Lesson Twelve | The Problem with Progressivism

Starting in the late 19th century a new ideology arose claiming that human nature had overcome the problem of faction thanks to the knowledge of science. Because of this, we no longer needed the antiquated features of the Constitution, like separation of powers, that made government slow and inefficient. This new ideology, known as Progressivism, gave rise to the rule of the bureaucracy that characterizes our government today.
Discover the simple but profound truths of the Constitution in an entirely new way through Hillsdale College’s “Introduction to the Constitution.” Find yourself at the table with Dr. Larry Arnn, as he teaches his students the principles of liberty. Experience the lively discussions that take place as students explore the implications and beauty of our Constitution. To support Hillsdale free online courses, visit: secured.hillsdale.edu/hillsda...

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  • @BigJFindAWay
    @BigJFindAWayАй бұрын

    What an absolutely kick butt teacher this man is!!!! He’s a marvel!!!! Amazing how he integrates the students into the discussion and draws out their contributions!!!!

  • @FFJBravo
    @FFJBravo4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely outstanding series. Thank you so very much, and I hope Hillsdale will do more....on anything- I will binge that too!

  • @russghound
    @russghound4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Hillsdale College for inviting us to sit in on these discussions on the Constitution. I am very concerned as I watch our government morph away from the Constitution and work to take power to themselves.

  • @michaeltelladira3823
    @michaeltelladira3823Ай бұрын

    I am a 58 year old man who has only graduated through 11th grade. I have a thirst for knowledge, and I can't get enough of what your college is teaching. Thank you for making it possible for me to access it.

  • @anthonyperry6113
    @anthonyperry61133 жыл бұрын

    As a 59 year old , this was a excellent series. If only it was once again taught in high school to the younger generation.

  • @stefanodicenso2260
    @stefanodicenso22604 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Hillsdale. I am now going into medical school with hopes of entering politics after I finish my schooling. I will forever take what I have learned from the scholars in your videos with me into my future. You guys have truly made an impact on me.

  • @eikoGoldstein

    @eikoGoldstein

    9 ай бұрын

    If you merely intend to pass through medical school before entering politics, you are wasting your time, your money and your health. And you will be taking a place of someone who is dedicated to his profession. You may become a great politician, but you won’t be much of a physician.

  • @maralynjanedenton3558
    @maralynjanedenton35583 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this exercise in critical thinking. More, more of these thought provoking series. How better to combat the product of these fractious times than a great session of smart discussion. So important.

  • @Unborn-Lives-Matter
    @Unborn-Lives-Matter4 жыл бұрын

    This was a GREAT series. I am going to collect them and send them to my grandchildren. And my children as well. I'm a history buff but I learned a whole bunch of stuff of which I wasn't previously aware. Thank you for your efforts. Timeless.

  • @dennisrobinson1290

    @dennisrobinson1290

    3 жыл бұрын

    I used the program Bandicam to collect them just let it run from 1st to last, its a great program and can even take photos~ Then I'll use my wondershare video editor to separate them~

  • @mitchnidey2453
    @mitchnidey24532 жыл бұрын

    God bless you and your family and friends, and God bless America!

  • @karrisajoss4271
    @karrisajoss42713 жыл бұрын

    Love the picture in the background, table set-up, group dynamics and insightful ness into better understanding this topic, “The Constitution” and how we relate and it relates with us and the outcomes of an incredible nation we have here in the U.S of A.

  • @karenkirk8352
    @karenkirk83522 жыл бұрын

    This was a fabulous course. Thank you for opening it up to the public. I truly have learned so much. God bless you and please let me know how I can contribute to this endeavor to educate Americans.

  • @ziusthefirst5387
    @ziusthefirst53873 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for your service. I watched all twelve lessons in one sitting and in the time I spent watching nothing else but GOD, Country and our beloved Constitution. Thank you.

  • @keithmcelroy5658
    @keithmcelroy56583 жыл бұрын

    Hillsdale College deserves a "pat on the back"! Taking the time to make these videos and to put them on KZread for free really shows precedence and sets your University apart from the rest. Thank you!

