#Culture: Liberal Utopianism confronts the consequences of its rhetoric. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institute.
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🗓️ 28 September 2023
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#Culture: Liberal Utopianism confronts the consequences of its rhetoric. Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institute.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/21/our-self-induced-catastrophe-at-the-border/
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| 0:35.6 | I'm John Bash with Victor Davis Hanson in the Hoover Institution, |
| 0:38.6 | writing an American greatness about the catastrophe at the border, |
| 0:42.4 | but that's a part of the larger failure of what is called popularly |
| 0:48.7 | woke, what is more properly understood as liberal utopianism as in no-awareism. |
| 0:54.9 | Because the agenda here was offered to us as a solution, as a way forward. |
| 1:00.3 | Destroying borders clearly is no longer a way forward. |
| 1:04.1 | The major cities of the North can see that as they're overwhelmed. |
| 1:08.5 | However, it is not clear that every institution understands |
| 1:12.5 | that destroying meritocracy is to destroy what we regard as civilisation. |
| 1:18.8 | Victor, I want to focus on the education world, not only for |
| 1:25.6 | university level, at your level, but the K through 12, all those universities. |
| 1:31.1 | Is there a recognition now that the doctrine of liberal utopianism, |
| 1:36.3 | that there are no differences between the genders, that there are no differences between |
| 1:42.0 | succeeding and not succeeding in class or doing your homework and not doing your homework? |
| 1:47.3 | Is that now apparent to the people who have offered it to us? |
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