Transcripts For CSPAN3 Millennials And Socialism 20170528

Id like to remind you we have a book table outside in the atrium so i would encourage you to check that out at some point during the conference. We would also like to thank our sponsor, the United States just as charitable foundation, and like to cspan for filming and were broadcasting this lecture. This is titled, millennials for flirtation with socialism. We will focus on the american fixation with socialism, and in particular my generations fixation, which im as shocked as many of you are by. It is my pleasure introduce three professors who will speak to us today. Dr. Andrew mitchell is an associate professor of history who earned his bachelor degree his masters and doctorate from ohio state university. He contributed a chapter for a book about this limits of empire. The limits of empire, european formation in early modern rock history. To dr. David hofstetter earned his ba, ma, and phd from ohio state university. His published articles on reader response the transatlantic classicism of William Godwin and Charles Martin brown, and philosophical perspectives on 19th century science and mary shelley, as well as text books on writing and basic christian apologetics. Dr. Eric a potter is a professor of english whose avid Academic Specialties include american literature, contemporary poetry, and religion in red literature. His most recent book is dr. Potter received his bachelors from Wheaton College and his masters and doctorate from the university of virginia. After we hear from each of our speakers, we will have a short question and answer session. Please think of any questions you may have a layer up your presenting. Please join me in welcoming our speakers today. [applause] thank you very much, good afternoon. The title of my talk, poison squads, polish workers sausage it is not entirely accurate. I hope you havent eaten, if you have i apologize in advance. The 20th century started off with a bang for america. An immediate future promised big things. After decades of Global Political indifference, america chose to embark on empire, taking up the white mans burden and puerto rico and the philippines. In 1903, two brothers from a higher on teens did the unthinkable command aerial flight. Americans won gold and 78 of the 94 olympic events at the third modern olympiad in st. Louis. The gate which of the west was also hosting an International Exposition and impressed foreign visitors with the brits and scale of american accomplishments, including the waffle cone. [laughter] 19 of five, president Theodore Roosevelt further enhance the countrys repetition international latecomer brokering a peace deal between russia, and japan that would earn him americas firstever nobel prize. Industrially, military militarily, diplomatically, we behaved like the great european powers. But when it came to the small matter of ensuring minimal quality food and drink for its citizens, the nationwide mind. The nation lagged behind. Ever since the revolutionary upheavals of 1848 European Countries recognized it traditionally liberal approach to economics, laissezfaire handling of social developments was no longer sufficient to cope by large scale urbanization. England france and prussia led the way. By the end of the 19th century all that legislation constituted the food and drink. Concern for consumer played a leading role. America, a series of fractures pushed back the need to address broader social issues until after the civil war. Between 1879 and 19 and six, over 190 bills were introduced aimed at stopping the food and drugs. All of them were killed before reaching floor vote. Senator aldrin, a republican from nebraska took things a step further when he introduced a peer for the law in 1890, the right to empower the department of agriculture specifically with greater oversight of foods that were across state borders. After two years and committee, it passed the senate but was quickly killed in the house. The bills kept coming. The progressives desire to use the federal government as a principal tool to establish fair competition between large and Small Companies and to protect the consumer from profit hungry businessmen, shared by small and internally divided internally, protects eternally, socialist party in america. Both groups actively supported the 19 of. Food and drug act which on paper or establish the First Federal regulatory agency, the future fda. Some might create the bill as federal oversight, it was a vision of three individuals, none of whom possessed a clear socialist vision that were chiefly responsible for the passage of this bill. In the early 1900s the American Public can about socialism to the extent that it provided sensational news items such as the assassination of the governor of idaho in 1905 are other like scandals. They are to care about the Food Industry can much of the same way. Traditional American Food waste were stingy changing rapidly after the civil war and confidence of the quality of what was consumed tended to fall. The spheres found expression in the news media, found an extremely strong correlation and articles pertaining to high Public Health and high circulation numbers. The first event take these concern to a National Level came during the spanishamerican war 18981899. There was little fighting done. The National Press began looking for Human Interest stories. One concerned Major General elson miles and puerto rico, who frequently campaigned about the quality of food issued to his men, deriving it as involved the. As soldiers returned home, the accounts of rancid meat seemed to cooperate tales of criminal negligence coming out of the commissary department. The public remains uneasy, watching something further nothing further to be done. One out broken outspoken person was Harvey Washington Wiley. While he was born on an indiana farm in 1844 and as man and boy, was both strong, religious, and intellectual inclinations, both worked with a concern for. He. By 1883, he had many name for himself as one of the nations leading chemical experts on sugar. Following this involved beef scannell scandal, widely considered the countryside failed in its duties to protect the American Public. He bemoans the publics seemingly insurmountable stupidity. As