The Nonsense Politics of PragerU | Big Joel
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Euthyphro: classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfr...
The videos in order of appearance:
• Rockefeller: The Riche...
• What Matters Most in L...
• If There Is No God, Mu...
• Who Killed the Liberal...
• Fix Yourself | 5 Minut...
• The Key to Unhappiness... - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Here are some answers to questions I imagine some might have about this video. I might add more later if I need to!!
*1) Is Burt Folsom really claiming that we ought to remember unregulated capitalism fondly in that video? Or is that a straw-man you’re creating to knock down?*
In answering this question, I think we should consider how this video is framed and what his suggestion that we ought to rethink educational practices could possibly mean. Folsom doesn’t say that the Gilded age was exploitive for many people but that Rockefeller stands out from that system as a good dude (a fact which ought to be more recognized by the academy). Rather, Folsom transparently positions Rockefeller as a great product of the times in which he lived, a time when the goodness of one man could be vastly rewarded, allowing his goodness to be widely expressed. As such, it seems obvious to me that when he says, paraphrased, “we ought to rethink our educational practices,” he’s claiming we should stop demonizing the forces that produce men like Rockefeller. Those forces are good *because* they produce Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts, and academia should stop educating otherwise. This position is functionally identical to the claim, “Unregulated capitalism ought to be remembered fondly because it was a pretty good thing.”
*2) Isn't that quote you used at the end there from Rockefeller Junior, not Senior?*
Yes! Wikipedia gives incorrect information on this and when I looked at the source, I misread what it said. I apologize. That said, John D Rockefeller Senior was aggressively anti worker's rights. He once fired a group of laborers for trying to unionize and felt all attempts to organize were simply laziness. In the case of Ludlow, Senior actively egged on Junior to respond the way he did. And, according to Junior, while tensions were rising and people freezing in the tent colonies, he took "unusual interest and satisfaction" in the events transpiring. According to Chernow (who wrote an interesting biography I'm getting most of this information from) the Ludlow Massacre actually "forced Junior to admit that his father had some antiquated views and that he must take spiritual leave of him."
It's true that I misattributed the quote to Rockefeller and not his son, but let's be clear. They were on the same side, one raising the other to do the things he did.
*3) In his video on gratitude, Prager doesn’t just say gratitude will increase happiness, but also goodness. You’ve ignored this second claim. Why?*
For Prager in this video, “goodness” is once again defined in terms of the attainment of other values, generosity, honesty, kindness, and every other good thing. The reason I chose not to address this claim is that it once again demands the question: If not happiness, what are these values good in reference to? Do they evidence themselves? And if so, how? I already discussed this objection extensively earlier in the video, so I decided to ignore it here.
*4) You presented the canon of Western art as some homogenous cult of skepticism. I know, for a fact, that not all works of the canon present this skeptical perspective. Aren’t you cherry picking here?*
I am cherry picking, you’re right! The canon is not an object that expresses one idea, it’s a collection of works that are often in stark disagreement with each other. But if we are able to frequently locate these transgressive, skeptical impulses within the works we call “classics,” then it seems strange to me that Mac Donald would think the introduction of new ideas and critical theory are in some way a betrayal of our fundamental, western ideals. These pure ideals never existed. Western history is philosophically and ideologically tense. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
That said, I don’t think I’m cherry picking *that* much. More often than not, the history of the enlightenment and beyond, the *great humanist tradition* that Mac Donald embraces so vehemently, absolutely is one that often rejects power and portrays a certain skepticism. From Descartes to Cervantes to Shakespeare, from Nietzsche, who asked how we could construct morality in a godless world, to Darwin, whose work questions the teleological notion that we are here for a reason distinct from natural processes, to Freud, who questioned our control over our own minds and thoughts, the most formative works of the enlightenment and post-enlightenment canon are all deeply skeptical, particularly of various forms of authority.
*5) I’ve seen many more PragerU videos than you probably have. It seems to me that what you’re describing here isn’t the unanimous position of the channel but just one trend. Doesn’t that take the steam out of your argument?*
It’s hard to see why such a thing would impact my argument. My purpose here wasn’t to examine the entire body of PragerU. Rather, I’m more interested in one specific narrative that seems quite important to the channel.
*6) You've torn down the work of PragerU without introducing any better ideas yourself. What do you think we should design policy around? Is there an objective good, and if so, how do you know?*
First, I think it's important to recognize that not all critical things have to give a better answer. PragerU has a bunch of bad ideas and it's worthwhile to say so on the face of it. Talking about my thoughts on this issue would demand another hour and a half of your time, and I don't think it'd be worth it.
Second, and I'll keep this brief, I do think there exists an objective morality, but not one that exists outside humanity. When I say "objective morality," I mean morality relative to the human condition. In my view, there are two essential things about human nature to take into consideration when deciding if an act is right or wrong. First, the desire people have to experience good things, to have the things we want and need and to follow the plans we like (consequentialism). Second, the desire people have to be seen as ends unto themselves, to not be used as pawns or instruments (deontology). I won't be substantiating these two claims here, because it would literally take the rest of my day. I highly recommend taking an ethics class yourself, though. It's good to come to your own conclusions on these things, I think.
*7) Euthyphro discusses a pantheon of gods who are neither omniscience nor omnipotent. Prager is discussing the Christian God who not only controls all reality but also constitutes all reality. Considering that, assuming the Christian God, can't our moral facts be grounded in him?*
Well, no. It's true that if God constitutes the entire universe, then of course, any moral law that exists is, in some sense, an invention of god. That said, if God said the sun revolved around the earth, he’d be wrong. The reason for this being that although the claim “the earth revolves around the sun” might be determined by god (he created both, after all), he doesn’t decide whether the claim is or isn't true. If he wanted to change the facts, he’d have to change the orientation of the celestial bodies. If there is an objective morality and it doesn’t function in a similar way, if it’s God’s decrees, rather than facts about his creation, that ultimately determine what is moral, then morality is arbitrary. Put another way, the question is this: How would God change moral facts if he wanted to? By decreeing a change in what is good or by changing the fundamental nature of humanity. The former falls in line with Socrates' first case, the latter falls in line with his second.
Big Joel I totally read that.
Yeah, PragerU doesn't make the best arguments and they constantly use sophistry rather than actual logically consistent arguments to support the claims they make.
There is a video that they use a brasilian guy to tell that socialims destroy Brasil (thats how we write in Brasil), but as a brasilian guy myself i can tell things are not that simple.
Mind pinning this?
Whoops thought I had
Optimist: “The glass is half full”
Pessimist: “The glass is half empty”
PragerU: “The glass is a leftist”
More like
Prager U: OBEY GLASS OBEY!!!!
Engineer: The glass is double the required capacity.
Schrodinger: The glass is both full and empty
If you tax the glass less, if will be fuller!
hahaha this was too good
Prageru be like “you claim to protest air pollution and yet you exhale carbon dioxide. #liberallogic”
01284 wait are you for real rn
Terry’s a goddamn psychic then.
Welcome to Turning Point USA.
This is a great metaphor. Can also apply to when people call socialists hypocrites for having smart phone's or something
I Agree lol
"Stop blaming others for your problems."
Unless it's poor people, minorities, activists, liberals, government regulators, journalists, etc.
Don't forget the "Marxists"
@@cam4636 The people he listed aren’t Marxist?
@@groovyllicious no, they're not. Not always at least. I can think of like fifteen different journalists that are far from being maxists alone, what's your point
@@groovyllicious not inherently
@@nubbs4753 damn. My joke kinda sucks
I'm European and I hadn't heard of pragerU before, but it seems like a primary example of "if it's said with confidence in a serious voice over a infographic, people will believe it"
@Alan Hyde USA 🤢🤮
@Alan Hyde great, I’m proud to be European but there is no need to call Europe gross
As a european I always wondered from where our far right got their stupid ass ideas.
Turns out pragerU and the american right in general
@@GreedPainLove I’m pretty sure they got it from the n@zi party at this point
@Alan Hyde why would you be proud to be born in some country you didn't chose?
Rockefeller was a nice guy. He was *so* nice, that he got the nickname "the robber baron". That is a nice name that nice people are called.
So if I nickname you "robber baron" that means you are not a nice person?
@@lacedemonians no, but if a large group of people give you that nickname and it is prevalent enough to be passed down in the history books, well-that's not a good look certainly. probably not a great dude
@@kyris0 - The so called "robber barons" emerged in the late 19th C when there was much potential for generating wealth and many unskilled laborers. However, as goods were mass produced and demand for skilled labor increased, then prices dropped and labor had leverage to make demands. Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie were great philanthropists.
