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Jesús Huerta de Soto traces the Austrian school's intellectual roots from the Spanish scholastics to Rothbard, making the case that anarcho-capitalism is the natural endpoint of the classical liberal tradition.The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian school, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this vibrant and influential intellectual tradition.Full Text version of the Lecture (Submitted by Prof. Huerta de Soto):Thank you very much to the Mises Institute and Joe Salerno for his kind introduction as well as for inviting me to deliver this “Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture” to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Murray N. Rothbard's birthday. It is the second time I visit the Mises Institute to deliver this most important lecture: The first one was almost thirty years ago, back in April 1997, when I delivered a lecture on “The Scholastic Roots of the Austrian School”. In this second opportunity I am very happy to have been able to accept Joe's invitation and to come with a very well represented retinue of ten of my colleagues and doctoral students. All of them are teaching as professors or making their research at our more than twenty-year-old Doctoral and Master Programs in Austrian Economics at King Juan Carlos University back in Madrid, and which is the only one officially approved and with full validity inside the whole European Union. You have already had the opportunity to hear from each one of them a detailed description of the so-called “Madrid Austrian Research Hub” and of all the activities we are developing every year, including the 54 Doctoral Theses on Austrian Economics that have been read up to now in our program. And here you have also copies of the English version of our main books published by Routledge, Edward Elgar, and by the Macmillan Austrian Series edited by my Madrid Colleagues, the German professor Philipp Bagus and the Canadian professor Dave Howden. And you will have the unique opportunity to buy these books that, as you know, have a hefty price of almost 100 pounds each one, at the almost “stolen property” and symbolic price of 5 dollars per copy, thanks to the most generous help of the Spanish Jesús Huerta de Soto Foundation that is helping to finance our participation in this important event.And now what I will do in the next forty minutes is to try to summarize not only my main contributions, but also “The Libertarian Vision of the Scientific and Moral Truth” as we see it from our Austrian School Hub in Madrid. And I will do it by focusing on a series of fundamental points.Precisely, the youngest of all sciences, Economics is the one that has provided Humanity with the most important scientific contributionThe first one is that Economics, being the last science to arrive, or as Mises said, "the youngest of all sciences," has nevertheless achieved the milestone of providing Humanity with the most important scientific contribution. For the first time, and thanks to Economic Science, human beings have discovered and understood that voluntary social cooperation, free from all institutional and systematic external coercion, generates a spontaneous order that cannot be designed nor organized by anyone, and that peacefully and without limits drives the prosperity and expansion of Humankind.This transcendental message of Economic Science, on the one hand, resolves the impossible antithesis of attempting to apply, within the realm of interactions carried out by human beings endowed with free will, the manipulative approach of external entities that human beings have no choice but to use, supported by technology and the natural sciences, in order to dominate the subject of the material world. And on the other hand, this is a radically revolutionary message: for the first time, it has been scientifically demonstrated that states, in any of their forms, are neither necessary nor viable; that Society, understood as a process of voluntary human interactions, does not need anyone to govern it, because it regulates and organizes itself spontaneously; and that the attempt to coordinate Society on the basis of social engineering and state coercive commands is impossible, doomed to failure, and gives rise to all kinds of distortions, social conflicts and violence, that continually hinder and block human progress.Economic science is generalized into a complete Theory of Liberty that makes it possible to reinterpret History and promote the expansion of civilizationThe second point is that Economics has been generalized into a whole Theory of Liberty, understood as the most essential attribute and requirement of human nature. Liberty means that all human actions are carried out voluntarily, based on the principle of non-aggression, and free of external coercion or violence imposed and organized from above by the always minority group of human beings who, under whatever title, exercise any kind of political power.Moreover, Economics dismantles and turns upside down the erroneous and biased account of Thomas Hobbes and his followers. Neither was the "state of nature" a terrifying situation, nor did a supposed "social contract" ever exist or was it necessary to create and maintain a State that would impose order and guarantee peace. What happened was precisely the opposite: natural evolution consisted, above all, in the spontaneous discovery of the great advantages provided by voluntary exchanges and peaceful trade. Systematic and generalized violence, war, and terror arose only with the appearance of States, as coercive institutions composed of the most antisocial and violent human beings, who wanted (and still want) to live at the expense of plundering those citizens who earn their living by working and trading peacefully with each other (Oppenheimer, 1926).Thus, Economics, demonstrates that what Étienne de La Boétie named "voluntary servitude", is an anti-human aberration to which human beings have been subjected for centuries. And that it is not necessary to continue with the resigned habit of obeying the State; nor do governments enjoy an aura of prestige (but are literally "stripped" of any attribute of intellectual or moral superiority); nor is the caste—or “praetorian guard”—of intellectuals, “experts”, and acolytes that surround states and rulers to be regarded as untouchable; nor should we allow ourselves to be seduced and deceived by subsidies or perks, whether supposed or real, with which they seek to purchase the will and secure the loyalty of exploited human beings, so that they will consent, voluntarily and permanently, to their exploitation and servitude (De la Boétie, 1975).Economics is the Science developed by the Austrian School of Economics, which should in fact be known as the Spanish School, as it has its origins in the thinking of our scholastics of the Spanish Golden AgeThe third point is that Economic Science has reached its highest level of development thanks to the Austrian School of Economics. As you know, our school is based on the realism of its analytical assumptions, in the dynamic approach based on the entrepreneurial, creative, and coordinating capacity of every human being, and in the study of the spontaneous and self-regulated order of the social process of voluntary human interactions (Huerta de Soto, 2008). The institutional and multidisciplinary approach of the Austrian School is also very relevant. As a result of the spontaneous social process important institutions emerge which, in turn, make it possible and drive it forward: Law and property rights rooted in human nature and discovered and developed spontaneously outside the state; the family, a basic and essential institution, on which the expansion of Humanity is made possible and consolidated; moral principles, which act as a true "automatic pilot" for liberty and which human beings internalize and transmit from generation to generation, thanks to the family and other community or religious institutions; economic institutions, and in particular, money, which also evolves spontaneously outside the State, and which can and should be considered the social institution par excellence, since by overcoming the problems of barter, it enables the exponential multiplication of voluntary exchanges and human interactions, within which the rest of the social, linguistic, moral, legal, economic, and religious institutions are discovered, shaped, and perfected.Our fourth point is that the first theorists of the spontaneous order emerged in the field of law, led by the great jurists of classical Rome. They were the first ones to understand the organic and evolutionary nature of the social process, and so they became, without being aware of it, the first economists. Their tradition was kept alive throughout the Middle Ages thanks to the Catholic Church and, through thinkers such as Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Antoninus of Florence, and Saint Bernardino of Siena, eventually came to influence the Spanish scholastics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gathered around the University of Salamanca. As Rothbard demonstrated (Rothbard, 1976) these thinkers of the Spanish Golden Age should be considered the most immediate precedent of the Austrian School of Economics, which, precisely for this reason, should be called the Spanish School of Economics. And in fact, these Spanish scholastics were already able to articulate the following ten essential principles which constitute the theoretical foundation of the Austrian School:Firstly, the subjective theory of value developed by the Bishop of Segovia, Diego de Covarrubias, who as early as 1555 clearly explained that, although the objective nature of wheat is the same in Spain as in America, its price was higher in America because there human beings subjectively valued it much more highly; from this follows the correct relationship between prices and costs set out by Luis Sarabia de la Calle, in the sense that it is market prices that determine costs and not the other way around, as equilibrium theorists mistakenly believe; the Scholastics also realized that equilibrium models and prices lack realism and theoretical meaning because they presuppose a degree of knowledge “so complex that only God, and in no case human beings, could ever acquire it” (in latin “pretium iustum mathematicum licet soli Deo notum”), as already explained by the Jesuit cardinals Juan de Salas in 1617 and Juan de Lugo in 1643, more than three hundred years earlier than Hayek could conclude that “a science which assumes knowledge that can never be acquired is not a Science”; also the dynamic concept of competition is fundamental, understood as a process of rivalry among sellers based on the dynamic conception of market processes developed by Jerónimo Castillo de Bobadilla and Luis de Molina in 1589 and 1597, and that has nothing to do with the static model of "perfect competition" of equilibrium theorists; and also the important contributions of the Spanish Scholastics related with capital theory, business cycles, and the effects of fiduciary media generated by banks; so, particular emphasis should be placed on the rediscovery of the principle of time preference by Martín de Azpilcueta, following what Lessines had already stated in 1285; as well as on the fact that bankers commit mortal sin when they operate with fractional reserves, creating bank deposits as a form of virtual money (or chirographis pecuniarium, as Luis de Molina said in latin) that only exists in their accounting books and distorts the structure of relative prices, creating bubbles and deep economic crises that ultimately "bring everything crashing down," as Saravia de la Calle and Tomás de Mercado so vividly explained in the 16th Century; and in short, the Scholastic's idea that it is impossible to organize society through coercive commands due to lack of the information that would be required to give them coordinating content; as well as the discovery that inflation is a hidden and very harmful tax that arises from an act of tyranny, since it is neither known nor accepted by citizens, which would even justify the assassination of the King according to the theory of tyrannicide, a contribution originally made by the Castilian Comuneros eventually defeated by the tyrant King Charles V in 1521, and developed by Father Juan de Mariana almost a century later [in 1610].This entire line of proto-Austrian scholastic thought also spread throughout the Americas, especially in the newly founded universities of San Marcos in Lima and Mexico City in 1551 where brilliant disciples of these Scholastics, who had studied at the University of Salamanca itself, came to occupy prominent academic positions. Thus, for example, we should mention the cases of Bartolomé Frías de Albornoz in Mexico, and above all the great Juan de Matienzo, who became judge and president of the Royal Audiencia of Charcas and Lima from 1560 onwards (Popescu, 1997).Finally, the doctrine of our scholastics did spread even to North America two centuries later through the books of Juan de Mariana, who greatly influenced Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers of the United States.However, the southern part of the continent ultimately proved unable to neutralize the wave of growing statism and centralization that first came with the arrivals of the Habsburgs in Spain, and which was intensified even further after the arrival of the Bourbons with Philip V at the beginning of the eighteenth century (Martínez Marina, 1820). How different and much more prosperous and libertarian might the historical evolution of Spain and Latin America have been, had the statist centralism of the Habsburgs and the Bourbons not prevailed, and had the far more libertarian, local, and decentralized traditional representative institutions of the kingdoms of Castile instead remained predominant—institutions that were dismantled, together with Europe's first libertarian revolution, beginning with the defeat of the Castilian Comuneros at Villalar on April 23, 1521 (Leonard Liggio, 2025).The most important and far-reaching contributions of economic scienceLet us now turn, in greater detail, to the most important contributions of Economics, as developed by the Austrian School.First, human cooperation takes place spontaneously, without the need for anyone to organize it coercively from outside. This is so because human beings are endowed with an entrepreneurial and creative capacity that continually drives them to discover the multiple opportunities for profit that arise in their environment. Each of these opportunities embodies a previous discoordination in human behavior that remains latent until it is discovered and overcome by the corresponding entrepreneurial act. This entrepreneurial act always arises from a creative tension and interpretation of events of the outside world that is essentially subjective and, therefore, cannot be reproduced by any artificial intelligence algorithm; in other words, the same objective events can be interpreted in multiple ways, even contradictory ones, without it being possible to postulate which is correct until the corresponding entrepreneurial process is completed in the form of a subjective profit. In any case, every entrepreneurial act involves, firstly, the creation of information that did not exist before (regarding the profit opportunity that arose from the previous discoordination that had gone unnoticed); secondly, the transmission of that knowledge (directly to the parties involved in the entrepreneurial act and indirectly through a series of institutions and signals such as market prices); and third and finally, the coordination of the previous maladjustments takes place when the parties involved learn motu proprio, that is, voluntarily and for their own benefit, to discipline their behavior according to the needs of others (for example, when they discover that they achieve their ends more effectively by specializing and trading peacefully the mutual results of their efforts). The discovery of the essence of this pure entrepreneurial act, with its elements of creation and transmission of information and the spontaneous coordination of the previous maladjustments continually generated by human coexistence, constitutes the most important contribution that Economic Science has provided to Humanity, and explains why the spontaneous process of voluntary social cooperation that drives the multiplication of human beings and the expansion of civilization does not require any statist system of institutional coercion.Another essential contribution of Economics is the concept of Dynamic Efficiency, understood as the process of unlimited expansion of human creativity and entrepreneurial coordination that arises only within a specific institutional framework of moral and legal norms. This framework is the one grounded on the ethical principle according to which every human being has a natural right to appropriate the results of his entrepreneurial creativity; that is, a property right over what one has created and which did not previously exist, which is the most obvious and important human right. For this reason, (dynamic) Efficiency and Morality and Justice (properly understood) cannot be separated one from the other; or, as we might say, they are two sides of the same coin in the sense that only Justice and Morality induce and generate efficiency; and at the same time, what is dynamically efficient in economic terms cannot be neither unjust nor immoral. All of which, on the other hand, demonstrates the integrated order that exists in the social universe, and highlights the three levels of research (theoretical, ethical, and historical) that complement and reinforce with each other and are essential in our search for truth (Huerta de Soto, 2000).Finally, another key contribution of Economic Science is to have demonstrated the impossibility of socialism, or better, the impossibility of statism, in the sense that it is impossible for the State to achieve and coordinate what it promises for the following four reasons:First, because of the enormous volume of information required for such coordination, which the State cannot acquire because it is dispersed in the minds of the eight billion human beings who participate and interact in the social process every day. Second, given the tacit and inarticulate character of this information (and therefore its inability to be transmitted in an objective manner). Third, because the information that is generated is not "given," nor is it static, but instead changes continuously as a result of human creativity, making it impossible to transmit today information that will only be created tomorrow, and which is precisely the information that the organs of State intervention and the so-called “experts” would need today in order to direct society to achieve their objectives tomorrow. And fourth, and above all, because the coercive nature of State commands blocks the entrepreneurial activity of creating the very information which the State organization itself would need in order to give its commands a coordinating content. In sum, the State is always and everywhere violence and coercion; coercion blocks the entrepreneurial act of creation, discovery, and adjustment of discoordinated human behavior, while at the same time preventing the creation of the information and the emergence of free market prices that make economic calculation and social coordination possible. For this reason, statism is not only unnecessary but is also scientifically impossible.The impact of these essential contributions of Economics on the course of social evolution has so far been very limitedAll of these scientific contributions have so far achieved only a very partial, imperfect, and limited impact on the inertia of a social and political reality that has for centuries been characterized by the coercive power of States and rulers, and by the more or less resigned servitude of the citizens. And despite the very limited nature of this impact to date, which at best has materialized in a series of naïve and "liberal" revolutions aimed, with as much arrogance as lack of success, toward the impossible objective of trying to separate and limit the powers of states and rulers through political constitutions and "liberal democracies" (Rothbard, 2009); Humanity has been propelled as never before in those places and historical moments where it has managed, despite everything, to at least partially free itself from the State and open up some of the new channels of liberty shown by the teachings of Economics. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, which was but the first chapter of the never-completed "Revolution of Liberty" inspired by Economics. And although what has been achieved in terms of prosperity and standard of living by the now eight billion human beings seems relatively significant—and indeed it is—we cannot even conceive of the standard of living and population size that could be achieved if Humanity were able to take full advantage of and fully implement the teachings of Economic Science.We can be few and poor in a context of servitude and submission to the State, or many and wealthy in a context of liberty (Hayek, 1988, p. 133). The globe is practically empty of human beings (the Earth's current population would fit into an area equivalent to that of the state of Alaska, with a population density equal to that of Brussels). And we cannot even imagine the prosperity that could be achieved in a free market daily driven by eighty billion, or even eight hundred billion, human beings. Economics explains and demonstrates that the increasing prosperity of an ever-growing population of human beings never results from deliberate and coercive State plans, nor from the egalitarian income redistribution, nor from increases in public spending, nor from subsidies, debt, or inflation, but only arises from the free market of the capitalist system. This consists of the process of voluntary exchanges among all human beings who, endowed with an innate entrepreneurial and creative capacity, are able to detect and assess, through the system of free prices, the relative urgency and necessity of each good and service, overcoming the relative scarcity of each and satisfying, every day and in the best humanly possible way, the desires and needs of billions of consumers. Entrepreneurs who succeed in this never-ending process of profit-seeking accumulate significant resources, which, in turn, are saved and invested in capital goods and new technologies that make human beings increasingly productive, boosting their wages and standards of living; a virtuous process of continuously expanding prosperity and population growth that, if not coerced or hindered by the State, has no limits.Therefore, it is crucially important for the future of Humanity that it be able to take full and maximum advantage of the lessons and essential message in pursuit of human liberty that Economics provides. But this will only be possible if we are able to unmask and carefully analyze the powerful forces of the pseudoscientific and counterrevolutionary reaction that has been mobilized to prevent the advance of the theory of liberty derived from Economic Science. Despite their diverse origins, they all converge on the same objective: to attempt to justify and preserve State coercion at all costs under the appearance of scientific legitimacy. They are driven by the "fatal conceit" (Hayek, 1988) of many visionaries, thinkers, and supposed "experts" who believe themselves to be clever enough to correct the spontaneous market order, of course, using the violence and coercive power of the State. Together with a privileged caste of rulers, bureaucrats and acolytes, they continually manipulate a Humanity that is sadly accustomed to serving the State. For all of them, it is vital that statism be maintained and that the message of liberty provided by Economics never prevail.Next, we will list the main reactionary pseudoscientific currents that have infiltrated Economic Science like a lethal virus and constitute, in Hayek's terminology, "the counter-revolution of science" (Hayek, 1955).Pseudoscientific reactionary currents opposed to Economic Science. The role played as “useful innocents” by many libertarian economists of the counterrevolutionary mainstreamFirst, positivism and scientism as pseudoscience. By "scientism" we must understand the improper application of the methods of the natural sciences to the field of Economic Science. Thus, while the natural sciences study their object of research as something external, measurable, and quantifiable, Economics studies the implications of the voluntary actions of human beings. And given the essentially creative nature of human beings, the supposed empirical "evidence" has, at best, only a superficial, partial, and always historically contingent value. In Bastiat's words, of "what is seen" —or rather, what is believed to have been seen— but not "what is not seen" (Bastiat, 1995); and at worst, it always entails the assumption, that human beings are an object of research that can be manipulated as the matter of the external world studied by the natural sciences. This inevitably introduces the idea that to improve the world, the State and its rulers must use their coercive power to manipulate and change the things they believe they see in their historically contingent "empirical photos." But these "empirical photos" cannot capture the underlying dynamic essence of spontaneous social processes, let alone what is already happening spontaneously to solve and coordinate every problem. Therefore, it is not surprising that from the very first steps of Economic Science promoted by the Austrian School, its most violent opponents were the "socialists of the chair" gathered around the German Historical School, reinforced in France by the empiricists of the school of Saint-Simon, the insane Comte, and Durkheim, who sought to create a new and alternative pseudoscience of society. And their unhealthy positivist and ultra-empirical influence has persisted to the present day, first through American Institutionalism and later through the massive compilation of empirical data, for example, in the work of Wesley C. Mitchell or Henry Schultz, the latter, as shown by Professor Salerno, having gone on to exert a decisive influence on his assistant Milton Friedman and, through him, even on the Chicago School itself (Salerno, 2023).Secondly, the pseudoscience of neoclassical economics is characterized by its claim that only its own approach constitutes true “science,” that is, the approach based on the principles of equilibrium, maximization, and constancy. Moreover, in addition to the lack of realism of its assumptions, it adds the reductionism of a mathematical language that has developed in response to the needs and demands of the natural sciences, but which is alien to Economic Science because it does not allow for the subjective concept of time or entrepreneurial creativity. Neoclassical economists develop their pseudoscience based not on real human beings of flesh and blood, but on "ideal types" that are like "robotic penguins" who, even in their most sophisticated dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models are limited to moving and reacting to events and State coercion as if they were characters of a sort of economic video game ("videogame economics"). Yet neoclassical pseudoscience, despite its apparent and ever-increasing sophistication, is not