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I 23 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:58.239 want to welcome everyone back to our reading of on 24 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:02.480 Resistance to Evil by Force by Ivan Elene doctor Johnson. 25 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:03.439 How are you today? 26 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:08.159 I'm really not looking forward to doing the lawn later. No, 27 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.520 my old place I was married, my first wife. We 28 00:02:12.520 --> 00:02:14.520 were on you know, an acre and and I had 29 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:17.680 a ride on and it was the it was I 30 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:21.479 would I look forward to it. I'd mud alone every day. 31 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:25.960 It was like a little go cart. It was fast, 32 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:29.560 and it had the sticks, not the not the steering 33 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:34.879 wheel and the sticks. I immediately intuitively under knew how 34 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:37.919 to use those. I really miss it. But you know, 35 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:40.080 I don't have that much. It doesn't I couldn't justify 36 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:43.599 a huge investment like that. So so we got a 37 00:02:43.639 --> 00:02:47.280 battery powered one that has some assist on it. And 38 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:49.639 I think I've said this before, but that's how I 39 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.800 know that my symptoms are being kept at bay. When 40 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:56.400 I could go through the lawn cutting and not feel 41 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:00.759 totally out of it and and exhausted. H that's my 42 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.759 you know, canary in the coal mine test. So, but 43 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:08.039 it's hot today and it's humid, and I'm going to 44 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:10.919 come up with numerous excuses, but I know it has 45 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:11.400 to get done. 46 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:16.759 Yeah. I have to put the deck back on my 47 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:22.879 riding mower tonight, so that'll be fun later. Deck it's 48 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:24.199 where the blades are. 49 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:26.879 Oh oh, you got those sharpened? 50 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:31.000 Yeah, just yeah, Adams sharpen and I'm replacing the belts 51 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:33.879 and everything and yeah, so I just got to replace 52 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:37.719 that tonight. So I'm waiting until the where I have 53 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:39.840 the mower is in the sun. Right now, I'm waiting 54 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:42.319 until sun gets on the other side of the house 55 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:43.479 so I can go out there and do it in 56 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:44.120 the shade. 57 00:03:44.759 --> 00:03:46.879 Yeah, yeah, and do it you know when it's slightly cooler. 58 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:47.400 Yeah. 59 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:49.879 Yeah. It's eighty four here and and a little humid, 60 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.439 and I'm meant for colder climates. I'm meant for you know, 61 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:58.960 North Dakota. Definitely not Alabama. I don't know how you 62 00:03:59.039 --> 00:03:59.360 do it. 63 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.080 Well. Yeah, air conditioning is a modern marvel. 64 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.120 It is one of the great inventions of all time 65 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:09.560 that in cooler id. 66 00:04:10.439 --> 00:04:15.360 Yeah, all right, picking up where we left off last 67 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:21.160 time and the Yeah, we're probably gonna end the chapter today, 68 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:28.519 so okay, I'll start. However, man cannot admit and will 69 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.279 never admit that the villain has the privilege of freedom 70 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.800 to commit evil, either internally or externally, for they are 71 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:38.160 connected to each other not only by similarity, but also 72 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:42.680 by reciprocity and community. People mutually send each other their 73 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:46.800 achievements and goodness and their falls into evil. They mutually 74 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.959 perceive what is sent, and mutually answer for their own, 75 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:54.720 even unconscious influences. In essence, they are called to send 76 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:57.560 each other no harm at all, and to receive from others, 77 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.959 to do nothing but good, but not the opposite. 78 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:04.160 You know, this is a bit of a mysterious paragraph, 79 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:06.279 and it's going to be unpacked in the paragraphs to come. 80 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:12.000 But I've always been interested in the fact that you know, 81 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:17.360 let is take you know, street crime. Law enforcement has 82 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:20.199 this laundry list of things that they have to do, 83 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:22.240 the law that they have to follow, that they have 84 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:30.120 to maintain, and criminals do not. They have no The 85 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.480 Italian mafia may be one exception to that, but everyone 86 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:36.680 else it doesn't matter. The Italian mafia actually had standards. 87 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:40.800 You know, they wouldn't kill comps, they don't go after families. 