  • @karrisajoss4271
    @karrisajoss42713 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I have been wanting to take a course on the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution or a class related. I have been through 3 rounds of college without a course like this in either k-12th grade or getting a BA, MA or higher levels of education. Thank you for adding to the knowledge I have and expanding on our wonderful country, the documents that envelope the laws of the land and your discussions. 🙏🏻🤗😇👏🍀

  • @Danielrodriguez-ct3np
    @Danielrodriguez-ct3np3 жыл бұрын

    Great class,will be better if in every single school watch it.

  • @leslieforster1774
    @leslieforster17744 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Hillsdale. Excellent job.

  • @judyandersen3842
    @judyandersen38423 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for making this available. I am a senior of 72 years, and regrettably I am ashamed that my least favorite subject in school was history. Looking back and living in these times I see how important it is for our young people be given the opportunity to be educated in an unbiased and unedited school system. I never saw this terrible transition coming. Now as I look back, I can see the major changes in our political, educational and environmental systems with major concern. Human rights, equality and freedom of speech are being restructured in a way I never thought possible. What does one do to try to make things right?

  • @noelsteele

    @noelsteele

    11 ай бұрын

    What I do is never stop talking about it, with my children, friends- everyone. Anyone can use a history lesson at any time!

  • @bobmassey7227
    @bobmassey72275 жыл бұрын

    Interesting discussion. Thanks for sharing with all of us. Hope this is something that can continue. I do believe truth, right and wrong do not change with the times. As was said, if it was true then, it is true now. False then, false now. What seems to actually change is not truth, but perceptions, opinions and personal whims. If we are led by any of those three things and develop our concepts of truth and government from them we are going to have some very Shakey foundations indeed.

  • @ellietincan6756

    @ellietincan6756

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why is it inherent that what is the most right not lie in the future? Assuming there is a static moral system that is objectively true, there is no reason to believe we have access to it in the past

  • @garysmith789
    @garysmith7893 жыл бұрын

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Thank God the founding fathers recognized this.

  • @kadyscout
    @kadyscout4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent! Excellent! Just awesome! I'm 57 years old, and served my country proudly. THIS, needs to be taught in High schools across our country. No doubt about it. No wonder, our kids are so crazy lost and have no appreciation for this great country. They're ignorant of such "thinking".

  • @pamfreeland6888
    @pamfreeland68883 жыл бұрын

    I learned some things. Thank you for that. I have more clarity, thank you for that. Highly recommend!

  • @marthareal8398
    @marthareal8398 Жыл бұрын

    Great delivery, thank you for your dedication to freedom!

  • @69josephbc
    @69josephbc Жыл бұрын

    Bless each of you. Your class has been a blessing to each of us, who seeks Freedom.

  • @danb.9713
    @danb.97134 жыл бұрын

    This was a GREAT series! I loved it. DO IT AGAIN!!

  • @jimgraham4673
    @jimgraham46732 жыл бұрын

    This was so enjoyable and informative. Please continue with such programs.

  • @heidemerecki6951
    @heidemerecki69515 жыл бұрын

    An excellent session. Thank you.

  • @pmchamlee
    @pmchamlee2 жыл бұрын

    I viewed the whole course this afternoon, Dr Arn. Many thanks for your efforts. I regularly contibute to Hillsdale and am most grateful for you all!

  • @mosesgarcia9443
    @mosesgarcia94434 жыл бұрын

    Back to basic Brillant. I kust love to watch young people learning...