capable of accounting for the immense complexity of the real world and rebels against the idea of spontaneous market order in two ways that are equally harmful to human liberty: on the one hand, by promoting the coercive "social engineering" of central banks, States, and governments to use "fine tuning" to force reality toward to the mathematical optimum of their models; and, on the other hand, by labeling as "market failures" everything they believe they observe in reality that does not coincide, in their empirical studies, with their ghostly models of “perfect” equilibrium and adjustment (Milei, 2023); failures that, according to them, refute the "benefits" of the spontaneous order of the market and human liberty, and justify their elimination as soon as possible by a coercive State authority. Note also how neoclassical pseudoscience needs, and feeds upon, the empirical work of the previous pseudoscience, positivism, in order to justify its conclusions against human liberty and in favor of State coercion, so that positivists and neoclassicists join hands and end up reinforcing each other in their reactionary agenda.Third, Keynesianism and macroeconomics as pseudoscience. The very “macro” approach already entails, inevitably, an obvious bias in favor of justifying State intervention, aggression, and coercion against the spontaneous order of the market and human liberty. As F. A. Hayek pointed out in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1974 (Hayek, 1978), macroeconomists ignore everything they cannot measure, specifically truly relevant economic processes and theories. At the same time, they believe that certain aggregate concepts—which lack genuine economic meaning—possess a “real” existence, that permits to collect empirical information or evidence that can be manipulated and statistically treated. Once again, macroeconomic pseudoscience goes hand in hand with positivist pseudoscience, and the two reinforce with each other in their counterrevolutionary reaction. Furthermore, Keynesianism is particularly harmful: not only does it flatly deny the coordinating capacity of creative entrepreneurship and the spontaneous market order, but it also builds as an alternative explanation a whole model—of course—of equilibrium with permanent unemployment, to justify the coercive intervention of the State in the lives of human beings in the form of all kinds of fiscal and monetary manipulations. Moreover, the macroeconomic and Keynesian pseudoscience feeds upon, and is reinforced by, the pseudoscientific approach of the Neoclassical School, to the point that, the so-called "neoclassical Keynesian synthesis" became, throughout the twentieth century, the main reactionary movement inside Economics. Keynesians and macroeconomists thus become the champions of that intoxication with statism, manipulation, and political power which constitutes the framework, orchestrated by governments and central banks, to which we have, regrettably, become accustomed and in which we are forced to live. This context repeatedly destabilizes the spontaneous market order, generates serious financial and economic crises and social conflicts, and continually hampers the prosperity and advance of civilization.We have left the quasi-religious mysticism of Marxist pseudoscience for last, because Marxism was scientifically dead even before it was born: in fact, it emerged with—and was theoretically demolished by—the subjectivist revolution led by the Austrian School of Economics. From the beginning, the Austrian School's development of time preference and capital theory revealed the contradictions and grave scientific errors of Marxism, while at the same time exposing its pronounced character as an intellectual fraud (Böhm-Bawerk, 1949). This intellectual fraud was historically illustrated by the collapse of the Soviet Union, and of virtually all other communist countries, after many decades of unspeakable human suffering for a large part of the world's population, all of which was perfectly consistent with the theory on the impossibility of statism developed by the Austrian School beginning with the von Mises of 1920 (Mises, 1936), and which was the final nail that forever sealed the coffin of the corpse of Marxist pseudoscience (Huerta de Soto, 2010).Finally, in this context, we must mention the destructive role played by a number of distinguished economists who, although they defend liberty and the market economy, could be described as a kind of "useful innocents" in Mises' terminology (Mises, 1947). This is so because, even though they officially oppose rampant statism and defend liberty, by accepting—even if only partially—some of the postulates of the reactionary pseudoscientific currents we have described, they ultimately end up, often without intending to and much to their regret, providing additional impetus to the statist reaction within our discipline; for example, when they insist on advising States with proposals aimed at making them more efficient and at helping them do somewhat better things that they should not be doing at all. By way of illustration, we should include in this category of “useful innocents”, for example, thinkers as the Karl Popper of The Open Society and Its Enemies (Popper, 1966, p. 366), who came to admire the “scientific capacity” and even the “humanism” of Karl Marx, and who proposed a statist strategy of “piecemeal social engineering”; or George Stigler, when he claimed that only empirical evidence could determine which economic system, socialism or capitalism, might function (Stigler, 1975, pp. 1-13); and, more generally, the members of the Chicago School, led by Gary Becker and Milton Friedman. Becker when defending that only economics developed within the strict limits of equilibrium, constancy, and maximization, typical of the neoclassical pseudoscience, constitutes true "economic science." And even more serious could be considered the case of Milton Friedman, whose very sincere love of liberty and intense and popular media support for free markets stand in sharp contrast to his pseudoscientific approach based on the aggregate method of economics of Keynesian origin, on positivist empiricism, and on the full acceptance of the unrealism of assumptions. Only in this way it can be explained Friedman's litany of scientific errors which, much to his regret, have invariably ended up reinforcing statist interventionism, to the point that Hayek himself was forced to conclude that after Keynes's The General Theory, the book that has done the greatest harm to Economic Science has been Friedman's Essays in Positive Economics (Hayek, 1994, pp. 145).The failure of democracy and classical liberalism: the triumph of statismAs we see, many classical liberals and advocates of liberal democracy have also acted as "useful innocents." The fatal error of classical liberals lies in the failure to realize that their program is theoretically impossible, because it incorporates within itself the seeds of its own destruction, precisely to the extent that it considers necessary and accepts the existence of a State (even if it is "minimal") understood as the monopolistic agency of institutional coercion. Therefore, the great error of classical liberals is very basic: they believe in a program of political action and economic doctrine that aims to limit the power of the State, while at the same time accepting it and even considering state's existence necessary. However Economic Science has already shown that the State is unnecessary, that statism (even in its minimal form) is theoretically impossible, and that, given human nature, once the State exists, it is impossible to limit its power. On the other hand, liberal democracy is a concept as naïve as it is impossible. Mises already warned us that democracy could only function if all its participants accepted the classical liberal principles, which is impossible because democracy itself encourages and amplifies vote-buying and the partisan use of power. So, the inevitable conclusion is that "liberal democracy" is a contradiction in terms as absurd as speaking (following Anthony de Jasay) of a “square circle,” of “hot snow,” or of a “virgin prostitute” (A. de Jasay, 1990). And even Hayek considered democracy unworkable if it is understood as the exercise of absolute power by majorities (Kratos in classical Greek). It should therefore come as no surprise that democracy once and again tends to be a perverse system based on lying and buying votes with money stolen through taxation.The fact is that the State attracts like a magnet the worst passions and vices of human nature, for instance, when individuals try to obtain rents produced by others using the State's coercive power. Moreover, the combined effect of the privileged groups, the phenomena of governmental myopia and vote-buying, the megalomaniacal character of politicians, and the irresponsibility and blindness of bureaucracies generate a dangerous, unstable and explosive cocktail, continually shaken by social, economic, and political crises which, paradoxically, are always used by the political caste to justify further doses of intervention and statism that, instead of solving problems, further aggravate them. Statism therefore corrupts the entire social body and at the same time blocks the spontaneous and free market solutions of social and economic problems.In fact, the State has become the "idol" that almost everyone turns to and worships. Statolatry is the most serious and dangerous social disease of our time. We are educated to believe that all problems can and must be detected and solved by the State. Our destiny depends on the State, and the politicians who control it are expected to guarantee everything our well-being may require. Human beings remain immature and rebel against their own creative nature, which makes their future always uncertain. They demand a crystal ball that assures them not only knowing what will happen, but also that any problems that arise will be solved for them. This "infantilization" of the masses is encouraged by politicians, as it justifies their own existence and ensures their popularity, position of dominance, and capacity to control. In addition, a whole legion of intellectuals, so-called "experts," and social engineers join in this arrogant intoxication of power. Not even the Church and the most respectable religious denominations have been able to realize that statolatry today constitutes the principal threat to the free, moral, and responsible human being; that the State is a false idol of immense power, worshipped by all, and that does not allow Humanity to be free from its control or have moral or religious loyalties beyond those the state can dominate. Furthermore, it is kept hidden from the public that the state is the true source of social conflicts and evils, and "scapegoats" (such as "capitalism" or private property) are blamed for the problems, and they become the goal of the most serious condemnations, even from moral and religious leaders, almost none of whom have realized the deception or dared to denounce that statolatry is the main threat in the present century to religion, morality, and, therefore, to human civilization.Perhaps the main exception within the Church is included in the brilliant biography of Jesus of Nazareth written by Benedict XVI. That the State and political power constitute the institutional incarnation of the Antichrist should be obvious to anyone with a minimal knowledge of history who reads the former Pope's considerations on the most serious temptation that the Evil One can present to us (and I quote Ratzinger literally): "The tempter is not so crude as to propose to us directly the worship of the devil. He merely proposes that we opt for the rational solution, that we prefer a planned and organized world in which God may have a place as a private spiritual matter, but must not be allowed to interfere in our essential purposes. Soloviev attributes to the Antichrist a book entitled The Open Road to World Peace and Prosperity; it becomes the new Bible, and its core message is the worship of well-being and rational planning," by the state (Ratzinger, 2007). And so, we should not be surprised that, for example, the great author of The Lord of the Rings, J. R. Tolkien, whose Catholic anarchism I fully share, went so far as to say that he would arrest anyone for simply daring to pronounce the word "State." Because the State is, always and everywhere, a reality of violence and systematic coercion against the most intimate essence of the human being, which is his capacity to act freely, creatively, and spontaneously; and so, it is unavoidable to conclude that the State is essentially immoral and that statism constitutes the principal threat to humankind.A theological digression: the dismantling of statism as a logical necessity inseparable from the work of GodAnd almost without realizing it, we can go ahead with a theological digression on how dismantling the State is a logical and moral necessity inseparable from the work of God. I fully understand that referring to God in this conference may come as a shock to many of those present, but I would ask that even those who do not believe in God, at least for dialectical purposes, make an effort of imagination and, for the next few minutes, imagine that God does indeed exist.And what do we mean by God? We must understand God to be a Supreme Being, Creator out of love for all things. And the most important creature that God has created is precisely the human being: in His image and likeness. And if there is a point of connection between God and man, it is precisely in the creative entrepreneurial ability: the capacity to discover, to see, and to create new things, goals and actions. But now I am going to go one step further and attempt to demonstrate that God is not only the Supreme, loving Creator of all things, but that—moreover—God is libertarian.And what does it mean to say that God is libertarian? It means that God, the Lord of all the Universe, has absolute power over it, and yet He chooses not to use force, but always leaves his creatures free. To the point that He gives human beings the freedom to rebel against Him; even though, again and again, God forgives human beings and allows them to rise up and begin anew.God always lets the universe He has created, flow in a spontaneous manner ("laissez faire, laissez passer, le monde va de lui même" could be the motto of our libertarian God). And this despite the fact that human beings tempt God again and again and demand that He manifest His absolute power, that He give us clear and indisputable signs of His existence and supreme power in order for us to believe in Him. But of course, God does not accept our challenge. Why? Because love and liberty are inseparable, and a forced conversion, for example by an evident cataclysm, would be completely contrary to that liberty with which God has created human beings out of love.Moreover, the Kingdom of God is not of this world; Jesus himself says this to a fearful Roman state official, who was also in charge of judging him: "My kingdom is not of this world." Does this mean that there are two types of kingdoms? The kingdoms of this world or States, which would be legitimate at their own level (remember "render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's"), and the Kingdom of God, of ("render unto God the things that are God's"). That is the standard interpretation that has prevailed until now, but I think is completely wrong. The Kingdom of God—which is the exact opposite of the kingdoms or States of this world—never makes systematic use of violence and coercion: it is a Kingdom that has already come to us and, moreover, has been given to us freely, in an act of immense mercy and love (Deus caritas est). And just as the hateful institution of slavery came to an end, the Kingdom of God will also dismantle the kingdoms of this world, the states of this world, or as St. Paul said, of every principality, power, and glory (Ephesians 1:21-23), because God is libertarian and man is made in the image and likeness of God.Ludwig von Mises, in his book Interventionism, introduced the term "destructionism" to refer to the economic and social effects of statism. If Evil (represented by statist destructionism in Mises' terminology) were to prevail, the human race and civilization would have disappeared long ago. The fact that, despite everything and the immense power of seduction of statism over humankind, the process of social cooperation continues to unfold and even prosper in certain historical periods and geographical areas, is a clear manifestation that God does not abandon the world nor leave libertarians alone in their struggle against the Evil; and that Good, represented by liberty, the principle of non-aggression, the spontaneous order of the market, entrepreneurial creativity and coordination, and above all, moral principles, always with God's help, prevails and is capable of overcoming Evil, represented by the fatal conceit of the statist ideal and the destruction that it produces.And now I will finish with some thoughts on anarcho-capitalism as the only possible system of social cooperation truly compatible with human natureAnd now I will finish with some thoughts on anarcho-capitalism as the only possible system of social cooperation truly compatible with human nature. The most important intellectual and moral event that is taking place nowadays is the full fusion between Christianity and anarcho-capitalism. Because anarcho-capitalism is the only possible system of social cooperation that is truly compatible with human nature. Anarcho-capitalism is the purest representation of the spontaneous market order in which all services, including law, justice, and public order, are provided through a voluntary process of social cooperation. In this system, no area is closed to the drive of human creativity and entrepreneurial coordination; efficiency and justice in the resolution of problems are simultaneously enhanced, while the conflicts, inefficiencies, and discoordinations generated by the State are eradicated at their root.The progressive abolition of States and their gradual replacement by a dynamic network of private agencies different legal systems, and providing all kinds of prevention and defense services, constitutes the most important social transformation that will take place in the twenty first century. Without forgetting that exactly what prevents us from knowing with precision what the future without the state will look like, the creative nature of entrepreneurship, is what gives us the peace of mind of knowing that any problem will tend to be resolved and overcome, once the entrepreneurial effort and creativity of Humanity are devoted to its solution (Kirzner, 1985).Therefore, the revolution against the “Old Régime” carried out in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the old classical liberals, today finds its natural continuation in the anarcho-capitalist revolution of the twenty-first century. The message of anarcho-capitalism is clearly revolutionary. Revolutionary in terms of its goal: the dismantling of the State and its replacement by a competitive market process consisting of a network of private agencies, associations, and organizations. And revolutionary in terms of its means, especially in the scientific, economic-social, and political fields:a) First, Scientific revolution, in the field of Economic Science, which becomes the general theory of spontaneous market order extended to all social areas. And by contrast and opposition, the theory and analysis of the effects of social discoordination generated by statism in any sphere in which it operates, as well as the study of the transition process from the State towards liberty.b) Second, an Economic and social revolution, as we cannot even imagine today the immense human achievements and discoveries that could be made in an entrepreneurial environment totally free from statism. Today, and despite continuous governmental harassment, an unknown civilization is already developing, with a degree of complexity that is beyond the reach and control of the state, and which will achieve unlimited expansion once it manages to completely rid itself of statism. And when human beings become more and more aware of the perverse nature of the State that restricts them, and of the immense possibilities that are frustrated each day when the State blocks the driving force of their entrepreneurial creativity, the social demand to reform and dismantle the State will multiply creating a future that is largely unknown to us but that will elevate human civilization to heights that we cannot even imagine today.c) And finally, a political revolution in which, although day-to-day political struggle is important, it should not be the top priority. It is true that the least interventionist alternatives must always be supported, in clear alliance with the efforts of classical liberals in their long term impossible democratic limitation of the State (including reforms such as those proposed by Hayek in the third volume of Law, Legislation, and Liberty). But the anarcho-capitalist does not stop at this task, for he knows that he can and must do much more. He knows that the ultimate goal is the total dismantling of the State, and this goal leads all his imagination and political action in everyday life. And here we cannot fail to mention the unprecedented impact of our disciple and follower of our Master Program in Austrian Economics in Madrid, the President of Argentina, Javier Milei, who has done more than anyone else before to disseminate the principles of the Austrian School and the anarcho-capitalist ideal. Principles that he never ceases to quote and explain and defend once and again in all his public appearances, from the United Nations to the Davos Forum; and in all his meetings with other Heads of State, universities, and parliaments, to whom he even gives copies of the most important Austrian works by Mises, Hayek and even myself, as he did, for example, with the two popes, Francis and Leo XIV, with the French President Macron, the Italian Prime Minister Meloni, and even with Elon Musk. For us, it is a great honor that Milei has, to a large extent, emerged from the Austrian School of Madrid and that he continually keeps drawing inspiration from us. This is, without a doubt, much more important than incremental political steps in the right direction—which should of course be welcomed—and that should never fall into a political pragmatism that could betray the ultimate goal of achieving the end of the State (Huerta de Soto, 2010).And all this with tireless enthusiasm in the search for scientific and moral truth, an attitude that, inspired by the immortal work of Miguel de Cervantes, we could describe as follows: "It matters not whether they be giants or windmills, when the plume of our helm is stirred by the winds of tenacity and faith." And always creating a future that, although it may seem distant today, may at any moment witness giant steps that will surprise even the most optimistic among us. 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Air Date: 1/3/2026 Imperialism is best thought of as a "Wealth Pump," extracting wealth from one country and depositing it in another. Venezuela has wealth and wealth is the only thing Trump cares about, his willingness to break his promise of being the peace president and go along with traditional Republican hawks is not a complicated mystery. Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991, message us on Signal at the handle bestoftheleft.01, or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Full Show Notes Check out our new show, SOLVED! on YouTube! In honor of our 20th birthday, we're giving new Members 20% OFF FOR THE LIFETIME OF YOUR MEMBERSHIP...this includes Gift Memberships! (Members Get Bonus Shows + No Ads!) Use our links to shop Bookshop.org and Libro.fm for a non-evil book and audiobook purchasing experience! Join our Discord community! KEY POINTS KP 1: 'Clearly B.S.': Dem Rep. Slams Hegseth's Explanation for Boat Strikes - MS NOW Reports - Air Date 12-30-25 KP 2: Trump Admits Venezuela Attacks Are All About Their Oil - The Majority Report W/ Sam Seder - Air Date 12-18-25 KP 3: What's Behind Trump's Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base? - Democracy Now ! - Air Date 12-29-25 KP 4: Trump, Venezuela, and the New Cold War with China | Pinch Point - Al Jazeera English - Air Date 11-27-25 KP 5: "Trump Has Appointed Himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner" - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 12-12-25 KP 6: Venezuela to Trump's 'Total Blockade': You Will Never Colonize Us - The Socialist Program with Brian Becker - Air Date 12-17-25 (00:48:15) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR On the structure of imperialism DEEPER DIVES (01:02:10) SECTION A: DRUG WAR BS A1: Bonus - Venezuela, the Drug War, and U.S. Power in the Caribbean with Aileen Teague - American Prestige - Air Date 12-28-25 A2: US Strikes Against Venezuela: Trump "Wants the Oil" as Grassroots Resist "Economic Asphyxiation" - Democracy Now! - Air Date 12-31-25 A3: New Regime-Change War Dropped with Ken Klippenstein & Wajahat Ali - The Bitchuation Room - Air Date 9-5-25 A4: US Uses Drug Trafficking as Pretence to Force Regime Change in Venezuela - FRANCE 24 English - Air Date 10-16-25 A5: Collateral Damage - Airborne Imperialism: The Tragic Deaths of Veronica and Charity Bowers - The Intercept Briefing - Air Date 12-26-25 (01:41:05) SECTION B: THE MONROE DOCTRINE 2.0 B1: 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado "Opposite of Peace": Greg Grandin - Democracy Now! - Air Date 10-10-25 B2: Trump's Piracy in the Caribbean - The Real News Podcast - Air Date 12-23-25 B3: Why Do Horrible People Keep Winning Nobel Peace Prizes? - Overzealots - Air Date 11-15-25 B4: USA Is the Worst Pirate on Earth: Trump Boasts of Stealing Venezuela's Oil - Geopolitical Economy Report - Air Date 12-26-25 B5: Exposing Trump's Latin America Policy and Why It Will Fail with Richard Wolff - The Socialist Program with Brian Becker - Air Date 12-17-25 (02:20:52) SECTION C: NIGERIA BOMBING C1: Inside Nigeria's Bombed Border Communities - Focus on Africa - Air Date 12-29-25 C2: Breaking Down US Strikes on ISIS in Nigeria and the Complicated Conflict There - PBS NewsHour - Air Date 12-26-25 (02:37:40) SECTION D: WAR WITH VENEZUELA D1: Trump's Regime Change Operation Ramps Up with Blockade of Venezuelan Oil - Democracy Now! - Air Date 12-17-25 D2: They Finally Admitted Its All Fake - Chris Norlund - Air Date 12-29-25 D3: Loose Lips Trump Blabs About Covert Venezuela Mission; Appears To Be Making It Up As He Goes - The Briefing with Jen Psaki - Air Date 12-30-25 D4: Venezuela? I Hardly Knew Ya - The Muckrake Political Podcast - Air Date 12-12-25 D5: Why a US Ground Invasion of Venezuela Would Be a Disaster | About That - CBC News - Air Date 12-19-25 SHOW IMAGE CREDITS Description: Composite graphic showing Trump looking proudly at strikes on a small alleged "drug runner" boat while the corner of the image is flipped up revealing his arm grabbing barrels of Venezuelan oil. Credit: Internal composite design, Elements from Pixabay | Pixabay License | Unclassified boat image from U.S. D.O.D. shared on social media.   Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Listen Anywhere! BestOfTheLeft.com/Listen Listen Anywhere! Follow BotL: Bluesky | Mastodon | Threads | X Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com

