Comments by "EarthSurferUSA" (@EarthSurferUSA) on "PragerU"
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That is the entire idea of our progressive education today; Tell them something they do know, then fill their heads with garbage, and call it reality. With everybody around them in the same garbage pile, they think it is reality. What is going on here is the "education" is killing their ability to "reason" on their own. If you are a health person wearing a mask, you gave up that ability to reason, and your right to act on your own rational reason already. So what happens when people can not reason for themselves? Well, they need a baby sitter, and that is one thing that can open the door for a dictatorship, the most terrible baby sitter the world has ever seen. I refuse to give up my ability to reason, and my right to act on my own rational reasoning to anybody.
I bet, a child who is learning to talk, is by nature, figuring out reality more effectively than the average college student today.
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In under just 5 generations, (30 years assumed a generation), from 1776 to 1914, free Americans enjoying their free market built this nation so quickly, (from the wilderness), we were, as a brand new nation less than 150 years old, in a position to be able to protect ourselves from any nation in the world who might way to do harm to us. We won WW1, a brand new nation of free men in their market, and it was "exceptional". One of the free men, (not a government employee), was a citizen who may have been the most important reason why we won WW1. That private citizen was John Browning, basically a kid in his garage with a brain in his head, who made the working "machine gun" to help protect the same liberty he had to design and make the gun. The Thompson sub machine gun? The military did not even want that, (so it sold privately, but the mob started using them before they became politicians), or the Tucker 100mph tank for WW2. The government loved the rotating gun turret though that Tucker put on his tank in his barn in Ypsilanti Michigan, and we saw that help us win WW2 on many war craft. That is 100% correct history folks, and is traceable.
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Great interview. But when somebody asks, "Why was America great?", the answer has to touch the core of philosophy, by explaining how and why the USA was exceptionally based in the philosophies of "Individual Liberty". By the way, it was our founding philosophies of individual liberty that freed our Black population in 1876. Some of the Black families were so grateful that finally a nation that was based on individual liberty existed, and they were there, that they named their own families after the men who founded this only great nation, because it was based on individual liberty. To the Black families, only in the USA, named "Washington", "Franklin", "Jefferson",---Thank your ancestors for understanding why the USA was founded with greatness. They knew it,---to the core of philosophy.
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Mr Nick Adams: (6000 posts, and he will see this one?): You are on the right track with the reality of results. But you did not mention the philosophies and principles that created the USA in the first place, to be able to do all those great things you mention. Before the USA the world was run by some kind of state, (tyrants overwhelmingly), or some kind of religion, (or a combination), ruling over other rational men, who came from the other side of the tracks, (generalization),---called " Subjects", (Not citizens), as if some kind of social experiment. Then a Philosopher named Aristotle, who first realized that individual humans can reason for themselves,---and natural law was born, (law based on the human nature to '"reason", developed by those wound could reason a law for all and not hinder human nature for any). It took a while, but other philosophers found the same, (varying a bit), to start to for a more free areas in Europe, then especially the USA, when reason rejected the rule of a monarchy.
What made the USA the most prosperous and civil nation the Earth has ever seen is, it was "exceptionally" founded on the philosophies of INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY protected by law, and the free market belonging to the citizens, (It is called communism when government takes over industries that we built,--health care for the blatant example). The best in Europe had come here because they had more freedom to do their work also. It was called "The Brain Drain" of Europe.
Individual liberty and the free market owned by the citizens, (with a streamlined court system that protects individual liberty). That is what creates a civil and prosperous society. We are friends when we trade with money. We are enemies when we trade with blood.
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Great interview. But when somebody asks, "Why was America great?", the answer has to touch the core of philosophy, by explaining how and why the USA was exceptionally based in the philosophies of "Individual Liberty". By the way, it was our founding philosophies of individual liberty that freed our Black population in 1876. Some of the Black families were so grateful that finally a nation that was based on individual liberty existed, and they were there, that they named their own families after the men who founded this only great nation, because it was based on individual liberty. To the Black families, only in the USA, named "Washington", "Franklin", "Jefferson",---Thank your ancestors for understanding why the USA was founded with greatness. They knew it,---to the core of philosophy.
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@JohnSmith-pg9ns Ya know John, when I was 18 years old, I thought my Dad was the dumbest person on the planet. But when I turned 24, man, I was surprised at how much the old man learned in 6 years! If you have your face in your phone more than not, you have no leg to stand on when it comes to living in reality. You are just a kid. You don't know anything yet. You were not born with my life experiences, (which were the last of the best USA.My generation was the last generation to be taught that we can go for our own individual dreams in the USA). You do not understand that you and I would have died under communism if Trump did not win. I don't know what is going to happen after Trumps terms are done, but I expect you have at least another decade of freedom left. Hopefully more, if President Hero Trump can inspire other liberty minded people to run for office,---and it would be only the 2nd time you had a choice. Don't mess up next time.
Now John, let me ask you. Are you the kind of person who wants to use your own mind, learn how to do something marketable, and start your own exciting business, (or even invent an industry),--Or, are you the kind of person who has no self confidence, (and think you can't earn it), and because you may be leaving home or school soon,---you are looking for government to take care of you, (at others expense)? Enjoy your communism son. Unless people run and win office after Trump who understand the difference between liberty and tyranny, (you have not experienced liberty---because you probably don't do anything), you will grow old under communism. You see issues, I see ideology, philosophy, and the direction they take us. A paraphrase line from a great movie, The court scene of "The Fountainhead"; "I am an engineer. I know what is to come based on the principles of which it is built!" You don't understand the principles that created our liberty and prosperity in the first place. You were taught that "All values are the same", and good ones are replaced with junk. They got you man. They got you.
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Exactly!! Our education system is not teaching our kids how to use the human ability to "reason" to figure out reality in our universe, and the tools for "reason" to do that, "Math, Science and Reading" have been dumbed down to about 30th in the world, (while we shipped production to communist nations). Kids today as a result, (and many of their parents, and even grand parents), do not know how to figure out reality. They believe the "precepts" they have been taught is reality. What direction can their future go with such a confused rudder? Your guess is as good as mine, but it will not be human liberty. "I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility toward every form of tyranny,---OVER THE MIND OF MAN." There was good "reason", why Thomas Jefferson said that.
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Show me a citizenry anywhere in the world who is not allowed to defend themselves, and I will show you a citizenry who lives in fear of their government, (when they thought they should fear their own neighbors, and gave up their guns). Show me a citizenry who does have the human right of self defense, and I will show you how man should life,---free of fear. The safest place in the world, in the market place, where your neighbors are, is a gun store in the USA. Ya see, there may be a criminal or two, but your neighbor has your back. History is not over yet in Australia. All you need is one bad election.
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The problem I see with most gay people, many very intelligent, is that because they are gay, they are easy pickings for communistic political movements as it is easy to make them believe they are discriminated against in the USA. My brother is gay, has a 145 IQ, got rich working for Microsoft as an employee, but never considered competing in or free market, (even with bill gates), and become a hero making cool products, employing people and providing them opportunity also. He became a brain dead political activist instead. He wasted his life for his sexuality, and he could have been a hero.
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