  • @constancejackson7986
    @constancejackson79863 жыл бұрын

    Loved the series! Just beautifully moving

  • @patsirianni7984
    @patsirianni79842 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Hillsdale

  • @TheK7aloha
    @TheK7aloha3 жыл бұрын

    I have been watching various episodes the past week and today I sat down and participated in the Course in one sitting. There is a toroidal Field pattern and the 3,6,9 structure; 3in1 I keep seeing throughout the information. I hold a B.A. in Political Science form the University of Delaware. It has been decades since I was there, and this course was like a healing; a completion in the energy for me; thank you. You helped me remember WHY I studied Poli Sci, I had almost forgotten! Again; thank you. I took great notes, and I feel more prepared and inspired to to bring my Passions and Reason into Lokahi. Very well done dear Ones, fabulous experience! Aloha from Colorado. I have been sharing on Facebook as well. Loved it!

  • @zenondolnyckyj4325
    @zenondolnyckyj43255 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very very very much. Wonderful. Truly wonderful!!

  • @mitchnidey2453
    @mitchnidey24532 жыл бұрын

    I choose good not evil, life not death, blessing not cursing...forever...in Jesus name

  • @sgt.grinch3299
    @sgt.grinch32993 жыл бұрын

    The Constitution is timeless. The God given rights and boundaries of the Federal Government need not Change. What were good principles 2000 years ago are just as good today. Technology changes Human nature does not. That is why the 2nd Amendment grants the individual the right of self defense.

  • @sues3218
    @sues32182 жыл бұрын

    I think we are all seeing in real time what happens when we attempt to go down this route. We need to keep sovereignty and power separated.

  • @JeremySchwartz2027
    @JeremySchwartz20275 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for these videos and your dedication!

  • @garym2879
    @garym28792 жыл бұрын

    Great series. Thank you!

  • @patmelton43
    @patmelton432 жыл бұрын

    I come to Hillsdale to get clarity and distance myself from the craziness in the current government.

  • @Suzette9959
    @Suzette9959 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you this was wonderful!!!

  • @IntoAllTruth.
    @IntoAllTruth.5 жыл бұрын

    Very enlightening.

  • @stephenstanley79
    @stephenstanley792 жыл бұрын

    thanks for sharing.

  • @ImageProMultimedia
    @ImageProMultimedia4 жыл бұрын

    Inspiring. Thank God for this.

  • @Lesterthebeet
    @Lesterthebeet2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for compiling this beautiful series

  • @alisagossage3973
    @alisagossage39735 жыл бұрын

    I’ve never understand the idea of one person wanting to control another. Why? Just ... why?

  • @surviveplusbushcraft5650

    @surviveplusbushcraft5650

    5 жыл бұрын

    You've never exersiced any kind of real power, have you?

  • @zenondolnyckyj4325

    @zenondolnyckyj4325

    5 жыл бұрын

    Evil exists.

  • @sandrar.focseneau4106

    @sandrar.focseneau4106

    5 жыл бұрын

    Human nature. Perhaps more of a male thing (sorry guys).

  • @batmanwins4584

    @batmanwins4584

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sandra R. Focseneau that isn’t necessarily true though. The stories of the tyrannical mother are very interesting if you have a chance to listen to Dr. Jordan Peterson describe them. Also, in Macbeth it is the wife that constantly pushes for power. Women simply tend to wield power in another way. Men use brute force whereas women use seduction and manipulation. Women are also much more likely to shame other women into conformity. Women seek control as well they simply use other methods.

  • @prettyboiJustin

    @prettyboiJustin

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sandrar.focseneau4106 nah women have it too in animal nature

  • @miketamborski4248
    @miketamborski42483 жыл бұрын

    Supporting you every chance I can!

  • @greatday5404
    @greatday54042 ай бұрын

    Excellent work ✅

  • @timewithchaplainken3916
    @timewithchaplainken39163 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic series, thank you so much.

  • @kurtverbaarschott8961
    @kurtverbaarschott89614 жыл бұрын

    “We need fellow citizens who are excellent fellow citizens“, Dr. Larry P. Arnn ... bumper sticker for Hillsdale

  • @nathanngumi8467
    @nathanngumi84672 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting and informative lesson!

  • @KICLEI_CANADA
    @KICLEI_CANADA3 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful! Helpful and inspiring!