Ironie ist ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Alltagskommunikation: Wir gebrauchen Ironie unter Freunden, schreiben ironisch im Chat oder schauen Filme und Serien, in denen Ironie ein wichtiges Ausducksmittel ist. Doch was ist Ironie überhaupt? In dieser Folge Sprachpfade schauen wir uns an, was sich hinter der sogenannten verbalen Ironie verbirgt - mithilfe von drei klassischen pragmatischen Ironie-Theorien: Opposition, Echo und Vortäuschung. Alle drei Theorien versuchen zu erklären, wie bei der Ironie der Unterschied zwischen dem Gesagten und dem Gemeinten entsteht. Warum sich die Forschung in Sachen Ironie trotzdem nicht einig ist, diskutieren wir in dieser Folge. Hört gerne rein!Ein Podcast von Anton und Jakob. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sprachpfade ---Literaturempfehlungen:Markewitz, Friedrich. 2024. Ironie (Kurze Einführungen in Die Germanistische Linguistik, Band 31). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.Garmendia, Joana. 2018. Irony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vertiefung:Lapp, Edgar. 1992. Linguistik der Ironie. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.Grice, Paul. 1991. Studies in the Way of Words: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Wilson, Deirdre & Dan Sperber. 2012. Meaning and Relevance. New York: Cambridge University Press.Clark, Herbert H. & Richard J. Gerrig. 1984. On the pretense theory of irony. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. US: American Psychological Association 113. 121–126. Kumon-Nakamura, Sachi, Sam Glucksberg & Mary Brown. 1995. How about another piece of pie: The allusional pretense theory of discourse irony. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. US: American Psychological Association 124(1). 3–21. ---weitere Links:Informationen zu Jonathan Swift: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_SwiftText des Essays "Ein bescheidener Vorschlag" von Jonathan Swift: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Ein_bescheidener_VorschlagInformationen zum "Abracadabra": https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrakadabra Gegenüber Themenvorschlägen für die kommenden Ausflüge in die Sprachwissenschaft und Anregungen jeder Art sind wir stets offen. Wir freuen uns auf euer Feedback! Schreibt uns dazu einfach an oder in die DMs: anton.sprachpfade@protonmail.com oder jakob.sprachpfade@protonmail.com ---Grafiken und Musik von Elias Kündiger https://on.soundcloud.com/ySNQ6