@@lacedemonians Did you miss the whole Ludlow Massacre thing?
@Anakin Skywalker That doesn’t make any sense. Sure, those people gave a bunch of unemployed people jobs and skills in manufacturing, but they were not philanthropist. The jobs that they gave were hard, long, and payed little, and most of the time, the workers really had no choice to find a different job, they didn’t have any other skills or weren’t educated enough due to systemic problems of the time. I know for a fact that you didn’t do any research and just fell into conservative rhetoric without thinking for yourself. You literally just called an anti-semite a philanthropist.
"If he did so much good in his time, why is he remembered as a greedy capitalist?" Uh, maybe because he was a greedy capitalist.
omg trans flag pog
@@sadhootyhoothoot3306 Based af
Yes.
Indeed
Hey I'm trans too
Every Jordan Peterson quote just sounds like a cartoon villain. "you can't change the world! Why would you even think you're strong enough for that?"
Literally, lmao, he just sounds goofy as fuck, too. Idk why literally anyone takes that guys takes as worth their weight in salt... I guess because they're shared out of context on Facebook w/ inspiration porn music in the background, and if you remove enough context he sounds like he is making generic, """common sense""" statements... ya know, the kind of videos that Facebook lives off of, lol.
@@facelessdrone I never liked him after he told me to clean my room in one of his videos
I never realized how funny and true that is.
@Jason The people who like him don't get out of context clips of his speeches. They listen to his speeches. Those who hate him get their information from out of context soundbites, or they genuinely don't like what they hear, which is understandable in those rare cases. I notice the people who dislike Jordan Peterson also dislike whoever else they're told they're supposed to dislike. Funny how that works.
@@FluffyBunny9002 no buddy people just have different opinions and world views and some of Jordan Petersons ideas are just.... Eugh.
Jordan Peterson: Fix yourself
Trans people: okay
Jordan Peterson: NO NOT LIKE THAT-
😂😂
"Don't try and fix the world" sounds like the advice of someone who has a vested interest in never letting the world get better.
almost like,, they are funded by an oil baron foundation that wants to continue being übermega-rich 👀
almost..
@@thatsdisco no way! that money comes without any strings attached, they're being funded by oil barons to spread lies and disinformation because they're just good at it. ;-)
His lecture sounded like the mantra of a fictional dystopian society’s overlords.
I honestly think he believes that. It's just that he seems to miss that it should apply to him too.
@@superxxamadeus4098 It truly has become almost impossible to tell the actual right wing discourse from parodies and fiction showing why and how it's wrong. Even conservatives can't tell the difference. They are constantly misinterpreting creative works anyway.
I am convinced that people who laud Shakespeare while dismissing things like gender, race, and sexuality studies, have never actually read a single play by Shakespeare
Mfw Shakespeare was the original SJW by having a moor be the main character in a play.
Or a biography on him for that matter.
And yet Shakespeare was able to communicate nuance and ideas in such a way where there wasn't detriment to the stories portrayed or obnoxious pandering to a particular base or group. Othello is a fantastic example of this - though it is important to know most Shakespeare plays were the saucy romcoms of their day and yet masterpieces from the father of the modern English language, not some overblown representation bollocks that is made to sell a product to (insert token group here) like you see nowadays from studios and news outlets.
@@AdHocWholius So is your position on modern mass media that there isn't anything that doesn't pander?
What exactly do you mean by overblown representation bollocks? are you implying stand-in characters for the audience are bad?
I don't know what your comment is saying other than Shakespeare=good, TV/movies=bad
I'm only familiar with shakespeare mostly from highschool english I'd like to hear more of your thoughts on it.
@ Julian Stainton why do you anti-sjws have such a problem with seeing non-white, lgbt characters in the media? oh, that’s right, because you hate having attention diverted from your ideal of normal white straight people. minorities ARE normal, everyday people. the fact a character is black or a lesbian shouldn’t take away from your enjoyment of the story, unless you have a particular problem with these groups of people... :^/
According to Jordan Peterson, he should stop confronting political correctness and teaching people how to live in general, and focus on himself instead
Sounds good to me.
@@raymondfarinas3169 Someone should really point out the rafter in his eye, then, I think he needs it looked at
He didn't took that advise to seriously to himself, and they were people superior than him when there was a Q&A.
He should probably go clean his room
No, no, he's one of the high-IQ elites that _deserve_ to decide policy, unlike those listless, stupid, underdeveloped poor and ethnic minorities.
It's only the ungrateful underclass that makes up most of the population that should shut up and work harder. The smart, white, rich men at the top should keep making decisions for you the same as they always have.
"If you're doing something wrong, stop."
- Jordan Peterson
*(rousing applause)*
Damn Jordan, never thought of that one before.
“The British weren’t that oppressive.”
Africa, Native Americans, N.A Colonists, The Caribbean, & Asia: 👀
I think he's tryna say that they weren't that oppressive to the American colonists
Look at India the amount of massacres is insane
Also hawaii
Also Ireland
Don't forget Australia
My U.S. History teacher (who I should note is a Republican) actually used the PragerU Rockefeller video _in class_ as an example of _biased_ history.
That teacher then preceded to teach us about Rockefeller's shady business practices, & the stuff ignored in that video.
Very cool
That’s very cash money of your teacher, maybe cash money isn’t the right term
That's a sign of a good teacher. Being able to have their own political & economic beliefs yet being able to critical of their faults!
That's actually a genius use of a Prager U in school.
Jonah Epstein that's awesome. I like that your teacher debunked it.
“I don’t want a nation of thinkers. I want a nation of workers”
-JD Rockefeller
And if I only knew what he really meant by that. It is true that the ability to DO something is likely better than just thinking but never doing.
I am particularly irritated with this fantasy that anyone could possibly make a billion dollars 'on their own'
I can make a billion dollars on my own! It's called counterfeiting
Well its not interesting to see the hundreds of investors in a company. By sticking to 1 person, story is more interesting, captivating and inspiring. If you want the real story, then a quick search is all you need.
Well ultimately not much can be accomplished on your own, we only say they made billions ‘on their own’ because they were the main driving force behind those billions
It’s kind of like how we have superstar sports athletes, while most if not the whole team is necessary to win a game some players can take more of the credit as they were more pivotal in the game and played a greater effect
Yet many have. It doesn't mean no one else worked. But they have worked longer and before others joined them. Besides worked in a small office for 18 hours a day before he got off the ground. He had an idea and worked on it. It didn't shoot from the ground
@@edwinamendelssohn5129 Not really many. Only 2,668 on a planet of roughly 7 billion, like 3.8%. I'm sure some of them worked hard, but the more you peer into it, the more generational wealth you see at the beginning of these stories and the more graft you find interwoven into their narratives. It's a self-serving narrative the rich like to, at the very least, not dispell, as to keep the rest of us chugging along on the treadmill that powers their wealth, hoping that one day, maybe we can get there, even if it is statistically impossible.
Without unregulated capitalism and robber barons, we wouldn't have JD Rockerfeller.
Without JD Rockerfeller, we wouldn't have Rockerfeller Street.
Without Rockerfeller Street, we wouldn't have Rockerfeller Street [Nightcore].
Without Rockerfeller Street [Nightcore], we wouldn't have Rockerfeller Street [Nightcore] Crab Rave Remix.
Without Rockerfeller Street [Nightcore] Crab Rave Remix, we wouldn't have Rockerfeller Street [Nightcore] Crab Rave Remix 10 hours.
And I just don't want to live in a world without that.
Checkmark Libruls 😤
What about the Rockefeller Skunk?
This comment is more convincing than anything PragerU has cooked up.
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*_[I can officially say I have been checkmarked, darn it]_*
You know what? You got me.
"Rockefeller was good to his laborers" I didn't know PragerU was a comedy channel.
Dark humor is the best.
I'm surprised Bill O'Reilly didn't do that lesson
+Dream
Good to his laborers, shoots up his unions - you can't explain that!
@@KingBobXVI it's called lying
Give me a break!
No, seriously, give me a break. I work for Rockefeller and I've been at this for 14 hours straight. Just 4 more to go and I can collect my quarter in pay!
I'm religious, but I can't put into words how frustrating Dennis' use of religion is.
Exactly
Churches in general are greedy. My former church wanted me to pay tithing every year. Becoming an atheist means I don't have to give my hard earned money to a greedy clergy. Religion is a trillion dollar industry. It's a business and churches should be taxed like every other business. George Carlin was right!