  • @davidtompkins7940
    @davidtompkins79404 жыл бұрын

    Very good videos in this lesson. Thank you for your wisdom

  • @Pan_Z
    @Pan_Z Жыл бұрын

    Progressivism sounds amazing. It's in practice where it's fatal flaw reveals itself: it's inability to rectify the constancy of man. If man's nature doesn't change, if he's an imperfect creature, then there will always be some flaws in any human society. The best any society can hope for is to know what evils are to be tolerated, and trade upward best it can in order to foster excellence.

  • @mattjohnson2664
    @mattjohnson2664 Жыл бұрын

    Good stuff. Thank you!

  • @diehardAMD
    @diehardAMD4 жыл бұрын

    If it is so absolute as Progressives state, why do they quote it so much? How have they never made a replacement for such an important document that creates the foundation for which they stand?

  • @jameswisecarver3341
    @jameswisecarver33414 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @sergejpopov
    @sergejpopov Жыл бұрын

    The mistake with the assertion about science in this video is that science is determinate. Despite appearances, science, in fact, is always uncertain. It is also a method for dealing with uncertainty. And that’s the beauty and freedom of science.

  • @mariomoleta1545
    @mariomoleta15455 жыл бұрын

    Dear Mr Algorithm, What happened to lesson nine and ten? I did not receive them. I am very disappointed and was looking forward to them. These lessons are very informative and inspiring. Please advise. Yours truly Mario.

  • @Unborn-Lives-Matter

    @Unborn-Lives-Matter

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Mario Moleta They are included on KZread. I just watched them! Just subscribe to Hillsdale college. They were very good though I'm not sure I agree with the points made. Ain't America great!

  • @dannybryant4459
    @dannybryant44593 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for doing this thank you for the video

  • @stevenkeller452
    @stevenkeller4523 жыл бұрын

    I grew up under an entitlement behaved mother who expected everything her way,when she died I swore if someone ever tried again to try that again and interfere with my life I wouldn't give in even if I had to do things George Washington had to do

  • @surviveplusbushcraft5650
    @surviveplusbushcraft56505 жыл бұрын

    I don't think it is so much that the principles were excellent for their time. I think the people of the time were more worthy of those principles. People now for too large a part are unworthy of the gift that was delivered into their hands and don't give one flying flip about principles in the least.

  • @dennisrobinson1290

    @dennisrobinson1290

    3 жыл бұрын

    They all like sheep have gone astray~

  • @sean_connors

    @sean_connors

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dennisrobinson1290 - I disagree. The people have been led astray into the abyss of selfishness progressivism always leads to. Led astray by very intelligent and cunning people whose sole ambitions are power and party. The people allow this, having been trained to do so.

  • @smallkineoff-road5418

    @smallkineoff-road5418

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bingo

  • @karrisajoss4271
    @karrisajoss42713 жыл бұрын

    Progressing to be more Christlike v worldly changes the scope of a human’s heart, mind, mouth, choices and motives.

  • @dwcorley20
    @dwcorley202 жыл бұрын

    Amazing lesson thank you. Felt like I was part of the class.

  • @smokedbrisket3033
    @smokedbrisket30332 жыл бұрын

    From Calvin Coolidge's speech, given on the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

  • @katiebalderrabano2845
    @katiebalderrabano28454 жыл бұрын

    this was amazing

  • @parepidemosproductions4741
    @parepidemosproductions47414 жыл бұрын

    A thought that I have and believe is along the same lines is that for a group of men to dictate what the standard is is assuming the role of God, and that is deadly to have God be the picture of fallen man as our standard of life...

  • @user-bs1qk2ku7b
    @user-bs1qk2ku7b2 жыл бұрын

    Whoa. Wasn't expecting that.

  • @joshuakeeler82
    @joshuakeeler825 жыл бұрын

    Great.

