I have mostly stopped posting links to videos on YouTube because their average shelf-life is just a few months, sometimes less. For one reason or another, mostly censorship, few videos last longer than 3 months. We are moving towards a society with no memory, which by the way is ideal to mold the present. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past" from George Orwell's "1984" but that's another discussion.
Here we have a "real" discussion between Kim Iversen, and Doug Casey, a bona fide, authentic libertarian, where she goes a little beyond just interviewing him and actually pushes back on some of his most extreme positions. The value of the discussion? It makes you think. Do you agree? Do you disagree? And I must say that mostly she is right, at the very least, to expose some of the contradictions of his positions.
In any case, this is the kind of discussions we hardly ever hear these days. We are almost always presented with the right side of the story, any story and the wrong side. That's exactly what propaganda looks like. Thinking requires listening carefully to different viewpoints, understanding what they get right or wrong, and finally forming an opinion. Not thinking is the opposite. Hearing what the right opinion is and confirming through bias that you were right in your opinion from the beginning. People are unfortunately very good at rationalizing their opinions that way since it's so much easier that actually building them painstakingly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ2FKrM26jU
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