88 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:45.319 But they're the only ones who were like that. But 89 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:47.040 but you know, it's kind of like going up against 90 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:52.560 a sociopath, you're always going to lose. The sociopath will 91 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:55.040 just do whatever is in his interest immediately without thought. 92 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:57.959 Normal people have to think about it and go through 93 00:05:57.959 --> 00:06:03.360 this moral inventory before we do anything. We're always at 94 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:07.079 a at a disadvantage in that respect, as law enforcement 95 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:09.439 is today. 96 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:15.480 However, but next paragraph, excuse me. They rarely succeed in 97 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:17.759 living up to this calling, and so some of them 98 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:21.079 try to secure for themselves the privilege privilege of sending 99 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:24.759 pure evil to others and not accepting the good sense 100 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:30.120 in return in the form of coercive influence, reciprocity, and justice. 101 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:34.279 Abhor such a privilege. Anyone who sends evil must always 102 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:37.240 be prepared for and agree to others being able to 103 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:41.480 stop their evil deed and compel them to qualitatively reconsider 104 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:42.680 the evil they send. 105 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:50.480 For those who haven't heard previous discussions, Elin has made 106 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:55.040 the argument several times that in the commission of an 107 00:06:55.079 --> 00:07:02.279 evil deed, it creates an energy, It has a tremendous influence, 108 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:08.079 a ripple effect, so to speak, that affects everyone around. 109 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:10.199 And this has really been this has been the Christian 110 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:14.040 position about the fall from grace in the garden. It 111 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:18.240 didn't just affect they're oudam and its moral standing, but 112 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:22.160 it affected all of nature. Nature at one point was 113 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:25.160 a friend animals, you know, there was no problem, came 114 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:28.920 up and pet them on. After the fall, animals hid 115 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:34.560 from from man. This was, you know, the origin of 116 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:38.560 the monastics that that don't eat don't eat meat, trying 117 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:42.079 to imitate that kind of a a life. Now I'm 118 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:46.480 on a destl diet that actually includes meat because it 119 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:52.160 is good for you. So fasting can be difficult for me, 120 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:57.240 but you know, translating this stuff certainly makes up for us. 121 00:07:58.279 --> 00:08:00.920 So that's that's what he's talking about here. If you 122 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:06.000 haven't been following, so again, this is going to be 123 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:07.439 unpacked in the next few paragraphs. 124 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:14.360 Let me see, okay, He who receiving one's evil message 125 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:18.759 draws another's attention to its evil quality, does not offend me, 126 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:21.319 but renders me a service. And he who puts a 127 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:25.319 stop in my embittered rampage, preventing it from spreading and 128 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:28.439 forcing me to come to my senses, fulfills his duty 129 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:32.120 and becomes my benefactor. This is the mutual obligation of 130 00:08:32.159 --> 00:08:35.519 men in society, each of us in rendering this service 131 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:39.519 and benefits to others, must desire the same service and 132 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:44.120 benefit from them for ourselves. Let each one, indeed do 133 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:47.000 for others only what he wishes for himself. But at 134 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.000 the same time he must also desire for himself the 135 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:52.559 compulsion and restraint from others in the moment of his 136 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:53.320 own evil. 137 00:08:53.399 --> 00:08:56.720 Doing this a lot of this comes straight out of 138 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:05.840 playto both in Republic and the Gorgias. Socrates argues the 139 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:11.360 point that to do evil, especially to do evil and 140 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:18.039 get away with it, is worse than suffering evil. Doing 141 00:09:18.039 --> 00:09:21.000 evil and getting away with it slowly, especially do it 142 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:27.720 over time, will destroy the soul. Suffering evil, well, you know, 143 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:30.039 it doesn't destroy the soul. In fact, it may make 144 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.960 us even stronger. For the evil doer, he is not 145 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:40.679 helping him, helping himself. Evil doers disintegrate over a long 146 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:46.039 period of time, again sociopaths being some sort of an exception. 147 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:50.559 But and I remember first he first read it, It 148 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:54.320 was very odd to hear this, that doing evil is 149 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:59.200 worse than suffering it, than being the victim of it. 150 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:02.200 But being the victim of doesn't destroy the soul necessarily. 