Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

We call it "misinformation". Can't have any of that going around. Another weird thing that just happened is the new narrative that it was the Republicans that wanted to defund the police, last year. That was a big "WHAT??!!" moment for me.
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@barefootjakejake7765 I don't know how much they're in cahoots. I'd sure that there some Republicans that are a part of the swamp but I don't like to make accusations unless I know the individual personally or have facts that will substantiate those claims. I do know that I don't like the political philosophy of the Democrats and I also know that there are Rinos that make the bureaucracy so corrupt. However, I think that Trump really upset the establishment and that was why the Dems, the Rinos, the media and big tech lost their minds when he was elected. They didn't expect that and they pulled out all the stops to get rid of him. How far they went is hard to know, to accomplish that, sitting here in my apartment but they lied like I've never seen American politician lie before and they've always been liars. Also, the new progressive movement scares me. One thing is certain, we have to respect our Constitution or we stand for nothing. We'd be no better than what they are.
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@abrasionequation4632 Or are the agents of chaos those who, in their Socialist zeal, saw Trump as their enemy and they CREATED the chaos to get rid of him. One of his major objectives was to loosen China's grip on the American economy. That wasn't going to sit well with the big corporate executives or with bureaucrats. The tariffs that he imposed, the trade war with China, hurt them all in their big offshore bank accounts. So every time figures came out that this was helping the blue collar worker, the corporate media, the Democrats and the Rinos went all in to dispel that news as a fabrication. "What about the farmers" they'd cry. It was the same with all the BLM and Antifa riots. "Mostly peaceful protests" they'd say. "Antifa is a myth, an idea". It was a coordinated attack against a populist movement, the "deplorables" of middle America. If he was the agent of chaos, the Democrats were his "Number One", the ones pulling his strings.
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For all those who've been harping on the Judeo part of Judeo-Christian, Christianity had its roots in Judaism. You can rewrite history, as Orwell demonstrated, but it doesn't change that fact. Judeo-Christian or Abrahamic or whatever you want to call it, those two religions are inextricably tied together. And to forestall anyone wanting to call me a religious nut, forget it. I'm not religious in the least.
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That's where the difference between irrational and rational fear exhibits itself. Rational fear is conducive to adaptation. Irrational fear is crippling and induces stagnation.
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We have a need for rational fear. To see our fear and understand why it exists, in context, is part of the mindset that helps to solve the issue that causes the fear. Irrational fear is the relative of panic. It lacks thought or adaptability and forces retreat and stagnation. It's important to have fear as a survival tactic but just as important to control that fear so we're not mired in paralysis.
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I wonder if the ones who disliked this video, have envy issues.
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Anna Maric Part of being a citizen is to question everything but it's too easy to pull random items out of the air and then say because of this item, I've now proven that Trump is a globalist. Trump was hated for NOT being a globalist. He'd been saying for years that America has been selling our economy to China. When they saw how popular he was, they were scared that he'd follow through on his threats to try and bring the economy back from China and he did the exact things that they didn't want him to do. Tariffs on Chinese goods. The corporations HATED him for it. In fact, things were going great until Covid struck. The economy was the best in years. Wages for the little guy were rising, Employment figures were the best since the sixties. As for the vaccines, I'm confused on why they're evil. Vaccinations have been in use for 200 years and NOW they're evil. That's just weird. Almost everyone in the US, in the western world, has multiple vaccinations and except for a few crackpots, there weren't any problems. I'm against forcing people to get them or the vaccine passports but I'm against lockdowns too, but not against quarantining someone who's obviously sick. People have turned into either hysterical conspiratory nuts or authoritarian tyrants. There doesn't seem to any common sense left anymore. Everybody hates everyone else. It's time to sit back and relax a bit before we destroy everything that has made life so good here in the west.
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Anna Maric I'm NOT American. I'm Canadian. Of course you won't read what I wrote. If it doesn't validate your world view, it's not worth reading and people like you dismiss it. Have fun in your bubble. It'll feel good to have people pat you on your head and tell you how wonderfully correct you are on everything.
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@runtoth3abyss Are you serious? Have you ever heard of the Russian Collusion election fiasco? The Democrats spent years calling Trump an illegitimate president, that he colluded with the Russians to steal the election. They spent 35 million on the Mueller Report and when it turned up nothing, they had this hearing where they called Mueller in to grill him on how he conducted his investigation and STILL nothing. Yet, Adam Schiff and Hilary were still going on about collusion after all this. The Dems and the media wouldn't shut up about it. Strangely, when the Democrats were accused of election fraud, the media said that was crazy, even saying that it was the most secure election in history. It would appear that the left can make those accusations and it's all okay but when the right does it.....conspiracy nuts. By the way, did you see what happened in the elections in NY City? Eric Adams, an ex-cop, who'd be a guy that the left automatically hates, noticed a problem with the numbers in the votes and the media started calling him a Trumpian conspiracy theorist. They didn't even bother to investigate. Turned out he was correct and the media just slunk away without a word. The media doesn't do journalism anymore. They're a left wing propaganda machine and people don't have the inclination or intelligence to even question them.