europes in a scientific journal at the turnofthecentury, to be treated for them those old deceived had a fox demagogues have no ties, manicured and carrabba dies, or privileges dear to us all. Government shall attempt to deprive us of these inalienable rights. For the next seven years, wiley would demand a greater role for federal regulation, particularly with labeling and marketing the Food Industry. This chemist for trade himself as an impartial champion of consumer rights. Recent studies have noticed an intriguing correlation between them greased publications about food safety and purity and a noticeable rise in competition for congressional appropriations between federal bureaucracies from 18 18901910 especially bureaus under the department of agriculture. By harvey wiley was serving the American Public, also testifying to congress a reason for keeping his chemistry bureau intact or expanding its numbers and budget at the expense of others. Wileys first success in drawing attention and appropriations came with congressional approval to form he called poison squads. Widely advertised nationally for 12 volunteers just well into summit to extreme eating conditions over the course of 12 months. At every male, men are given pure food cooked but sometimes by well he personally, others by a professional chef. Following their mail there are particular given food such as a glass of acid. They would does it back after the meal and some of them got queasy about that and wiley eventually put them in casserole form and they would just pop it back capsule form. Specific scientific conclusions were lacking. At the in the five years they said they have can cause harm to any consumer. Nevertheless, an emboldened harvey wiley took the cause of full food this to the cod to congress. Labeling on Food Purchasing the country only the feud could guarantee that label. While he responded indignantly to those who objected, character and opponents as bugs, scampering from under a log when the light is shone upon it. These bugs have clout, and wileys first be at get the drug at past with resounding defeat. Following this failure, wiley turned to the muckraking press and attempted to flame his opponents. Needless to say, businesses responded to this abuse and kind in a Massive Public relations battle flared up, and make great reading for the American Public and had to be given a muchneeded roos boost on a depressed author. Often sinclair had come from southern phone number times. His father had moved to new york city to try to improve the family fortune but instead has succumbed to alcoholism. Sinclair discovered his literary talents at a Junior College and would use them to help provide for himself and his widowed mother. Despite passion and talent, his work actually stagnated by the turnofthecentury. It was at this point that sinclair could previously denounced socialism and cereals began to reconsider the ideology. By 1904, swayed by the intellectual cachet of a new circle of friends, he became a convert to read shortly after that transformation, sinclair gave up writing the Great American novel, left his wife, and traveled to chicago. There he lived for the next few months, working in a meatpacking facility, talking to his fellow employees about the conditions. Billion of his days, the months in chicagos featured prominently in sinclairs stories and anecdotes. A publisher was quickly had come at julius whelans association socialist appeal to reason, and the jungle started in february of 1905. For the next eight months the significant readership became aware of the struggles facing lithuanian immigrants while men falling into vats to be turned into lard imprinted themselves vividly in our imaginations. For all that, the jungle is not a success. Serialization stopped before the novel was completed. He tried to self publish the work. Before he could do so, and a man named hybrid isaac marcus and enjoyed an earlier satire, read the manuscript and convinces bosses to publish it. Theater roosevelt fresh from brokering the treaty of fort smith weighed in on the issue. In a state of the Union Address in december 19 of five, the president publicly endorsed the need for a cure law. His urging a congressional ill regulating this boost could not have come at a more auspicious time. The 19 of 519 and six christmas vacation was not pleasant for most senators. And it would published work entitled the treason of the senate had accused nearly every Single Member of the body of thing in the pay of the work thoroughly concerted the Washington Community and with increased public pressure persuaded congress to act. On the 10th of december 19 10th of january, republican senators buddy. The second debate held a week later determined it would pass, administered by the commerce treasury and Agriculture Department with wileys bureau of chemistry. The floor vote on the 21st of february right around the time the jungle was sitting from double the cap dashcam at 634 in favor with 22 abstaining. The bill proceeded to the house where it languished. It was wild bill was under consideration in the house the Teddy Roosevelt invited Upton Sinclair to meet him at the white house. He arrived on the fourth of april where he learned result had been so taken with the jungle he received an advanced copy. He proposed to send a handpicked team of investigators to chicago. When their report revealed that if anything the jungle had understated conditions in some factories, both sinclair and results patients gave out. In the wake of continued congressional abstinence, both men released detailed, certified notes of chicago make points that decisively turned the tide. Amended. The 23rd of june, signed by president roosevelt on the 30th of june, together with the Meat Inspection eminent. The courts would have a final say on any disputes that might arise between packers and inspectors, instead of giving the Agricultural Department Carte Blanche to receive violations. Precisely to us to take credit for the final passage became controversy since the law took effect. Roosevelt initially most of the praise was on wiley, but on sinclair. Sinclair denounced later on in the year as, hysterical and untruthful. A crackpot sinclairs influence has been controversial itself. One recent