This reminds me of Christopher Hitchens. From what I understand and remember, he started out as a Trotskyite and then later on became a neocon after 9/11 and Paul Wolfowitz became a close friend of his.
This is a sublimely accurate breakdown. As a libertarian, I bemoan the level of power wielded by both extremities of the west over the citizens. I pray that recent events, chiefly Israel's recent relegation into "pariah state" status in the world, will one day be looked back on as the embryonic stage of humanity's second renaissance. The rise of the internet has the ability to bring humans to the next stage of our social evolution, assuming the existing overlords don't destroy us all in a panic to regain control. We would do well to not ignore the three decades of war that ravaged Europe as a result of mankind's previous iteration of such a paradigm shift in the democratization of information. Martin Luther's printing press was the single most important piece of technology ever invented until the rise of the world wide web. It was the thorn of all thorns firmly lodged in the side of the Roman empirical power structure, and it paved the way for many of our modern concepts of liberty to flourish. Things are happening MUCH faster this time, however, light-years ahead of the printed word's ability to educate the masses. It reached escape velocity long before the western hegemons had realized how far it had come, and to watch them struggle desperately to put the genie back in the bottle in 2024 is almost comical to witness. We surely have tasted the possibilities that lay hidden just behind the next software update, and we will be damned if we are going to go back now. So, here we are, at a precipice of planetary proportion, the canyon of possibility before us filled with countless paths into the miasma of fate. Many of them lead to an exponentially greater understanding of our place in the universe, enlightenment foreseen by none but the greatest scientific futurists of the past century, the ability to connect to others in wildly adaptive measures we can only dream of today, and a radical decentralization of power that can lift the most downtrodden human spirit out of it's previously imposed caste into the upper echelons of human experience! OR... We can vanish into the dusty oblivion of self destruction, the only evidence of our existence layed bare and ruined like the shattered visage of Shelley's Ozymandias. These are the stakes, and the dice are VERY much loaded in our disfavor. I pray we have the foresight to play accordingly....
I know it was a small part of the movement, but there were a group of neocons like Ben Wattenberg who focused on domestic issues. Up until the Neocons arrived, most of the conservative arguments against the welfare state were moralistic. The Neocons brought in a lot of statistical analysis to show that the welfare state often had the entirely opposite effect of that intended, e.g. increasing poverty, homelessness, out-of-wedlock births, etc. The fact that neither moral nor statistical arguments had any effect on winnowing away the welfare state suggest back in the 70's that liberal pleas for "dialog" were just attempts to keep us debating while they secured power in all major American institutions so they could just tell all conservatives to just go and pound sand.
Oh please the whole narrative of Israel being the premier abuser of human rights is laughable. Israel is easily the most morally upstanding state in the Middle East
But those three principles are not limited to neoconservatives. The most staunch liberals are true to the ideas of exceptionalism and inherent moral superiority.
@@SuperpowerBroadcasting If you're really saying that a group of people that caused the never-ending War on Terror that caused massive suffering and destruction for millions of people in the Middle East, sent hundreds of thousands of American soldiers to be sent to wars in which many of them would end up being killed or seriously injured, along with developing severe mental health issues caused by trauma in combat, then I have no words for you then.
Israel's existence and welfare has been important part of the American psyche, even before Israel announced its independence in 1948. I believe the US was the first nation in the world to officially recognize the new state of Israel. Israel is a great ally of the US. Israel is important to the heart and spirit of the US. It is morally and intellectually wrong to oppose the fundamental basis on which rests the Jewish state.
How could the existence and welfare of Israel have been 'an important part of the American psyche' before the country even existed? I suggest you revisit the history of the US during WW2 and the following two decades. America was still a Christian, mostly Protestant country then and attitudes that today would no doubt be considered anti-Semitic were mainstream at the time, incl. among the WASP governing class and FoPo establishment. President Roosevelt was determined not to be seen conducting the war effort in a way that suggested it was being driven by the priorities of Jews (e.g. by risking men and resources to interdict the Nazis' concentration camps and the railroad lines that serviced them). The Holocaust didn't become a national preoccupation until really the 1970s and '80s, as shown for example in Peter Novick's book The Holocaust in American Life.
You are entitled to your opinion but it lacks understanding. First of all, the Hebrews settled Israel more than 3000 years ago. The Hebrews gave the world the Bible, which indisputably played a pivotal role in the consciousness of America since its founding. I am 100% right and I am not going to debate you further. You are 100% entitled to your opinion which is wrong. @@celtaclassroom7082
This reminds me of Christopher Hitchens. From what I understand and remember, he started out as a Trotskyite and then later on became a neocon after 9/11 and Paul Wolfowitz became a close friend of his.
Excellent commentary. Too the point and succinct. Mr Lobe commentary still holds true today..4 yrs later.
still true today!