  • @jac01kiet74
    @jac01kiet742 жыл бұрын

    Bravo. I have shared this several times already. I wanna go get another degree now! 🤣

  • @urgencepc4563
    @urgencepc45634 жыл бұрын

    I love how he frames the dialogue about cancer. IT'S BEEN CURED FOR AGES. DOZENS OF REMEDIES ARE RIDICULOUSLY EFFECTIVE. ENGLAND MADE IT ILLEGAL TO SAY SO. IT. IS. COMMERCE.

  • @katd2440

    @katd2440

    2 жыл бұрын

    What's the cure?

  • @benchtopwoodworks
    @benchtopwoodworks4 жыл бұрын

    Thank You for producing this series and making it publicly available. Well Done! Absolutely outstanding and very thought provoking!

  • @ChurchWorshipandvideo
    @ChurchWorshipandvideo4 жыл бұрын

    Please continue! Loved this course.

  • @ron6376
    @ron63764 жыл бұрын

    The blind leading the blind last nights Democratic debate 6/26-27/2019

  • @freddiemercury5659

    @freddiemercury5659

    3 жыл бұрын

    Democrats aren’t very progressive so I wouldn’t consider them a good example

  • @wilbewilson4648
    @wilbewilson46483 жыл бұрын

    "The final question: If you could design your child any way you want to, or your society any way you want to, what standard would you use to design it?" My answer is by the Torah (Instructions) of God Almighty.

  • @davidrasch3082
    @davidrasch30824 жыл бұрын

    This debate is being worked out in the U.S. today. By people who can't define the parameters of the argument.

  • @marcusdavenport1590
    @marcusdavenport1590 Жыл бұрын

    No one wants people to starve. But we know that the government would be a terrible option for relying on your food. The best way to ensure everyone has food is make food low priced so it's affordable and plentiful

  • @lukuscarter3563
    @lukuscarter35633 жыл бұрын

    What’s real don’t change. YHVH changes not. He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever more. It is written to seek the old paths and find rest for your soul.

  • @stevenkeller452
    @stevenkeller4523 жыл бұрын

    Progressivism could cause to restore what George Washington fought to stop

  • @garrettlees
    @garrettlees4 жыл бұрын

    Question for the group: Am I my brother's keeper? What say you?

  • @seanspreckelsen3496
    @seanspreckelsen34963 жыл бұрын

    It's interesting that he has these round tables talking about ethics and how ethics are connected to politics, yet argues against progressivism which is easily the closest to a pure ethical movement as exists

  • @rozawadzki
    @rozawadzki3 жыл бұрын

    The last normal college in the United Social States of Amercia

  • @merlingrim2843
    @merlingrim28434 жыл бұрын

    Inalienable means cannot be taken away or given away, even by the possessor. Progressivism is admirable and noble, but it becomes unlawful when it resorts to theft to achieve its ends. Therefore, any progressivism which relies on taxation is unlawful. The singular legitimate purpose of government is to secure our inalienable rights. Everything else falls to the private sector. Moreover, the authority to take on debts and tax income as a means to support progressivism are completely unlawful because they represent authorities which no sovereign individual has the legal right to do to another. If it’s not legitimate then it cannot be delegated, and must be considered unlawful. Something else to remember is that authority is delegated. It is not surrendered or abdicated. As such, there is nothing delegated to government which we ourselves do not also have the right to do. If the government claims a right which we do not also have then the claim is illegitimate.

  • @HerrFitztastic

    @HerrFitztastic

    3 жыл бұрын

    What utter rubbish. Do you have a right to levy taxes on people across a continent and spend it on the general welfare? The Feds do, it's in the text. Do you have a right to execute others after granting due process of law? The Feds do, it's in the text. I suggest you read the text and not spout some deranged libertarian nonsense.

  • @merlingrim2843

    @merlingrim2843

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@HerrFitztastic Ok genius. Please explain how the “Fed” legitimately obtains a delegated authority which cannot be delegated. Spare us the moronic BS of “because it’s written”.