Der Titel der heutigen Episode ist: Friedrich Hayek und die Beschränktheit der menschlichen Vernunft.  Ich bin erst vor relativ kurzer Zeit in einem konkreteren Sinne auf Hayek aufmerksam geworden. Was mich sofort fasziniert hat – auch bei seinen frühen Schriften – ist sein ungeheures analytisches Talent, die interdisziplinäre Vorgehensweise und die Fähigkeit des systemischen Denkens. Sehr früh beschreibt und analysiert er komplexe Sachverhalte in einer Weise, wie sie heute, 50–100 Jahre später, immer noch hochgradig zeitgemäß und relevant ist. Insofern hat mich also zunächst der systemische, dann der politische und zuletzt der ökonomische Denker inspiriert.   In dieser Episode wird es daher um wesentliche Aspekte Hayeks Denken gehen. Aspekte, die für die heutige Zeit von enormer Bedeutung sind: Wo steckt Wissen in einer Gesellschaft? Wie können wir mit komplexen Entscheidungen, die in differenzierten Gesellschaften (oder Organisationen) notwendig sind, umgehen, wenn zentrale Planung scheitert? Was bedeuten Freiheit und Sozialstaat in einer Zeit, in der beides in westlichen Nationen vor dem Scheitern steht?   Es freut mich ganz besonders, dass ich für diese Episode Nickolas Emrich begrüßen darf.   Nickolas Emrich ist stellvertretender Vorsitzender der deutschen Hayek-Gesellschaft mit einem vielseitigen Lebensweg. Er ist Jurist, Bestsellerautor, Ex-Polizist und Unternehmer. Bei Radio Teddy moderierte er eine Sendung über Computerspiele für Kinder. Außerdem hat er bereits acht Bücher veröffentlicht. Sein aktuelles Werk „Gier nach Privilegien“ hat es sogar auf die Spiegel-Bestsellerliste geschafft.   Wir beginnen das Gespräch mit der Frage: Was ist die Hayek-Gesellschaft?   »Für Freiheit und Eigenverantwortung, vor allem auch für wirtschaftliche Eigenverantwortung, treten wir ein.«   Wie kann es sein, dass so vieles, was Hayek vor ca. 70 Jahren geschrieben hat, sich heute noch so zeitgemäß liest?   »Der Zustand der Welt ist fast nicht erklärbar, wo doch dieses Wissen vorliegt.«   »Das Faszinierende an ihm ist das Übergreifende.«   Was hat es mit der Freiheit auf sich? Welche Rolle spielt sie für Hayek, und wie verändert sich unser Verständnis davon über die Zeit? Was ist die österreichische Schule der Ökonomie? Welchen Einfluss hatte Ludwig von Mises?   Hayek, aber auch andere wesentliche Gelehrte der Zeit, z. B. Karl Popper, hatten eine große Breite im Denken, was bei vielen Intellektuellen der heutigen Zeit leider verloren gegangen ist. Ist Hayek folglich vielleicht sogar in seiner Rolle als Systemdenker wesentlicher als in seiner Rolle als Ökonom? Das Übertragen von Erkenntnissen und Einsichten aus einer Disziplin in eine andere erweist sich in vielen Fällen als sehr fruchtbar.   Seine Skepsis gegenüber großen Utopien eint ihn mit Zeitgenossen wie Karl Popper.   Wo sieht er das Wissen und die Rolle des Einzelnen, des Individuums, beziehungsweise der Summe der Individuen im Vergleich zu Experten?   »Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones«, Zitat aus der Nobelpreis-Rede von Hayek.   Wir diskutieren dann die Frage, wie es mit gelenkten Prozessen im Gegensatz zu verteilt-entschiedenen Prozessen aussieht.   »Aus einem gelenkten Prozess kann nichts Größeres entstehen, als der lenkende Geist voraussehen kann.«   Das regelnde System ist ein Modell des Systems, das es zu regeln versucht – dies haben auch die Kybernetiker der 1960er Jahre erkannt.   Wo steckt eigentlich das Wissen der Welt? In der Wissenschaft? Oder ist dies vielleicht nur ein kleiner Teil des Wissens, das für unsere Welt von so entscheidender Bedeutung ist?   »Es ist viel einfacher, Macht als Wissen zu aggregieren«, Thomas Sowell.   Was versteht dann Hayek unter dem Markt? Wie passt das in diese systemische Betrachtung der Welt? Sind Märkte gar etwas »Natürliches«?   Aber überschätzen wir möglicherweise die Rolle von Regierungen ohnehin? Jedenfalls in einem positiven Sinne? »The role played by governments is greatly exaggerated in historical accounts because we necessarily know so much more about what organized government did than about what the spontaneous coordination of individual efforts accomplished.«   Was ist nun die Rolle von Märkten und vor allem auch von Preisen? Preise sind, und das wird sehr häufig in der öffentlichen Diskussion übersehen, ein Kommunikationsmittel, das wesentliche Informationen vermittelt. Was bedeutet dies konkret?   Können Märkte eine emanzipierende Funktion haben? Sind sie demokratisch? Ist die Demokratie hingegen die »Belohnung unlauterer Sonderinteressen«?   Was sollen wir aber in realpolitischen Situationen machen, wo sich bestimmte (staatliche) Akteure nicht korrekt verhalten und Wirtschaft als Machtmittel einsetzen?   »Wir sind noch an einem Punkt, wo der Wohlstand ausreicht, um diese Wucherungen (der überbordenden Regulierungen) zu ertragen, aber wo die Last zunehmend schwerer wird.«   Jede planerische Top-down-Intervention hat Seiteneffekte, Seiteneffekte, die oftmals das Gegenteil des Erwünschten erreichen. Der Planer begibt sich auch immer in die Rolle einer Person, die behauptet, besser zu wissen als alle anderen, wie diese zu leben haben. Aber es gibt auch die andere Seite:   »Dieser Wunsch nach Autorität ist leider vorhanden.«   Haben wir die Perspektive verloren? So liest man heute von »Soziologen« etwa solche Aussagen:   »Wir sprechen von Familienunternehmern – woanders nennt man sie Oligarchen«, Martyna Linartas.   Wer hat aber in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten den Wohlstand in Deutschland geschaffen?   »Man lernt ja früh, wie ein geplantes System funktioniert – nämlich die Schule.« Was wir weniger lernen, ist, was es bedeutet, in komplexen Systemen, also etwa in der Wirtschaft, zu agieren.   Und damit sind wir wieder bei einer fundamentalen systemischen Frage: Wie verteilen wir Risiko in einer Gesellschaft? Was ist dabei die Rolle des Sozialstaates? Was passiert, wenn die Mehrheit der Menschen in einer Gesellschaft immer weniger Risiko selbst trägt, sondern dieses de facto delegiert? Entsteht damit in Wahrheit nicht nur eine Scheinsicherheit und ein systemisch viel größeres Risiko?   Was hat es mit dem Survivorship Bias zu tun? Warum sollte man sich darüber bewusst sein, bevor man Unternehmer wie Bezos oder Musk beurteilt?   »Man guckt viel zu wenig auf Ergebnisse – darum ist man jetzt auch so schockiert, was in Argentinien passiert. Man versucht, sich auf Ideen zu versteifen und in der Theorie Schlachten zu schlagen, aber das Entscheidende ist ja, ob Dinge funktionieren.«   Verändert sich die Perspektive, wenn man längere Zeiträume des Erfolgs von Unternehmen betrachtet? Wer heute top ist, ist morgen wahrscheinlich nicht mehr relevant – jedenfalls in einer funktionierenden Marktwirtschaft. Kann man Märkte mit Naturgesetzen vergleichen, oder ist das zu weit hergeholt? Als Beispiel nenne ich die führende Reporterkamera Graflex (deren Name mir im Gespräch nicht eingefallen ist).   Das Sterben von Unternehmen ist Teil einer gesunden Wirtschaft. Aber wie ist es zu interpretieren, wenn der Staat mit dem Geld aller Bürger Unternehmen vor dem Konkurs rettet – oft aus vermeintlich guten Gründen?   Was ist der Zusammenhang zwischen dem Wikipedia-Projekt und Hayek?   Zum Abschluss: Was sollte nun der Staat eigentlich leisten, und wie können wir dort wieder hinkommen? Um das Zitat von Nils Hesse aus der früheren Episode aufzugreifen: Brauchen wir einen ordoliberalen Unkrautstecher oder eher die Mileische Kettensäge?   Welche Freiheitsbegriffe spielen dabei eine Rolle?   »Das Recht des einen ist immer die Pflicht des Anderen.«   Grundrechte galten in der Vergangenheit in der Regel als Abwehrrechte gegen den Staat; Verfassungen dienen dazu, die Rechte des Staates zu begrenzen – wo stehen wir hier in der heutigen Interpretation? Ist der Sozialstaat eher ein Asozialstaat?   Hayek hat unzählige Bücher und Artikel verfasst, aber eine Kernaussage könnte man herauskristallisieren: Das Wissen um die Beschränktheit der menschlichen Vernunft. Jedes gesellschaftliche System muss eine Antwort auf diese Herausforderung haben.   »Die verhängnisvolle Anmaßung ist eben die Anmaßung, mehr zu wissen als die Summe aller anderen.«   Müssen wir in vielen europäischen Staaten erst so absteigen und über Jahrzehnte leiden wie die Argentinier, bis wirkungsvolle Reformen denkbar werden, oder schaffen wir es vorher umzusteuern? »Solange das Problem nicht verstanden wird, wird es weiter bergab gehen.«   Mein neues Buch auf Amazon: Hexenmeister oder Zauberlehrling?: Die Wissensgesellschaft in der Krise Referenzen Andere Episoden Episode 131: Wot Se Fack, Deutschland? Ein Gespräch mit Vince Ebert Episode 130: Populismus und (Ordo)liberalismus, ein Gespräch mit Nils Hesse Episode 129: Rules, A Conversation with Prof. Lorraine Daston Episode 128: Aufbruch in die Moderne — Der Mann, der die Welt erfindet! Episode 125: Ist Fortschritt möglich? Ideen als Widergänger über Generationen Episode 117: Der humpelnde Staat, ein Gespräch mit Prof. Christoph Kletzer Episode 114: Liberty in Our Lifetime 2: Conversations with Lauren Razavi, Grant Romundt and Peter Young Episode 113: Liberty in Our Lifetime 1: Conversations with Massimo Mazzone, Vera Kichanova and Tatiana Butanka Episode 109: Was ist Komplexität? Ein Gespräch mit Dr. Marco Wehr Episode 108: Freie Privatstädte Teil 2, ein Gespräch mit Titus Gebel Episode 107: How to Organise Complex Societies? A Conversation with Johan Norberg Episode 89: The Myth of Left and Right, a Conversation with Prof. Hyrum Lewis Episode 80: Wissen, Expertise und Prognose, eine Reflexion Nickolas Emrich Nickolas Emrich in der Hayek Gesellschaft LinkedIn Nickolas Emrich, Gier nach Privilegien, Finanzbuch Verlag (2024) Fachliche Referenzen Drei ausgewählte Bücher von Friedrich Hayek: Friedrich Hayek, Nobelpreisrede, The Pretence of Knowledge (1974) Friedrich Hayek, Der Weg zur Knechtschaft (1944) Friedrich Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialsm (1988) Friedrich Hayek, The Use of Knowledge in Society, The American Economic Review, Vol. 35, No. 4. (Sep., 1945) Martyna Linartas, »Wir sprechen von Familienunternehmern – woanders nennt man sie Oligarchen«, Tagesspiegel (2025) Graflex Camera

