Ron Paul, RNC Corruption And the True Political Education

Ron Paul's campaign has always promised an education, and by God I think we got one.

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, discusses the recent betrayal of Ron Paul at the RNC in Tampa, Florida, with Bretigne Shaffer, author and daughter of Butler Shaffer.

Original Article: http://lewrockwell.com/shaffer-br/shaffer-br13.1.html

For more, please see http://www.bretigne.com/

Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

We Cannot Build Freedom on the Fascism of Childhood!

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, is interviewed on Decline to State about a variety of topics, including:
- How video games support the state
- How a free society resists a new government
- Why democratic elections are such a sham
- How government schools train us for passive totalitarian obedience

Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

Check out more  Declined to State podcasts here: http://www.declinefm.com

Satan Rules This World!

Satan caller starts at 1:32:37
Freedomain Radio Sunday Philosophy Call in Show, 8 July 2012. Why government funding is so bad for intellectual freedom and political equality. Are states the greatest aggressors in the world? Which group should be the first recipients of legal and political equality? Why are some people more rational than others? Also, a conversation with a fundamentalist Christian about the satanic influence over the modern world. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

The Ethics of Atheism - A Conversation with Dr Peter Boghossian

Podcast: http://www.fdrurl.com/FDR2168

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, discusses faith, reason, philosophy and religion with Dr Peter Boghossian (apologies for the odd video color)

Dr. Peter Boghossian's main focus is bringing the tools of professional philosophers to people in a wide variety of contexts. Peter has a teaching pedigree spanning more than 20 years and 30 thousand students--in prisons, hospitals, public and private schools, seminaries, colleges and universities, Fortune 100 companies and small businesses. His fundamental objective is to teach people how to think through what often seem to be intractable problems.

Peter's primary research areas are critical thinking and moral reasoning.  His doctoral research studies, funded by the State of Oregon and supported by the Oregon Department of Corrections, consisted of using the Socratic method to help prison inmates to increase their critical thinking and moral reasoning abilities and to increase their desistance to criminal behavior.

Peter's publications can be found in Diálogos, Education Policy Analysis Archives, The Clearing House: Educational Research Controversy and Practices, The Radical Academy; Offender Programs Report, Teaching Philosophy, Corrections Today, Informal Logic, The Skeptic, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Inside Higher Ed, Essays in Philosophy, Federal Probation Journal, and the Journal of Correctional Education. If you'd like to learn more about his scholarship, his podcast interview with Philosophy News http://www.philosophynews.com/post/2011/12/05/Interview-with-Peter-Boghossian.aspx is a great place to start.

His work has been noted on The Huffington Post, The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason, and other media outlets; he was an invited guest on the Lars Larson Show, interviewed for the cover story of the Mercury, and advocated via social media by the Executive Director of the Skeptic Society, Michael Shermer, and bestselling author and head of Project Reason, Sam Harris.

Peter was a Councilman for the State of Oregon (LSTA), an advisor to Sockeye Magazine and The Weekly Alibi, wrote national philosophy curricula for the University of Phoenix and was a research fellow for the National Center for Teaching and Learning. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Prison Advisory Committee for Columbia River Correctional Institution, teaches Critical Thinking, Science and Pseudoscience, the Philosophy of Education, and Atheism at Portland State University, is an Affiliate Research Assistant Professor Oregon Health Science University, is Co-Director and Co-Founder (with Dr. Randy Blazak) of PSU's Center for Correction's Research, and a speaker for the Center for Inquiry http://www.centerforinquiry.net/speakers/boghossian_peter.

When he's not working, Peter spends time with his family, practices jiu jutsu, watches science fiction movies and television (Stargate Universe, Battlestar Galactica, Misfits, Fringe), and plays computer games (Star Craft 2, Fallout 3, Skyrim, Diablo III).

You can follow Peter on Twitter @peterboghossian. If you want to join Peter's mailing list and learn about his upcoming public lectures and debates, from your mobile phone text "DELUSION" + your email address to 22333, or enter your email address on the bottom right of this page: http://philosophynews.com/peterboghossian

Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

Liberty vs The Zombie Mob!

This has been a tough spring for Libertarian politicos. Ron Paul’s campaign has collapsed, and Rand Paul – after reportedly telling his father only 30 minutes beforehand, has endorsed the power-hungry neocon poster boy, Mitt Romney.