You use religion as a scalpel, he uses it as a slegehammer to beat others over the head with it
@@GenerationX1984 If you need George Carlin (RIP), to tell you that, then, i and many other Motorists thank you, for keeping your Eyes, on the Road, as there are many "Give our God Business some damn money or go to Hell. Have a nice Day."--Billboards, a lot. "Teyethesores."
As a practicing catholic i have become frustrated with how people use their religion.
They use it as a source of power divide people and so on.
Both sides of my family are strong catholics my mom dad and grandma taught me that being kind and helpful to everyone is what jesus would want.
Being mean and rasist is satan's work.
It's so funny that prageru never talked about Teddy Roosevelt, even when he's basically the embodiment of the supposed values of a supposed patriotic libertarian.
But he was crashing monopolies, and obviously the billionares who """support""" prageru don't want that to happen again
Unless it's CZcams monopoly because muh free speech
Yep
Tbh Roosevelt is kinda badass, his name predates the teddy bear and also was a good guy
In what way is Roosevelt a patriotic libertarian?
@@giovanni4470 he wasn't, I said he embodies the supposed values of a patriotic libertarian.
Patriotism = his valiant fight for his country in Cuba during the Spanish-American war, and all around willingness to serve his country.
Libertarianism = he busted monopolies, thus making way for the (actual) free market to do its thing.
Of course libertarians nowadays don't have problems with monopolies, a lot of them are even financed by one. Regardless, a genuine free market requires frequent trust busting.
Sam o'nella academy has more right to call itself academy than prageru has calling itself university
i get all my knowledge from daddy sam
Am I the only on who thought his name was salmonella academy
@@theathleticgeek4123 he gets that a lot
I mean I wouldn't know about Tycho Brahe's deer without him, and that is essential learning.
@@admiralofcuteness the knowledge of Tarrare eating through everything during the War of the first coalition led me to learn the french revolutionaires fought for their republic against all the europeans monarchies with no organized army and won, and that France proceeded to kick Europe's monarchist butts (but specially Britain's) 4 more times in less than 15 years. Big respect. It really changed my views.
I miss our boi Sam.
"Be complacent, be obedient, be grateful, know your place, don't make trouble, don't ask too many questions, accept the status-quo, listen to what we tell you."
--- Every authoritarian regime ever existed left or right.
Yep, yep. He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present now controls the past.
@@OneLostTexan What happened in Portland?
You just described the right in one paragraph
Bigus Dickus yep
Authoritarian regimes eliminate politics so there is no longer a right or a left, one party, one figurehead. Soviets were not left, Nazis were not right, they were both authoritarian. Enemies were there at the start-the Tsars in Russia, communists for Nazis-but once eliminated leftist and rightist programs are not pursued.
Peterson’s argument sure sounds like someone saying “how dare you try to do the right thing? Just sit back and let the oppressors oppress.”
Who are the oppressors and who are they oppressing?
Indeed
@@cockoffgewgle4993 Just look throughout history. This world is always far from even being good, much less perfect or ideal. Without certain people, this world would be different. Without Gandi, India would still be under British rule or at least liberated later. Without MLK, civil rights in America would at least be delayed.
Peterson's argument really only works in a flawless society in which all systems work perfectly and the only limits are the morals and actions of individual people.
@@Pepsi-Mann21 I meant now.
@@cockoffgewgle4993 Is society flawless now?
I cackled hearing peterson say "the best way to fix the world is to not fix the world"
Do you cackle at Ghandi who said "be the change you want to see in the world"?
@@threethrushes no because Ghandi said to be the action. to directly fix the world through peace.
@@threethrushes no, because that is the exact opposite of what peterson said.
He pretty much just said "Let the world be horrible."
No kidding
This woman really said humanities course shouldn't include learning about the experiences of other humans
ities course
Learn about how great the classics are, just don’t ask why.
We wouldn't want to humanize historically oppressed individuals... ahhaha...ahah.....haa
@@jodiejodiejodie we might accidentally have empathy if we do that.
💀💀💀💀
PragerU: "You should stop trying to fix society because it's not our place, so any way here's how *I* think we can fix society."
But.. society belongs... to us, the people... what?
J. C. Clearly you’re not up to the task
@@experimentalpunk21
What task?
J. C. Fixing society. There’s no reason to believe you’re up to the task. Just sayin. But you can eat more fresh fruits and vegetables! And get that fuckin sweet jet ski everyone else on your block has.
-.-
@@experimentalpunk21
No one person is. It's a team effort.
Damn, you know what, maybe Dennis is onto something with the whole “the government should make policy to increase gratitude” thing because I can think of literally no better way for the government to do that than by making sure that all people perpetually have access to things like healthcare, housing, and the means to meet all other needs. I mean, I know I’d be pretty grateful if the government stopped allowing people to go into medical debt.
It's almost as if most first world countries already provide that
@@stephenfiler3204 WAIT WHAT🤯🤯
@@MigattenoBlakae Yee-up. America is one of the last first world countries that doesn't have some form of centralized healthcare or single-payer healthcare system for all of its citizens. European countries typically have better social safety nets too which leads to less homelessness- and less crime!
"But the taxes are too high!" is usually the retort. Except by the time you add health insurance premiums, deductibles, copays, coinsurance, and drug costs to our taxes? We pay more. For worse results. A lot of Europe lives longer than us
This video snapped me out of a spiral two years ago when prageru indoctrinated me with propaganda and I felt so embarrassed after I realized what had happened to me and how much I lost myself in the process.
Glad you're out of it. Truly.
@@WhistleAndSnap thx :)
That's amazing! Most people would double down! You did not.
But yes. Prager U is just another sick way for the rich to brainwash the poor. It makes me angry.
When i was 12/13 prageru would give me ads and since i hadn’t developed much skepticism and it had U in the title i thought it was an online college so i just took everything they said as fact. Thankfully i am away from all of that now and this video is a part of many videos(that i have watched) showing the amount of propaganda prageru used and how their claims fall a part with just a little bit of thought
Good that you learned, unfortunately, some people dont
PragerU: Values are based on feelings
Also PragerU: Values are more important than feelings
LOL. Good one @MegaNova Shizzle. lol
I watched most of their videos, not once they ever mentioned that.
They literally say these things in clips used in this exact video.
They must have pointed out that the Left thinks Feelings are more important than Value, from all the videos I've seen.
@G00ober Exactly. They contradicted themselves when trying to debunk leftist talking points.
Pragur: "murder is wrong!"
Justice system: *removes death sentence*
Pragur: "no, not like that"
“End the imperialist wars abroad!” “No, not like that”
Some folks need a killin’....
See, murder is unlawful by definition. If you make it legal, it’s not unlawful, so it’s not murder!
@@washada Would war crimes count?
You can`t compare the two, wtf!?
I honestly find the gratitude thing hilarious. Like, I'm pretty sure loads of people would be grateful for policies that forgive student debt and grant access to free health care and housing, Dennis. What's that? That's not what you mean? Oh, okay.
Exactly what I was thinking. That's the biggest hole for me.
Not to mention it totally runs counter to the “always strive to do better” and the “work harder and smarter” capitalist rhetoric they are shoving.
If I’m suppose to be grateful for what I have then what reason do I have to “work harder and smarter and stop being so gosh darn lazy all the time” then if I’m not allowed to want more then what I have? There is no reason to give blood to the market gods then if I can’t expect to work hard to get more.
It’s classic doublethink.
Okay, but I have a question where does that money go and come from? It has to come from somewhere. The government? The government is built on us so that money comes from us.
@@trevorlee7953 see this is that good faith thing Joel was talking about. You know very well that it’s complicated and explaining it here is just stupid! A waste of time…especially when you have google right there, right?
I bet there’s someone smarter than me, that knows exactly what they’re talking about, and they’re written a concise plan to explain the question you just asked.
I’ll make it as simple as I can for you tho, ok?
Medical care is a scam, insurance is a scam, lots of people get Medicaid or other “free” healthcare. So when my kid slams a finger in the door, my garbage ER will rake in money and provide almost nothing, then I follow up and the specialist cuz the ER is a joke.
They give us some X-rays a $10 aluminum brace and ice pack and some advice, I give them a thank you and leave… and you pay the $75k. That’s all just the private medical racquet tho.
Most folks don’t have a doctor. Period. They get 0 care until they go to the ER, which costs tens of thousands each time, when regular medical could keep a person more healthy, thus preventing emergency care.
The real problem is the profits over people model, when we punish others in the way we’re doing, it makes our communities weaker. You can do as much work as you want but when you rest of the neighborhood goes to shit then you go right along with it
@Lex Bright Raven, you’re not wrong on the highest bidder. The government and politicians are heavily based on money. I feel politicians are bound to mess up because they are usually rich and out of touch with the people.
