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Sowell is a rare gem: an intellectual with common sense!

If the words of Thomas Sowell & Jordan Peterson was taught in schools instead of 'progressiveness', society would be heading in a better direction.

@themysteriousnavi6850

7 күн бұрын

That's why they're not taught in schools because that would make things "too good" and evil doesn't like good, they just like feeling good!

I am saddened by the fact that time is running out on Thomas soul life. He has been a wonderful inspiration to us all. I hope he lives to be 110

@user-kf8wb2cq4f

11 күн бұрын

We have many of his books, essays, interviews and discussions to Sharpen our minds. His Knowledge is Not static.

@DB-qc9br

9 күн бұрын

Sowell’s* knowledge and views are documented and will be around wayyyy after he is gone.

People who never lived in the real world think they know everything. The ultimate delusion.

@chuckinhouston9952

11 күн бұрын

It’s the classic Dunning-Krueger Effect.

@user-kf8wb2cq4f

11 күн бұрын

🎯💯

@redtobertshateshandles

10 күн бұрын

Teachers. Never left school.

@alhfgsp

9 күн бұрын

Even worse with people who live on the internet in relative social isolation.

One of the smartest intellectuals of his generation who is grounded in common sense!

"If you don't play by the rules, you don't get the protection of the rules. It's that simple". -Thomas Sowell.

@puddintame7794

11 күн бұрын

Black Jack Pershing knew how to deal with terrorists.

@denisekh

8 күн бұрын

Unions have “rules” but they will tell us it’s labor LAW to follow. Should we comply and consider the rules are right to follow which doesn’t make sense at all? I am always confuse with this rules term to be honest. I don’t think Judge Sowell meant that. 😊

I will franchise that brilliant rebuttal, "You don't want to play by the rules? Then don't expect to be protected by the rules"

@persecutedbyracistz

11 күн бұрын

The rules aren’t fair and ppl who live by them fall by them, no offense. Sowell says interesting things I do not quite agree with him on everything.

@redtobertshateshandles

10 күн бұрын

​@persecutedbyracistz he might actually agree with you on some points. But a leftist won't.

As an electrical engineering student at university in the 70's, we had no time for demonstrations/protests etc. Almost all our time was taken up with study. I became a successful engineer! There's a moral to this tale.

Thomas Sowell gives me hope for humanity

Tom, run for president. This way, we have someone to vote for.👏👏👏👏 I applaud your ideals and intellect. This country needs a man like you.

This man is a true intellect. He might save us if we can get his ideas out to more.

People who want rapid change risk changing for the worse.

@eugenefirebird8938

10 күн бұрын

Any changes they are trying to make are not taking -- they are for the worst. And they are bouncing off the rest of us, not moving the needle.

I love listening to Thomas Sowell. A bright man who's down to earth.

My professors and fellow graduate were the most self righteous people I have ever met.

@MrJohnnyDistortion

10 күн бұрын

From where?

@daffidkane8350

8 күн бұрын

@@MrJohnnyDistortion A US university.

Nothing clever for me to say here but just how much I enjoyed watching this , fantastic , long live T S.

@thomassowellreacts

10 күн бұрын

That's clever enough, thanks😉

Dude does a good job interviewing Sowell. It actually sounds like he understands what Sowell says and is actually listening to him.

@samis1219

2 күн бұрын

He is an economist and follow scholar at the Hoover Institute

The true test of the longevity, reach and grip of an idea... is it's ability to self serve.

Think how much money their parents paid to make them complete fools.

@danduntz2539

2 күн бұрын

Unfortunately it’s mostly the government that’s paying for their ‘education’, which is independent of democratic/republican people being in office.

As Thomas Sowell says, teachers are detached from the working world. They live sheltered lives in their safe spaces. I was a teacher for 17 years. I met alot of people with warped know it all mindsets, who (at college / university level) often stray off the subject they're teaching, instead injecting their opinions and politics into the minds of their students.

I love his question- " where does this right come from?" if you ask a leftist where all those rights of free food, free housing, free education etc. etc. come from, they cannot give an answer based in any material fact, but can only fall back on the premise that it is a natural right of man. This then elevates man above all other things and begs the question of why man is so special in the universe, which logically leads down the path of us being created for a special purpose. Unfortunately you cannot claim special rights and privileges without acknowledging a power which endows you with those rights.

