Civilization: Understand Those Upon Whom Your Life Depends

How do people make choices and decisions? Are we always rational? The value of all the 5 Fs and how one of them in particular helps us understand others (and ourselves). The Father Brown detective mysteries. Other mysteries like why the same people who oppose executing murderers also want more freedom to execute the unborn. They claim to want women to be able to choose but only if they choose career over marriage and family. The five fundamentals that define civilization. The five signs of impending extinction of a society. What does this say about your society? Why have so few politicians ever told you that confiscatory rates of taxation are immoral? He told me that Jews don't know how to fight.

00:00 Understanding Puzzles and Paradoxes
04:14 The Role of Faith in Understanding Human Behavior
09:28 The Roots of Socialism in Biblical Teachings
14:24 Paradoxes in Modern Environmental Movements
17:30 Greta Thunberg's Contradictory Positions
18:50 Defining Culture vs. Civilization
22:34 The Importance of Economic Systems in Civilization
27:32 Marriage and Family as Foundations of Civilization
30:30 Balancing Individual Rights and Communal Responsibility
31:40 Violence and Its Place in Society
38:55 God Over Government: The Key Principle of Civilization