jonas-e Posted January 5, 2014 Posted January 5, 2014 It appears in this video that Matt Damon is an anarchist and that he encourages civil disobedience: http://www.upworthy.com/one-of-matt-damons-finest-performances-was-never-in-theaters Perhaps Stefan should invite him on the show or create an open reply like he did with Russel Brand. I realised later that Matt Damon is in fact performing / reading a speech of Howard Zinn from 1970. However, it kinda looks as if he actually means it. And there are so many of these upworthy videos going viral these days that it makes sense to respond to them - most of the upworthy videos have a statist / leftie agenda. Which reminds me that particularly this upworthy video is extremely popular and has gone very viral: http://www.upworthy.com/9-out-of-10-americans-are-completely-wrong-about-this-mind-blowing-fact-2 It is about the distribution of wealth. The typical person that posts it on facebook is a socialist or raving statist and the conclusion is always (at least amongst Europeans): USA is a libertarian hell-hole - see how libertarianism leads to inequality - we need more laws, regulation and taxation. I think it is extremely important to explain to people that this insane inequality is the RESULT of statism, not an excuse for it!
alexqr1 Posted January 5, 2014 Posted January 5, 2014 Sounds to me here he is no anarchist at all. Maybe he likes freedom and anarchy until it threatens him or in this case his mom.
jonas-e Posted January 5, 2014 Author Posted January 5, 2014 I don't understand a whole lot of what's going on in that video - I don't know the context. Anyway, most celebrities and other very rich people are statist because the state has made them rich - without state enforced copyright / intellectual property / patents, they wouldn't be that rich. We all hate stupid laws and regulations when they limit our own freedom and we all want our own opinion enforced on other people's lives and property when it suits us. That's what happened with Russel Brand - he knows that something is terribly wrong with the system, so he'd like some magic gun to enforce his opinion on other people. Probably the same with Matt Damon if he actually believes the words in that speech that he performs - so he'd probably like to wave his magic gun around to make people behave the way he wants them to. These people get a lot of attention, their videos go viral and they feed the statist cattle with anxiety to vote for more laws and violence next time around. That is why it is important to respond and explain why they are right about the problem but not the solution.
PatrickC Posted January 5, 2014 Posted January 5, 2014 Sadly most folk who talk about freedom are normally leftists, even when they imagine they are not. Just listen to the rhetoric, 'equality', 'fairness' et al. Celebrities are often the worst culprits frankly. But I agree, I think it's always useful to break apart their solution tyranny.
A__ Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 Which reminds me that particularly this upworthy video is extremely popular and has gone very viral: http://www.upworthy.com/9-out-of-10-americans-are-completely-wrong-about-this-mind-blowing-fact-2 (...)I think it is extremely important to explain to people that this insane inequality is the RESULT of statism, not an excuse for it! Agreed. I've never seen that video, thanks for posting it.
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