It amazes me just how much PragerU manages to unite people. The left, the right, religious people, non religious people. Americans and non Americans, humans and aliens, cats and dogs. All united in their distaste for PragerU. Truly inspiring.
can confirm, when i started watching this video let out the saddest snort and looked at me like "really, man?"
Its now taught at school
There are right wingers & religious people who have distaste for it?
reasons why prageru should exist:
1. an example of what not to do when you grow up
2. Content for juicy ytps
Why shouldn’t you be a kind, rationally thinking, hard working, adult? That doesn’t make sense to me
There’s no reason for not being a kind, rationally thinking, hard working adult.
Unless you watch Prager-U unironically.
Some of their videos do make sense but a lot of them are literally just right-wing propaganda.
"Have you ever pushed a beach ball underwater? What happens? It pop right back up!"
"Have you ever pushed a baby underwater? What happens? *THE BABY FUCKING DIES!*"
Which ones are propaganda? I’m genuinely asking so I can review them again
Mr_Sparkly_Face for example, the British empire one. You can find many examples (videos) of why this video is very bad, and another one is the Charlottesville riots video.
"He wasn't a greedy capitalist" but he was also "the first American Billionaire"? Somethin don't add up, chief
In their defense he didn’t actually care about the money. It was just how he kept score, so that he knew he was winning the game. And he would do anything to win.
@@bcleste That's so much worse.
Eoin Campbell for sure, he was a psychopath.
That IS capitalism. All the feelings nonsense from conservatives is just that. But it's important that YOU judge your value by your productivity, it makes it easier for them to be billionaires.
@@jeremyanderson5828 Nah some of us tryna change the world while making gettin rich
As a former conservative Christian, I can tell you that the language of those videos fit very neatly into the Doctrine of those churches. It is imperative to them that God be the foundation of Values, because if there is Values without God then God cannot exist. God is the source of Good, and if values are subjective, then values can be whatever we want them to be. Value must be an unchanging rock centered on Goodness and what is the ultimate source of that goodness? God. They preach that there is no guarantee humans can come up with good values without divine intervention.
I'm not bringing this up to try to refute you, I'm just offering a window into how THEY think, because I used to think this way.
oh my god my dsylexic ADHD brain reading through this did not like it at all lol glad you got out of that type of thinking, it's confusing and flawed asf
Sounds good. Im agnostic but i dont see anything wrong with your statement.
That sounds like some creepy cult shit, ngl.
It's kinda almost the exact same thing they do when they're falsely generalizing & stereotyping atheists within their Christian Propaganda.
(i.e. "Atheists just *want* to sin!" & "Atheists are just mad/angry, or upset, at 'God'.")
All because they *Cannot* accept the reality that people actually exist who Genuinely Don't Believe in a "God".
Because if they accepted that then it would allow some minor doubts to creep in any time they even tried to understand an Atheist.
That was confusing as hell 😂 and I guess it makes total sense... If your values are coming from God himself. But I personally have only heard other humans telling me that God says this or that. Flawed, imperfect, mortal humans. I'm not just gonna take their word for it.
There's one small, inconsequential line from this that really get stuck in my head. "It is the loving duty we *owe* those writers, artists, and thinkers who works made our world possible."
I know it's got nothing to do with the point Big Joel is making, but this sticks with me because it's describing something fundamental about conservatism that I've seen crop up over and over, most notably in conversations about the removal of statues. Conservatives believe, or at least act as if they believe, that "great" people are owed certain treatment from society. Shakespeare *deserves* to be taught to students, not because there are valuable lessons contained within his works but because he was important and has earned the right to be memorialized. To ignore Shakespeare is to disrespect him, not give him the adulation that is his due. Confederate generals earned their statues by being important men and it is unfair of us to take that which they earned away from them. It even applies to conversations about people like the founding fathers; it's why they claim it is unfair to judge historical figures by today's standards when it comes to monuments and statues. To the conservative mind those statues don't exist for us, they exist for the people they depict. That is George Washington's statue, and we cannot take it away from him because we have decided that things which were commonplace during his time are wrong today.
I'm not going anywhere with this, just wanted to get it out of my head.
You reminded me of an amazing line from a conservative broadcaster covering a story about if a memorial parade should be explicitly religious or not
And one talking head said "If these atheists don't believe in the afterlife...who are they even parading for?" as if the idea was that we hold memorial events for the ghosts of people in heaven to watch.
Wish I could find it because it was truly jaw-dropping
That seems like a form of idolatry, something Christians allegedly despise
Great Man History is the belief that history is the story of those born as "Great Men." Common examples of people considered "Great Men" today are Shakespeare and Tolstoy. However, Tolstoy himself was one of the greatest opponents of Great Man History, stating in War and Peace that: "He [Napoleon] is no Great Man. None of us are Great Men."
Not a historian but i have made it my life's goal to defame Rockefeller
You go defame that greedy bastard.
Ok liberal
@@Brad-qw1te why do you have your face buried in the comment section of a video you don't even want to watch?
@@Brad-qw1te "credibility" is for those who present facts whitout justification, this man did not present fact he critically analyzed a topic showing is arguments. The "credibility"(if can even be called that) comes from either you spot flaws on his argumentation or not.
The problem is: to spot flaws in a argument you have critically think(essentially to doubt everything) about it, and "thinking" is a big no no for doctrinalism.
@@Brad-qw1te how much time did you waste in the comments section?
PragerU: Stop caring about things. Don't try to make the world better. Accept your lot in life. Shut up and blindly follow what authority figures tell you.
Unless it's owning the libtards!
Well its technically true.
No, make your life perfect. Then correct others. It goes like that
@@matan7899 How does one, "make their life perfect?"
Surely the quality of my own life in a large part depends on the quality of the world around me. And therefore, fixing the world around me, or "fixing others," would be the same thing.
Don't forget that the authority is also the source of all problems and that companies can do no wrong according to PragerU.
My Lutheran school “Christian Life Impact” teacher decided to show us PragerU’s video “If there is no God, then murder is okay” to discuss why God is the reason behind all human morality. Hearing the “fact-based” evidence (if you can even call it that) presented, left me absolutely pissed and over all thinking “What the fuck?”. I was so confused that such a video was being presented as a reputable source, although no reputable sources were never mentioned, nor viable “evidence” provided for the claims made. It was terrifying to hear what basically sounded like “The only thing keeping me from committing murder is the bible.” Any human with basic empathetic feelings would know that a book, regarded as Holy or not, shouldn’t be the only thing holding you back, your regard for human life, and the intense emotions that come with it, should be.
I love the "don't try to fix the world" line, these people would have said the same thing to Jesus Christ. He did not have any qualifications or degrees, they would have told him to not complain and better himself.
Amazing.
I’m really annoyed by the condescending way the people in prager U videos speak, is that just me?
The scary thing, though, is that it works. If people don't have their critical thinking glasses on, plus if they're conned by the 'U' in the name, the authoritative way the talking heads are speaking can subtly make their points sound 'obvious'.
Am snek 616 yeah, it’s a way of making them seem smarter than you and making their points sound obvious.
dudeee i only ever see the ads but i always watch the whole thing bc the vibe just makes me so angry
PragerU is for the smug libertarian white dudes who talk over people in debates and went to a Christian or Catholic college to major in classical liberal arts
I’m what condescending way? I genuinely want to know. I watch PragerU occasionally and take it seriously and I’d like to talk about it. A civil conversion if you will
i hate when people are like “yeah he was such a good person, he was a christian” like dude thats not a good argument have you heard of r e l i g i o u s c u l t s
Torquemada was also a Christian
nobody expects the inquisition
Brigham Young was racist and misogynistic, but he convinced a lot of people he was a prophet of the Christian god, so he was a good guy and it was obviously the right move to name a university after him.
@@godofdoor6558 How?
@@godofdoor6558 How exactly?
The only differences between cults and religions are the number of believers and that the one guy who made it all up is dead in a religion.
When a fake university on ROBLOX, run by a bunch of TEENAGERS, teaches better than a team of grown adults, you know something's off.
Where can I find this Roblox university
1. Tell me where I can access this “Roblox university” lmao
2. Not only adults, supposedly QUALIFIED adults. Or maybe just old guys in suits? Kinda hard to tell the difference nowadays
@@chimp4225 Old people in suits, the highest authority. No, you don’t need to know what their history with academics, politics, and our funders are, let alone why they might be biased or entirely citing their own sources. Noooo, they’re tooootally valid educators. Pay no attention to the Kochs behind the curtain.