Romney’s politics reach a level of banal corruption only possible in the “small government big market” Republican party. After appeasing his home-state voters with Obamacare Massachusetts’s style, he then campaigns against the real thing, claiming that his only moral beef with fascist medicine is geography. “State’s rights” is a yawn-inducing moral horror, the brain-twisting claim that it is perfectly moral for governments to drive you out of your State if you hate their laws, but to drive you out of the country is just plain wrong.

Bashing the Fed – Government or Reserve – is a time-honored tradition among conservative politicians – it’s typically political and tragically believable among libertarians. Everyone who wants to be the boss claims to hate the boss; governors do their nasty business in their own states, and then defend their actions with the ridiculous appeal to “State’s rights.” States are not people, they don’t have rights; the immorality of violence is not zip code specific – the objections are all too obvious to bother pointing out. Also, States both need and drive the power of the Federal government – State A bribes its population with some goodie, thus making it less attractive to businesses, and so bribes business to set up shop with tax holidays and regulatory exemptions – and if these don’t work, it pushes the Federal government to mirror its own corruption across the country, so it does not lose out to other states.

Theories flourish as to why Rand Paul endorsed Romney. Some say he was threatened, which is perfectly believable (remember Ross Perot dropping out of the presidential race in 1992 after threats against his family?) some say he is angling for a VP spot. Some say he is laying the groundwork for a 2016 presidential bid (which really means that some people still can’t give up their fantasy of a political solution).

A VP spot would be the perfect banishment to obscurity. VPs rarely become presidents, and are perfect whipping boys for any fact or truth, as Dan Quayle found when he dared to mention the social problems caused by single motherhood. Those in the crosshairs are made VPs, in the age old commandment to keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

Threats are the very essence of politics – and with a vicious and hysterical media always ready to stroke and provoke the Christ-taunting mob, nothing factual need get in the way of the modern print lynching. Libertarians know this most of all – the moment that Ron Paul started to really gain in the polls, and the media was chided by Jon Stewart for ignoring him, they just started calling him a racist, and were done with him. All Ron Paul’s education and eloquence and obvious passion for libertarian solutions meant nothing. Floating reason and evidence in mainstream society is like trying to teach Latin to a sugar-crashing toddler. All you do is insult teaching.

Read any mainstream article on Ayn Rand – do you see any actual criticisms of her arguments? Hell no, you just read a steady pee-stream of bitter invective and cowardly insults. She’s had tens of millions of readers, sixty years of accumulating evidence – governments grow, the West collapses, Europe goes first – and you still cannot read two sensible words written about her. Look at your own life. When you make sensible arguments against the State, do you get any kind of semi-intelligent rebuttal? Of course not. You’re just a hater, man, you hate the poor and the sick, yer unpatriotic – and prolly a racist too!

Politicians in the past used schools to breed fools, knaves and scoundrels, to easier rule and bribe them. We are all left with the legacy of these hollow-headed indoctrinations. People who cannot think join mobs, in the fantasy that an aggregate of vacuity can produce gravity. They surge back and forth across the cultural wasteland like the zombies they are, sniffing for and feeding on any stray brains that cross their path. The broken attack the whole for exposing their brokenness; the rational strive to reason with the mob, the bored Borg, the haters who fear the only knowledge that really counts: self knowledge.

The goal of political action has been to try to appeal to self-interest of the mob. But the mob has no self-interest, for its members have no self – if they did, they would have fled the zombie army when it came to eat them. Libertarians say: “Freedom brings benefits to the collective” – as if there is any such thing as a collective. The moment a libertarian says that we should judge an idea by its value to individuals, he only feeds the State, since the State provides so many heady benefits to those seeking power. What kind of power would Obama have in a free, rational – but I repeat myself – society? None, because his empty rhetoric would be about as appealing as a gas station serving sugar water. His slogans would be laughed at – “the audacity of hope” makes about as much sense as mechanically repeating “the ricochet of profits” during a business meeting, or “the mobility of empiricism” at a physics conference. Zen headlines without reason and evidence would be such an obvious con that people like Obama would end up slithering through the underworld of petty confidence schemes, i.e. the Constitution.

