Ep. 1810 The Idea of a Grand Conspiracy Is Too Optimistic

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Tom Woods

News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Yes, there are sinister people in the world, and yes, sometimes they work together toward nefarious goals. But thinking this alone accounts for the world we live in is unfortunately naive, as Antony Sammeroff explains. Sponsor: Kratom is a natural remedy that has helped people deal with chronic pain, stress and anxiety, and to boost energy levels and focus. Try a free ounce of kratom at , courtesy of Brave Botanicals.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 1810, prepared a set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.
0:07.6	Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.
0:14.1	Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. What we wrap up Anthony Samaroff week with an episode that's
0:18.4	going to make a lot of people angry at me. But you know, you got to, I got to be me, right?
0:22.9	You got to do what you got to do. Today we're going to be talking a little bit about
0:26.4	not particular conspiracies, but the kind of conspiracy mindset that some people have, that it's
0:32.1	the center of their worldview. Now, the center of my worldview is liberty, libertarianism,
0:38.0	non-aggression, the idea that society can run and order itself without some guy with a bullhorn
0:44.0	issuing commands at everybody. That's the way I look at the world. Now, that doesn't mean that I
0:48.4	don't believe that there are deeply sinister people in the world. I absolutely do. And that
0:54.3	sometimes they do conspire with each other to do bad things. I don't see how you deny that.
0:58.4	The Bolshevik revolution itself was obviously a conspiracy. What else was that? It was obviously a
1:03.6	conspiracy of a minority of people who did not have anything like massive support among the public.
1:11.8	There was no support for the Bolsheviks whatsoever. So it's not the idea of conspiracies or
1:18.0	considering the possibility of conspiracies in itself that is the problem. I think we all know
1:24.8	what I'm talking about. There are some people you encounter for whom that's the whole story,
1:29.0	is that there's a sinister group of people out there. There's a bunch of individuals who are
1:34.1	doing some terrible things. And what we just need to do is expose them. And then the righteous
1:39.7	people will restore their liberties. I wish that were the case. I wish that was what we were
1:45.2	dealing with. A shadowy group of people and the American public or the people around the world
1:50.7	are just put upon by these male factors. I wish it were as simple as that. Unfortunately,
1:57.2	it is not. Anthony, welcome back. Thank you for having me five times in one week. That's crazy.
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