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@thisislaflaretv5250 I'm NOT a Christian so stop sticking me into YOUR pigeon holes. Also, YOU live in American society, as well, so by that criteria, you're as much a conformist as I am. Of course I pay my grocery bill. It's an agreement that I have with those who own the food that I need. No different than if you own something. I can't just take it if I want it. If you want to trade for it, we make a deal, either for cash or for like, in kind. If no one paid for their groceries, the entire system would break down and that would be the end of the society that we live in. Mass starvation for all. I don't know why infant mortality rates for blacks are so high. Maybe that's something that you should ask your government representative instead of some guy on the internet. I don't know why the inner city have such horrific education records, either. Something else you could ask your local politician. Could it be that people keep voting for the same people, year after year, yet, expecting different outcomes and improvements? Could it be that your representative FORCES you to go to the school of THEIR choice and refuses to allow you the same ability to choose that they have? Why would you vote for such a representative? Maybe you're NOT voting for them but the black community is definitely voting for the people that won't give you those choices. Sometimes you have to look inwards to fix your problems instead of waiting for someone else to fix it for you.
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MICHAEL DAMATO I'm afraid that you're interpretation is way off from how I took it. It's about how a person allows fear to possess their minds to the point of losing control. The use of children is used as a metaphor to how adults have acted when fear has taken over their very being. The fear of witches, of Jews, of the ruling class....etc. They're no stronger or better than children, no matter how sophisticated they are and history verifies this. "Lord of the Flies" means Beelzebub, another word for Satan. It's an admonition against letting fear or its anthropomorphic character, Satan, take over your thoughts and behaviour. Fear gripped those children, in that book. The fear of the injured pilot, who went to the signal fire, and terrorised them and their horrific reactions to that fear. They were too young to use logic or reason to understand it and we see the same, all too often, in adults. "Fear is the mind killer". Like Jung said, one of the most destructive forces there is, right now.
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MICHAEL DAMATO But you can't leave Satan out of the equation. Not when you're talking about the Lord of the Flies. It would be like talking about equines and not wanting to talk about horses. Satan is another word for Beelzebub which means "Lord of the Flies". Satan is used as the human face of fear and the evil that comes when that fear is uncontrolled. Satan is an idea. He doesn't have to be real to express that idea. That's what this book is doing. It uses a metaphor to examine the idea of fear as a driver of evil. If you don't understand the idea of Satan, you'll have a tough time understanding the book, especially when you don't even want to discuss the metaphor used.
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@thisislaflaretv5250 Talk about spewing the conformist dogma. You'd fit in perfectly in a humanities course in college.
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MICHAEL DAMATO I've read a great deal in my life and I read that particular book several times. It was horrific and enlightening at the same time. I agree about the hierarchies of living creatures but I don't see that as the central theme of the book. It's a part of it, for sure, but it has to be or the pecking order condition doesn't exist. The very heart of the book is how the Lord of the Flies destroys the minds of those children through fear. Fear is the great manipulator. It's one of the ways that Satan, in religious literature, controls us. Respectfully, it makes no sense for the Lord of the Flies (Beelzebub) to be the pecking order. I suppose a Marxist might think so, though but I find they see everything through the lens of their own making.
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@d6wave I think that you've missed the entire point that was being made in this video. Missed it by a mile.
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@Dacademeca So what if it's fake. Does this phrase express a truth or wisdom? "Care About What Other People Think, And You Will Always Be Their Prisoner." -Anonymous Is that better? Or is it a "fake" Anonymous quote, too.
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@runtoth3abyss You're exhibiting EXACTLY what this entire video was about. You don't discuss what Antony the Great might mean by this quote. Not a chance. Instead you sneeringly belittle and berate, in some weird and toxic attempt to sound intellectual. Attack the person by making a group association, attack that association and dismiss them all as dangerous crackpots. You do this and never say a word about what was said. This is a logical fallacy. By the way, I'm not a Christian so you can forget about dismissing me with your dehumanising tactics.
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@mariaalano3077 Even opinions are called lies by the MSM. "I think mail in ballots leaves open the strong possibility for fraud". LIAR..no evidence. It's an opinion, not stated as fact, but that doesn't matter to them.
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MICHAEL DAMATO Now, you're getting it.
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@juan1586 No.....it's not capitalism. Capitalism wouldn't allow a system where only the corporations succeed and the small entrepreneur is doomed to failure. The corporate body is ecstatic over the Covid restrictions which have destroyed the small capitalist businessman. The Corporatists have merged with the government to mandate that these small businesses either stay closed or operate under impossible conditions to survive. Capitalism is to ensure a free and open market. Mandated Covid restrictions is NOT operating under a free and open economic system. It's almost a return to feudalism, where the elites control the systems of productions. The Lords own the land and the serfs work under the aristocratic elites and the serf has NO chance of ever working his own piece of land. We're now heading towards the system where the elites own the means of production, agricultural and manufacturing, and the ordinary person has no chance of ever working his own business. Covid is just the start of it. Wait till the climate mandates start to be imposed. It will be the government and corporate elites that run it all and the rules will be so tight that it will be almost impossible for the average person to be the lord of his own enterprise. Capitalism is the freedom for all to take part. Corporatism takes away from that freedom and places it in their own hands.
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We're now vilifying the life of gratitude and replacing it with a life of grievance. It's why the left hates Christianity. It's all about giving thanks for what God has given us, even if it's only our lives. To forestall being call a religious fanatic, I'm not religious....AT ALL.
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