So Obama loves the State. George Bush, Romney, Stalin, Pol Pot – they all love politics and power, because it gives their empty words violent form; from syllables to subjugation in the tick of a ballot box, how heady and addictive! Humanity has long been fascinated by magic spells, by the manipulation of physical reality through language alone – usually to ill effect – this is just an unconscious metaphor for political rhetoric, which starts fires and mobs and wars by stoking the emptiness it both breeds and feeds on.

So when Libertarians say: “we will all be better off when we are free” – this is a case that can only be made to each individual, and particular individuals – political individuals – are far better off with state power. Corrupt and lazy businessmen; charismatic and useless sophists; torpid and offensive artists; priests – the ultimate magicians in many ways – and those teachers whose heavy self-hatred gives them nimble fingers to disassemble the minds of the young – all worship the State. All benefit from the State, and all will oppose political solutions.

The Fall of Rome and Modern Parallels

http://www.fee.org

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, reads two articles by the great thinker Lawrence Reed. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

Arachno-Capitalism On Ice! Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio interview...

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, is interviewed on Alaskan Radio about liberty, voting, financial regulation, philosophy, integrity, virtue, peace, South Park, and the hope for true human freedom in the future. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

http://patriotslament.blogspot.com

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/radiofreefairbanks

Genes, Nature, Nurture and The Freedom of Self-Knowledge (HD)

twins studies: excludes abuse, self-reporting, pre-selected families

where a large %- anywhere from 20-70% of identical twins- do NOT share such alarming similarities

- the temperature surrounding turtle and crocodile eggs determined their gender

- young, yellow-skinned grasshoppers became permanently black skinned for camouflage if exposed to a blackened (burnt) environment at a certain age

- locusts living in a crowded environment developed vastly more musculature (suitable for migration) than locusts living in less crowded conditions

Eleanor Maguire discovered in 1999 when she and her colleagues conducted MRI scans on London cabbies and compared them with the brain scans of others.

In contrast with non-cabbies, experienced taxi drivers had a greatly enlarged posterior hippocampus—that part of the brain that specializes in recalling spatial representations.

On its own, that finding proved nothing; theoretically, people born with larger posterior hippocampi could have innately better spatial skills and therefore be more likely to become cabbies.

What made Maguire’s study so striking is that she then correlated the size of the posterior hippocampi directly with each driver’s experience: the longer the driving career, the larger the posterior hippocampus.

In 1932, psychologists Mandel Sherman and Cora B. Key discovered that IQ scores correlated inversely with a community’s degree of isolation: the higher the cultural isolation, the lower the scores. In the remote hollow of Colvin, Virginia, for example, where most adults were illiterate and access to newspapers, radio, and schools was severely limited, six-year-olds scored close to the national average in IQ. But as the Colvin kids got older, their IQ scores drifted lower and lower—falling further and further behind the national average due to inadequate schooling and acculturation. (The very same phenomenon was discovered among the so-called canal boat children in Britain and in other isolated cultural pockets). Their unavoidable conclusion was that “children develop only as the environment demands development.”

Using a late-twentieth-century average score of 100, the comparative score for the year 1900 was calculated to be about 60—leading to the truly absurd conclusion, acknowledged Flynn,

“that a majority of our ancestors were mentally retarded.”

Children in professionals’ homes were exposed to an average of more than fifteen hundred more spoken words per hour than children in welfare homes.

Over one year that amounted to a difference of nearly 8 million words which by age four, amounted to a total gap of 32 million words. They also found a substantial gap in tone and in the complexity of words being used.

In identical-twin comparisons, shared biology always grabs all the attention. Inevitably overlooked is the vast number of shared cultural traits: same age, same sex, same ethnicity, and, in most cases, a raft of other shared (or very similar) social ,economic, and cultural experiences.

in the first four years after birth, the average child from a professional family receives 560,000 more instances of encouraging feedback than discouraging feedback;

A working-class child receives merely 100,000 more encouragements than discouragements;

A welfare child receives 125,000 more discouragements than encouragements

in her 1981 book Identical Twins Reared Apart, Susan Farber reviewed 121 cases of twins described by researchers as “separated at birth” or “reared apart.” Only three of those pairs had actually been separated shortly after birth.