food historian has boldly stated that within weeks of the published publication of the jungle, meet sales fell by half across the country. Other historians study of you sure less despite the phenomenal sales, even sinclair had a mixed feelings about its reception, lamenting, and that americas heart inhibits stomach by accident. [laughter] having drafted most of the food and drug act, testified to congress on its behalf, but should the publish to encourage its passionate to construct Coalition Committee was unnatural that Harvey Washington Wiley was going to become the chief administrator of the law and would do so until resigning from washington in 1912. Here competition between big and small, wellinformed consumers public socially engaged to the of such abuse, what austin socialism want . Thank you. [applause] think you for coming out. It is we are shifting from the historically true and real to the imaginatively disturbing. [laughter] all right. So, the services of socialism and dystopian sciencefiction. By way of introduction the millennial flirtation with socialism recent polls show that up to 50 of millennials have a favorable view of socialism and no other demographic in america holds such a high regard for this socioEconomic System. Interestingly, when students learn that socialism actually involves government intrusion into personal lives and the private sector, their enthusiasm for socialism diminishes. My thesis then, i propose that students be encouraged to read and discuss dystopian sciencefiction fury featuring socialist inclined ideology as a way to increase their understanding of socialism is it truly is, not as they have been told it is through progressivist education and socialist propaganda. Discussing novels like a brave new world and the clockwork orange reveals for socialism dehumanizes the individual, denies natural law and destabilize his human sexuality in the natural family, destroys free thinking through status indoctrination, and then denies god, replacing True Religion with state worship. I suggest using a shattered vestige of socialism that is encouraging students to lift the legions away from the personally, emotionally, spiritually, and culturally Destructive Forces of socialism. So socialism, what is in a name . Escutcheon and critique of socialism sometimes stumble over defining terms so lets clarify what i mean by socialism. Now a common definition we could see for michael newman, he demonstrates that socialism is committed to in a galaxy area in society that ends wealth and power polities brought on by private ownership of quality in means of production but systematic unfairness of a competitive freemarket system. Socialism assumes that humans can be perfected and an innate ability to cooperate with others for the best interest of the collective. Socialism believes in the possibility of change, conscious of human agency. Now with such a glowing appraisal of socialism, who wouldnt want to be a socialist . But this is the main definition most young people are learning at schools and university. Lets look at a different perspective. Socialism is a system of a political economy that prefers centralized Political Economic decisionmaking to achieve its ends. This is not a new idea. People in this book wrote certain is the same thing. The question is whether for this purpose whether it should confine himself in general to creating conditions under which the knowledge and initiative of individuals are given the best scope, so that they can plan successfully or whether resources require central direction and the organization of all of our activities according to some consciously constructed blueprint. In his most charming way, cs lewis also discusses problems with socialism in his essay comments progress possible. He says, the increasing complexity and precariousness of our Economic Life have forced government to take over many spheres of activity wants left to choice or chance. Our intellectuals have surrendered first to the slave philosophy of hegel, than to marx, finally to the linguistic analyst, as a result classical political theory with its stoics, christian and touristic the value of the individual all of this is died through the modern state exists not to protect our rights, but to do a scooter make is good. To do something to us or to make a something hence the name, leaders for those who want rulers. We are less their subject than at their wars, peoples or the mastic animals. There is nothing less than that which we can say to them, my durham business, our whole lives for their business. Socialism refers to an Economic System in which governmental powers make such allies planning decisions, affecting major if not all aspects of private and public life. So what are some underlying principles and assumptions here . Interior rosen, technology, and dehumanization. Dystopian novels per trading horrors of dehumanization is the ultimate consequence of socialist reductionism. Brave new world and a clockwork orange explore the heartwrenching trend is tragedies of such material reduction was in the transference a human into a technological product or what burgess politically calls, a clockwork orange. In the reductive materialistic socialist perspective, humans are nothing more than physical robots dancing to human dna humans are reactive agents, not free beings, and the mind and his choices are mere illusions caused by reactions in the material brain. A brave new world gives us a quintet of a society that operates according to this assumption that the human is nothing but a product of chemistry, biology, and genetics. So the novel we see the narrative coming back, thats how they justify doing what they do to the humans. For example, Central Planning scientists view humans is near molecule motion and redesign society as humans and its humans into classes of people genetically and mentally predisposed to jobs, cultural roles, and social functions. Humans possess the freedom to change or improve their station in life. They are physically predetermined and cognitively conditioned to remain in a particular class as determined by the planners. Hit the pdr education as propaganda in psychotropic drugs control individual thinking and feeling. And a clockwork orange burgess reveals a society in