In this episode of Quietly Visible, host Carol Stewart is joined by consultant psychotherapist, writer, and founder of Stilled Therapy & Consultancy, Monique Thomas. Together, they explore what it means to lead with grace and why this is such a powerful approach for introverted women in leadership.Monique shares her personal journey from teaching and performing to psychotherapy, weaving in lessons about authenticity, stillness, and the importance of connection. She unpacks how leaders can move beyond performance and pressure, create psychologically safe environments, and thrive without pretending to be someone they're not.Key takeaways from this conversation:Grace in leadership means moving away from performance-driven cultures and embracing authenticity.Stillness isn't about inactivity—it's about finding safety, acceptance, and deep connection even in motion.Authenticity is powerful—real change begins when we accept ourselves as we are.Connection is essential—introverts need belonging and safe spaces just as much as anyone else.Challenging performance culture can prevent burnout and help leaders lead with compassion and sustainability.This is an inspiring listen for introverted women leaders who want to thrive by leading with authenticity, compassion, and courage—without losing themselves to performance pressures.Connect with Monique:hello@stlldtherapy.comLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/monique-thomas-ma-5541b429/Take Carol's Free Assessment to improve your impact and influencehttps://aboundingsolutions.com/taketheimpactassessment/

Der Titel der heutigen Episode ist: Populismus und Ordoliberalismus. Das ist wieder eine sehr spannende Episode, denn die Frage, was Populismus eigentlich ausmacht, wie man ihn sinnvollerweise definiert und verortet, scheint in Zeiten, wo solche Begriffe doch verstärkt aktivistisch eingesetzt werden, höchst relevant. Ich führe dieses Gespräch mit Nils Hesse, der als freier Ordnungsökonomen arbeitet, derzeit zwar in den USA lebt, sich aber mit Artikeln, Beiträgen oder als Host des R21-Klimapodcasts »Der Preis ist heiß« in die deutsche wirtschafts- und klimapolitische Debatte einbringt. Wissenschaftlich setzt er sich ideengeschichtlich und institutionenökonomisch mit dem Verhältnis von Ordoliberalismus und Populismus auseinander und schreibe dazu am Walter-Eucken-Institut an einer Habilitationsschrift. Diese Arbeit ist das Thema unseres Gesprächs.  Wir beginnen das Gespräch mit der Frage, was eigentlich unter Populismus zu verstehen ist? Populistische Bewegungen unterscheiden zwischen Volk und Elite. Welche Ausprägungen des Populismus gibt es in Folge? Was ist der Zusammenhang zwischen Populismus und repräsentativer Demokratie? Welche politischen Folgen können von populistischen Gruppierungen abgeleitet werden? Wie ist Populismus zu bewerten? Ist »Populismus« als abwertende Marke, als politischer Kampfbegriff sinnvoll verwendet? Ist die Verwendung global einheitlich, oder unterscheidet sie sich im europäischen und US-amerikanischen Kontext? Wann und unter welchen Rahmenbedingungen wird der Populismus zum Problem? Welche Typen des Populismus gibt es? Was sind Trägergruppen des Populismus? Wie formen sich aus dem Populismus politisch (wirksame) Strömungen? Was bedeutet der Begriff der Elite? Wie ist diese definiert? Was bedeutet der Begriff »Nobilitas Naturalis« nach Röpke? Wie können die folgenden Gegenreaktionen auf Populismus beschrieben werden:  Isolationsstrategie   Strategie der Annäherung   Beschäftigung mit den strukturellen Mängeln und Problemen, die zum Populismus geführt haben Warum werden intellektuelle und »abstraktere« Berufe von Populisten häufig abschätzig betrachtet? Was sind die Folgen davon? »Wenn man die Leute als radikal bezeichnet, dann gehen Leute, die mit diesen Zuschreibungen Probleme haben, eher weg, und die Leute, die drinnen sind, erkennen sich dann eher als bestätigt [von den Eliten ausgegrenzt]. Das führt dann eher dazu, dass sie sich weiter radikalisieren.« Werden wir zum Nanny-State, weil politische Entscheidungsträger glauben, immer mehr Aspekte der Gesellschaft durch Zentralisierung vermeintlich verbessern zu können? Wie ist das Rousseausche Rätsel aufzulösen? »Wie können wir frei sein, obwohl wir unter Regeln leben müssen, denen wir selbst nicht zugestimmt haben?« Welche Rolle spielt Dezentralisierung, und mit welchen praktischen Problemen ist man konfrontiert? Warum sind Repräsentationslücken ein Problem? Gibt es einen Volkswillen, den die Politik »erkennen« kann? Oder gibt es in einer freiheitlichen Gesellschaft prinzipiell sehr unterschiedliche Ziele, die zu respektieren sind? Wie ist das in der Praxis umzusetzen? Was hat Elinor Ostrom zum Problem der Tragedy of the Commons beigetragen? Auf welcher Ebene kann man sinnvollerweise welchen Mehrwert schaffen? Warum können Regelwettbewerbe sehr nützlich sein? Kommen wir zum Ordoliberalismus. Um welche politisch-ökonomische Strömung handelt es sich dabei? Wer hat ihn begründet, und warum ist es heute relevant, sich damit auseinanderzusetzen? Geschichtlich greifen wir hier auf die Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg zurück und dann auf die Verwerfungen, die sich durch die Weltkriege ergeben haben und das Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit substantiell definiert haben. Welche emanzipatorische Wirkung kann von der Marktwirtschaft ausgehen? Warum ist Machtkonzentration und die Vermischung von politischer und wirtschaftlicher Macht ein Problem, und wie kann dies vermieden werden? Welche Art der Wettbewerbsordnung entspringt diesen Überlegungen und Herausforderungen? Was ist die Basis einer freien und menschenwürdigen Gesellschaft? Führt all das zur sozialen Marktwirtschaft, einem nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg sehr erfolgsbewährten Konzept? Was hat all das für Deutschland der Nachkriegszeit bedeutet, was waren die Gründe für das Wirtschaftswunder? Woher kam der Konflikt mit den angelsächsischen Libertären, und was ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten geschehen? Sind diese Ideen auf die Probleme der heutigen Zeit anwendbar? Was sind die Prinzipien dieser Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsordnung, und warum war sie so erfolgreich? Können Märkte als anti-elitäre Maßnahmen verstanden werden? Was ist das Verhältnis zwischen Populismus und Marktwirtschaft? Wie ist die politische Orientierung der AfD, und wie ist deren Veränderung über die Zeit zu verstehen? Warum konnte sich der Ordoliberalismus international nicht durchsetzen? Erleben wir in den letzten Jahrzehnten, speziell in Mitteleuropa und Großbritannien, die Situation, dass die Probleme ständig zunehmen und die Regierungen glauben, diese mit immer stärkeren staatlichen Eingriffen zu lösen – wie es scheint, mit immer weniger Erfolg? Welche Rolle spielt die Europäische Union in dieser Gemengelage? Wie ist Javier Milei und dessen Politik – insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund der Geschichte Argentiniens – zu begreifen? Kann es uns in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Österreich gelingen, aus den schweren Verwerfungen und politisch herbeigeführten Krisen evolutionär herauszukommen, oder ist ein totaler Abstieg wie in Argentinien notwendig, bis wir die notwendigen Lehren ziehen? Anders ausgedrückt: Brauchen wir die Motorsäge, oder reicht der ordoliberale Unkrautstecher? Sind wir auf dem dauerhaften Weg in die Misere, oder werden manche/viele Dinge tatsächlich besser? Alles schlechtzureden ist ebenfalls kein funktionierendes Rezept für die Zukunft. Referenzen Andere Episoden Episode 129: Rules, A Conversation with Prof. Lorraine Daston Episode 126: Schwarz gekleidet im dunklen Kohlekeller. Ein Gespräch mit Axel Bojanowski Episode 125: Ist Fortschritt möglich? Ideen als Widergänger über Generationen Episode 117: Der humpelnde Staat, ein Gespräch mit Prof. Christoph Kletzer Episode 108: Freie Privatstädte Teil 2, ein Gespräch mit Titus Gebel Episode 107: How to Organise Complex Societies? A Conversation with Johan Norberg Episode 90: Unintended Consequences (Unerwartete Folgen) Episode 89: The Myth of Left and Right, a Conversation with Prof. Hyrum Lewis Episode 88: Liberalismus und Freiheitsgrade, ein Gespräch mit Prof. Christoph Möllers Episode 72: Scheitern an komplexen Problemen? Wissenschaft, Sprache und Gesellschaft — Ein Gespräch mit Jan David Zimmermann Episode 58: Verwaltung und staatliche Strukturen — ein Gespräch mit Veronika Lévesque Nils Hesse Publikationen von Nils Hesse Wettbewerb, Cronyismus und Populismus, Ordo (2025) Dickere Bretter bohren! Wie reagieren auf erfolgreiche Populisten?, Denkfabrik R21 (2023) Der Preis ist heiß — Podcast Fachliche Referenzen Reckwitz, Andreas (2020): Das Ende der Illusionen. Politik, Ökonomie und Kultur in der Spätmoderne. Berlin: Suhrkamp. Röpke, Wilhelm (1942/1979): Die Gesellschaftskrisis der Gegenwart. 6. Aufl., Bern, Stuttgart: Paul Haupt. Röpke, Wilhelm (1958/1979): Jenseits von Angebot und Nachfrage. 5. Aufl., Bern: Paul Haupt. Ostrom, Elinor (1990): Governing the Commons. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Eucken, Walter (1952/2004): Grundsätze der Wirtschaftspolitik. 7. Aufl., Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck. Böhm, Franz, Walter Eucken und Hans Großmann-Doerth (1936/2008): Unsere Aufgabe. In: Goldschmidt, Wohlgemuth (Hrsg.): Grundtexte zur Freiburger Tradition der Ordnungsökonomik, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, S. 27-37. Erhard, Ludwig (1957/2009): Wohlstand für Alle. Köln: Anaconda. Müller-Armack, Alfred (1946/1990): Wirtschaftslenkung und Marktwirtschaft. München: Kastell. Hayek, Friedrich A. von (1971/1983): Die Verfassung der Freiheit. 2. Aufl., Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. Rothbard, Murray (1992): A Strategy for the Right. Mises Institute vom 03. September 2010. Abgerufen am 28. November 2022. Friedrich Hayek, Der Weg zur Knechtschaft (1945) Mervyn King, John Kay, Radical Uncertainty, Bridge Street Press (2021) The Pretence of Knowledge, Friedrich August von Hayek; Nobel Prize Lecture (1974)

