Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "John Anderson Media" channel.

Oddly enough, I think bullying is more rampant and mean-spirited than when I was growing up in the '60s and '70s. Adults are so controlling that kids find new ways and meaner ways to bully each other. It's the kid who sticks up for himself that they put on Ritalin, nowadays, because he has "anger issues." Teachers are more bullying than they used to be, and it's all in the name of being "nicer," and "nice" is defined in terms of political ideology. When I was growing up, everybody knew who the bullies were, and they were quickly put in their place by other kids. Usually it just took one bloody nose. Nowadays, the schoolyard bully provokes violence in someone without as much emotional armor and then turns right around and cries to the teacher about how mean the bullied kid is. When I was growing up, the toughest kids in school weren't bullies, but were the guys who beat the shit out of bullies. And EVERYbody teased everybody else. If you weren't being insulted, then you weren't respected. If you were weak or not as socially acceptable, you might be ignored or marginalized, but the general population of kids despised anyone picking on somebody weaker. NOWadays, they seem to LOVE finding someone to target and harass, MERCILESSLY, until the kid snaps, at which point the bullies go crying to the teacher. Nowadays, kids don't have many opportunities to interact without adult supervision, which point Haidt makes. But I think it makes them MORE vicious whenever they're NOT being supervised. And more helpless, simultaneously. Nobody's a bigger cry-baby than an Antifa member with a skinned knee. "Defund the police" and "Call the cops" all in the same, un-self-aware breath.
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True. But that doesn't mean the British were exactly saints.
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@pauldi7268 : Everything YOU see as runaway capitalism is actually the result of government intrusion, which removes all the incentives to behave properly, and cements robber barons on top. The free market does a much better job of responding to and serving the values of its customers, through competition than government regulators coming in and trying to solve problems, by force, under advisement from robber barons. You fight the wrong thing. You really should read Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" and think about the proper role and scope of government. The problems you see in our system are invariably due to politicians weaponizing the outrage of people like you to take a little more power and cause more problems, which they always say are "unintended," but any fool could see coming a mile away. Free markets have always imposed higher standards than government bureaucrats. By the time there's enough public outrage to demand government do something, the markets are already responding. Moral behavior and reputation are potent forces in marketing. Government sets arbitrary standards and the net effect is to favor the worse companies over the better companies. Free markets created the rising tide that created the leisure and extra resources to actually seek higher values in the first place. It wasn't government. Government always follows society, garnering votes and virtue by wrong-headed programs that cause more long-term problems that idiots like insist must be solve by yet MORE government action. You want sustainable living? Get government the hell out of it. If it's a value you demand, then there will be a free American just dying to provide that value. Your antipathy towards capitalism denotes an almost religious faith in politicians and bureaucrats to do what good people like you and I can do much better. Do you honestly think Nancy Pelosi knows or cares about root problems, or do you think she (or Trump) are more interested in exploiting those problems to secure their positions of power and privilege? Me, personally, I'm more inclined to think Trump is in it for the right reasons. He was a billionaire before deciding to run. Careerist politicians WANT the system we have. They made millions off the taxpayer tit.
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@yt.damian Watched it happen to Colorado.
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You can read that headline in more than one way. Consider that censorship and silencing are regressive, dragging us back to a less enlightened past, and you realize the liberal left is actually regressive right. The behavior of the so-called liberal establishment is far less tolerant of dissent than the so-called conservatives from whom they wrested control of establishment institutions and WEAPONIZED them.
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Establishment media's been stoking hate for a long time, now. It's dangerous, but it's also exposing them for what they're doing to more people. The only people who are really hating right now are the ones under the sway of establishment media, and they're dying off, as we speak.
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Pretty spot-on. While religion brings out some of the best and deters some of the worst in people, it also gives them this "I believe; therefore, I am virtuous, and anyone who disagrees with me is malign" attitude. When you take away religion, such people will latch on to ideas that are indistinguishable from religious dogma, except for the fact that they do not use "God said" in their rhetoric. Take away religion, and political ideology is always there to fill the vacuum. I don't know what the answer is other than to be on your guard against falling into the trap. I'm pretty much agnostic, when it comes to religion. I don't think I've ever encountered one that doesn't require me to make a leap of faith in defiance of the evidence of my senses. But even an atheist must make such a leap of faith in order to even get UP in the morning. Without that larger meaning to life, that makes sense of your place in the universe, fatalism, hedonism and nihilism beckon. Religion's great power - especially the Christian faith - is offering paradise at the end of a universally fatal existence, and along the way installing a system of morals that, when followed, enable cultures/tribes/nations to persist, intact over wide spans of geography and time.
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Things might be looking up. COVID has REALLY shaken-up the education establishment. In a good way. Embracing online education, establishment institutions opened up the competition to a multitude of vendors for millions of parents who actively shop it.
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@VulcanLogic You have it all upside-down. Every government intervention ends up strengthening the robber barons, who can hide behind government regulations they wrote! That's not free-market capitalism. It's crony capitalism, otherwise known as fascism. Free-market capitalism is the only thing that's improved the lot of the common person. EVERY government regulatory agency ends up doing the opposite of what it was created for. Robber barons LOVE government agencies. They only have to influence a handful of people to run roughshod over all the competition. They use regulations to raise barriers to new competitors. Your solution seems to be "We just need to socialism harder." If it weren't for the U.S. Government, Monsanto and GE would've gone out of business decades ago.
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You paint a target on your back when you speak out, but you sleep like a baby, and what you say will resonate in everyone in earshot, even those against whom you speak.
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I'm not so sure about that. I think technology is changing so rapidly, the people are getting way more powerful, as a matter of functional capabilities. We'll see. It's always a race between advancements and unintended side-effects. But the more capable people are, the quicker they can shift their behavior patterns, with the means to do so. It's a foregone conclusion that not everybody keeps up, but if enough do, then the rising tide lifts all boats. From underneath. Not from on top.
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@edb3877 Yes. That was his point. "We have to vote harder for Democrats" is the same as "True socialism has never been tried."
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@VulcanLogic Democrat cities reward failure, government bloat, and crime.
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