151 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:06.759 Doing evil does, especially over a long period of time. Therefore, 152 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.240 it is our obligation to do whatever we can to 153 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:17.399 stop it, using the same criteria that we've we've talked 154 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:23.399 about in episodes past, this list of things. You start 155 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:25.440 from here and you only end with physical violence at 156 00:10:25.480 --> 00:10:30.559 the very very end, the last resort. So when we 157 00:10:31.519 --> 00:10:35.279 are harsh towards someone who's doing something wrong, we're their 158 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:40.440 best friend. Doesn't feel that way at the time or 159 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.960 even seems telling somebody you know, stop acting this way, 160 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:49.360 be a friend you know who's being will's doing something stupid, 161 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:53.960 you stop it, not just going along with it, so 162 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:58.279 you don't want to offend them. That does nothing for him. 163 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.639 Pointing out something like that, even at criminal level, it's 164 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:06.440 the best thing anyone can do for the evil doer. 165 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:09.000 That the only friends that evil doer can have are 166 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:10.840 those who pointed out and want to stop it. 167 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:17.080 However, in the creation of good and the struggle against evil, 168 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.879 men in society are connected to each other not only 169 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:23.679 by reciprocity, but also by community, for they have one 170 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:27.120 single common goal, a common good that will either become 171 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:30.559 immediately available to all or not. This is peace on 172 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:34.960 earth blossoming from human goodwill. It is precisely the unity 173 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:38.919 and commonality of this goal that compels men to combine 174 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.960 their forces and bring a unified organization to the struggle 175 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:46.000 against evil. Every criminal prevents all others from being criminals, 176 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:49.879 and each one undermines and poisons the entire general level 177 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:55.200 of spiritual existence. Therefore, every evildoer, in committing criminal acts 178 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:58.240 must meet with all who unite in their resistance to him. 179 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:00.960 This resistance is waged by a few in the name 180 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:03.759 of all, and on behalf of a single common goal, 181 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.720 such as a meaning of any spiritually meaningful social organization, 182 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:12.279 a sense of mutual connection and mutual responsibility as it matures, 183 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:15.440 points out to people their common spiritual goal and compels 184 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:18.320 them to create a single common authority to serve it. 185 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:22.840 I've said for so many years, and I'll keep saying it. 186 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:27.519 Every society has one choice to make either a monarchy 187 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:30.559 which is based on the common good, or a very 188 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:35.080 strong central government and military government, or honigarchy which comes 189 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:39.879 from republicanism. Will eventually become that. Even the anti federalists 190 00:12:40.399 --> 00:12:43.679 in early America said it's going to become an honigarchy. 191 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:47.080 In fact, everything the anti federalist said, but the constitution 192 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:51.559 everything came true. Was absolutely extraordinary. When I first came 193 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:57.679 across them many years ago. It always made me laugh 194 00:12:57.759 --> 00:13:03.440 that in the ghetto, why don't blacks, for all of 195 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.600 their protesting, you know, against cops and all this stuff, 196 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.600 why don't they protest against the crack dealers and the 197 00:13:10.639 --> 00:13:15.120 met dealers and everything else. You know, that's that's not 198 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:16.919 a problem for them. It clearly it brings nothing but 199 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:19.600 trouble to them. Some of them makes the money off, 200 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:23.519 if that's about it. No, But when when you know, 201 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:26.240 the media tells them to organize against a white cop 202 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:29.559 that is just doing his job, uh, they immediately come 203 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:34.879 out in huge numbers. And so of course it's that 204 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:38.720 that kind of behavior is going to continue for whether 205 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:40.519 it be just a villain and criminal, anyone like that. 206 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:45.440 Their worst nightmare is to have an entire society as 207 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:49.360 one man come out and confront them and saying, you're 208 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:53.080 going to stop this, and if you don't listen, we're 209 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:54.960 either going to exile you or you gonna we're gonna 210 00:13:55.039 --> 00:14:02.159 unlive you as we say. You know, organized crime sometimes 211 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:06.200 has local support, or the Italian mafia had local support 212 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:11.639 in the neighborhoods where they're first developed. You know, most 213 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:20.480 peaceful in crime free neighborhoods in the world. But society really, 214 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:22.639 you know, I'm thinking about John Gotti. Here is society 215 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:25.600 at one as one man did not rise up. People 216 00:14:25.639 --> 00:14:30.080 were fascinated by the guy, and the movies, you know, 217 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:32.639 romanticize them, and the movies romanticize them to an extent. 