I want to attend roblox University
@@Broomful Probably high school roleplays, there are a bunch of those kinds of games on Roblox. There may be a college one somewhere.
i had a teacher in high school who showed us a few of these videos in class. we just laughed and made fun of what they were saying the whole time and he looked so annoyed lmao
Jesus man what a shitty educational system, these videos are the opposite of education, we actively laugh at this garbage in academia. Glad you guys see through this bullshit
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: if a person’s reasoning for not killing others is based only on the fact the Bible said not to kill I’ll be terrified of them. If the only thing stopping you from harming others is a command from an authority figure you submit to, then I question you and your morals. If I ever kill someone it will either be a necessary, unavoidable defense of self or others. I will never go out of my way to harm another person, I’m sure other people have similar position. The majority of people don’t hurt others because they are capable of empathy. They don’t need a god to tell them that murder is bad, they understand it simply by relating to the possible loss and suffering that murder causes. People don’t like pain, people feel each other’s pain, people avoid causing pain.
PragerU lives in a hella creepy little world
Our Constitution was founded on God giving us rights and not the government. If government doesn't give us rights they cannot take them away. Yes people need to be told what to do. Children need to learn right from wrong. We are children of God. And yes people do still murder with the killing of innocent babies and call it 'pro choice'. Murder is still being done today in China (forced abortions, organ harvesting of falun gong, genocide and concentration camps of Uyghurs,). Prove the Resurrection was false if you don't believe in God. Many atheists, agnostics have tried but can't. Also, look up near death experiences. The US was the first to get rid of Slavery March 1807 followed by Britain. Only 2.5% of slaves went to the US the # 1 was Portugal Brazil. THe US was the first to ban Slavery. 94 nations today have not banned slavery. You can only get to God through Jesus Christ. THe world is a broken place without the people coming back to God and Jesus. Get ready for your God given rights to be taken away by the Government.
@@godisthewayandtruth7759
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the "chosen by god" and "keep to authority" more the monarchies gig?
Wasn't the US a fucking Democracy? Not by god, by the people?
Also:
SEPERATION. OF. CHURCH. AND. STATE.
@@godisthewayandtruth7759 wasnt the rights in the constitution based off of philosophers such as john locke?
also, abortions arent done on babies, they are done on cells. they wont let you get an abortion if it's too late. people kill poor innocent animals for food and survival all the time, so why not kill unformed clumps of cells for the mothers survival and well being?
No people murder all the time that's why we have prison systems because the Federal government is punishing them. And yes Children need to be taught right from wrong. You were brought up by the Judeo Christian values of time and this country.
@Leonard Wolf I will pray for you and your anger.
I think the point of PragerU is best summed up by this:
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
I thought that's why they liked Any Rand so much?
Dudley Doleft's channel that could very well be the case.
key word: "modern"
Actual people that want to conserve aspects of society don't justify the very things our ancestors fought against.
And the modern Liberals as well.
For the life of me I cannot understand people who are so against stereotyping that it becomes their identity, only to turn around and unironically broadbrush a gigantic segment of the population.
why cant jordan peterson just follow his own advice, focus on his own values and stop trying to influence the values of his fans?
Money
His fans with Daddy issues.
What "activism" is Peterson engaged in?
@@cockoffgewgle4993 spreading rightist extremist propaganda. holding speeches, giving interviews, spreading hate through very clear lies (like everything he said about bill c16, which is in no way what he claimed it is).
@@jurgnobs1308 Ah, so a bunch of abstract buzzwords. Gotcha.
Bill C16 compelled him to say things he didn't want to. Remember when lefties believed in free speech?
"The most important thing you will ever have... urine and feces, yes urine and feces" -dennis prager
"Imagine a world where there is no murder or theft, this would drive me mad. I like murder, I like to kill people for fun. Here is a fact; Dennis Prager should frighten you" - Dennis Prager
“The existence of God is proved by the existence of God”
"I want mommy, I want milk, I want to be held, I want to be comforted"
@@nyctomint "i want mommy, i want milk, i want to be held, i want to destroy the one day old state of isreal"
It's hard to have something of substance to say about a system when your only opinion is that you don't want the system to change
Totally works both ways tho, saying you dont like the system and offering something that was proved not to work or nothing at all is also stupid as hell
Rodrigo Garcia
I have to disagree, voicing to your representatives that you don't like something is an effective motivator of change. It can make change for the better easier as well, since there aren't multiple conflicting strategies floating around, but common support around handling a problem. Example, I don't like litter in my city, I tell my elected officials, and it's their job to figure out how to fix that problem. More trash cans? More city workers picking up trash? Fines for littering? I don't actually care what solution they pick, I just want the litter gone.
that's exactly the point I was getting at. Once you decide that the system has to change, there are endless possibilities for solutions and thus endless discussion and debate on how to implement the change. When you just want everything to stay the same, there is no debate. Just like PragerU views morality: it is what it is. There's no need to argue your way is best, you just have to convince everyone that it's not worth it to try something else. The path of least resistance.
big joel loved my comment and I really feel the love
Also, addendum to my first comment: it’s not that PragerU and Jordan Peterson don’t have an opinion about the systems we live in. They do: they think they’re good. But they never want to analyze why they are “good”, either because they’re genuinely ignorant to the fact that they benefit from these systems more than others and thus can’t understand other people’s criticisms. Or they KNOW that the current system treats them better than other people and they’d like to keep it that way, but because of their moral posturing they don’t want to admit that they know what they’re doing hurts others. Lol sorry I’ll shut up now.
Prager University is like right wing buzzfeed
You are correct by brother 👌👍
#FUCK PragerU&Buzzfeed
more like Breitbart: The Show
@@babyboomer6272 please don't be the asshole in the middle
that one hurts
@@drewp.weiner5708 didn't say that.
Also, another do-nothing centrist.
I can’t believe i used to unironically watch these people. That’s a phase i’m so glad i moved passed. Now the only thing i watch involving them is videos like this and YTPs
Ayy same
Same
same i definitely went through the prageru fan to nonbinary bisexual pipeline
So before I watched this video, I really thought Rockefeller was this pinical of morality and kindness, whenever my dad talks about him, he says he was the greatest man of the time. Well shit, I wonder what else I've been led to believe was great when it really wasn't.
A good channel I can recommend on topics like that is Shaun, my favorite of his is his British Rail video and his newer videos about the nukes and IQ are great as well, but very long.
Are you dumb? You didn't that was fishy?
I once got a PragerU ad that said that I was oppressing some dude by saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas". Like, bruh. I don't know what holiday you celebrate, regardless that a good majority celebrates Christmas. Even then, holidays can be plural, encompassing Christmas and New Years.
But were just MILLENIAL LIBTARD SNOWFLAKES WHO GET OFFENDED by EVERYING
Right? I don’t get how so many people in the US are so upset about “Happy holidays”. Most people here in Germany say it, because it encompasses New Years as well.
Mina The Raichu
saying happy holidays makes yOu A DiSgRAcE and you are RUiNiNG aMeRiCaN cULtURe
I remember getting that advertisement too and couldn’t believe how stupid it was.
@@winkwonk1247 we are DESTROYING WESTERN CIVILIZATION (whatever the hell that's even supposed to mean)
@Graknorke And it's also cool how the values of Muslim culture can be completely brought down by just calling it barbaric. Biased much?
i love how they call themselves pragerU so people are tricked into thinking they’re a legitimate academic source lmfao
I don't know why it's not illegal to refer to yourself as a "university" when you're not functioning as one.
@@sethoz22 it actually is! That's why they had to rebrand from Prager University to PragerU haha
They make it pretty clear at the bottom of every page on their website.
PRAGER UNIVERSITY IS NOT AN ACCREDITED ACADEMIC INSTITUTION AND DOES NOT OFFER CERTIFICATIONS OR DIPLOMAS. BUT IT IS A PLACE WHERE YOU ARE FREE TO LEARN.
Yeah, they do that because it's illegal to call yourself a university if you aren't. So they changed their name and put a notice at the bottom of their page where nobody will see it while tons of casual fans think they're a real academic institution.
saturn I love how shit for brain liberals think Jimmy Kimmel is a legitimate news source.
You are a thinker and a person who is profoundly and deeply informed; a critical thinker with the ability to ignore the weeds and focus on the trees towering over us. I intuitively felt that PragerU was just a mouthpiece for pure arch-conservatism. But you have been able to extract a higher order intent in all of their philosophical swill. I like that. Keep on thinking, kiddo. You are doing good things.
Slave: I'm angry that master beat my wife and children to death!