which players can strip people of their free will to force them to be good. Central planners use medical technology to make it physically impossible for arson to commit a crime, a different difficult to think about committing crime even. The states use of medical technology to force individuals to be good to make it emotionally, psychologically, and physiologically impossible for the individual to choose evil is an unholy violence against the sanctity of being human. Socialism leads to a loss of will for burgess and the destruction of soul. Seriously though, socialism invoked more language to defendants its planning. The policies are ultimately for the good of the people and the security of the community. These novels demonstrate that an application, socialistic line policies are in more a moral and their effect and disrespectful humans by the gate in the dignity of autonomy of choice. The natural law, human sexuality, and the family. Socialist and client perspectives radically radically alter human sexuality by changing natural law changing it to the sex is procreation to sexist recreation replacing the natural family with state childrearing. Both marx and engels incorporated this antifamily socialized sexuality perspective into their own socialist theories. Marx argues that socialism with its abolition of private property, capitalism, and religion, would like wise replace traditional marriage with an reg out hearing system of free love for communal marriage. On those, and his claims socialism ends private property and in the said city of cannot without monogamy many people would wouldnt have multiple sex partners in this socialist vision, sexual liberty frees both men and women from the tierney of exclusive sexual love. Socialism from these classical perspectives, not only anticipates, but also necessitates the structure of traditional family and normalizations of love. The socialist ideal is achieved in a brave new world through materialistic science, operating from the fundamental denial of natural law. In a brave new world, marriage is outlawed, and people are forced to have multiple sexual partners. Children are conditioned to view sex as divorce from procreation. Child rearing occurs in state run conditioning warehouses, where children are prepared for predetermined roles in society to curb pavlovian cycles. Characters and a novel naturally resist and they must be forced to comply with socialist incline ideas via constant propaganda and psychotropic medication. Although the truth may seem controversial today, the novel represents the folly of altering the Natural Design of the family and of human sexuality. Socialist planning and a clockwork orange decimates the traditional family the government in this novel requires all ablebodied adults to work. This lot fragments the National Think natural family unit forcing alex is the main character and other children to seek selfdestructive and nearly gangs. They seek these gangs to provide the necessary social framework through which to navigate the challenges of natural identity formation. The results as juvenile delinquency, immorality, and teenagers participating in violent rape, gang bang or juice of blood, sex, and violence. Socialist planning in a clockwork orange decimates the traditional family with horrific societal ramifications. The government requires all ablebodied adults to work. This law fragments the natural family unit, forcing alex and the other children to seek selfdestructive and socially poisonous surrogate family structures. Gangs. They seek them to revive necessary social framework through which to navigate the challenges of maturation, education and identity formation. Gangs are doing this. The result is juvenile malignancy, immorality, and teenagers participating in violent rape, or jesus of blood, sex and violence. Such is a logical and inevitable outworking of socialized sex and family. According to the novels, socialism denies natural law and subverts traditional family with horrific personal and social ramifications. State sanctioned idolatry is poison for the masses. Marx famously said religion is the opiate of the masses, helping people except impoverish life with hopes of heavenly riches. Dystopian sciencefiction reveals socialism to be poisoned, replacing historic religion with idolatry of the state, leading to spiritual emptiness and moral bankruptcy. In a brave new world, the world recognizes human spiritual longings and creates a materialist communal religion. It is named after henry ford, secular god of mass production. The world state restarts the calendar for the year of our ford. [laughter] the sign of the t replaces sign of the cross. Spirit filled Worship Services are replaced with pornographic films and 40 services in which drugs and alcohol creates artificially induced charismatic experiences. There is a secularized energy through these debates, huxley reveals secularism to be existentially untenable and spiritually vacuous. In a clockwork orange, burgess reveals the moral dangers of socialisms denial of god and its reliance on moral relativism. In the absence of an objective standard one persons pain and suffering are another persons pleasure enjoyed. Alex clearly realizes this. He gains pleasure and joy from stealing, assaulting, raping and murdering innocent victims because he likes to. Burgess exposes the moral oppressiveness of socialism. In the absence of god is the giver of objective moral law, socialisms attempt to free the person simply leads to a simply planned state built upon the exercise of arbitrary power. Given that socialism elevates the state to an idolatrous level, thoughtful millennials should think about embracing a godless ideology. In conclusion, a third way between capitalism and socialism. Millennials are disenchanted with capitalism and turning to socialism. Students should being curis to study both systems to understand better how both have functioned in history. It is not enough to critique socialism and expect students to embrace capitalism. Must we choose between these two Economic Systems only . Is a possibly a false dichotomy . Is there a third option . Students should be introduced to a third option. It is based on catholic teachings. It warns against the dangers of centralized power, the