By: Arlen Williams
Gulag Bound
Those who run with the Bound may recall our examining the confused minds of collectivists, as well as the corrupt mindsets of collectivism, on previous occasions. With gratitude we will also borrow this 2007 video from Evan Sayet and the Heritage Foundation, along with its exstended caption.
I intend to make a special feature of this subject matter soon, probably by featuring a category for it, on Gulag Bound’s menu, plus a kind of daisy-chained entry linking to numerous articles and videos. I’ve done something similar in a white-boardy Facebook entry (not that I recommend Facebook to those not already using it) and I think the sum-total presentation is critically important. It should become a leading edge resource.
Listen to Evan Sayet explain the malcontented crippling of the mind that causes people to promote a return to collectivism, i.e., authoritarianism, i.e., the “despotism” of which America has been committed to God to defy, by our national charter, the Declaration of Independence.
Published on Apr 8, 2013
In this, the single most seen lecture in Heritage Foundation’s history — a talk Andrew Breitbart called, “One of the five most important conservative speeches ever given” — Evan lays the foundation for what would soon become known as the “Unified Field Theory of Liberalism” and how and why that ideology leads the Left to side only and always with evil over good, wrong over right, ugly over beautiful, profane over profound and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. This is the talk that serves as the basis for Evan’s bestselling book, “The KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks,” the book Bill Whittle calls “Perhaps the most important book I’ve read in the past ten years.
Date: 03/05/2007