  • @erpollock
    @erpollock4 жыл бұрын

    Interesting observation, that people will change in appearance in 100 years. But people have already changed outwardly! The founders and their wives were much smaller than we are. Visit the hall of First Ladies inauguration gowns in the Smithsonian in Washington. I was amazed as a child to see how small the first ladies were. The tallest founder, Thomas Jefferson, was 6'2". It was remarked on, and remarkable. Lincoln was 6'4". Such height is no longer remarkable, though it is tall. Normally tall. Also better nutrition has led to healthier, better built people. But they are talking about human nature, which is unchanging.

  • @ScottRossProductions

    @ScottRossProductions

    2 жыл бұрын

    People today are a bit taller but not by a significant amount and they are no way healthier. 4% of the world population is over 6 foot 2. 1% is over 6 four. More than 70% of Americans are overweight. Over 40% are obese. Chances are good that you are one of them. People on average were in much better shape and had much better nutrition in the past than the poison that people eat today. 100 years from now humans will be slugs withering on the ground with a computer screen implanted in their face where their eyes used to be.

  • @erpollock
    @erpollock Жыл бұрын

    There is nothing new under the sun. - Ecclesiastes

  • @dyonesios
    @dyonesios Жыл бұрын

    If it was true then, it has to be true now? Why? Because it claims that's the case. Circular reasoning. While I disagree with Dewey, it is entirely possible that some claims in a document can be true and others may not be. For it to be true today you need an external authority.

  • @fastteddyb
    @fastteddyb4 жыл бұрын

    We were ALWAYS meant to LOOK after our neighbours locally - a famous person called Jesus Christ once said that. It's not the governments job. We like the government to do it as it takes the responsibility off us.

  • @henrykoenig6527
    @henrykoenig65274 жыл бұрын

    So this is just pragerU but for people who think they are smart?

  • @stevenkeller452
    @stevenkeller4523 жыл бұрын

    God isn't something that can be destroyed cause god is in your heart,and you cant destroy something when it's in your heart

  • @brandonwoodham3375
    @brandonwoodham33752 жыл бұрын

    I would love to debate this professor . You can tell he leans left …

  • @swesleyc7
    @swesleyc73 жыл бұрын

    Near the end, he's defining Post-Modernism, that is, truth is entirely subjective. There is no basis for morality, ethics, or principles (The Creator). The B.S. term, "my truth", comes from that nonsense. At it's core is the belief that the individual knows what's best (i.e. define what is good or evil). At it's core is greed and absolute evil.

  • @tamrabradley9019
    @tamrabradley90192 жыл бұрын

    They are trying to put me out of comiton. Stop me I don't........ I can't get fee money it hurt people. To tell them they can when they dont

  • @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122
    @VeryProPlayerYesSir11223 жыл бұрын

    The problem of progressivism is the term progress is subjective. Who is gonna define what is progressive and what is backward??? How are you gonna enforce that "progress"???

  • @brandonwoodham3375
    @brandonwoodham33752 жыл бұрын

    Constitution was written to restrict the govt not the people . Constitution doesn’t define the people’s rights . It defines what the govt cannot touch or alter .

  • @alainapate6898
    @alainapate68983 жыл бұрын

    This class should be mandatory before liberals can own property. B+ or above passing grade

  • @jamesbuchanan3888
    @jamesbuchanan3888 Жыл бұрын

    There is no progressive epistemology to provide evidence that they know what the greater good is, and no evidence that they know how to achieve this greater good even if given all power to accomplish it. ... Progressive ideology ignores the greatest lesson of history: the means creates the ends.

  • @generalbarry
    @generalbarry4 жыл бұрын

    The Problem with Progressivism is that it's not going anywhere.

  • @smokedbrisket3033

    @smokedbrisket3033

    2 жыл бұрын

    the real problem with progressivism is that it is in fact regressive, not progressive.