@chuckinhouston9952

11 күн бұрын

Very well stated.

@joefox9765

11 күн бұрын

Look at all the products all the traffic to move them and living beyond our means all the destruction. Not living in harmony with nature

@denvan3143

7 күн бұрын

And because these people would deny we have a special place and purpose in the universe and are answerable to a higher power, they can only fall back on evolution, the basic ténant of which is survival of the fittest. Which leaves no room for “rights” like healthcare and housing.

@megancater5441

7 күн бұрын

I really love this!

There are basic things about human behavior that are really not all that complicated to put your finger on in my opinion. That's not to say that what evolves out of that simple, basic behavior or propensity is not complex, because it can be. I am 61 yrs old now. I've been fortunate to live a very, very broad life, and I can tell you that the issue in academia (for most) is the simple fact that just like a schoolyard child, they want to be smarter than everyone else, and they want the world to know it. The ridiculous robes and tassels at a graduation ceremony that the faculty wear are a testament to that. I know "common" business people that could run the country better than Biden and his bunch...and better than some Republicans too.

Embrace Dr Tom as much as possible. We won't have him ever.

I'm reading "Intellectuals and society" today (24th April 2024). Fascinating book! 💯

Thanks Dr Sowell. A real pleasure to listen. What a brilliant man

Book smart is one thing. Common sense is another.

"If you have a high school diploma ---- and you can walk and talk ----you can graduate from college" Dean of Harvard's School of Education Jerome Murphy 1998 Published in the highly recommended book: "The Affirmative Action Hoax" by Steven Farron

God gave us one rule to begin with, "Trust in Yahweh with all your heart and do not trust in you own intelligence." Proverbs 3:5. Accademia is all about trusting your own intelligence. The modern world is about human beings solving the worlds problems and only God can do that.

If you check the top 10 Economics textbooks at the College Level you'll find a recurring pattern. They are almost exclusively, by a wide margin, either directly based on the writings of Karl Marx. Or they are inspired by the writings of some other author who admitted openly to having been heavily influenced, even inspired by the writings of Karl Marx. With the recurring theme of extensive Government Intervention being required to address the excesses in the Market that are physically impossible without extensive Government Intervention.

Adam Smith's major contribution was to identify that human beings need _distributed systems_ as the key element to create and make stronger sophisticated societies. Pure genius when you consider the period he was writing, his treatment at Oxbridge, etc.

Mr. Sowell is a treasure!❤

This gentleman is one of the best minds of our lifetime! 🙏👏❤️😀

Just love Thomas what a great mind and intelligent. God Bless him.

Your comment at the end gave me something to chew on. I agree that we should be taught how to think rather than what to think. "Learning how to learn". But I was taught to look at opposing viewpoints in school, I was taught about logical fallacies in speech class. I was taught the difference between facts and opinions. I'm guessing most American students did too. I could be wrong, but I'm just musing. I'm just wondering if the problem is less to do with us not knowing how to think for ourselves, we're just afraid to do it. It's an issue with peer pressure and fear of authority that makes us unable to think for ourselves, regardless of how you're educated.

Higher education is now political indoctrination

Politicians 😵‍💫😔

When I was at my local university in the 90s, they were woke. Now they are down right scary.

"We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility." Malcolm Muggeridge's prophetic word has come to pass. The universities are a wasteland.

Impressive how they can Hoover all the facts; the questioner satisfactually; Thomas So well.

Great man. Great thinker.

Tom is one of the worlds greatest thinkers with a brilliant mind, but no person on earth have got all the answers. When talking about a right to health care be careful. Wealthy countries should supply health care for their people. it makes economical sence to have a healthy population and due to that a happier nation. Some of the poorest nation's on the planet have the happiest people due to healthy food and strong community spirit. Wealthy nations can afford health care for all, EG: Australia

"Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach." -Ayn Rand (I think)

It's true that only the top 1% of academics "work" in academia, that only the best of the best academics work in national laboratories doing research. They ARE good at what they do, and some of them make real contributions to their field. Now, that said, Dr. Sowell is correct about the arrogance that infects these people, that so easily extend their excellence in a narrow field to excellence in all things and above all people. Power corrupts. I've rarely seen an academic that was able to deal with the "real world". I did know a Physics Professor that was also a general contractor who built houses, but he was at a state college and hardly the cream of the crop. However, he suffered (we suffered) from his arrogance and superiority complex.