This is a sublimely accurate breakdown. As a libertarian, I bemoan the level of power wielded by both extremities of the west over the citizens. I pray that recent events, chiefly Israel's recent relegation into "pariah state" status in the world, will one day be looked back on as the embryonic stage of humanity's second renaissance. The rise of the internet has the ability to bring humans to the next stage of our social evolution, assuming the existing overlords don't destroy us all in a panic to regain control. We would do well to not ignore the three decades of war that ravaged Europe as a result of mankind's previous iteration of such a paradigm shift in the democratization of information. Martin Luther's printing press was the single most important piece of technology ever invented until the rise of the world wide web. It was the thorn of all thorns firmly lodged in the side of the Roman empirical power structure, and it paved the way for many of our modern concepts of liberty to flourish. Things are happening MUCH faster this time, however, light-years ahead of the printed word's ability to educate the masses. It reached escape velocity long before the western hegemons had realized how far it had come, and to watch them struggle desperately to put the genie back in the bottle in 2024 is almost comical to witness. We surely have tasted the possibilities that lay hidden just behind the next software update, and we will be damned if we are going to go back now. So, here we are, at a precipice of planetary proportion, the canyon of possibility before us filled with countless paths into the miasma of fate. Many of them lead to an exponentially greater understanding of our place in the universe, enlightenment foreseen by none but the greatest scientific futurists of the past century, the ability to connect to others in wildly adaptive measures we can only dream of today, and a radical decentralization of power that can lift the most downtrodden human spirit out of it's previously imposed caste into the upper echelons of human experience!
OR...
We can vanish into the dusty oblivion of self destruction, the only evidence of our existence layed bare and ruined like the shattered visage of Shelley's Ozymandias.
These are the stakes, and the dice are VERY much loaded in our disfavor. I pray we have the foresight to play accordingly....
I know it was a small part of the movement, but there were a group of neocons like Ben Wattenberg who focused on domestic issues. Up until the Neocons arrived, most of the conservative arguments against the welfare state were moralistic. The Neocons brought in a lot of statistical analysis to show that the welfare state often had the entirely opposite effect of that intended, e.g. increasing poverty, homelessness, out-of-wedlock births, etc.
The fact that neither moral nor statistical arguments had any effect on winnowing away the welfare state suggest back in the 70's that liberal pleas for "dialog" were just attempts to keep us debating while they secured power in all major American institutions so they could just tell all conservatives to just go and pound sand.
Link to the Beijing lecture?
three letters b d s
Oh please the whole narrative of Israel being the premier abuser of human rights is laughable. Israel is easily the most morally upstanding state in the Middle East
@@luciuspaullus1948 I hope that was sarcasm.
@@luciuspaullus1948 this comment aged like milk
Just wonderful!!
Very good analysis
But those three principles are not limited to neoconservatives. The most staunch liberals are true to the ideas of exceptionalism and inherent moral superiority.
Evil people akways want to rule
Neocons are freaking awesome!
...I really hope you meant your comment as a joke.
@@nguyenbaokhiem6728 I didn't. Debate me.
@@nguyenbaokhiem6728 Does my channel look like a joke?
@@SuperpowerBroadcasting If you're really saying that a group of people that caused the never-ending War on Terror that caused massive suffering and destruction for millions of people in the Middle East, sent hundreds of thousands of American soldiers to be sent to wars in which many of them would end up being killed or seriously injured, along with developing severe mental health issues caused by trauma in combat, then I have no words for you then.
@Midorima Shintaro Debate me.
Israel's existence and welfare has been important part of the American psyche, even before Israel announced its independence in 1948. I believe the US was the first nation in the world to officially recognize the new state of Israel. Israel is a great ally of the US. Israel is important to the heart and spirit of the US. It is morally and intellectually wrong to oppose the fundamental basis on which rests the Jewish state.
- a liar
How could the existence and welfare of Israel have been 'an important part of the American psyche' before the country even existed? I suggest you revisit the history of the US during WW2 and the following two decades. America was still a Christian, mostly Protestant country then and attitudes that today would no doubt be considered anti-Semitic were mainstream at the time, incl. among the WASP governing class and FoPo establishment. President Roosevelt was determined not to be seen conducting the war effort in a way that suggested it was being driven by the priorities of Jews (e.g. by risking men and resources to interdict the Nazis' concentration camps and the railroad lines that serviced them). The Holocaust didn't become a national preoccupation until really the 1970s and '80s, as shown for example in Peter Novick's book The Holocaust in American Life.
You are entitled to your opinion but it lacks understanding. First of all, the Hebrews settled Israel more than 3000 years ago. The Hebrews gave the world the Bible, which indisputably played a pivotal role in the consciousness of America since its founding. I am 100% right and I am not going to debate you further. You are 100% entitled to your opinion which is wrong. @@celtaclassroom7082