How Government is Unraveling Civilization by Force | Jeffrey Tucker
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- Presented by Jeffrey A. Tucker at "The Delusion of Good Government": the Mises Circle in Colorado Springs, Colorado; 18 September 2010. Sponsored by Pikes Peak Economics Club. Includes an introduction by Douglas French.
Music by Kevin MacLeod.
"It's as if the socialists discovered that their plan creates poverty, so they decided to change their name to environmentalist to make poverty the goal." - Lew Rockwell
Brilliant! This man is a rare bird. May his message spread to the four corners of the earth!
Thank you for posting this. It is so nice to hear common sense with humor! Jeffrey Tucker is a breath of fresh air!
This gentleman is great. we need more americans like him today.
The intelligence, the knowledge, the thought-provoking analogies, the sophistication, the style, Mr T is almost godlike.
This guys an absolute stud. Brilliant.
Hearing him call Silent Spring "a garbage piece of book" made my day!
Fantastic talk.
👍👍 exactly! Thank you, sir!
I literally loled when he mentioned that quote "taxes are the price we pay for civilization."
Jeffrey Tucker is one of my favorites. Stellar speech.
I've read some stuff on Permaculture. It's actually quite interesting. Something I'd like to try to develop someday but right now I'm starting to look into urban gardening since I live in a city. It is unfortunate that many that are into Permaculture etc always seem to sort of hope for the "end" of civilization and show a lack of understanding of economics. If anything, Permaculturists should want to get rid of property taxes!
smashing collectivism like a boss!
WONDERFUL lecture, nice, friendly introduction, at 26:00 min: bed bugs, his example is very good and to help on the bugs; I believe you can get rid of them with Diatomaceous Earth.
I love this guy. I have now seen many of his lectures many times and it is just as satisfying. Amazing!
@Xasew Indeed. There is nothing "oil" provides that cannot be provided with other materials, the alternatives are just all more expensive than "oil".
If/when oil gets more scarce, its price will rise and the least expensive alternatives will be used as they become less expensive than "oil". This will also reduce the demand for "oil", reducing its rate of depletion.
So as more alternatives are used, less "oil" is used, and those few things for which "oil" is the best answer will always have it.
Jeffrey Tucker is kicking statist ass, like a sir.
Damn the introduction was depressing! "He's uhh currently the webmaster for the uhh Institute's website, Mises.org." *sigh* "Adjunct scholar at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy." *sigh* "Also teaches for Acton, teaches for FEE..." There was no eye contact, no enthusiasm, and no heart in that introduction. Throw away your introduction and TALK to us about Jeffrey- He's a smart, passionate, and funny guy who deserves a great introduction!
No, he is very nice, just watch it several times. That's how he speaks.
Tucker is excellent, as always. Mises has some amazing people.
Excellent speech, Bravo Tucker.
There are not enough like buttons for this video.
Seriously! This video needs 100 000 000 views!!!
And yet there is enough air to let 7 billion humans plus an abundance of animals plus an abundance of plants and trees breathe. The same with water. I don't see the death of our planet, I see nature, I see neverending growth.
enjoyed the talk
you're missing the point i think, Sustainability can be managed without government intervention.We have prices for a reason,when prices rise enough it incentivizes further research and development into other methods and those methods become more prevalent.
@LordDyhalto Statists, you just got served!
I oppose the tax for two reasons.
One, that it won't do what you want and hope it will do.
Two, that it's someone else deciding for me what the best use of my time is. You want to steal my time for your pet projects.
As the delightful Irish drinking song says "Bugger off."
I wanna give some super intellectual response worthy of this but feeling kinda lazy. So I'll just say that Jeffrey Tucker is 🔥.
@caltrop69 "Equality of outcome"
That is a very, very frightening phrase. It was used as the reason for the Rein of Terror in France, for the mass executions and "return to the land" of Pol Pot.
Individuals are not equal. Abilities and aptitudes differ, so the only way to make "equality of outcome" is through massive coercion.
"Equality before the law" was the catch-phrase of the American revolution, which is why I think it mostly worked while the others failed so badly.
there was an unz review article saying the deaths in cambodia were due to american landmines and warfare rather than the Politique Potentiel regime.would be interesting to find the truth..if there was a holywood movie about it you can be fairly sure there is a coverup
"The right of the citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city may prohibit at will, but a common right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thompson v. Smith, 154 SE 179.
@caltrop69 "There is also the economic premise of a "fixed-pie" and "zero sum," which, of course, is fallacious."
Exactly! I've noticed the same thing!
And not only do they think someone gets rich ONLY by making someone else poor, they also cannot understand that their policies will make the pie SHRINK.
As if eliminating private property, firing all the managers and "labor" taking over all the factories will have no effect on productivity.
History is not their strong suit.
@CurtHowland
I dunno...I DO try to understand people. I was raised in a Modern Liberal household... I don't think they worry so much about economics. I think their primary goal is to "equalize" things...If THEY can't have an indoor theater, than no one should have one.
Modern Liberalism is not about how much "stuff" you have, it's how much stuff everyone else has that is the same as yours...If you have less, than, necessarily, everyone else should have less.
