Conservatism Rediscovered | Dr. Yoram Hazony

MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2023 

POLITICS / CONSERVATISM 

Dr. Yoram Hazony is one of my heroes.   He is a true intellectual.  

Philosopher, scholar and political theorist Dr. Yoram Hazony joins John for a rich and interweaving conversation about conservatism, nationalism, democracy and modern politics. Dr. Hazony, author of several books on these matters, provides a compelling critique of the political right - where it has gone wrong, the great benefits it can convey for society and how it diverges from liberalism. John and Yoram touch on many important topics, including multiculturalism, identity politics, globalism and the question of why nationalism seems surrounded by an unearned air of controversy. John and Yoram touch on many important topics, including multiculturalism, identity politics, globalism and why nationalism seems to be surrounded by an unearned air of controversy. Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, Bible scholar and political theorist. He is President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and Chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. He has written several books, including The Virtue of Nationalism (2018) and his latest, Conservatism: A Rediscovery (2022), both of which have met with popular and critical success  

Educated at Princeton University (B.A. in East Asian Studies), and Rutgers University (Ph.D in Political Theory), Yoram founded and was the first editor of Princeton’s conservative student journal, The Princeton Tory, while still an undergraduate. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Yael Hazony. They have nine children.

MASS CENSORSHIP

MONDAY, MAY 8, 2023 

CULTURE / POLITICS

This was just posted by a famous scientist I've been following for many years....everything he says here is 100% true:

( FYI: He used to be at U of W - Madison....they fired him after he started to openly criticize the COVID narrative...)

"I am increasingly disturbed that most of the country is still barely aware of or is undisturbed by the aggressive censorship of a rapidly increasing number of topics (except Trump’s legal troubles).

"Mass censorship of this scope and scale (i.e global) is historically unprecedented, as it has only been made possible via recent internet and social media technology/algorithms. Plus, the algorithms and media are owned and operated by a precious handful of massive media companies who do it to serve their own and their other corporate interests, but also on behalf of the U.S gov’t, which, in turn, is completely being run by corporations. We live in a corporate fascist state at this point.

"Mass, coordinated censorship started with elections, then mission creeped over to any scientific opinion in Covid which threatened Pharma/DOD interests, but now censorship in media is so normalized that they are wantonly censoring and propagandizing large parts of every important topic we face as a society , i.e. Ukraine, currency threats, the protests in France against Macron, Joe and Hunter Biden corruption developments, Bobby Kennedy interview, and worst of all, the failure to widely and deeply cover the Twitter Files discovery that every single agency of our government had a centralized, direct, efficient access and ability to censor any citizen with an account on any major social media company. And they have done this aggressively for going on 3 years now. That story itself is, in my opinion, one of the most disturbing in modern American History. And has already disappeared from its brief news cycle.

"A friend of mine posted a link on Facebook a month ago to buy my soon-to-be released and (deeply researched ) book called “The War on Ivermectin.” She was thrown in Facebook jail for 30 days. Another friend of mine just posted a link to my book on Instagram and she was immediately shadow banned. They are literally “burning books” again, and with impunity. Yet few know the true extent of the censoring and even fewer are fighting back.

"America is unrecognizable to me and has been now for 3 years. More grotesque by the day. This will not end well as our society and democracy (whatever shred we had left of it) is being destroyed by those who own corporate controlled media and run the agencies (health, agriculture, energy, etc). The absence of open exchange and debate of emerging data combined with being drowned in incessant propaganda narratives day after day, has made the world go stark raving mad. This madness caused millions around the world to take deeply personal actions which served Pharma’s interests over their own health, causing many to be complicit in their own demise or disability.

"In my opinion, the last bastion for truth are books, documentaries, Substack (for now) and independent podcasters. I would suggest consuming little else but those sources or we’re done for. if you cant tell, I’m really really pissed off (and frightened) tonight.

Can Decentralization Save Humanity? - Why Smaller is Better in Politics

Sunday, April 2, 2023 

POLITICS / DECENTRALIZATION

Should the states and provinces of nations separate and become politically autonomous? Should counties, cities, and communities do the same? What is the optimal size of a political unit? In this video, we are going to explore why the nation-states that populate the world are too big, and why decentralization – not voting different politicians into power – is the cure to many of the social and political problems that ail us. 

This is an outstanding video about the importance of small, autonomous units of government.  The founders of the United States of America understood this concept perfectly, and it's the cornerstone of conservatism, as well as the American form of government. 

It's also the cornerstone of the Protestant Reformation, though not intentionally.  The Protestant Reformation actually reached its ultimate fulfillment in the United States.  The reason why Christianity is still a force to be reckoned with in this country, in contrast to Europe where it's almost nonexistent, is the fact that truly orthodox Christians seem to intuitively understand the need and importance of small, autonomous churches.   

Sadly, thanks to socialists and communists, the USA and the rest of the west is headed towards a secular, totalitarian future based on lies and propaganda that have no basis in truth.  Neo-Marxists are working hard to consolidate power through centralized power centers, much like the old Roman Empire.  However, today's authoritarian movement is very much rooted in objective evil, and has none of the charm or brilliance of ancient Rome.   

It's interesting to note that the direct inheritor of the Roman Empire is the Catholic Church.  And much like the ancient empire, the Catholic Church has also been subject to tremendous scandal, corruption and moral failures of all kinds, hence the origin of the Reformation itself.  It seems all large-scale centralized structures, even religious ones, ultimately become corrupt by power and privilege.   

By keeping governmental units small and close to the people they govern, wide-spread corruption and moral failure is easily discovered and corrected.  This is true for almost any organization, secular or sacred.