corporate governmental. The rights of individuals should be protected against larger organizations. Distributism condors redistribution of wealth. It advocates for equitable restoration of the means to production. Distributism new civilization is the root of injustice. It advocates for extension of private property and private ownership of tools and resources for goods and services. Encourages the growth of small businesses, discourages, mergers and monopolies encourages cooperatives, seeks privatization of industry and desires to ship power from large Central Government to small local government. Critics discuss various tactical and logical problems with this and proponents attempt to refute the charges. The discussion is quite lively and intellectually rigorous. I am not convinced we must choose either socialism or commercial capitalism. Right now marshall capitalism, for all the wondrously good things that has done, is not providing completely satisfactory answers such that a majority of these students are turning to socialism, progressivism and socialist and client centralized planning for answers. I think they are being sold and build a good too costly to bear. It is my hope distributist ideals will provide answers to their hearts. Maybe one of these bright Young Students will synthesize a fourth way. When that brings the light of gods truth and the joy of christs love into the hearts and minds of millions. Made of the our prayer and they got make it so, for his glory and our good and for the good of all people who are made in his glorious image to be creatively productive and have meaningful and orderly lives. Thank you. [applause] good afternoon. I will be talking about the cries of the heart of the young people. My title today is hiphop hoping spoken word and dreams for a better world. I will not be talking about hamilton. [laughter] sadly. The organizers give us two observations. One that has been touched on. Young americans are more favorably disposed toward socialism and older americans, and that socialism is the most looked upward on webster. Com in 2015. That observation led me to two questions, or led them to two questions. Why are you people in favor of an ideology about which they apparently know so little . Will the culture socialism eventually collapse . The first question is difficult to answer. The second is impossible without a crystal ball. Since i could not do either of those things, i thought i would get the issue. What are the young people thinking about . I wanted to get those questions by doing three things. I wanted to look at spoken word poetry, which is very popular among Young Americans. And to use it as a possible way of a window on how we look at the world, particularly their sense of problems facing society. Then i wanted to compare them to the group of poets in the 1930s who are frustrated with their society and its problems and became disillusioned with capitalism and turned to communism, only to be quickly disillusioned by that. Having me back comparison i want to draw whatever conclusions seem reasonable. In this talk i will focus on spoken word poetry and then some conclusions. What is spoken word poetry . Some of you are maybe uncertain. You are thinking all poems have words. This is not so much red or recited as it is performed. Like all the poetry, it is interested in what is said and it uses techniques we would expect poems to use. You need to see the person performing it live or perhaps by video. Tone of voice, gestures, facial expression. These are important. Widely popular among young people, poetry slams, videos of spoken word performances uploaded to the internet, school and Community Based programs and organizations that are giving writing clubs, open mic events. These are always Young Americans are involved in spoken word poetry. What is its appeal . What is it about these programs and events that appeal to young people . Most of them like them because they find they provide a safe haven. A place in which they can express their views, their questions, their identities with an assurance of being of accepted. They find an open mic event a place where they can be taken seriously. Something that often they dont find in their communities, Traditional School settings, or sometimes even in the home. The participants know they will be listened to carefully at these events. The listeners will respond to them, sometimes affirmatively and sometimes by challenging them, but always with respect. Another feature of these gatherings of young people who are sharing their poetry and their experiences provide opportunities for them to explore what is. They can talk about what my experience is like, in my community my understanding of things, and also a place for they can dream about what might be possible. Dream a possible, better world. The challenge for me is ok, if its a widespread genre but not written down, not anthologized, how do you get a sense of what they are writing about . What i thought i would do was to focus on the College Union poetry slam invitational. It is a National Organization of collegeage participants, highly skilled or they would not be at the national competition. Presumably representative. Last year there were 37 finalists. A few were humorous but most were quite serious. Pleas for acceptance, call for change, condemnation of society. Many feel ignored or misunderstood as individuals. Perhaps the spirit seek hostility and violence. I looked at the performances and try to categorize them in terms of recurring themes or issues. Nearly half had to do with issues of race and ethnic identity. Some addressing experiences of discrimination and violence. Some struggles with identity, particularly the struggle to be accepted by the larger culture. Another category having to do with sexuality and gender. Somewhere about sexual encounters, but more were gender roles and gender identity issues. Womens issues were also a fair number of poems, whether they were struggles of body image, or being objective five, whether they recounted experiences of rape or sexual violence. If you put the sexuality and gender category and women issues category together, it would be about as large as the race and ethnic identity category. Mental Health Issues were also received with