Equality of outcome.
@pretorious700 "Mises has some amazing people."
Yet these amazing people talk about the intellectual Giants, Rothbard and Mises himself, with awe.
"If I see further than other men, it is because I stand on the shoulders of Giants."
I agree, but you seem to think you are free now, maybe instead of listening to a government saying you are free, go look up what the concept of human rights, and immunities truly are. If you ever paid a ticket, or were detained by a police officer in a traffic stop, or been subjected to a taxes on privately owned property, you are not free. Administrative Law, and Constitution Law are two distinct things, the former is about privileges and benefits, the later is about rights and immunities
I think I’m in love with this man. He’s so charming.
@dogismyth
" Utilizing the bad people I mean."
I think this has an incredibly civilizing effect. It's probably the most important thing about free markets. Just look at the degenerated culture our socialist systems, which are lacking these incentives, create. If cooperation, peace and civility are the ingredients for economic success we can expect to develop a culture favoring these values. If on the other hand the guy who is best at stealing money wins the prize we are pretty much doomed.
The reality is that we do live on a finite world, with finite resources, and land. With our current growth, and economic progress we have disregarded the dictator of our life, Natural Law. You can not argue against nature, it just is. It would be like saying you didn't agree with the Law of Gravity, and so decided to jump off a bridge to see if you could fly. My prediction would be you would fall to your death and end life looking more like a abstract form of art then a former living being.
Dryest intro all time!
Sadly, all of the Mises intros are boooooring. These days I don't think folks are not impressed by degrees of supposed higher education. I say let the man speak and we can decide on our own if he has anything to say.
David Holmgren says we've been off the technological track for the past 500 years.At around the same time Christopher Columbus visited America without a Visa, or a few years before the Spaniards invaded the Americas,or even long before England would discover, let alone colonize, Australia, that's when our technology began to "go off the track." Holmgren sounds like a nut.
This is a good speech
Only big "speed bump" I've noticed was his past-tense use of the Progressive Era as if it ever stopped. We are still trapped in it like a bad sci-fi movie. How I have failed to "discover" Mr. Tucker for all of these years escapes me, but I am glad that these videos are up to celebrate his thinking.
You could count it in goods consumed at current prices. If you get a bowl of rice a day than it would amount to one "income". If you've eaten some products (all organic, but very small variety), used some clothes had a small house, went two times to a theater its another "income" figure. Less accurate, but still pretty good, would be denominating it in gold.
This is dangerous territory. He is right, so very right, I believe. But it is dangerous because private enterprise will lead us, inevitably, to a fracturing of state and community. While this is good in a sense of globalisation, it is bad in a sense of knowing and trusting one's neighbor. And sustainability is not the fad that makes up its media portrayal, as Tucker will have you think. It is rather, the consolidation of technological pursuit as to ensure future resources.
This guy is great!
Jeffery Tucker's picture is found next to the definition of dapper
@cdltpx
+Unemployment is just a government program. They call it 'minimum wage'.
Right back at you. Data can be manipulated to obtain a desired result, what the IPCC did.
I'm off to buying ''Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable?''
well done!!
@cdltpx
Peak oil will never be an "issue" even if it happens. The price mechanism is one hell of a thing.
"Numbskull."
"Stupid."
Wow, what an effective response. You convinced me you can't think, and you did it with just 61 words.
That's some good communication skill set you got there.
Anarcho-gentleman.
Skip the intro, to be sure.
I would venture further to say that the two moves in science are either to hypothesize or disprove. A scientist who claims to have proven something has likely forgotten the scientific method. Hypotheses that have been rigorously tested without being disproved tend to be accepted, but it would be foolish to treat those hypotheses as facts. At best, hypotheses explain observations. Hypotheses about the future effects of global warming are not testable ex ante, but rather observable ex post.
Only part out of date: Google defending the free dissemination of all knowledge without censorship.
@truevoice08
If I am not mistaken it is "Officer Kanapsky, is it?"
@cdltpx
I said it won't be an issue(or maybe "issue" was the wrong word to use here; what I mean is that it won't be a disaster). I didn't say oil prices wouldn't go up.
Most of your post has nothing to do with oil anyway.
Tucker starts at 2:24
Up!!
Galbaith if that's the spelling, first fallacy is that the wealth and non wealth is zero sum? If that true where did anything come from to be accumulated in the first place?Does he not take the input of the human ingenuity and work that creates? What?
@dogismyth "What about compassion, love, tolerance, volunteering, etc?"
You need to read this:
mises.org/daily/4735
"Modern economics traces all human actions back to the value judgments of individuals. It never was so foolish...as to believe that all that people are after is higher incomes and lower prices." --- Ludwig von Mises
@dogismyth
Capitalism has no goal at all it is just an abstract term for a system in which people can freely operate without violating the freedom of other people.
+you see if you have to work 20 hours on a field then there is no time for compassion, love, tolerance, volunteering(?) or anything else. You will find that all of these things have flourished in capitalist systems and degenerated in non capitalist systems.
