, respectively. These are major corrupting influences.
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  36. @royguster5576  All men are born into the world (created) equal. After that, there is only an equality of justice before the laws of the land. Darkness is not equal to Light, but only an absence of either justice or Light. This really has nothing to do with race, but with a quality of character or a lack thereof. Those who have borne the injuries of history receive little compensation. Those who have not suffered injury too often exploit the injury of past generations to which they are not entitled. Honour those who have suffered past injury, learn the lessons, and move on. The injured of history are too many to compensate.
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  37. Note: In both white and black culture, youth culture has overwhelmed the prerogatives of an adult culture. This is the first time in history youth culture, largely a product of the music industry, fast food, TV and what passes for education, has ascended to dominance over the values of elders and "traditional" values. The "glue" that holds a family or a nation together is a shared philosophy of life and trust. Rather than moral principle for its own sake and an economy of mutual affirmation, these have been lost to moral pluralism and an economy of mutual predation. A restoration of first principles is key to renewal and progress.
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  38. Envy and jealousy are destructive forces, especially when driven by a vindictive, victim mentality.
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  39. The victim mentality, snuffs out the Light of Progress. Think mirror when hearing leftist claims. Marxism is an ideology of envy and jealousy, not progressive, rather regressive.
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  40. Further, a so-called "greenhouse gas" is not CO2 but oxygen. Plants in greenhouses consume CO2. Greta has prostituted herself for notoriety and money. People have seldom been subjected to so much gaslighting. This, in turn, has produced a systemic cognitive dissonance wherein millions have been disconnected from an ability to correctly discern cause and effect relationships.
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  41. Note: It would be interesting to learn of Dr. Sowell's views on "Imagine" by the Beatles.
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  42. Why? Because even though they are often at odds with morality and an authentic principle of social justice, socialists conflate intellect with moral superiority. Indeed, socialists exploit an inverted form of morality which they have through nefarious means framed as rights.
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  43. Apropos to the times is Senator from Tennesse Davy Crockets speech "Not Yours To Give "
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  44. @MelissaR784 For EQ, there is a book that might interest you. The Emotion Code by Bradley Nelson, and for SQ, I would recommend WHO AM I? by Jean Klein. Namaste
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  45. Oliver Wendell Holmes called it verbicide. Meaning, Supreme Court Justices have been interpreting the Constitution as if they, rather than the founding fathers, had written it. And then there is George Bush Sr's derogatory comment, which deserves no repeating.
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  46. Note: Even though the Greek philosophers took many of their cues from Egypt, they failed to apply the 42 Laws of MA'AT. To speak MA'AT means to speak Truthfully in accord with the formative powers called NETERS misinterpreted as 'gods.' The Greek Subjective Theory dispenses with Objective Truth as a measure of all things embracing moral pluralism in its stead. This is what has been destroying the West.
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  47. @Numantino312  The point being, when truthfully informed discourse and communication break down, overt hostility is the result.
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  48. This could explain the political left's support for groups like Hamas, Antifa and anti-American protests on campus and in American cities. This soft on crime approach also appeals to a criminal class in government as a form of self-justification. Wink, wink -- nod, nod.
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  49. The war of 1776 continues today. Those who would be sovereign and those who would be subjects remain. The Democrats remain the party of slavery.
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  50. Reparations? Avoid the victim mentality, learn the lessons, and move on. Regurgitating the traumas of the past for political currency is divisive and a weight upon future possibilities. However, the truth of the past must be preserved.
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