Comments by "Susan Mercurio" (@susanmercurio1060) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

  1. I would love to support Academy of Ideas but I live on a limited income and I'm already giving more than I can afford to independent journalists and some animal rescue organizations.
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  2. 2:10 We hippies in the 1960s believed in collectivism in our communes and we didn't become authoritarian. It doesn't have to happen.
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  3. Watch How to Start a Revolution DVD documentary and read From Dictatorship to Democracy the book by Dr Gene Sharp. Then read The Politics of Nonviolent Action, which teaches us how to do it.
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  4. 3:50 It wasn't "these people"; it was Bernays himself who taught them!
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  5. I think that the comments in this thread do a very good job of bringing it up to the present.
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  6.  @jeffg7478  "We could (future tense) find ourselves..."? We arrived a while back.
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  7. @s0ulbr0777 : So you fear Rothschild! Now we know what can be used to lead you around by the nose! Marx was a professor of economics at the University of Berlin. He left Germany after the revolt of 1848, when Germans tried and failed to make Germany a more progressive country. Many other liberals left Germany then, too. Rothschild had nothing to do with it. But you believe what you want to believe.
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  8.  @SamM-gl9zc  : Watch How to Start a Revolution DVD documentary and read From Dictatorship to Democracy the book. If you haven't been frightened into despondency, we can do it!
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  9. It came up on my feed so I watched it
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  10. 6:00 Thorstein Veblen said the same thing in The Theory of the Leisure Class.
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  11. Read Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class for an explanation for how we got here.
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  12. Dr Peter Salerno says that narcissism is hard-wired in the central nervous system, and he has proof.
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  13. So Brave New World was a rebuttal of Sir Francis Bacon...
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  14. Freud has been debunked for years
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  15. I've been practicing therapy on myself since my middle childhood. 1:55 I disagree that children think that whatever went wrong in their childhood is their fault (sorry, Alice Miller). They can understand that their parents were wrong or troubled.
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  16. ​ @celiacresswell6909 They don't take the cash from your wallet. They create new money every time Congress passes an appropriations bill. Since the US Constitution gives Congress the only right to create the currency, they also have the right to say where the money will be spent. You can learn all about this at The Rogue Scholar, MMT Mondays, Macro'n'Cheese, or Real Progressives on YouTube. Stephanie Kelton also has several great videos on YouTube about it.
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  17. My sister did say that St Augustine was the asshole of history. I always thought it was St Paul.
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  18. I would like to support The Academy of Ideas by watching the ads, but I'll be damned if I'll watch an advertisement for the apartheid country of Israel.
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  19.  @NerdyHoodReviews  : You get to be one of the heros of the later generations who developed a new model of manhood which left behind the old, toxic model.
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  20. Yep
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  21. "If you can't lick them, join them"?
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  22. I am trying this for my C-PTSD.
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  23. 2:00 The economists who teach Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) says that inflation is created when there is more money than the resources it can buy, in a monetary system with a fiat currency. Were those other economists, like Ludwig von Mises, talk about a currency that was based on something else, like gold? Many price rises today are created, not by inflation, but by price gouging by the corporations.
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  24. 4:45 And of course all of us who are watching this are going to flatter ourselves that we are some of the few and not the mass.
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  25. 9:15. 11:40
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  26. 1:35 Not true: I keep trying to find solutions. They get swept away.
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  27. TAXES DON'T FUND SPENDING AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL! #LearnMMT!
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  28. The beginning sounds like the Buddha.
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  29.  @eladbari  Yes, you do. And if you can't figure it out, the Buddha taught us.
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  30.  @nerychristian  : That's going to be next: a black market in vaccine cards, just like the one for fake IDs!
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  31.  @trkstatrksta8410  I'd rather die outright than live to suffer with a crushed spirit. There are worse things than the body dying. And if you are a Christian, as I suspect you are, that was exactly what Christ said on the cross.
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  32.  @gabyr7439  I am thankful that you have never had to go through any kind of trauma that damaged you for life. I congratulate your parents for giving you a happy childhood. You are one lucky dog
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  33. You don't need an organized religion to find meaning in life. They have set themselves up as the only place where you can shop for it, but you can find it on your own. I disagree with the topic of this video.
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  34. The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
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  35. All organized religions are about control.
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