Jordan Petersen: Quit complaining about others, focus on being a better slave for master, and you will find true happiness!
lobsters have hierarchy, check mate
I'm not even a minute in, but wasn't Rockefeller responsible for the Ludlow Massacre?
Have I got a surprise for u
@Brigid Madden that was my first thought
+ Brigid Madden But Mansa Musa wasn’t white or Western, and we can’t have a non-Western non-capitalist black guy being the richest ever, that wouldn’t prove our point.
Yes, according to press at the time. Happened at Ludlow, Colorado, where the National Guard used machine guns to fire into the miners' colony, killing around two dozen people, including women and children. The aftermath led to an armed attack by the miners upon dozens of anti-union establishments and against the Colorado National Guard. See the Wikipedia article and this from "Westword": features.westword.com/ludlow-massacre-anniversary/
@@WASDLeftClick He was religious, though! He went on a pilgrimage to Mecca! Oh, wait...
What I find most interesting about the Rockefeller quote is this: the thing we most remember Rockefeller for is because it's the thing that had the most historical impact on society. Him being a good father matters to *only* his family. Him being philanthropic matters to the charities he gave his money to and the people they helped. Him being a brutal capitalist that may well have been a part of a massacre, whose business practices were so unacceptable that legislation was passed specifically to deal with them? That matters to pretty much everyone in the US today.
History is *supposed* to teach you the most important things. What PragerU wants to do is redefine what "most important" means. They want to drag in that unpleasant conservative clap-trap about "good people, therefore good deeds" nonsense, and then declare that this is the most important thing.
that first paragraph is a really good approach to understanding historical figures when weighing the good they did vs the bad they did
Yet for some reason History classes like to approach things from a crooked angle with an objective of skewing history to a certain political perspective.
PraguerU is no different than any other history class. They indulge in semantics to lose the bigger picture and then spin it in a way that promotes their political goals. Case and point is a video talking about the Republican Party, which for some reason can’t accept the idea of a political party changing based on its affiliation with Dixiecrats. They love to focus on its ties to abolitionists and southern reform rather than looking at more contemporary history (I.E 20th century). Which just so happens to be more relevant...
As far as providing an example of skewed mentality in most history classes. If you go up to the common person and ask them, “how many people died in the Holocaust?” Most people will answer with 7 million, truth be told the answer is somewhere short of 13 million. The 7 million figure is the amount of Jewish people killed during the Holocaust. What this demonstrates here is pretty obvious, there is a prioritization of which group suffered the most to the point where most people believe that only Jews suffered during the Holocaust. And as a result 6 million other persecuted victims of various groups (comprised of: polish, Ukrainian, political dissidents, and other minorities) are completely ignored.
The way I see it, calling out PraguerU is the equivalent of calling out your history teacher or professor for dramatizing the point. Yes, you can stand up and condemn them, but in my own experience of calling out my history teachers on bullshit. It rarely works and only serves to make you look like a politically charged idiot. The best thing to do is to leave it and let it rot with the rest of the garbage it rolls in. At the end of the day, history is subjective and manipulating it to your own gain is something that EVERYONE does, no exceptions.
@@emilie6466 I think that even if it's something that a lot of people do, we should still try to avoid it.
"What should I value?"
Dennis Prager: "Values."
Yes
Thank you
This answers my question
It's baffling that they think "the most important thing is living by good values" is an effective argument AGAINST helping people and trying to make the world better.
don't you know? good values are money and power over others! /sarcasm
Rockefeller was a social Darwinist, and the richest man to ever live was a West African king, Mansa Musa (but of course PragerU would never tell you that)
West African Black *Muslim*
USS Glow Cloud Did you ever hear the Tragedy of Mansa Musa the Rich? I thought not, it’s not a story PragerU would tell you.
Actually that's literally impossible to say. First of all, that's 700 years ago. Secondly are we talking with inflation included, or just 1 to 1. Because I am pretty sure in a 1 to 1he's not. And even if it was inflated, I somehow doubt that. It'd be impossible to actually calculate inflations between the 1300s to 2019, income for his entire life based on that, and a bunch of other things. So even if it something you claimed, proving it would be nearly impossible. And because of that, he really can't be declared "richest man" because you can't accurate prove he is. And we CAN prove the wealth of people like Rockerfeller, Bill gates, and so on.
Neiasaurus Creations for one thousand... what’s a gold standard
@@Kenpachifreegod This thing that went out the window because of world wars? Specifically, the second world war.
Dennis Prager: "You should live by your Values"
Me: Ok, so my values are: Gay rights = good, communism = good, church = bad."
Dennis Prager: "You weren't supposed to do that."
Monti I agree, but communism?? Communism would be good if it worked, but it fails to in our day and age.
@@gezi5927 Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread
@@gezi5927 jeez, it was just a joke made to ilustrate a point lol
You should live by your Values (if they aligns with mine).
Luna
I'm curious why the animosity towards Christian's?
I am truly curious. Do you feel the same towards all religions? Islam for example.
Before you answer me. I have gay, lesbian and trans friends. Long before it was fashionable to do so. I really don't care how or with whom you achieve orgasm with. As long as it's a consenting adult. I'm straight and always have been. None of my friends has any problem with this.
Please believe me when I say I'm curious as to why you would throw all religious people in a bad category.
This has not been my experience with any group of people no matter what group they're in.
You do realize that if you discard people out of your life due to group. You only cheat yourself ? And I won't cheat myself because I am human and as such I am selfish and I never know what good thing I may have for knowing anyone. So I don't build my walls in advance.
Unless you intentionally hurt me or my loved ones. I hate no one. If I find someone disagreeable. I walk away or avoid them. I wish them no ill will. If you are curious as to my mind. It's easy.
If I live 82 years that's close to 30,000 days. So I don't have time to hate anyone or get to upset about anything someone else may do.
Especially how and who they achieve orgasm with.
If only I had more time.
Maybe I would hold onto more hate and shut more people out of my life.
I just don't have the time.
Farewell my friend.
If ever we meet I will be more than happy to get to know you. Just as I find you at that time in your 30,000 days.
"Don't try to change the world, just change yourself." This is right up there with the idea of "reducing your carbon footprint". Because saving the environment is the responsibility of each individual, not the responsibility of billion dollar corporations who do far more irreparable harm to the environment than any individual.
If i become a self sustainable vegan farmer that doesn't use pesticides, eat or produce meat, only use My feet to transport, drink and use only and just the barely needed water, don't use electricity at all and somehow i convince all humanity to do the same... Still a corporation raking billions in profits will do more harm in minutes that i will likely do in My entire lifetime. The problem is CLEAR but they rather blame the consumers.
Hell if you are somehow go 100% net negative on a average carbon footprint, and get a whole country to follow along, it would not outshine like 7 large companies.
“Will this policy increase or decrease gratitude among people?”
To the republicans, banning things that don’t effect anyone but the people you’ve banned drastically reduces gratitude among people and doesn’t increase it at all.
The message of Prager U:
- Don't study.
- Don't analyze.
- Don't organize.
- Don't partake.
- Don't care.
and above ALL else,
- DON'T QUESTION OR CHALLENGE THE POWERFUL.
It's only gender politics when women fight back, not when women are pushed down, that's normal.
It's only class warfare when the poor fight back, not when the poor are pushed down, that's normal.
And so on. It's essentially the foundation of conservative messages to people. "Don't fight back."
^"All conservatives are sexist, and none care about the poor."
Try stepping outside your bubble, aight?
No Im pretty sure their message is to work hard for oneself to be successful in life.
Richard Roberson No that's just a smoke screen for the real message of "Sit down, stop thinking, and shut up." There's absolutely NO reason to think you can't self improve while also working to make the world a better place. But that is an argument they try very hard to make. They're trying to use self improvement to rebrand, justify, and sell apathy.
Wheatboi
They've never made that argument. The real smokescreen is you.
Notice how they claim the richest man ever was J.D.Rockefeller, a white christian, rather than Mansa Musa (widely accepted as the actual holder of that title), a black muslim
Ziggy Angelo that was the first person I thought of as the richest man of all time.
Mansa Musa was also exaggerated.
That’s true! It’s hard to quantify his net worth accurately
I don’t think determining who was the richest man ever was the point of the video... not everything has to be a race issue
@@samsoncologne9332 I know that's not the point of the video, I'm making a point of the biased perspective PragerU uses to skew its followers view of the world
Mike Rowe on PragerU: “Don’t pursue your dreams. Vocational school is the future.”
Mike Rowe on Tucker Carlson: “My communication degree saved my a** so many times lul”
Mike Rowe, most notable for his transactions.
8:02 he basically just admitted that the only reason he doesn't murder people is because he makes himself believe in god.