significant attention. Describing the experience of Mental Illness or addressing familial and cultural stigma associated with Mental Illness. Finally family relationships not surprisingly were the subject of many of the poems. A lot having to do with parents, parents abuse, substances. Some dealt with terminally all family members, loss of parents, or the fear of inheriting abusive tendencies. As this overview reveals, a lot of the poems are concerned with freedom. Therefore the individual or group the individual feels he or she represents, they want freedom from discrimination, oppression, from danger, and they long for acceptance. There is nothing overtly political in terms of them advocating a particular policy or party or political ideology. To give us a sense of these poems, for a better sense, i want to focus on two spoken word poems. I will give you grief clips but i want to talk about what they do. The first one is a poem that seems initially solely personal. In this Gabrielle Smith addresses her friend, a black teen gunned down in philadelphia in 2010. By the end of the poem she broadens the scope of her concern. Flashback. 19. Flashback. You play basketball until the basketball bounces with more blood in your body. Everything was gone in a flash and you cannot take it back. Just a taste. To get more intense as she goes. Notice the performance element, the use of repetition, the use of flash. A unifying technique for the poem. She repeats flashback over and over and give details of the murder and she shifts to flash, and emphasizes the suddenness and violence of the loss. The speed of her friends death. Language is important. Uses basketball imagery throughout. She uses it to depict the dangers of death on the streets. He also personifies death of one point, calling him a ball hog, and got deciding to take it back to his court. This is very personal and thats part of the intensity of the situation as she remembers this friend and says, some days this world be jealous of your time, you shine brighter than a steel gun. There was also a vision element to it. She connects her friend deaths to the lives and out of other black girls. She affirms their values. By the end of the poem she sees them as saintlike victims. She says the soul has a memory of its own. She continues, so let us not forget what is a black girl if not black magic. If not the first and last miracle. Seeing a black girl is magic, she affirms the inherent value of each girl is a human being, as black, as female, and the loss of the violation of such a magical mirror the next these deaths so grievous. The poem ends by her presenting these deaths with religiously charged language. Every bullet is a false prophet making us no ones daughter, how cowards swinging heavy metal rob us from our mothers. Aint that what happened to jesus . Aint every black girl gone a saint . Robbery, crucifixionlike slaughter of the innocent. Such things ought not to be. The pollen contains an implicit criticism of society and an implicit cry for a better world in which the magic of a black girl is priced and preserved prized and preserved. In the next the critique of society is march was it. Criticizes society for imposing traditional gender identities on individuals that turns them and puppets rather than people. My wrists hang with in the air. Khaki pants. Purple Church Issues with tiny heels. [indiscernible] notice how important the performance element is in this piece, something you cannot get on the page. They are playing roles, complete with costumes and with gestures because the theme is the acting out of roles. The society, according to the poem, forces individuals to play. The individuals deal they are not true to themselves. Playing a role is very important. To use gestures to act like puppets who strings are pulled by society. That is the biological female performer is dressed in traditional voice clothing, and the biological male isnt traditional girls clothing. The boy, based on the clothing, delivers information about the traditional girl identity. To be a girl is to obey. The girl speaks more lines. To be a boy is to get my way. On multiple levels the poem calls in the traditional identities are in dress and behavior. The puppet theme is important. It reflects their sense that societally enforcement entities make them feel as if they are being controlled by another. They dont speak for themselves, as they make clear later. They want to resist but they find compliance is safer and less painful. The process of being informed to Society Leads them to a sense of alienation. They want to be free, but they seek conformity as a means of survival. Their alienation is Strong Enough they say my body is still far from any kind of home. What is their vision of what is possible . They expressed a hope for change. Their sense of home. Home is the body, when you get to be you no strings attached. The envision a possibly more free future, saying gender is a stage and we are all fastened to it. Dont be surprised when we break free. Well, some tentative conclusions. What can we draw from this glance into the minds of at least some young people who are writing spoken word poems and performing them . They are aware of problems in their society. Tracy society is having many problems that endanger individuals in the freedom. Clearly they desire change. They can describe the problem, protest the problem, and they can dream of a better world. How might they go about bringing about that change . It may be only have exploring in this session to some degree, that some may be turning to socialism, even if they dont fully understand it. Maybe they are turning to socialism because it seems the only option available when the Current Situation has failed to solve the kind of problems they see. What else is there . That is what led the auden group to turn to communism. They felt western liberal democracies and capitalism had failed. Maybe let the fascism. They turned to communism taking perhaps this was the alternative. They were quickly disillusioned. With young people become disillusioned if they turn to socialism . Perhaps. Many are skeptical about politics in general. According to a poll conducted last spring by harvards institute of politics, nearly half of americas 18 to 29yearolds believe todays politicians are unable to meet the countrys challenges and a majority reject socialism and capitalism. What then is their vision . Well, because americans may be uncertain about how to change society, for what they envision judging from the poetry is a society Something Like a spoken word open mic night, a place for people of all kinds are welcomed, listen to, and respected. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much for those insights. We are going to turn to q a. We will have to microphones going around the room. You have a question, go ahead and raise your hand. Please make sure to keep it short as you can. Under 30 seconds, so we can get to as many as possible. Make sure you wait until the microphone reaches you so we can be sure the speakers and all the other audience members are able to hear your question. Are there any questions . I happen to come by chance today. I did not think that would make this conference. Is a very relevant topic. Since i grew up in albania under socialism. I will throw out several questions and points. Please feel free, dr. Mitchell to just take one of them or whatever you think is most relevant, and the other is food for thought for everybody else. Dr. Mitchell, in the organization i recently met in albania we had advocated against state control, but they were problems we truly faced albania. Part of it is that state medicine has become a product of organized crime. Isnt there some room for regulation . To put that in context, i remind everybody, since we are talking about chicago, that al capone was not caught because of the real activities of crime. The regulation might happen beyond the primary role. Years ago, here in the pittsburgh area, there was a news story investigation not repackaged meat in supermarkets using nitrogen to keep the color. Some people got sick. I know the usual answer is the market will honest the perpetrator, but what about our sense of justice . If somebody risked dying, should never be some punishment . Isnt there room for the regulation . Dr. Hofstadter, a couple of comments. Brave new world is a great dramatization of the 1950s and 1960s. It is free on the internet. I recommend it to everybody. Sciencefiction is really useful and exploring some of these topics, but i truly recommend the 2015 movie equals. It does something very similar. There was a question that in practice socialism and communism actually came out to defend the family in eastern europe. They did not try to dissolve the family like you see in the logical conclusion presented by brave new world. Brave new world. Any comments on the disconnect between theory and practice . I grew up with very Strong Family connections and encouraged to really keep the family as primary. One additional comment. If somebody has the patience to read the sword of truth series, book six will give you the best picture i have found in fiction or nonfiction on what it is to live under communism or socialism where the futility of life, the void created by the push to spy on family members and everything if you want to touch it, i recommend the time it takes to read the book. That is just a comment. A couple more things but i think i took enough time. Is this on . Thank you for your comments. There is much that needed to be trimmed in the paper to get down to the time limit i went over. In terms of Patent Medicine first, while mr. Wiley is advocating for the pure food and drug act, one of the biggest opponents lobbying against his legislation is the Patent Medicine lobby. Wiley is attuned to the sense that even in the 19th century there were people putting labels on products that are inaccurate or even deleterious to your health. I was trying to convey the historical sense of what was going on. I think he would agree there is room for regulation and i would support that as well. There is a call for that without calling it socialism. With nitrogen and preserving the appearance of meat, one of the it touches on another aspect of who will be in charge. Of the be a subset bureau of chemistry, accommodation of the executive branches. Should we just leave it up to the courts . In 1906 that is what they decide. It is wrong but we will handle it by punishing afterthefact rather than trying to get regulations in to prevent it. The question is a valid one that exist today. Is a valid question, one that exists today. To what extent is punishing all if prevention is possible, who were what is going to be the authority that does that . A very valid point. Wherein lies the justice and intentions of the people who are harmed by that . One interesting thing about distributism is it focuses on the community so we shared goodness of life and how people contribute to each others benefit, the individual is not erased as it is in communism. There is attention to the communal. I think that is important. And sometimes can be lost in some of the perspectives or markets correcting for things. In terms of the other question, it is a fair point. There is a difference between the theories that are espoused and how they are locally expressed. We do see we go back into research if youre interested, takedown deals with this whole issue. Tracing it back to the 18th and 19th centuries where he explores how the very foundations of socialist and progressive thought was about the eradication of the traditional family. That did not always get played out. In your experience we see that. My approach is how can we take fiction as a safe, neutral, imaginative space . In order to discuss these things. Often, if you just go guns blazing at someones ideas, there is an immediate kneejerk defensiveness. That is one thing i find so wonderful about fantasy and science fiction. People will say that is not realistic enough. You are dealing with the imaginative and you need to be real. In the sense that it allows for people to have a sense of distancing so that they can explore these things first has ideas, they are not necessarily personally connected to them just yet. You can get the conversation going and then start to go to the application. Where do we see these types of things happening. We move from the freaky and scary brave new world into i see that happening in my local School System or i see it happening on and on. Issue,s