Michael Shellenberger
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Yeah, I mean, I think to your point of we've— We now know that the greatest pleasures come from delaying gratification and that hedonism is actually a poor strategy to gain pleasure, that happiness is something that comes as a side effect in pursuing happiness. Pursuing your bliss, in the words of the great Joseph Campbell, or at least life's purpose, living a meaningful life.
And so what got stripped out of this globalist WEF vision was a vision that had just stripped every nation of its core meanings. It just had basically... just it had not just disregarded it had started they had all turned on their own incredible traditions as somehow as evil that these incredible national traditions and I'm with you on the subsidiarity concept by the way I love that
And so what got stripped out of this globalist WEF vision was a vision that had just stripped every nation of its core meanings. It just had basically... just it had not just disregarded it had started they had all turned on their own incredible traditions as somehow as evil that these incredible national traditions and I'm with you on the subsidiarity concept by the way I love that
And so what got stripped out of this globalist WEF vision was a vision that had just stripped every nation of its core meanings. It just had basically... just it had not just disregarded it had started they had all turned on their own incredible traditions as somehow as evil that these incredible national traditions and I'm with you on the subsidiarity concept by the way I love that
I want the French to be the most French. I love France. I don't want France to be like some universal monoculture. Which, by the way, it's so ironic. I mean, it's a whole other story.
I want the French to be the most French. I love France. I don't want France to be like some universal monoculture. Which, by the way, it's so ironic. I mean, it's a whole other story.
I want the French to be the most French. I love France. I don't want France to be like some universal monoculture. Which, by the way, it's so ironic. I mean, it's a whole other story.
Yes. Well, I hope that this prodding that the president's doing is... I hope that the prodding is actually inspiring a healthy response from Canada to say, because I think the question goes to Canada goes great under the Trudeau vision that Canada is just part of this global monoculture. Well, then who cares if you become part of the United States?
Yes. Well, I hope that this prodding that the president's doing is... I hope that the prodding is actually inspiring a healthy response from Canada to say, because I think the question goes to Canada goes great under the Trudeau vision that Canada is just part of this global monoculture. Well, then who cares if you become part of the United States?
Yes. Well, I hope that this prodding that the president's doing is... I hope that the prodding is actually inspiring a healthy response from Canada to say, because I think the question goes to Canada goes great under the Trudeau vision that Canada is just part of this global monoculture. Well, then who cares if you become part of the United States?
That's just one step in towards becoming part of a global government. I mean, you know what? It's just it's it's a soullessness issue. that got exposed, that, you know, that creeped in. And you realize, like, when you get down to what is a nation, it's got a soul, it's got a culture, it's got a set of traditions, it's got a set of values. And they're meaningful. And they give life's meaning.
That's just one step in towards becoming part of a global government. I mean, you know what? It's just it's it's a soullessness issue. that got exposed, that, you know, that creeped in. And you realize, like, when you get down to what is a nation, it's got a soul, it's got a culture, it's got a set of traditions, it's got a set of values. And they're meaningful. And they give life's meaning.
That's just one step in towards becoming part of a global government. I mean, you know what? It's just it's it's a soullessness issue. that got exposed, that, you know, that creeped in. And you realize, like, when you get down to what is a nation, it's got a soul, it's got a culture, it's got a set of traditions, it's got a set of values. And they're meaningful. And they give life's meaning.
They give something to aspire to. And so to just go and denigrate them, as has been done for decades, as just slavery and oppression and these, you know, these... singularities of singularity, it's all just, you know, the modernity and civilization just culminated in the Holocaust and the atomic bomb and climate apocalypse.
They give something to aspire to. And so to just go and denigrate them, as has been done for decades, as just slavery and oppression and these, you know, these... singularities of singularity, it's all just, you know, the modernity and civilization just culminated in the Holocaust and the atomic bomb and climate apocalypse.
They give something to aspire to. And so to just go and denigrate them, as has been done for decades, as just slavery and oppression and these, you know, these... singularities of singularity, it's all just, you know, the modernity and civilization just culminated in the Holocaust and the atomic bomb and climate apocalypse.
I just think we have, I think that the great thing that's occurred is at least in the United States, I think that is now repudiated and that the left isn't going to find, Democrats aren't going to find any success there. I think you're going to see a victory by AFD in Germany this month. It won't probably be first, but they're going to make a huge victory.
I just think we have, I think that the great thing that's occurred is at least in the United States, I think that is now repudiated and that the left isn't going to find, Democrats aren't going to find any success there. I think you're going to see a victory by AFD in Germany this month. It won't probably be first, but they're going to make a huge victory.
I just think we have, I think that the great thing that's occurred is at least in the United States, I think that is now repudiated and that the left isn't going to find, Democrats aren't going to find any success there. I think you're going to see a victory by AFD in Germany this month. It won't probably be first, but they're going to make a huge victory.
It looks like Nigel Farage's party is coming very strong, certainly in France. So I think we could be seeing a re... And I don't think it's as... I think the funny way it's manifesting is that it's very moderate in...