Episode: 2284 Books by the foot: the ultimate reductio ad absurdum.  Today, guest scientist Andrew Boyd finds a new use for books.

Bible Readings:  Gen 11:1-19, Phil 2:1-13 Last Sunday’s sermon:”Sincerity in an age of pretence” with Tom Barrett, part of our series “Digital Discipleship”. The post Sincerity in an age of pretence appeared first on All Saints North Epping.

Fellowship is essential to the Christian faith, reflecting God's desire for harmony among His people. The early church exemplified this through their deep devotion to community. However, pretence, prejudice, unforgiveness, personality clashes, gossip, envy, competition, and lack of accountability can undermine authentic fellowship. These issues corrode church unity and distort Christ's image. This podcast explores how these elements poison fellowship and provides a biblical path to genuine community. #swindonchurch #churches #pretense #fellowship #Christian faith #church unity #hypocrisy #prejudice, #unforgiveness, #personality clashes #gossip, #envy, #competition, #accountability earlychurch #biblicalperspective, #community #reconciliation #unity #inclusivity #Christ-like #virtues #transparency #acceptance, #forgiveness #brendonnaicker #swindon #swindonchurch

Fellowship is essential to the Christian faith, reflecting God's desire for harmony among His people. The early church exemplified this through their deep devotion to community. However, pretence, prejudice, unforgiveness, personality clashes, gossip, envy, competition, and lack of accountability can undermine authentic fellowship. These issues corrode church unity and distort Christ's image. This podcast explores how these elements poison fellowship and provides a biblical path to genuine community. #swindonchurch #churches #pretense #fellowship #Christian faith #church unity #hypocrisy #prejudice, #unforgiveness, #personality clashes #gossip, #envy, #competition, #accountability earlychurch #biblicalperspective, #community #reconciliation #unity #inclusivity #Christ-like #virtues #transparency #acceptance, #forgiveness #brendonnaicker #swindon #swindonchurch

Tom West saw the reality of God's life-changing salvation in his parents' lives – and he wanted what they had. So one day he knelt down and asked God to save him, and presumed everything was alright. But deep down nothing had changed. Despite later being baptised and even “breaking bread”, Tom says “it was all just an outward show for everyone else to see”. But Tom now has what his parents have. Listen to find out how he became The post I Was Just Living a Big Pretence (43 min) first appeared on Gospel Hall Audio.

Do you have an ex who oversteps their mark? Is your boyfriend's behaviour making you worried? Lala is back to help you spot and deal with those crimson red flags that pop up in life in this weeks Agony Aunt episode. Got a question, for Lala? She's all ears! Get in touch @asklalaletmeexplain on Instagram and let's navigate this romantic landscape together! A Sony Music Entertainment production Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us at @sonypodcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com And if you would like to read more from Lala follow the link for her weekly OK Mag column https://www.ok.co.uk/authors/Lalalaletmeexplain/" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The moment of Brexit (2016-20) singularly challenged the UK's unwritten constitution. Some blamed Theresa May and Boris Johnson for implementing the referendum result. Others – including Austen Morgan, a barrister and writer – criticise parliament and the supreme court more fairly. His book, 'Pretence: Why The UK Needs A Written Constitution', takes up the idea in the 2019 conservative manifesto, and shows how a reforming government could begin to codify the rules by which the state runs, in place of the Gilbert and Sullivan flummery which dignifies the reality of political power. Discussing Europe, devolution, judicial review and human rights as contemporary political issues, the book even begins the process of finding agreement by the peoples of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland with the author's own suggestions for a preamble to a new constitution.

#Hypocricy, Pretence and Fear – Acts 4:32-27 & Acts 5:1-11 Rev Dean Batchelor

No one really knows what they're doing Admitting that is such a deeeeep exhale #32 is a short and sweet foray into embracing the full spectrum of our humanness, recognizing that we're *all* walking with levels and layers of discomfort, asking ourselves "what the f*ck is actually going on" and figuring it out one awkward step at a time The best part... you get to choose how you experience it; peacefully or battling your way through trying to uphold the pretence that you have it all figured out If you're into embracing the human experience, sage wisdom and... Gucci Mane, this one's for you TRAUMA RELEASE Shop and receive 10% off the trauma release protocol I've been following [I bought the 5 course bundle!] by Liz Tenuto (⁠⁠⁠@theworkoutwitch_⁠⁠⁠ on IG) using code IAMKELSEYLAUREN - ⁠⁠⁠30 Day Free Your Hips⁠⁠⁠  ⁠⁠⁠SONANCE MEMBERSHIP⁠⁠⁠ If walking shoulder to shoulder with other humans, artists, leaders and entrepreneurs in a community space that feels like a warm hug and a deeeeep exhale is your thing; we'd love to have you inside of ⁠the ⁠⁠Sonance Membership⁠⁠⁠. Inside of Sonance, you'll be seen, celebrated and supported in all the layers of life and business within a private Telegram channel, twice monthly Sonance Micromind Sessions and all access to an epic self-led course catalogue. ABOUT KELSEY LAUREN Kelsey Lauren is a multidimensional human, Mission Mentor and Business Artist whose work supports entrepreneurs, leaders and visionaries in all facets–from subtle to structural–and fruitions of their Legacy and mission. Kelsey is profoundly skilled at guiding inner processes with precise and penetrating questions to connect you with and amplify the brilliance of your blueprint, step audaciously into your frequency-first leadership and flourish in your Creatorship and business. If you're loving UNEDITED, be sure to subscribe, rate and review on your favourite platform & share your favourite insights from this episode (tagging @iamkelseylauren) so I can celebrate and connect with you!

Pretence is the first colour of betrayal

In this episode, I peel back the layers of our education system to reveal its flaws and the mediocrity of memorization.   Only when we are truly honest about the system we have can we ever hope to rebuild something of value for our students and society at large.  The days of standardized testing, memorizing dates, reciting the periodic table and only reading ministry approved books are over.  You want to build intelligent, critical thinkers who are ready to take on all the world has to offer?  How much are you willing to pay?  What will you sacrifice?

Ant and Craig from the Pretence Collective join us to talk about their zine Pretence, how they met, got inspired, put out an open call and made an amazing book for us all to enjoy! Check them out at:   Pretence website Pretence Instagram Ant Instagram Craig Instagram   And while you're at it, join the Sunny16 Discord too

Whitney Cummings talks about her new stand up special and how she's been dealing with the aftermath of the highly publicised cheating scandal.

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It's warm.Really flipping warm as David & Matt fail to find a suitable replacement to the A-Z segment whilst reviewing the 'Sarah Jane Adventures' series one finale: 'The Lost Boy".Doctor Who theme by Ron Grainer, arranged by Alexander Erben.Talk to us! Email: timenorspacepod@gmail.comTwitter: @timenorspacepod 

More requests from the VT Sharer's & Carers with the likes of REM, The Nips, Kate Bush, Nicki Minaj, Julian Cope, Iggy Pop and many more. Nice.

Earlier this week, Climate Change Minister James Shaw was interviewed by Andrew Dickens on Newstalk ZB about our latest research, Pretence of Necessity: Why further climate change action isn't needed and won't help. The Minister made some dubious claims during his interview. Report author Matt Burgess sat down with Oliver Hartwich to address each of the Minister's points and clear up his confusion.

The New Zealand Initiative has released a report on climate change called the Pretence of Necessity. It's been written by a bloke called Matt Burgess who used to be Bill English's Senior Economic Advisor for 4 years and has a long history working on public policy, competition, governance and network industries including electricity, gas and telecommunications and infrastructure for both the government and private industry. In it, he says that at May's Budget, the government will commit $4.5 billion to new spending on climate change, more than $2,000 per household and it will not reduce our emissions at all. His argument is we already have a cap-and-trade framework. We cap the total emissions and then we trade the spare with the Emissions Trading Scheme. So, if we launch a new policy to reduce a specific emission then the credits earned will then get transferred to other emission sectors. Meaning that overall, we get no gain at all. James Shaw will join me later to dispute this but the claims ring true with me. After all, so far nothing has worked and New Zealand emissions have increased year after year after year. I'd like to see emissions lowered. We have a finite world and we don't need to fill it full of exhaust. But I also know the whole world is run on energy and apart from hydro and wind it all comes from burning stuff. So, when we cap emissions, we're asking somebody to burn less stuff. But ever since the Emission Trading Scheme emerged as the world-wide tool to lower emissions, I've realised that it's a failed scheme, a market dreamt up by academics, a scheme that doesn't reduce emissions just moves them around a bit. Along with offsets it's created Never Never Land. A world where people make themselves feel good by transferring their energy use to someone else. The mindset hit its nadir when Coldplay announced their last world tour would be the world's first carbon-neutral concert tour. Which meant that the band still jetted around the world in their aeroplanes, consuming vast amounts of electricity at each show, while showering confetti over a hundred stadiums but claim it's all good for the planet because they plant forests all over the show. There's only one way to cut emissions and that's to cut emissions.  And the only way to cut emissions and keep the planet working is to develop a clean way to power it. Everything else is virtue signalling and blame-shifting. 