Thomas Sowell is a gem!

Because we allow it, and the government pays for it. Society is collapsing because of it.

‘You can become President of the United States and not be in touch with economic reality.’ Just a throw away comment, but man….so very true. When I left for college my grandfather made me promise not to let ‘them’ educate the common sense out of me. Common sense is missing in society world wide. TS is one of the very few who encourages us to think it over first. God bless him.

Sorry to phrase it in this way, but if someone is saying that BJ's are a human right, they're reaching for their zipper, not your zipper.

I agree many academic instructors are liberal. But to place all liberals under the "woke" label is inaccurate. That would like calling all conservatives "war mongers".

@redtobertshateshandles

10 күн бұрын

When the Democrats started the Vietnam War. 😂

2:00 I feel the same, the book makes no sense at all. It actually changed my life forever I have cut some people from my life forever.

Imagine if they didn't block most of the comments here.

Mentioned Barry, without mentioning Barry.

I was raised as a liberal, but when I got into the workforce, I’ve insured; things I would’ve considered to be a Wright I learned I had to work for. Healthcare through the company I worked for was one of the benefits I received that as anemployee. The healthcare provider was paid out of the profits we accumulated as a company. When people say healthcare should be a right my question is who pays for it? I never get an answer other than socialist double talk.

Is this suppose to be a difficult question? As America gets closer to fascism there is inevitably pushback. There is often a regression to the mean when a culture leans too far in either direction. How can we know when either side becomes too extreme. They always say my society or culture rather than our society.

If people have rights to three things from the government. And high income people like myself pay most of the taxes to the government send these people have a claim on a portion of my life that I used to earn the money to pay for those taxes. Does that not make me their slave?

That Kool-Aid must be so intoxicating.

Economic liberalism is an ideology that is an integral part of conservative social thought about minimal government intervention in the economy of a nation and about complete freedom for individuals in the economy. In history, countries had the highest rates of GDP growth and living standards in those times when the state intervened in the economy, supported domestic producers, subsidized them and provided them with preferential loans. Examples, Russia (period 1929-1955), China, South Korea. Data for countries around the world whose economies grew at double-digit (almost double-digit) rates for more than 20 years in the 20th century are given below: 1. 13.8% - Russia - average annual growth for 22 years (1929-1955). 2. 11.5% - Taiwan - average annual growth for 27 years (1947-1973). 3. 10.4% - China - average annual growth for 25 years (1983-2007). 4. 10.2% - South Korea - average annual growth for 23 years (1966-1988). 5. 9.7% - Japan - average annual growth for 23 years (1948-1970). 6. 9.2% - Singapore - average annual growth for 24 years (1966-1989). Thus, in the twentieth century, the world's largest national economic growth for more than 20 years was achieved in Russia in 1929-1955 (minus four war years). During this period, real wages grew 4 times, citizens’ deposits in savings banks grew 5 times, and the economy grew 14 times. And: - First place in the world in terms of the share of mechanical engineering in the total volume of industrial production. - Complete technical and economic independence of the state has been ensured. - First place in the world in terms of agricultural mechanization. - First place in Europe and second in the world in terms of absolute industry size. - First place in Europe and second in the world in terms of labor productivity in industry. - The latest industries and advanced technologies: nuclear, space, rocketry, aircraft manufacturing, instrument making, radio engineering, electronics, electrical engineering and others. And sanctions did not prevent such economic growth in Russia!!!

@jerrybessetteDIY

Күн бұрын

Russia could not supply simple things like sewing needles and sugar. People had to stand in line to get bread. Complaints got you sent to the Gulag,

@luckyea7

Күн бұрын

@@jerrybessetteDIY This is precisely what liberal policies have led to

They have it to easy, need to get real jobs and pay their own bills , parents fault for enabling them.