218 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:34.600 But of course they all end up getting killed or 219 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.879 end up in prison or turning states evidence. But at 220 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:42.039 least the life seems to be much better than the 221 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:48.039 lives that your typical American is leading. So any kind 222 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.200 of a crime, it seems, doesn't have the society as 223 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:55.679 one man rising up and saying you're going to stop, 224 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:02.120 where essentially they turn you into a free for doing 225 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.159 the things that are against the law or even against 226 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:08.879 basic morality. And it's very rare that you see that anymore. 227 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.000 It's very rare that a society, especially in the West, 228 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:14.080 is capable of doing that, or even knowing what the 229 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:17.320 common good would be, even even asking the right questions 230 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:18.919 litt alone answering them. 231 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:24.600 The authority, this authority, church or state, affirms in itself 232 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.679 the living organ of the common sacred purpose, the organ 233 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:31.000 of good, the organ of sanctity, and therefore performs all 234 00:15:31.039 --> 00:15:34.440 its service in its name and on its behalf. The 235 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:38.000 coercing and suppressing representative of such a social union does 236 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:41.720 not act on his own initiative, not according to personal whim, 237 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:45.120 not according to arbitrary will. Rather, he acts as a 238 00:15:45.159 --> 00:15:48.799 servant of the common sanctity called and obligated to coerce 239 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:51.919 and suppress on its behalf. He is a living organ 240 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:56.279 of that force, which is composed of all individual spiritual forces, 241 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:59.639 united by a solitary and a relationship to the common 242 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:03.519 sac The force is the force of the sanctity itself, 243 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.519 and he is its living manifestation, and it's a living sword. 244 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:13.080 This is why natural law is so important. Protestants did 245 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:18.159 everything that could to do away with it, claiming that 246 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:20.679 that you know, there was no natural law, there was 247 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:24.879 nothing good in the in the human mind, not to 248 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:30.240 mention being nominalists, there's no such thing as human nature anyway. 249 00:16:30.279 --> 00:16:35.080 But you do something because God tells you, you don't 250 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.159 do something because God forbids it, And that is it. 251 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:43.320 And that's a very simplistic way of going about it. 252 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:47.919 I became a Christian. I was first a Platonists. I 253 00:16:47.919 --> 00:16:54.399 first read the Republic. I became a Catholic and then 254 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:58.200 I converted to Orthodox many years later because they were 255 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:04.119 amenable to reason. It made sense. These weren't arbitrary inventions. 256 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:06.680 And you have to you have to start from the beginning. 257 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:08.480 You have to understand where all this stuff comes from. 258 00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:16.880 But and that it's built into creation. Natural l is 259 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.799 absolutely essential. This is this is part of what the 260 00:17:19.799 --> 00:17:23.079 common sanctity is. We have a human nature, and when 261 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:25.720 you fight it, when you deny it, really bad things happen. 262 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:29.799 We live in a society that not only denies human nature, 263 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:32.880 but in the postmodern mentality, denies you in the existence 264 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:36.039 of it self. It's actually been you know, the fashionable 265 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:45.799 postmodernism for a couple of decades now, maybe more. The 266 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:51.279 best of conditions. Policeman or or a priest giving a 267 00:17:51.279 --> 00:17:58.799 certain penance doesn't do this in his own name. They 268 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:03.720 do these things, as it says, manifestation of the living sword. 269 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:07.759 But that sort isn't just you know, it wouldn't be 270 00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:12.240 a good thing if it was just some you know, power. 271 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:15.079 He uses the word authority, and I went. I spent 272 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:19.160 a huge amount of time in Russian. The distinction between 273 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:21.519 power and authority is not as clear as it is 274 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:26.039 in English. So I kind of forced it here because 275 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:28.480 I know what he meant. So this is one of 276 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:35.200 these areas where translation is interpretation. Power is simply the 277 00:18:35.240 --> 00:18:38.319 ability to force someone to do something they wouldn't otherwise. 