Is New Zealand's Net Zero carbon emissions target of 2050 likely or achievable? Will electric vehicle subsidies and similar policies help us get there? Matt Burgess joins Ben Craven to talk through the findings of his latest research report, Pretence of Necessity: Why further climate change action isn't needed and won't help. Read Matt's report on the NZ Initiative website, www.nzinitiative.org.nz

The UN security council meets over Vladimir Putin's effective partition of Ukraine, as he sends troops to the country's east, and recognises two regions as independent. Ukraine's president declares "we are not afraid", we'll speak with an Australian scholar in the Ukrainian capital. Former top Australian defence official Professor Paul Dibb joins ‘PM' with a grim view of what Putin might do next. We'll also meet Australians of Ukrainian descent who are anxious for relatives and friends back home.

In this episode, let's talk about what theory of mind is, how it develops and relates to individuals with autism. References: Baron-Cohen, S., Leslie, A. M., & Frith, U. (1985). Does the autistic child have a “theory of mind”. Cognition, 21(1), 37-46. Callejas, A., Shulman, G. L., & Corbetta, M. (2011). False belief vs. false photographs: a test of theory of mind or working memory?. Frontiers in psychology, 2, 316. Castelli, F., Frith, C., Happé, F., & Frith, U. (2002). Autism, Asperger syndrome and brain mechanisms for the attribution of mental states to animated shapes. Brain, 125(8), 1839-1849. Leslie, A.M. (1987). Pretence and representation: the origins of ‘theory of mind'. Psychological Review, 94, 412–426. Nelson, P. B., Adamson, L. B., & Bakeman, R. (2008). Toddlers' joint engagement experience facilitates preschoolers' acquisition of theory of mind. Developmental science, 11(6), 847-852. Nickerson, R. S. (1999). How we know—and sometimes misjudge—what others know: Imputing one's own knowledge to others. Psychological bulletin, 125(6), 737. Perner, J., Frith, U., Leslie, A.M. & Leekam, S. (1989). Exploration of the autistic child's theory of mind: Knowledge, belief, and communication. Child Development, 60, 689–700. Premack, D., & Woodruff, G. (1978). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind?. Behavioral and brain sciences, 1(4), 515-526. Ruhl, C. (2020). Theory of mind. Simply Psychology. www.simplypsychology.org/theory-of-mind.html Senju, A. (2012). Spontaneous theory of mind and its absence in autism spectrum disorders. The Neuroscientist, 18(2), 108-113. Wellman, H. M., Fang, F., & Peterson, C. C. (2011). Sequential progressions in a theory‐of‐mind scale: Longitudinal perspectives. Child development, 82 (3), 780-792. Wimmer, H. & Perner, J. (1983). Beliefs about beliefs. Cognition, 13, 103–128. Wing, L. (1997). The autistic spectrum: Oxford: Pergamon. For more information, head over to Aspect Australia - www.autismspectrum.org.au. Disclaimer: I'm not a professional, just a student with a passion for autism.

We can understand that being under the influence of something can enlighten you, can make you seem more open, and perhaps, in these cases, more susceptible to the suggestions of others; especially in an overwhelming environment. In both Midsommar and Fifteen Million Merits, there is a small connection when it boils down to some important scenes. Copyright to Two Takes Podcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/twotakespodcast/support

Gary Pittard discusses the folly of wasting too much time on social media at the expense of speaking with people by telephone or face-to-face.

Hosts: Emrys and Katie Guest: StephIn our eighth episode we meet petrified Horror hater: Steph, who'd rather pretend that Horror movies don't exist.We ride Hugo the Horror horse, we don't buckle to peer pressure, we pretend Horror doesn't exist, we give out stickers for being brave, we picture ourselves behind the scenes to make it less scary, we get angry at the characters, we watch the Exorcist dubbed in French, we watch a zom-rom-com, we create new zombie rules, we have a bonies to pick, we realise its Romeo and Juliet with Zombies, we put poo on each other's faces, we don't know what's real any more, we face the Oedipus complex, we're obsessed with house restoration, our lights flicker so we move out, we go into business as interior designers, we find all the meanings, we have a god complex, and we discuss the movies Warm Bodies and The Room (2019)MoviesWarm Bodies  (2013)Written & Directed by: Jonathan LevineWhere to watch:US: Streaming on RokuUK: Streaming on Amazon Prime Video and PlexUS & UK: Buy and Rent on Apple, Amazon, YouTubeThe Room (2019)Written & Directed by:  Christian VolckmanWhere to watch:US: Streaming on Shudder, Direct TV and AMC+UK: Streaming on ShudderSPOILER WARNING: We will discuss the plot of these movies in full, so if you haven't seen them, pause this podcast, watch them, then come right on back. We also discuss the following:MoviesInsidious Franchise, Poltergeist, Things Heard and Seen, American Mary, Rabid (2019), The Exorcist, Paranormal Activity, Shaun of the Dead, Clash of the Titans, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Truman Show, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later.TVBoulet Brother's Dragula, Ru Paul's Drag Race, Stranger Things, The Simpsons, The Walking Dead, Behind Her Eyes, Stranger Things.PodcastsBoulet Brother's Creatures of the Night.Instagram: @curatorsofhorror Email: curatorsofhorror@gmail.com Produced and Edited by: Emrys Recorded remotely using: SquadCast Opening Music: Tiffany Hern Closing Music: Spooky Scherzo by Sam Fonteyn

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://patricblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/people-believe-her-fake-mask-and-hypocritical-pretence/

Dars delivered by Shaykh Ebrahim Schuitema at the zawia

This week's offering is the re-make of ALADDIN. After…mixed reviews, we talk about the ‘clean' visuals, what it feels Disney wants from a re-make, and how watching this involves something of the same pretence shown by the characters themselves. Next Up Our next Disney film is the 1994 original version of THE LION KING. Recent Media THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN (1933): Frank Capra, Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther INTERIOR DESIGN MASTERS WITH ALAN CARR (2021): Diccon Ramsay, Emma Taylor, Alan Carr Recommendations TRON: LEGACY (2010): Joseph Kosinski, Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund TERRA NOVA (2011): Kelly Marcel, Craig Silverstein, Jason O'Mara MEN IN BLACK (1997): Barry Sonnenfeld, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY (2017): Tommy Wirkola, Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close Footnotes Firstly, here's a little reminder of the environment in which Rob's ‘recent media' film was made: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood. Onto our film of the week. Sam mentions a few of the film's casting controversies, further explored here: deadline.com/2018/01/disney-aladdin-criticized-media-browning-up-1202237376 and here: www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/07/17/disney-aladdin-jasmine-naomi-scott_a_23034316. And this is a really comprehensive article on the confused/confusing cultural politics of the film: www.vox.com/2019/5/24/18635896/disney-live-action-aladdin-controversy-history (it also has a nod to Edward Said's Orientalism, the ultimate text explaining many of the racial codings of cultural portrayals like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)). Finally, it wouldn't be an episode of The Prestige without a regular mention of Brecht! www.britannica.com/biography/Bertolt-Brecht. And when it comes to films-as-stage-plays, although slightly off-topic, this was an interesting list: www.metacritic.com/feature/best-and-worst-movies-based-on-plays-and-musicals?page=1 (I'm strangely intrigued by the SJP film at number 1…) Find Us On Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-prestige-417454 Follow Us - https://www.twitter.com/prestigepodcast Follow Sam - https://www.twitter.com/life_academic Follow Rob - https://www.twitter.com/kaijufm Find Our Complete Archive on Kaiju.FM - http://www.kaiju.fm/the-prestige/

04-03-20_NVCC_From pretence to pure chanting_HG RSP

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Online Radio Show recorded live on November 4th 2020. The show goes live on Radio Dark Tunnel and is transmitted also on Wax Radio Indy. In this show I played "In Darkness" by NNHMN (@nnhmn), "Aesthetics" by Vakhtang (@vakhtang_j), "Daemon" (feat. Moris Blak [@moris-blak]) by Ulisess(@ulisessco), "Out From Your Pain" by Downwell(@dnwll), "Deadweight" by Pretence (@pretencedj) & Cable (@cablecable), "Diktator Sequenz" by Sina XX (@sinaxxmusic) & Munsinger (@munsinger) and "Education Lost" by NNHMN (@nnhmn).

Аудио версия микса здесь: pdj.cc/ftJDB Треклист: 01) Cardi B ft Megan Thee Stallion - WAP (DJ Baur Remix Intro edit) 02) Artik & Asti vs Lavrushkin, Vincent & Diaz - Vse Mimo (DJ Baur VIP Edit) 03) Smash feat. Poёt - Беги (GNTLS Remix) 04) SLAVA MARLOW & Groove Delight - Снова я напиваюсь (S&M, YUDZHIN Edit) 05) Fedde Le Grand, Ida Corr vs Viktor Mora, Kubi - Let Me Think About It (RUSSELL GRAND EDIT) 06) Макс Корж x Robi Roka - Малый повзрослел (Alex Shik Mashup) 07) Зомб X Moksi - Делаем флекс (Rush mash up) 08) Ben Fero x DOBER - Demet Akalin (Chris Fader VIP Edit) 09) Quest Pistols vs. Tiësto - Санта Лючия (Alex Shik Mashup) 10) Trevor Daniel vs. Ben Ambergen & Starjack - Falling (MARTYNOFF EDIT) 11) JONY - Ты Беспощадна (GNTLS Remix) 12) David Guetta & JØRD & Freaks'n'beatz - The World Is Mine (CHIRVA BOOTLEG Edit) 13) 50 Cent x MEGandFOX- Candy Shop (Alex Shik Mashup) 14) T-Fest x Скриптонит - Ламбада (Alex Shik Remix) 15) Chuckie & LMFAO vs. Pretence, Dave Summit - Let The Bass Kick In Miami (MARTYNOFF 20K EDIT) 16) Katy Perry feat. Nicki Minaj vs. SMACK, Raven & Kreyn - Swish Swish (Alex Shik Mashup) 17) FEM Feat.The Cataracs & Dev x Kage - Like A G6 (Alex Shik Mashup) 18) Fischerspooner vs. MASTERIA & AceMyth - Never Win (MARTYNOFF SHORT EDIT) 19) Bon Jovi - It's My Life (Monkey MO Remix) 20) Röyksopp, Trentemøller - What Else Is There (Yudzhin & Serg Shenon Remix) 21) Rompasso - Oxygen (Going Deeper Remix) 22) MORGENSHTERN, Clashtone - Новый Мерин (Mantey Mash) + MORGENSHTERN, Valentino Khan - ROCK МЕРИН (MARTYNOFF HARD EDIT)

From The open heaven daily devotional written by Pastor E. A. Adeboye General Overseer of the redeemed Christian Church of God

The Lord detests hypocrisy especially in how we give of ourselves and our substance.

In this episode of the Bassfug podcast Ben (aka Pretence) joins us from Sydney Australia for an interview. We talk about Phat Pants, shuffling to Head Hunters, producer groups, making voice memos, DJing, using presets, and mixing tips (use EQ!). It's another "the host mentions that study about novelty for the tenth time" that you don't wanna miss! Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/pretencedj Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/pr3tence/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pretencedj/?hl=en

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Welcome to the AFTRLIFE. The official podcast of EVRAFTR. Track List: 1. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction (FREQNCY Remix) 2. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (PINEO & LOEB Remix) 3. Collin Brooklyn & KRAFT - The Reborning 4. Rezz x Deathpact - Kiss Of Death (Pretence Flip) 5. Lowderz + Hugo Doche & 2Gether - Drop It Low 6. Pretence x Dread MC - Hustle 7. Evanescence - Bring Me To Life (Pretence Remix) 8. BLVCKSMITH - Outbreak 9. AYOO ft Rico Act - Freak Out 10. WizG - My Young Love (feat. Sissy)

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Jack chats with Luke Beavon AKA LSB about his early struggles to find his creative voice, how life-changing events altered his path and how patience and reflection help him to achieve confidence and pride in his music.