I actually agree with Sowell’s statement that people are taught what to think instead of how to think. That makes perfect sense to me. So how does one explain the lack of intellect and wisdom among those who say, I’m a staunch conservative Republican ? The MAGA movement has nothing to do with Conservative ideology or principles, yet has been sharply aligned with it & only a few have stepped forward to denounce it as pretentious at best, which I agree. My question is, why are there not more Conservatives calling out what apparently appears to be a Coup of the Republican Party by radicals with a hate-filled agenda based on nothing more than a visceral dislike of certain factions of the public? I’d welcome any thought provoking views. Please be respectful with your comments.

@jerrybessetteDIY

Күн бұрын

MAGA is a reaction to the trashing and distain shown by our oligarchs to the common person.

They have been since the 1960s ?

Fact that you can be president without any experience in business nor the military is how countries became a joke. Back when leaders led their armies to war laundromats like Ukraine never happened. Bring that back and let FJB lead us in Donbas.

@ericchristen2623

10 күн бұрын

War and business mentality are 2 of problems. We need leaders who are patriotic and ethical and have families and basic common sense.

All scholars, professors never work in the real world but claimed I am the smartest. After my conversation with them, they will ask: Can you support my grand, I need $10M for my research….😅

They were woke in the 60s too! Questions arising to authorities!! Terrible or terrific?

Intellectuals live inside their brains not reality.

Woke is by definition illiberal. Woke Liberal is a contradiction in terms. Woke is a form of radicalism, some of its ideas are reformist and some are reactionary but a conservative is more liberal than a follower of the woke ideology which is somewhere closer to radical authoritarian movements like bolshevism or marxism.

I think i heard senator Bernie Sanders never actually had a real job other than politics his whole life

@driatrogenesis

8 күн бұрын

Its true

Hombre.

Shut yourself off from any one unlike you and you become Special in your own mind.

Could the conservative people of this country just not send our children to their institutions. And not do business with them. And not provide services to them kind of a grown-up version of the silent treatment. These left-wingers would realize how dependent they are on us and how we really don’t need them.

@franzkeller2051

9 күн бұрын

I think a lot of Conservatives HAVE avoided educational institutions, and it really shows! (Anti-vaxerism? Flat Earth?) No, they won't give anyone "the silent treatment", because it's not economical to do so. The blue states are actually carrying the welfare heavy red states, you're welcome.

Many of the so-called intellectuals are an envious bunch because they can't get past the fact that people who create and innovate make more money and are met with more acclaim than they are, even though all these successful people are clearly inferior to them in so many ways. It's an injustice in their eyes that can only be corrected by a bureaucracy that will allow them to play the role they were born to play, master of the universe. The Loony Toons episode where Wiley Coyote shows up at Bugs Bunny's place, introduces himself as a genius, and tells Bugs he should just give up now illustrates the mindset of the academic elites better than just about any book. As for obama calling health care a right, he does that because in his mind rights come from government, not God, so anything he and the rest of his brain-trust deem a right becomes a right by fiat. It's why we are expected to play dress-up with mentally disturbed people. It's not enough to simply let them be, they have a right to impose their delusion on the rest of us because how they feel is more important than reality, which is malleable in the minds of the intellectuals anyway. As Brad Pitt puts it in the movie Twelve Monkees: "There is no right or wrong, there's only popular opinion." It's like they take the work of Einstein and twist it into such a crazy pretzel that up truly does become down. It's all a matter of personal perspective. So long as you play within the rules the elite set up of course. Stray beyond that and you become the one who is disturbed. And it is all done in the name of progress because as Dr. Sowell points out, that is the lie that has been pimped since the enlightenment. All forward motion is progress just like change for the sake of change is good simply by virtue of the fact it's not what came before. “The modern age is built on the Myth of Progress…Believers in the Myth of Progress hold that progress is better than the past, and the future will inevitably be better than the present. This myth is a powerful tool in the hands of would-be totalitarians. It provides a transcendent source of legitimacy for their actions and frames opposition as backward and ignorant…Thus does the Myth of Progress become a justification for exercising dictatorial power” ― Rob Dreher: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

And their pretended Gods😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

But hey it change nothing at allat least he knows the World is not torally doomed now cause of these same elites😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Because these are the conclusions one comes to when one embraces a more open approach to knowledge inquiry. Sowell is a convenient tool.

