AMA & Hangout with Contributors (Jan '23) | Yaron Brook Show

00:00 Intro
00:50 Taste your food before you add spice
03:30 Private nature preservation
06:22 Protection of Rights overseas
13:31 Ideas to improve show
20:28 Definitions of some Objectivist concepts
25:52 Would it be more efficient for US military to first teach recruits conceptual thinking?
32:10 Visibility
44:18 California budget, population exodus
51:47 Nothing Less than Victory
57:48 Longevity
1:01:20 Can friendship be a Central Purpose?

1:07:04 Did Rand invent or discover Objectivism? Did she nurture it like a mother to a child? Or, did she raise it like a farmer to her crop?
1:11:24 Why do libertarians not recognize intellectual property as legitimate? Are they just as materialist and anti mind as Marxists? How are we supposed to win with friends like these? Does libertarianism ultimately need to go away?

1:13:00 Sanction of evil in mixed cases
1:28:20 Pop Music Reviews, 80s Culture
1:35:10 Taxes
1:38:20 Consensus in Science
1:39:35 Lack of objectivity in Anti-Vax, Anti Big Pharma, etc.
1:47:40 Contemporary Music recommendation: Georgs Pelēcis "Concertino bianco" https://youtu.be/dneR8UTgAsg
1:48:08 Importance of logistics in wars
1:54:55 Cameron's Movies, Titanic
2:00:42 Importance of Definitions
2:03:04 Podcasts
2:04:17 How to not corrupt your children by lots of money
2:07:58 Uvalde shooting cops behavior

2:12:04 Do u think there’s a pressure to be socially altruistic? Eg other people seem to need constant humour or conversation to feel comfortable, is this my problem or theirs? (Roark made most people in his company uncomfortable).
2:13:04 'A History of Freedom of Thought' by J.B. Bury - an astounding book defending individualism and condemnation of the 'prison' of religious intolerance in plain, matter of fact language. A++++
2:13:32 Are African countries poor because of socialism or lawless anarchic/tribal governmental structures? Also, why was your debate with the anarchist in NYC postponed? Do you have a new date?
2:14:20 Will you interview Gena Gorlin in the near future?
2:14:49 Is stakeholder capitalism (the idea that customers, laborers, investors, communities et al. have a say in the way the business is run) as evil as it sounds? this is coming out of the WEF
2:15:40 Why is subpoenaing a witness not the initiation of force? I didn't quite understand Adam's answer from the other day.
2:17:33 What do people mean when they talk about "slave morality"? Losers guilt tripping the winner into acquiring resources for themselves?
2:18:58 Why is the left always trying to find mechanisms to take people out of the work force? Aren't people suspicious of this? Or do they convince themselves it's out of compassion?
2:19:34 "A man isn't great because he hasn't failed. A man is great because failure hasn't stopped him".
2:19:52 Why should people take Alex Epstein seriously since he doesn't have a PHD in his field?
2:20:46 Is high sex drive a detriment to productive work?
2:21:40 Why exactly did the factories leave the US? Was it the labor laws? If so, do you think they would return if the rights violating laws were abolished?
2:23:48 Can the Objectivist definition of Art be applied to music and literature? Or for those disciplines would it be best to refer to Aristotle's Poetics?

2:24:51 Outro

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