I'm well aware of that. :)
@LordDyhalto Your comment made my night
A very young Tucker was very funny in the play "Mozart was a Red" by Murray Rothbard. Check it out on UA-cam.
Who composed the music in this video?
@dogismyth
+I don't get that profit thing, how is it inherently bad to try to make money? I think the morality kicks in when you start spending that money. +One of the many good things about free markets is that in order to make money you have to serve the consumer. So nevermind if Gandhi or Hitler is running your favorite bakery, both have to serve the customer (highest quality for lowest price) in order to survive on the market - isn't that fantastic? Utilizing the bad people I mean.
Is that dude capable of giving an intro that doesn't make it seems like he hates the person?
i heard a first hand account of someone curing malaria with MMS
DEFINITIONS FOR THIS LECTURE: FALLACY: 1. an idea or belief that is false but that many people think is true. 2. a mistake in an argument or idea that makes it false.
@Pwecko thanks :)
@dogismyth
That means that capitalism results in a situation of a constant 'arms race' between billions of competitors for the most productive way to handle mankinds (earths) resources. The guy who figures out the best way to manage resources will be able to acquire more, and the guy who sucks at it will be forced out of the market (because he can't compete with the lower prices of the more competent guys)
The winner is the guy who can translate the ressources into maximum wealth for every1
Does anybody know the title of Jeffrey's most famous article in Mises(dot)org that Doug French mentioned?
Just ... euh ... sense ... should be common
28:48 *Starship Troopers intensifies*
With your logic, you must be against the carbon tax, right? We can't be taxed on something that isn't proven yet to be the cause, right?
Are we running out of oil: yes, did Tucker do any research on the subject? Apparently not, the same with global warming. He's setting up a straw against the permaculture/organic movement, which is grassroots, and not a government program. Organic food is healthier and uses methods that are enviornmentally friendly, and more and more consumers choose for such products because of this.It's not socialist to choosing to cut back on your own consumption or growing food in your garden. Cont
@DenmarkRadar It's funny, if I were to suggest to Mr. Holmgren that he limit his own standard of living to the 1500 level, he would object.
This lecture was given to an economics club, so I'm sure he's assuming a basic grasp of economic theory and particularly the Austrian theory, so there isn't a huge need to explain everything
@TheManiacalSatanist6 He has a wife, you know. He is also an erudite badass.
35:40 Amen
I must have overlooked it. I am blind in one of my eyes. lol
@dogismyth Actually volunteerism is one of the basic tenents of libertarianism. When you advocate government control (compassion, love and tolerance-? are you kidding?that's what you think socialism represents? think the opposite) of everything that is anathema to volunteerism. To ascribe a "goal" to capitalism just reveals your ignorance of what it really is. You can thank your statist public education for that failure.
lol
I take it you didn't take that walk I suggested.
Too bad.
Now, take a deep breathe...
@Forsakren Nice job with your public school indoctrination.
@jb03hf douglas french... i thought that was his humor :)
Why not critique him then instead of pandering?
@jb03hf That's just Doug French.
His writing is excellent, but he has no body language at all.
In theory boycotting a company should work, but how often has it worked? And how long would it have taken, in the case of Erie, for the public to realize that a certain company is a culprit which needs to be taken down (whose name might be hidden in many "unrelated" products) How long would Erie canal have been on fire while the public figured out enmasse not to buy that company's products? The gov't oversteps its boundaries a LOT, but it does have a purpose. Too bad it doesn't remember that.
13yr old video..... checks out
Be careful about those who only criticize government at not illicit power. They may be actually advocating the thing they are pretending to speak against.
1968 my man. The stakes were put in the ground in 1968.
@LordDyhalto hah, Ill take two full orders of Awesome Mr. Tucker. =)
there is a reason why these things came to be...I totally agree with him on the ddt, btw, but would love to know the solution he would present for the manufacture of meth, because that is why sudafed is no longer an OTC drug. And...does anyone remember when the Erie canal was on fire, due to extreme pollution, dumping of toxins from big manufacturers, into the water? Without a law and sanctions, what would have stopped that company, or any, from such extreme polluting practices?
Feb. 16th, 2021
EERIE! ...how close he is! With the World Economic Forum desiring to introduce The Great Reset, Free Speech infringement by big tech, and government overreach everywhere. Yikes!
Society can, and will, be saved by the bow-tie.
I'm wondering, are you insulting your dialog partners on purpose, e.g. to distract, or is it merely a bad habit?
Reminds me of Donald Sutherland and Tim Curry.
His face reminds me of Bruce Willis and John Malkovich.
He sounds both British and American at the same time. He’s quite erudite!
@dogismyth
"Capitalism has as its goal: to increase profits and become as large as possible to thwart your competitors. "
sry i gotta comment on that again. Stop looking at perceived intentions of institutions, look at results. Of course the 'goal' of a firm is to increase profits. But how does it do that? Well, by managing it's ressources in the most responsible manner. By getting the most out of its ressources - the result of which is achieving the lowest price for the consumer.
Perhaps better discribed as mercantilism.
Come on, it´s there on the final credits AND the video description.