278 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:44.680 Do you know biker gang tanks over a town. That's power, 279 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:50.640 but they have no authority. Authority is the right to 280 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:54.920 exercise power, and ultimately it finds its its origin in 281 00:18:55.119 --> 00:19:00.279 natural law, which essentially is human nature. Again, this is 282 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:04.279 something that Hegel spends a very long time unpacking in 283 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:09.720 his work over the years. He starts, you know, with 284 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:14.920 psychology and builds society from that. We don't necessarily have 285 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:19.920 to do that. But again, you can't be anomalist and 286 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:24.440 say that a policeman is the manifestation of the law. 287 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:27.000 That wouldn't make any sense to them. That would that 288 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:32.480 would imply a universal and they reject universal so law 289 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:35.279 and everything else. You know, you takenominalism to its conclusion. 290 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:41.319 Everything is arbitrary. You do something, and actually William Vaucam 291 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.839 said this, You do something because God tells you, not 292 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:47.319 because it's reasonable and rational or any good who come 293 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:49.359 out of it. You do it just because God says it. 294 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:57.079 But he made us rational creatures. We know that what 295 00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:59.880 he's done in the past has been done in a 296 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:03.759 way that we can understand it rationally, not like he 297 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:10.200 understands it obviously, but in our small way understand it rationally. 298 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:12.440 So that's what's going on here, and thus it has 299 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:14.400 been going on in the last few paragraphs. 300 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:20.559 It is precisely because the spiritually conceived social authority derives 301 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:23.559 its rights from its relationship to a common goal and 302 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:26.440 its strength from shared solidarity, that the will of each 303 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:31.240 individual member merges with this authority, voluntarily recognizes it, and 304 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:36.440 by submitting to it, preserves their spiritual freedom. Moreover, legal 305 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:40.240 consciousness binds each individual to the common and united authority 306 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:43.839 in its service, so that each participates with his own 307 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:47.960 will and strength in its acts, even in those in 308 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.000 which he himself does not directly participate. As a result, 309 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:54.720 an organization is formed in which the common element of 310 00:20:54.759 --> 00:20:57.440 a single good in a single goal receives a single 311 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:02.880 and common volitional drive to a certain extent, relieving individuals 312 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:07.119 to the task and burden of directly coercing and suppressing evildoers. 313 00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:12.400 It's very obvious here that Elian's a Hegelian. We know 314 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:17.799 he's a Hegelian. I thought I was alone in terms 315 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:21.039 of orthodox Hegalianism, but when I read his two volume 316 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:23.640 work on it, I felt vindicated, because you know, I 317 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:30.240 discovered that later on. I don't think. I don't think 318 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.400 it's been translated. I had to learn the language a 319 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.079 little bit too, And in fact I have it in 320 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:44.039 hard copy and you see it here. You start from 321 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:48.440 the individual personality and you build society out of human nature. 322 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:54.519 Law could never be just an imposition. It has to 323 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:57.359 manifest the good, and when it manifests the good, it 324 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:03.000 manifests your own nature. And if you see it as 325 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:07.559 a alien, you know in position there's something wrong with you. 326 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:11.839 It doesn't mean you like it all the time. No 327 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:14.200 one likes getting scolded or yelled at and everything else. 328 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:19.960 But later on you realize that you deserved it. And 329 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:24.960 because Hegel was talking about nations, Elin clearly you know, 330 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:30.200 being a nationalist himself is talking about nations. None of 331 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.759 this kind of talk would make any sense unless you're 332 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:37.920 dealing with a society basically with one religion speaking the 333 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:43.039 same language, the common understanding of history, and basically common 334 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:48.440 common goals for the future. You know, at a minimum, 335 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:51.400 without that this sort of thing doesn't make any sense. 