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Bryan Calcott

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2862 total appearances

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Digital Social Hour
Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

And if there's one fucking substance that has absolutely decimated the soil, it's fucking glyphosate.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

So you're telling me you care about the environment, supposedly, and you care about global warming.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

You believe in it.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

Science this, science that.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

But yet you haven't spent enough time researching your candidate to know that your candidate actually sprays twice as much glyphosate as the past person?

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

They want us to be dependent on them.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

To hold true to my message, I actually don't blame the government.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

I blame the people.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

because ultimately it's us being lazy.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

The information's there for sure.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

Alexis de Tocqueville came over in the 1840s.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

He was from France, and he was going to do a study on American penal systems, but he was so taken back by what he believed to be true about democracies and how when he came over, he coined the term the tyranny of the majority.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

And his main statement was that democracies and majorities are more tyrannical than aristocracies and monarchies.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

And not a lot of people know this because they don't pick up books, but for eight years before we had the Constitutional Convention, we had the Articles of Confederation, which was the most radical form of democratic rule the world had ever seen.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

It was also the most oppressive.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

This is why the Constitutional Convention came about in an emergency-like manner.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

And you had founding fathers that literally wrote in their journal articles, wrote in letters to each other, they said, I prefer monarchy to this form of democracy.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

And so if you really understand what the Constitutional Convention was about,

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

The Constitutional Convention was trying to shield the levers of government from the corruption that comes with aristocracy and democracy, but also from the corruption that comes with democracy.

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Erik Huberman vs. Bryan Calcott: Should the Government Protect You From Yourself? | DSH #1753

And what they were trying to do is they were actually trying to create a meritocracy, and they were just, you know, the media campaign was describing it as a democracy.