A pretentious character God does not appreciate. King Saul was rejected because he was pretentious. A pretentious person hides the reality, gives false hope, false assurance and fake feedback. But it is divine to be authentic, real.

In the world where people are living the lives of other people in seeking validation, the war will not end. Self love and compassion are the root of greatness

Wenzday unleashes a barrage of exclusive bass house bangers on this week's episode of Kannibalen Radio!   Subscribe to Kannibalen Radio: http://bit.ly/KanniRecs   --   Tracklist:    Lektrique 00:30 - Black Tiger Sex Machine x YOOKiE - Spiders [Kannibalen] 01:56 - KOOS - Magma [Confession] 03:25 - Zomboy - Lone Wolf (Tony Romera Remix) [Never Say Die] 04:40 - Pretence x Wheezly - Strait Facts [Ghetto Ghetto] 05:10 - Apollo 'Put Ya Hands Up' (Original Mix) [New State Music] 05:40 - Jump System - Control [Unreleased] 07:25 - Hydraulix, Krischvn - Chopper [Wakaan] 08:39 - MUST DIE! - CHAOS [Never Say Die] 09:58 - Sullivan King x Kompany - Show Some Teeth [Kannibalen] 11:04 - Nazaar - Badshah [Self Released] 12:21 - PhaseOne & Subtronics - Demon Hunter [Disciple] 14:06 - 12th Planet - Let It Bang ft. macTurnUp (Draeden Remix) [Disciple] 14:45 - Kai Wachi - Belphegor [Kannibalen]   Wenzday 15:25 - Wenzday - Heartbreak House ft. Kevin Flum [In/Rotation] 16:55 - Wenzday - Everyday [DND Recordings] 20:30 - Wenzday x Badjokes - ID [Unreleased] 22:17 - Bijou x Angelz - Flex ft. Chetta [DND Recordings] 25:19 - Donkong - Up N Down [Gold Digger] 26:51 - Bear Grillz - Check It Out (Dirt Monkey Remix) [Dim Mak] 27:38 - Wenzday - Riot [40oz Cult] 28:32 - Wenzday x Sippy - PINGAZ [In/Rotation] 29:17 - Wenzday - All The Way Home [In/Rotation] 30:18 - Wax Motif - Wet [Mad Decent] 32:05 - Wenzday - ID [Unreleased] 35:39 - FreeFall - ID [Unreleased] 39:59 - Wenzday - ID [Unreleased] 41:49 - Bijou - Crown (Wenzday Remix) [DND Recordings]   --   Enjoy & Survive

A lot of real estate investors worry that acting with too much integrity can impact on our businesses negatively. Does integrity threaten our success? Do we need to focus on making a profit, above all else? On this episode, I’m sharing how acting in the interests of your clients can- and will- benefit your business.   Takeaways + Tactics  Transparency and honesty are crucial for successful businesses. While we may think acknowledging our downfalls will negatively impact our businesses, in reality showing humility endears us to clients. Be a problem solver. Targeting specific problems and telling clients how we can fix them shows dedication to solving problems, rather than making money. Be genuine. It’s one thing to say we have integrity; it’s another to actually exhibit it. Integrity should be one of your core values. If it isn’t, don’t tell clients it is. Pretence is extremely damaging and will undermine any trust.   So often, we’re warned against being too ‘nice’. We fear losing out on good money. However, in reality, transparent processes and integrity go a long way in gaining relationships with clients. Success in sales is based on being trusted and respected. Rather than asking if it’s possible to make money by having integrity, we should be asking if it’s possible to be successful without it.

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Lily and Viv interview Aimee Sanderson and Hayley Lawson Smith for their show Pretence, a satirical look at theatre, acting schools and competition, where two actors have come for an audition but have been given different information about the play and audition, and are left alone in a theatre. Written by Hayley, directed by Daniel Kershaw, and produced by Dramatic Pause Theatre Company, the show premieres at Butterfly Club 3rd of June, and plays until the 8th of June. More information can be found here. https://thebutterflyclub.com/show/pretence-2019 Originally premiered Sunday 2nd June. Produced and edited by Marcie Di Bartolomeo. Image courtesy of Butterfly Club

“Have you seen a blue skinned giant around, might go by the name of Cor?” Whispers in the night of homes so far away Thunder rumbles making light Through storms they must survey Pursuit paddles powerfully splashing ‘wards the fray Giant hidden sourly For friends he did not say Watch live on: Twitch: twitch.tv/casualrp YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCtwWrvy-YgFQpw9eXMwuHbw Read about it on our Wiki: therealmsofkelmarth.wikia.com/wiki/The_Jungle_Campaign

The Real Talk (Pretence) Episode 11 by Wellsradio

Michael Bennett, Miriama McDowell, Jessica Hansell, and Todd Karehana each give their take on our theme Authenticity & Pretence in the context of their recent projects, working practice, and view of the world. Presented by NZ On Air David's session took place on Sunday 1 October, 9.30am at the Big Screen Symposium 2017 in Auckland, NZ. The Big Screen Symposium is New Zealand's annual premiere film event, proudly brought to you by Script to Screen and J&A Productions.                     .   

Harry Browne's book, "How I Found Freedom in an Unfree world" had a huge influence on me. This episode examines the subject of one chapter in that book: freedom from pretence. I explore Harry's suggestions about finding freedom from pretence, and then provide my own thoughts on the topic.  Show Notes: Become a Patron of TVL to get bonus episodes and rewards! How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne Self-Deception - Episode 202 of The Voluntary Life Getting Real: 10 Truths Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life by Susan Campbell - Episode of the Psychology Book Club Podcast  

This joint Psychology & Education and PEDAL seminar by Dr Julie Kirkham will examine pretend play and creativity in the context of early and middle childhood

Before we get too much further into 2017, Ps Ross Stewart issues a challenge that we drop some of our baggage before entering the Open Doors that Ps John had prophesied the previous week - our bags of mistakes, insecurities and pretence.

--{ The Vulture Thrives off Controlling Culture: "People Think They Well Handle Every Situation, After All They're On the Cutting Edge of Information, But Media is Weaponized, Gives You a Chill Knowing There is Info. Designed to Kill, We've a Society Obsessed with Anything Sexual, Media-Hyped, Soap Operas Perpetual, Hollywood Machine Churns Out Movies, Far Flung, Promoting the Fiction of World Ruled by the Young, Then Data, More Data, for the Non-Discerning, A Scattering of Pretence without Deep Learning, Sometimes the Mind Must Be Left Fallow, To Investigate Slowly, Else Knowing is Shallow, The Brain can Burn-Out, Needs to Be Cooled, And Think for Yourself, So You Won't Be Fooled" © Alan Watt }-- Public Adapt to Continual Cultural Changes - Great Experiments of the US and Soviet Union - Agenda of "Progress" - Brave New World, Exogenesis - News Formulated to Create Reactions - Rigged Stock Market - Media-Driven Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviour, Fear of "Climate Change" etc. - Biometric ID Card - CEO Pay Packages and Golden Parachutes - Degradation of Culture through Television - Middle East and Turkish TV Soap Operas - Welfare State - Constant Conflict, Information Warfare, Weapon of "American Culture" - Australia, Super-Regulatory Body on Political Speech - Military PR Campaigns - Fake Names. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - March 9, 2012 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ Corporate Governance: Corporations, Bankers do Love Marx, Creating Their World from Public Tax: "Slavery in All Ages has Existed, In Corporate Management it has Persisted, Using Public Relations to Cover the Deed, Informing the Peasants to All They Need To Know and Believe, Pretence, Illusion, Knowledge of Reality Would Cause Confusion, Their Conditioning of Democracy, Being Free, Understanding Only What They're Meant to See, To Work, Pay Taxes, Obey, Vote and Die, Always to Dream of the American Pie, The Fully Conditioned are Really Irrational, Owned by Corporate Feudal International" © Alan Watt }-- World Empire - Horror Show of History - Slavery through the Ages in One Form or Another - Implementation of Depopulation Policies - Bankers Love Marxism/Communism/Socialism - Mass Mentality, Individuality Submerged into the Group - Abolition of Family Unit and Old Cultures - Cancer Link to Vaccines, SV40 Virus in Polio Vaccine. Taxpayer-Funded "Perks" for EU Politicians and Bureaucrats - Frankfurt School Agenda - Teachers' Union (and UNESCO) Demands More "Sex Education" - Dehumanization - Green Burial Business - Ongoing Human Medical Experiments - Pension Cuts Worldwide - Nations Bankrupted, Banks Bailed Out - Post-Consumer and Post-Democratic Age of "Austerity". (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - March 9, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ Cult Techniques which Enfeeble, Now Used on the Sheeple: "The Awakening Process can Cause You to Sink, Realizing the Controllers Know All You Think, They're Enabled by Knowing All You Hold Dear, They Created You, All Thought They Steer, Your Pastimes, Conversations, Perturbations, Are the Same as Your Friends, All Your Relations, With Upgraded Morals, You're Sure to Accept Naked Scans and Groping, Pretence to Detect, Rape, Child Molestation, You are Desensitized By Programming Movies Absorbed via Eyes, Embedded, Imprinted within Your Brain, So Entertaining, Yet You Felt No Pain, Externally Informed, You Feel Some Vitality, To Engage by Prompts into Debased Morality" © Alan Watt }-- Government in the Business of Altering Your Behaviour - Total Information Network for Predictable "Proper" Society - Leaders and Tribal Emblems for the Peasantry - Ongoing Revolution, Guided Progression - Psychology of Mass Manipulation - Techniques Used to get Consent of the Governed and Public Acceptance - US Federal Reserve's "Emergency Aid" (Gifts) to International Banks. The REAL Law of the Land, Crown Land - Communitarianism - Farming is "Too Important to be Left to Farmers", Total Control by Agri-Businesses - System Totalitarian in Structure - "Tenant" on Land Titles (Not "Owner") - Common Land - Prohibitions on Gathering Firewood - Old Values Replaced by Values given by the State, Set "Defaults" - Control over Water and Food to Control Life - Nutrient Trading (Taxes) - New School for Social Research group. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 7, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ West Going Third World -- Look Around, From the Media, Barely a Sound: Nearly Over, You Know -- the Long, Long Fight, We're Communitarian and Poor, Neo-Trotskyite: "Generations of Treaties to Search and See, Governments Signed, Neglecting You and Me, All Intended for Neo-Soviet, Way of Living, A World Served by Labour and Your Giving, Hierarchy of CEOs, Foundations and NGOs, With Experts Directing How it Goes, And "Leaders" Seeking the Opportunity To Strut and Lord Over "Your" Community, A New Global Curriculum Set in Schools, Ensuring Compliant, Stupid, Slaving Fools, Like Animals in Orwell's "Animal Farm" We'll be Ruled by Pigs Trained in Charm, So We'll All Work for the "Greater Good", Dissidents are Outcasts, Dinosaurs, Rude, When Equally Poor, We Must Give Thanks To Rockefeller, Rothschilds and Big Banks For Neo-Communism Which We're to Love, Peasants at Bottom and Elite Above" © Alan Watt }-- Waking Up vs. Reacting to Changes - "Simple" Questions and Answers - World Federation - Front-man Politicians, Left-Right Game - Prime Ministers Chretien and Mulroney, NAFTA - "Communities" (Ruled by Councils of Experts) and Pretence of Participation - Soviet System - UK, Big Society, Community Organizers, Saul Alinski et al., Communitarianism - Australia Invaded by Agenda 21, Sustainability, Smart Growth, Earth Charter - Youth Trained to be New Soviet Leaders - Authoritarian Global Society - Redistribution of Wealth, Marxist Economics - Communism for Peasants - Rural Clearances, Carbon Sinks, Land Access for Authorized Corporations Only. Carnegie Endowment Foundation - Branches of CFR-RIIA Worldwide - Asian-Pacific Regional Bloc. Future Intellectual Agenda of United Nations according to WAAS Survey. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - July 28, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Professor Vasu Reddy talks about her research into teasing and deception, and gives her perspective on the origins of infants’ social abilities

Transcript -- Professor Vasu Reddy talks about her research into teasing and deception, and gives her perspective on the origins of infants’ social abilities

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