I understand some students study Marxist theory.

@rpmgrlca

11 күн бұрын

All students study it now whether they want to or not. It's built in to everything. Even math.

@earllsimmins9373

11 күн бұрын

Wasn't some Conservative author a believer in Marx when he was in college?

Because intellectuals are in an echo chamber with no real world experience. They have not built a thing.

What intellectuals?

Ok, so intellectuals are disconnected from reality. What about ignorant uneducated people? What are they connected to?

@jerrybessetteDIY

11 күн бұрын

ignorant uneducated people don't make government policies, or maybe they do. Or maybe what you call ignorant uneducated people are the ones you call when you need your plumbing, electrical, or car repaired. Trying to survive connects one to reality.

@eugenefirebird8938

10 күн бұрын

People get an informal education just by living a few years in the real world.

Free markets, no matter what else the requirements are, also needed to annihilate indeginous people then steal their land as well as evslave people from other lands. Slave plantations and slave farms were capitalist money-making enterprises. Anyone that worked for AT&T at the corporate or blue collar level would have intimate knowledge of its strengths and weaknesses. We're not contemplating God or heaven here. Everybody has had personal experiences of life. Sometimes two people experience the same situation in different ways. James Baldwin and Thomas Sowell both grew up in Harlem New York. The time frame of their lives there overlapped each other's. Yet they described what life was like in Harlem in ways that were the opposite of each other. Thomas Sowell, evidently, enjoyed his time at AT&T. A high salary would soften almost any insult or blow. Thomas Sowell can only speak for himself. Not for you, not for me.

@jerrybessetteDIY

11 күн бұрын

Whereas the communists stole everything and had no qualms about killing people by the millions.

@redtobertshateshandles

10 күн бұрын

Indigenous people who are tribal have always and will be always conquered. It's a military fact. Exactly as we will be conquered, when we weaken. But keep on dreaming.

Me i blame Soros😂😂😂😂😂😂

Dont forget trump university and liberty university,the pool boy got a very good education😉

Good state health care makes people's lives so much easier and less stressful. Problem in the US is many people see it as communism.

@thomassowellreacts

10 күн бұрын

Canadians will beg to differ

Not smart enough to understand that you need real world experience 🤷‍♂️

No contact with economic reality. Perfect. Just splash in a few pronouns and it will make it all better.

THESE TWO NO NOTHING ABOUT LIFE ! ALWAYS WAVING THEIR INTELLIGENCE OVER THE PEOPLE 😅😅😅

@redtobertshateshandles

10 күн бұрын

That's very Irish of you to say that.

@bryantoconnor691

10 күн бұрын

THANKS 😊

Is Thomas Sowell still alive or is he just a collection of old, recycled clips?

damn you have the easiest job in the world, you're just a thomas sowell clipper.

Thomas Sowel is wrong. Everything he is saying can be challenged and won.

FOR THE TRULY IGNORANT READ AND BE EDUCATED: The word "woke" is broadly used to describe a state of being "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially of racial and social injustice" according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. While it originated from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in the early part of the 20th century, the term has become a common part of American slang. Its usage has evolved and grown so much that conservatives now use it as a pejorative to refer to progressives or left-leaning liberals. The phrase "stay woke" has long been used in Black communities to indicate staying alert to others' deception Radio host Lana Quest wrote on Twitter that the first documented usage of the term "stay woke" was by Black folk singer Lead Belly when he was talking about his 1938 song "Scottsboro Boys." According to Quest, the song referred to "nine Black teens falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931, [who] were sentenced to death. NAACP forced repeated retrials. They were finally freed but never recovered." White Gay Libs poured the Kool Aid (Highjacked the term) and y'all are drinking it! Bottoms up!

even in chinas tienanmen it was students, this nothing new, dont hate students just because they oppose israels genocide, i oppose it and i am far from woke

WOKE is a clown show desperate for an audience.

Freak Show😮😅😂

Have you ever considered that people with a greater capacity to think perhaps become more liberal? Certainly in my 73 years I believe I have become wiser, and I have moved from Conservative to Liberal an the political spectrum. And forget about "woke"! That's just a minor (but important) distraction that's been blown up by the press.

The reason that people go to school is to expand and investigate. So whats the big deal?