  • @michaelkahn8903
    @michaelkahn89032 жыл бұрын

    I agree, the truth remains true. THe declaration of iNdependence says "god given rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. .. written by Thomas Jefferson, who had 180 slaves. OUr rulers were liars and hypocrites then, and are now. HE also said "all men are created equal"- the constitution stated that blacks had 3/5 vote of a white man. equality? Next, I am about to challenge the world’s most esteemed documents, ones which have escaped a true test of scrutiny as to their righteousness; two which have, in my opinion, an undeserved reputation of being worthwhile and deserving the following of and obedience to them by the masses. It says in that particular document that certain “truths” are self-evident. Bullshit. That “obvious” statement is one from which I differ. No god made me, my mother gave birth to me nine months after having sex with my earthly father, which was his contribution to my “creation.” At birth, all people are equal, not in ability or condition, but in possession of fundamental rights. These rights include, I will proclaim: life, liberty, and freedom from exploitation, deception, oppression, and subversion. The definition of a right is: 1Something to which one has a just claim 2 A power or privilege to which one is justly entitled 3 A power, privilege, or condition of existence to which one has a natural claim of enjoyment of. It is not given to us, it is an innate entitlement, as human beings. Government is a form of public control used to promote human well- being. The truth is that it addresses the symptoms of the sickness, or the straying away from healthy existence. Government has been instituted to “care” for the people, and to protect us. That is why Washington was called “father” of the nation, as undeserved as that title was. I propose that instead of government or “gods” to “care” for us, that we promote independence and correct the behavior of the citizens. Later in this book, I will include a blueprint for an ideal civilization. The “parenting” of the planet’s nations has transformed into mass deception, subversion, oppression, exploitation, and corruption of the “children.” It is time for us all to grow up to independent maturity, without need for this type of “care.” Regarding the pursuit of happiness. To me, that is equated with a purposeful life working towards the benefit of human beings, in opposition to the widely perceived concept that the pursuit of happiness is best defined as the pursuit of money and/or possessions. I am content to be at all times helping others, to benefit mankind. In reality, for those who pursue money, their possessions in truth possess them, these possessions are so valued that the owners are in a sense enslaved to them. They serve the possessions to such an extent as to destroy a human beings life who wants a piece of their wealth. Rich people wheel and deal to the day they die. Billionaires and trillionaires never cease accumulating more, their fortunes are never enough. Have they achieved happiness? Yet, in the United States, leaders insist that the mere evidence of their wealth is “proof” of their intelligence, as if the two are related. It appears that they have concluded that all truly intelligent people desire riches. Is it that happiness loves company, or is it misery that loves company? Or, better worded, is it righteousness loves to influence, or evil loves to corrupt? The answer is… . all of the above. Kahn, Michael. ANGRY LOUD AND CLEAR TRUTH: THE GROWTH AND MECHANISMS OF THE ROMERICAN EMPIRE . Kindle Edition. http;//truthforceinternational.org

  • @chrisgreco4249
    @chrisgreco42495 ай бұрын

    Einstein pointed out that "religion without science is lame, science without religion is dangerous." The history behind the Declaration of Independence, which this moderator hints is obsolete (it's not) was 1700 years of ruthless warfare by so-called "royalty" who professed to be God's chosen rulers on earth. But, did they actually fulfill Christ's definition of leadership? " He who would be your leader must be your servant. He who would be your king must be your slave just as the Son of Man has come not to be served, but to serve....." ~ Christ I find these so-called lectures by Hillsdale College are designed to promote sly subtle misinformation. The college's hidden agenda is imo to talk young people out of knowing their own God-given inalienable rights under our Constitution. History shows that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But, the federalist agenda taken to its intentional end would restore the power of oligarchy by undermining govt based on consent of the governed.

  • @mitchnidey2453
    @mitchnidey24532 жыл бұрын

    Jesus Christ is God... Immanuel

  • @DLBard-bv2nd
    @DLBard-bv2nd2 ай бұрын

    You stopped short of names on your list of progressives, Hitler, Obama, Biden

  • @mitchnidey2453
    @mitchnidey24532 жыл бұрын

    My Surname is Israel, I belong to God.