At the University of Minnesota, the average age of separated twins studied turned out to be forty, while their average years spent apart was thirty—leaving an average of ten years of contact prior to research interviews.

adhd studies, excludes abuse, self reporting

"know thyself"

parents have no effect on kids? arguing that is like determinism

even if true, kids have even less responsibility

myth of the soul - unharmed pure spirit

How to Get Your Kids to Do Their Chores! Freedomain Radio Features the U...

tefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, welcomes the Unplugged Mom, Laurette Lynn - http://www.unpluggedmom.com who helps answer listener questions about parenting challenges. Also - why study the brain if you are interested in philosophy and changing the world? Finally, how to overcome loneliness and learn the little art of small talk. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

Global Warming vs Reality, Republicans vs Democrats: Stefan Molyneux Hos...

http://www.schiffradio.com

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, takes the helm of the Peter Schiff radio show, with special guest David Evans -- Perth-based mathematician, engineer & founder of GoldNerds -- on why he converted from global warming alarmism to skepticism, and a few Australian gold companies worth keeping an eye on. Also, why we should be turning to philosophers rather than politicians, and why there really isn't a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

Anarchy Versus the State - Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio Debates J...

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, engages in a ferocious debate with Jake Diliberto about the value and violence of US foreign policy, the long-term effects of the US involvement in World War I, the destruction of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the ethical foundations of a truly free society. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com Jake Diliberto is a Political Scientist and Christian Theologian. He is a Ph D. candidate from UK University of Birmingham, and is a resident scholar on US National Security. He is the co-founder of Vets for Rethinking Afghanistan. Jake is a specialist in Religious Conflict and Religious Guerrilla Warfare. He served as a US Marine in Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001 Af-Pak, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Jake is a co-founder of Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan and a policy adviser and analyst with US based advocacy organization Rethinking Afghanistan.

http://www.libertychat.com

JP Morgan and the Invisible Pickpockets of Paper Currency! Stefan Molyne...

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, takes the helm for this special edition of the Corbett Report! This show analyzes the major causes of the recent multi-billion-dollar loss at J.P. Morgan, discussing inflation, fiat currency, ridiculously low interest rates, the lessons of history, and the utter madness of expecting the debt-addicted Federal Government somehow promote fiscal responsibility in the financial sector!
Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com
The five largest banks in the United States hold over 75% of all banking assets.  This is the highest concentration of banking assets among the top five firms in American history. The concern of banks being too big to fail is worse now than before the financial crisis.

Stefan Molyneux - You Are a Dead Slave and You Don't Even Know It!

Podcast: http://traffic.libsyn.com/kerrylutz/Stefan_Molyneux_05-07-2012.mp3
Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, interviewed by Kerry Lutz on the Financial Survival Network. Description: Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio visited with us today. Stefan's an early pioneer in getting the freedom message out to the world; he's been doing it since 2005. Millions of people have visited his site and downloaded his numerous philosophical and economic discussions. Stefan and I talked about the proper role of a citizen and what types of powers the government should wield and why. We both agree the world is heading for an economic reset, voluntarily or involuntarily; it's going to take place. You need to be prepared for this.
Stefan and I also discussed the administration's Julia ad, which is a shocking display of the government's attempt to make you more and more dependent. This type of thinking has led to the expansion and the ultimate failure of the socialistic, fascistic and unjust system. The idea that most people cannot take care of themselves is anathema to the principles of the founding fathers. Eliminating the risk of failure means the ability to succeed will be greatly diminished. Free markets are the greatest guarantor of success the world has ever known. Therefore, governmental paternalism greatly undermines your ability to provide for yourself and your family, which is why it's failure is assured.

How to Prevent Violent Criminal Behavior in the Next Generation

By Jordan Riak http://nospank.net/vcb.htm
Read by Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

"The person whose closest caretakers used methods of infant care and child rearing that were gentle, patient and loving is not in prison. The person who sensed from earliest infancy that adults are the source of safety, security and comfort is not in prison. The person who always felt wanted is not in prison. The person who was respected, encouraged to explore and inquire is not in prison. The person who grew up seeing family members and others treat each other with respect and honor each other's privacy and dignity is not in prison. The person who had ample exposure in childhood to people who used reasoning, not violence, to solve problems is not in prison. The person whose physical and emotional needs during infancy and childhood were met is not in prison..."

The Myth of the Rational Voter - Dr Bryan Caplan on Freedomain Radio

http://www.bcaplan.com/Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and blogger for EconLog. His first book, The Myth of the Rational Voter, was named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times.His new book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, went on sale April 12.He's been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligence, and appeared on 20/20 and C-SPAN.