481 – Topics

00:03 Trudeaumaniac: Justin Trudeau’s admiration of Fidel Castro, litmus test for evil, Castro’s evil ideology and record of dictatorship, eulogy to Castro, Trudeau’s shared philosophy with Castro, Trudeau’s lauding of dictatorships and dictators, Pierre Trudeau’s socialist revolution, reactions to Trudeau’s Castro eulogy, Donald Trump’s right response

17:30 Reality check: nature of reality, reality as the standard of right and wrong, Plato’s unreality vs Aristotle’ reality, knowing reality through our senses, nature of collective, nature of individual, only individual rights can be real

30:30 Reality checklist: self interest as the only interest, the virtue of self interest, zero-sum game, positive-sum game, self interest and the public interest, facts vs truth, reality as metaphor, Gulliver’s Travels, metaphor as high-level abstraction, a reality checklist, the Donald Trump factor

47:55 Proportional Reality: the unreality of proportional representation (PR), electoral reform, discovering the truth between the lines of factual news reports, the illogic of PR, political parties, no votes for freedom

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