"I like murder, I like to kill people for fun" - Dennis Prager
Noooooo 😩 don’t put an end to unrestricted capitalism you’re such a sexy economic system 😍😳
@Two Point Us i too get off on inequality and cruelty 😲😲❤️
Restricted Capitalism = 😣🤚🏿
Unrestricted Capitalism = 😌👉🏿
That communist pussy tho 😍😶😬😩
Was this is a Cody ko reference or did Cody ko steal this joke🤔 I'm referencing the dhar mann that's cringe video
Have you heard of something called the Economic Freedom Index? I would say unrestricted capitalism is pretty good.
"But how do I *know* your values are good?"
"Dude, just trust me, bro."
"Noooo don't question my world views ur so sexy haha"
@@carloscastro1192 I did a little correction to your comment:
"I think many conservatives views and values are statements explained by god"
Here we go again.
His values aren't something he invented in his basement. He proposes Judeo-Christian values, on which America was founded. So you want to challenge them by asking "how do I know they are good", and won't be satisfied when told that God said so, go make your own country, with what you believe to be good and compare it to America 200 years later and see how worse off your people are.
Have you ever picked up a philosophy book to attack anyone's values? You *know* these values work because americans are among the freest and the most prosperous people on the planet. If having a good life for everyone in a country doesn't indicate the worth of the said country's values, what does according to you?
“Why don’t you stop doing things that are wrong?” Jackson parkerson
I mean, my values came straight from some dusty book several thousand yea--I mean, straight from my imaginary frie--straight from God. They have to be right.
We literally covered Shakespeare in an *Intro* to the Humanities course at my local community college. The idea that just because an extremely relevant topic doesn't have its own course listing it won't be covered, makes me wonder if that woman went to college at all.
my class on VILLAINS covered shakespeare. i'm convinced most of these people either never went to college or slept through their classes
@@mammoneymelon
I recall dennis dropped out before getting a graduate degree, so that means he went to college but ditched it halfway through
,,You are happy when you're happy."
Oh yes, the floor is made out of floor
The Jordan Peterson clip straight up sounds like something you would hear on repeat throughout a city in some dystopia future
"Inopportune questioning can confuse without enlightening" on a big bold font propaganda poster.
A future where Deranged Kermit rants at you through loudspeakers in the street...
Christian Dudley I knew it, Peterson is actually Wallace Breen
@@Graknorke So spot on
JP is actually a neo nazi, not even name calling.
PragerU doesn't want the informed. If you're asking questions about what they're saying then you aren't their target audience.
@@supercriceto
No. If they wanted to do that then they wouldn’t publish such classic videos like “why the left ruins everything”. There is no room for interpretation there. Nothing to get you thinking. Just spoon-fed propaganda funded by fracking billionaires.
When I was a teenager and questioning my faith I found PragerU. I decided to watch it to try and reaffirm my beliefs. It just pushed me towards atheism.
I’m the twentieth like 🎉
I would absolutely save the shittiest dog on earth before I'd save Dennis Prager.
Prager: "Good values are what you need most ".
Us: "Which values are the good ones?".
Prager: "Mine, of course".
Us: "And which are yours?".
Prager: "The ones in the Bible, basically".
Us: "Are you sure you want to call it a 'university', Dennis?"
I love the chapter in The Bible that goes "The wealthy American man knows what's up, forget Jesus and his teachings and example. Loving thy neighbor is for the week leftists!"
Fr religion has no place being taught in education. The only time it should even be brought up is if you're discussing the history of it.
@@AammaK Great.
@@zayatamburelli5322 The study of religion is a field of study you know? Where I live RE (ReligION education) is basically information about the main religion, that obviously effects the local culture so much it would be silly not to explain it in school, and most other religions are presented as well so as to understand domestic minority cultures and to prepare us to eventually interact with foreign countries and people from other cultures.
It's also fundamental to be informed about religion, sociology of religion, psychology of belief and ideology, and the origins of sacred texts and practices. You can't really be expected to have a fair discussion on or even critique your backround religion nor any other if you can't understand where things come from. History isn't enough because it's good to know why people think like they do, why such tiny things become detrimental for the unity of a religious group and splits it in multiple traditions. Dogmatics too can be taught neutrally. Only when it becomes a sermon is there something wrong with it. Frankly, that does happen in less populated areas and our local "Bible belt" zone.
In general though, quite contradictorily those students who are members of the main church here tend to get far wider education on the diversity of religion both locally and internationally, since the different RE subjects are separated based on religion membership, and those outside religion have their own subject, but it isn't as well developed as the main RE classes. Because the other school subjects have far less pupils less resources can be directed to them as well. Philosophy and ethics are fused into RE classes in primary school. Even though education like this has long roots in my culture, it's not quite there yet. I personally support a common Religion Information subject in schools, which would make it even more neutral and fair. Religion education (in contrast to "religious education") should give tools for individual thinking and for understanding ourselves and others. We lose something fundamental if we see the teaching OF religion automatically as religious conduct.
Educating about religion isn't necessarily wrong (think of it as a philosophy/history class), but if the point of the religious education that you're getting is indoctrination, then yes, that doesn't belong in a university setting.
Tfw there's a pragerU ad on an anti-pragerU video
The same reason Tic Tok ads are on anti-Tic Tok videos. The ads find keywords in the title and boom ad.
I get adds for the impeaching trump when watching PragerU.
I got two pragerU ads on this one
Maybe they know its bad and they're like "these people obviously won't actually believe this bullshit so lets put it here" 😂
I got "Why God is a he"
My AP US History teacher, a liberal in a hard blue state, got mad when I said Rockefeller was a filthy robber baron in our discussion of whether or not the different monopoly men of the industrial age were robber barons or "philanthropists" (I said all of them were robber barons), so like idk what the hell PragerU's talking about with the bias in the education system. Honestly, there's actually a bias towards forgiving these gross capitalists while glossing over the labor movement during that time because both of the mainstream parties which have control of the education system and therefore the curriculum favor giving a sanitized history of capitalism because they both support the system overall.
(This teacher also tried to make us believe that John Brown was a cowardly murderer and literally never touched on the labor movement in the industrial age and I had this same teacher for a class on world genocides and she refused to believe a point about concentration camps [that children were in concentration camps as laborers and that during inspections of the camps they had to hide or were killed] that I remembered from Marion Blumenthal's autobiography of her time in concentration camps)
This comment is sorta old but I received a similar task! I was taking AP US History and had to analyze facts and decide if two random old capitalists (and I’m almost certain Rockefeller was among those two) were “robber barons” or essentially good. I may be misremembering or wrong, but I’m pretty sure that it was pretty much expected of us to put one in robber baron and one in whatever the good qualification was. Rockefeller was… probably the bad one? Funnily enough I live in a swing state that leans Republican, my teacher was a liberal though. And I also remember learning quite a bit about labor movements! Maybe not ENOUGH, but still a good amount. PragerU correct about biased school system????
At the end of the day though, I don’t think this is the education most American kids receive. And even the point of that task was still the classic good capitalist vs bad capitalism paradigm. It was still pro-capitalism, not socialist or anything. It’s just pretty hard to deny a lot of the men and the things that happened in this era were shitty, even if you support capitalism, but Prager decided to anyway.
In my family we didn't learn about the wonderful things that the wealthy people do for society.
We learned about the boot they've had on collective throats for an eternity. We learned about miners strikes, we learned what it was to be hungry, we learned what it's like to sleep 5 people to a room.. you get the drift.
I 100% support a "maximum allowed wealth" with the rest redistributed. I hear you say "but then important people won't have the motivation to do important work" and I say fuck those people, we'll figure it out.
and if they dont want to do it then maybe the government should do it instead!
PragerU: Rockefeller was the richest man who ever lived
Mansa Musa: *intense breathing noises*
Well it’s PragerU. Do you really expect them to admit the richest man in history was black? They don’t even acknowledge that Africa had actual nations instead of a bunch of dumb tribals running around in loincloths.
not to be one to make a meme unfunny but it does say in the estimates that Rockefeller has more wealth than Musa, feel free to correct me this is just estimates
@@thebesterest mansa musa made a whole economy crash because he gave away a ridiculous amount of gold and had a whole camel caravan stretching for meters
@@thegoldengamer9315 Exactly. He ruined the gold price in Egypt for years just by going shopping there while he was on his way to Mekka.