336 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:56.640 You imagine trying to, you know, talking to politicians like 337 00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:59.640 this in America, they would have no confind they don't 338 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:02.759 have them mental furniture to even understand any of it. 339 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:15.599 Oligarchs always try to dress their self interest and irrationality 340 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:18.200 in the language of you know, this is this is 341 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:23.119 good for everybody. I don't know if you know, I'm 342 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:26.799 finishing up a paper on the US bailout of Japan 343 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:30.480 because Japan is on the verge of selling all of 344 00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:38.039 its debt American debt. And you know, they don't call 345 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:42.880 it a bailout anymore. They call it an intervention. And 346 00:23:42.920 --> 00:23:47.039 when Trump and his you know, his secretary of the 347 00:23:47.039 --> 00:23:51.039 Treasury is is homosexual, worked for George Sorows for years. 348 00:23:51.079 --> 00:23:54.200 I don't know where this guy came from. Why why 349 00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:56.319 Trump think thought that he would be good? You know, 350 00:23:56.440 --> 00:23:58.799 he's an ingorabmist. He doesn't he has he has a 351 00:23:58.839 --> 00:24:03.559 dream political science from Yale. He's not an economist. He 352 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:06.279 was a member of these secret societies, you know, but 353 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:09.359 he says that this is good for everybody's good for America. 354 00:24:09.960 --> 00:24:14.000 He took no questions and and uh and and offered 355 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:18.319 no funew up yet again, the country without money is 356 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:21.880 bailing out Japan because of the terror that Japan may 357 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:26.880 start dumping American debt. This is this is a big deal. 358 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:31.480 I'm I'm I'm preoccupied with this recently. Uh not, A 359 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:34.000 whole lot of people are are talking about us. You know, 360 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:41.359 Johnson's Law definitely applies here. So oligarchs evildoers, when they 361 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:45.400 take power, they often try to convince why they need 362 00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:49.440 pr firms. That's why they you know, hide, you know, 363 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:55.160 they try to cloak their irrationality, their self interest in 364 00:24:55.200 --> 00:24:58.000 the language of the common good. They know they're not 365 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:04.079 telling the truth. Machia Valley's entire world was based on 366 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:08.880 the fact that the people he was dealing with knew 367 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:12.519 that they had no right to rule anybody. The aunigarchy 368 00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:16.559 in Florence, for example, And because they had no right 369 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:22.680 to rule anybody, that had to manipulate them in Florence. 370 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:25.839 That became the Renaissance, that was the Breton circuses of 371 00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:33.160 the of the that time period called the Renaissance today. 372 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:37.440 But they're aware that they have no conception of the 373 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:41.279 common good. They're opposed to the difference between an aristocrat 374 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:46.359 and an anigarch an aristocrat or an aristocratic society is one 375 00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:51.000 ruled by the best people, most educated, most experience, for 376 00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:56.000 the good of society, not themselves. An oligarch, again, same 377 00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:02.559 number of people, usually the healthiest few, rule society for 378 00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:07.400 their own good. Aristocrats don't have to hide anything. Oligarchs do. 379 00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:10.319 They have to manipulate anyone. They need pr firms, they 380 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:14.119 need you know, mobs, they need mass migration to to 381 00:26:14.319 --> 00:26:17.119 organize against people who knew better than they, you know, 382 00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:19.039 they need to destroy unions and every all this stuff. 383 00:26:19.079 --> 00:26:24.599 It's all nothing's changed over the centuries. This is an 384 00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:28.680 extraordinary paragraph. This is a Hegelian, a strongly nationalist paragraph. 385 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:32.599 And I regret not in my translation, not not bringing 386 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:36.359 it out more. But that's what he's that's what he's 387 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:40.079 that's what he's saying. Here finds an individual to the 388 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:42.799 common and United authority. In other words, they have the 389 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:46.400 right to do this in its service. And if he 390 00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:50.079 doesn't directly participate, because it comes from human nature and 391 00:26:50.119 --> 00:26:53.039 the nation that he is a part of, h he 392 00:26:53.160 --> 00:27:00.000 still represented therein And this is a very important paragraph. 393 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:02.960 Thanks to such an organization, every member of the Union 394 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:05.799 can and should feel that their will and strength are 395 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:10.079 participating in the central authorities struggle against the origins of 396 00:27:10.119 --> 00:27:13.519 evil and its bearers. This is expressed in the recognition 397 00:27:13.559 --> 00:27:17.000 of support for acts of this struggle, not only for fear, 398 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:20.920 but also for conscience, in sympathy for them an active, 399 00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:25.799 proactive assistance. The ruling censer waging this struggle needs the 400 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:29.279 sympathy and assistance, and has the right to it. Moreover, 401 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:31.680