@@heiniknallkopp9688 yeah mansa musa was ridiculous
Even from a religious perspective I have ALWAYS hated the "morality comes from the Bible because God told us these rules" stance. The rules aren't just there for fun and if you have to be told murder is wrong to believe it, you're a sociopath. The reason the rules were the way they were is because they were guidelines on how to effectively love. The number one most important thing according to the Christian faith is to love, and (for the most part) the rules are a way to let you know how to do that. It's such a fundamental misunderstanding of religion to say that the rules are there, don't question just follow
Fundamentalist Christians dont give a damn about love
I don't think the statement "Morality comes from the Bible" is bad...I guess it is a good platform for "Objective morality."
if "Objective morality" ever existed that is...I don't think Murder is inherently wrong, I think if society didn't exist we wouldn't be able to say "Murder is bad." Morality wouldn't have existed if society wouldn't have existed. Of course also there lies the burden of proof as to why Christianity/Judaism/Mormonism is true so that why should the Bible be held the basis for our morals. But I am tired because I have watched a lot of debates on religion and God today so I am gonna let one that go free...
Also just before anyone starts saying it, yes I feel bad for the person being murdered and I hate the murderer but that my feelings aren't a good basis for what is right or wrong. Everyone has different perspectives, what makes your perspective right? I think we can logically debunk why murder is bad.
@@LukeMcGuireoides as I heard someone say I am gonna repeat it here, when did Calvinists takeover Christianity? For this case, when and how did Fundamentalists takeover Christianity?
They took it over in the US. They mainly did it through infiltrating the Republican party. The christian right here overshadows non fundy christian to such an extent as to nearly blotting them out. It's a sin. It's a m effing shame
it also doesn't help prove their argument when you stop and reflect on the fact that just about every major religious figure (jesus christ, moses, prophet muhammad peace be upon him) were literally rebelling against rigid authority. jesus against the romans, moses against the pharaoh's regime, muhammad (pbuh) against the pagan worshippers and rulers of then saudi arabia who wanted him dead.
like, religion is literally all about faith in god above tyrannical government
Love and happiness are values, Dennis. I'd say love is like in my top 5 most important ones
exactly!! money, love, happiness, and personal feelings are all potential values! in fact, most values are a direct reflection of personal feelings. also tje idea that we should all have similar values is ridiculous.
people fall into extreme ideologies because they want easy answers to tough questions. why are your values good? they just are.
JD Rockefeller was selfless and only worked hard for the good of others, a real American hero. And a good example of why a system based on mutual aid will never wo- wait a minute
Tune in next time when we discuss PragerU's video "Adolf Hitler: Was he really as bad as history says he is?" and its correspondence to defending Trump.
Omg I would love to see a ytp of that 😆😂
you joke now but do you really think PragerU wouldn't justify the guy because he "was religious" or something like that?
Physical, hahahaha. I could definitely see them making that video if it was around 1940. Even if it came 9ut today...I wouldnt be shocked at all
I hope this doesn't age badly, especially in 2023-2024.
@@Goldenboy-pe2ci Hitler wasn't religious really but sure they are gonna cherry pick quotes from him just like they did with the American founding fathers to "prove" America was a Christian nation....
Young Stanley Kubrick sitting in his gran's living room has a point
lmao
stanley kubrick formulating ideas for 2001: A Space Odyssey 8:40
Prager calls himself conservative. What exactly does he conserve?
We don't ask this enough
Corruption and unregulated capitalism, with greed and immoral deeds hidden under the guise of “judeo-christian values”
The desires of the corporations
His desire to control things by any means necessary.
I remember when I was a younger conservative newer to politics and I actually watched, believed, and supported prageru. Boy was I wrong.
Thanks for coming around :) People like you make me hopeful.
That gives me hope that people can be persuaded to change their minds.
Got a PragerU ad called "The Left Ruins Everything"
To be entirely fair, Adam Conover is on the left, so it's not entirely wrong.
Well my left finger of my left hand is fucked
@@brifox lol
Is that wrong?
I mean...Yeah they do.
I hate how Prageru uses competent editing and presentation to make their horrid ideas seem palpable, reasonable even. It's that pretence of professionalism that's so irritating.
Weellllll... I kinda feel the sound effects are cheesy and over-produced ('whoosh', 'zooooopp', 'ping!'. once you notice it, it gets soooo annoying) and a lot of the visuals just follow the speaker's words with on-the-nose graphics. Then again, the things they're saying have little depth so only on-the-nose bullshit and over-produced sounds can wallpaper over that shit.
Maybe I'm being too harsh, but then again they're terrible people so fuck them.
Took the words right out of my mouth. Maybe my breakfast too actually; I always throw up a little inside when ludicrous ideas are presented as such
Yeah, like that Vid about Venezuela and how bad it is, i mean its a Socialist Wonderland, right ?
Ixiah27; who the fuck is calling Venezuela a Socialist Wonderland?
All I've ever heard about Venezuela is from conservatives using it to criticize socialist policies & everyone else point out how Venezuela is a bad example for anything.
Oh, that's right. Conservatives call Venezuela a Socialist Wonderland. Just like how "DOOM: Eternal" got progressive panties in a twist, even though it never did.
@@Proctor_Conley Gold in RuneScape is worth more than Venezuelan money. Communism is a failiure, just accept it.
New drinking game! Every time Prager U cites a source, take a shot.
Why am I still sober?
Pessimist: The glass is half empty
Opitimist: It’s half full
PragerU: The glass is gay
Schrödinger’s cat: GLASS IS GLASS
Shrödingers cat: GLASS IS HALF FULL AND HALF EMPTY
The entire right wing argument about capitalism revolves around saying that unregulated capitalism is the best policy ever because people and coorperations arent greedy. So shut up and cross your fingers that competition won't be absent.
I don't know if that's what their argument is. I couldn't tell you concretely but that doesn't sound right to me. Can you tell me concretely what the left-wing argument about capitalism revolves around?
Pretty much that corporations can only be trusted to do whatever generates the most profit for their shareholders, so we can‘t rely on them to self-regulate regarding health and safety, worker conditions, environmental protectionism etc.
@@koryfredrick1164 or to take care of things that should be moral and ethic before being "profitable"....like healthcare.
@@kishinasura1504 or the environment
No thats not the argument at all. Its that with people free to choose who to sell/trade/work for/hire, everyone has the greatest chance possible to engage in a voluntary transaction that makes them better off.
This creates upward mobility regardless of whether people engage in these transactions for reasons altruistic, greedy or somewhere in between.
PragerU's logic: "Clean up your room and stop worrying about the massacre of strikers! And be grateful you're not in the line of fire!"
That video's like something that'd be right at home coming from Stalinist commissars
I can imagine Prager U's response to the First They Came poem. "You didn't speak up when they came for the socialists? Good! Self improvement should be paramount. You can't change society anyway. Oh you said nothing when they came for the Jews and unions too? You're on the right track to true happiness!"
czdaniel1 wait til you hear about Stalin privatizing everything
+Macaroni&Cliche -- I think you're making a joke sort of nonsensical reference. But I'm going through my _Stalin History_ lists of:
*5-yr Plans,*
*Destruction of the Kolkhoz,*
and *10-million Starved&Murdered Ukrainians*
I don't see where the privatization reference....Oh, wait. I see it now!
Contrasting whatever evils of privatization against the evils of centralized State Planning! I see it now.
Still not funny, but I can see the point now
Stalin, Lenin, Wilson, Obama or Trump. Doesn't matter. Smash the state whoever's in it.
My school uses these videos in morning announcements and almost all of them are full of crap, my friend and I just make fun of them
God your school fucking sucks
Blimey that's insane, may I ask what country you live in? Just because I know that here in England we are lucky enough that any PragerU vids would be completely unnacceptable in most schools (rightfully so).
@@robinthebobin6537 America, even worse, Florida.
@@senniminnibaby5011 At least there's nice weather there I guess
If you research capitalist history particularly in Britain and America you hear the same kind of noises being made by conservatives to the working classes then. Praising efforts of the bourgeoisie as a bunch of self starters, telling workers to focus on improving themselves at the expense of wider social critiques, stoic value ethics of a pacifying nature. History is a spiral.
My conservative business professor starts off a unit on Rockefeller introducing him as "Not a Very Nice Guy"
Gaslight. Obstruct. Project.
That is what passes for curriculum on PragerU.
Those words come together to form G.O.P. The Good Ol' Racist Sexist Capitalists.
Sounds like textbook liberalism to be honest.
GOP-642
Class: Prager
Or, GOP
@@billcephus 'Conservatives' are liberals. They wish to preserve/regress a neoliberal economic/cultural zeitgeist.
Gratitude is an essential conservative value because it keeps people in their place. The subtext is: vote for policies that require poor people to jump through even more hoops, so when they do get help, they are too exhausted to feel anything but grateful.