of the family youre right. Mao zedong was very profamily. He was not about eradicating them. He took aspects, he selectively chose aspects of communism and so on. Your point is well taken. In the context of the novel i was discussing, that issue was very important and we can trace it to the very intellectual foundation of classical socialism. In reality, creations of the new man achieve that destruction. But it seemed to be incidental to the way socialism and communism was being implemented in most of northeastern europe. , all wed to just happen know was the divine was always there. There wasnt much room left for family. It did not seem to be the target. , ifistributive is him someone wants to explore the economic singularity, it is very good food for thought even i disagree with most of the conclusions. Up until the last chapter, it is pretty good. In your presentation you put trade millennials as having the desire to basically be themselves and to expect to be treated with respect and accepted pretty much no matter who they are or perhaps they see themselves as being. In the traditional christian worldview, who we are is inherently flawed as fallen men. If people are released to be they see themselves as, it seems that would lead almost inevitably to great evil and i cant help what think of what we have been seeing as socialism, how the revolutionaries of 1917 and how they were fighting against the oppression of bizarre and in by of the cz ar and in doing so, created a far greater evil. How would you approach is inherent conflict . I think i would approach a two ways. Is, i would not say that the question i was getting at. Methodologically i was saying if young people are interested in socialism today or something why is that,ines, how do they understand the world, where they coming from and what are their concerns. Rather than being evaluative in terms of their ideology or understanding of the elves, i was interested in being descriptive. If we want to understand where they are coming from, what are they concerned about and what might be moving them toward socialism, that is what i was after. Not that i agree with their understanding of identity or sexuality, that is what i was in the purview of what i was adjusted in doing. That is a conversation that can be had, but that is a conversation i think that can be had only when we are willing to listen to people and understand where they are coming from. First to thought is love our neighbors, we have to listen to them and understand them. Sure youreim not right about that. , yes, you might not agree or i might not agree with their view of individual freedom or how they define that and yet it seems vision and values are the conference, i think its interesting of how we reserve certain kinds of freedom. There is a context and framework for an understanding of freedoms. I think whats interesting about young people is why they like theultimately collective socialism is that they are interested in because maybeedom they take license with liberty. I see what youre coming from but i think partly are asking me to talk about things i was actually interested in doing. Your comments made me think of a question and that is the relationship, you mentioned they wanted respect. My question is, does respect equal acceptance from their perspective . What does that look like . Admitting my inability to channel their thoughts. I would say my guess is that from the perspective of many young people, respect would mean acceptance. I think that is fairly true of the culture at large or large portions of the culture and so i think they reflect that. You or i would agree that is what constitutes respect , that is a different issue. But my sense of what they would define it is that. So if we dont accept because we see brokenness, then we are disrespecting . Likely. Is very either the german could answer, it seems like you are suggesting that young people are vulnerable to believing what people teach who may be least qualified to espouse what they are saying. The example i looked at was from s who insisted exclusive sexual love is monotonous, boring and taranto. Other examples is young people believing hollywood actors on political and economic topics, believing people disputing biblical truths who have never read the bible, things like that. Do you find that is true that young people are more vulnerable these days to believing people who are not qualified to comment on the topic they are commenting on . Comment, sinced our audience is a mixture of geezers like myself who keep coming back. Hopefully we can give encouragement to young people just by being here and by being interested in learning, being exposed. Ive been exposed to a number of new things today. Even on this topic of exclusive sexual love, rather than believing someone who was a mass , maybe we could have an affirmation from leaders who that exclusive relationships for 10, 20 or almost 40 years who can affirm it does not have to anything like monotonous, boring, or to radical. [laughter] can we have a here here. [applause] was there a question there . [laughter] i think everyone is prone to believing the wrong people. If we are not careful. It is not just a simple symptom of being young. It is a symptom of being human. If we dont know where who we are, where we come from or where we are going, it is easy to be lost in a sea of ideas. In my own personal life, i have to be very careful. I love the play of ideas. The problem with that can be play on to what . If you are playing with ideas for the sake of playing, it can be dangerous. I think that is something i try to teach my students with Critical Thinking skills is yes, we have to turn ideas over, but there has to be an end and a reason for why youre doing it. With acan be swept away brilliant sounding person. Careful rhetoric. If you are not able to get underneath what is being espoused and not willing to do research or read around, too quick to accept, anyone is susceptible to these ideas. Ofave never read or heard those particular ideas about the family coming from marks or engels until recently. A lot of it is what they might not necessarily be unqualified. Theyre perfectly wellqualified people who are well researched, but further own agenda or own reasons, they are selecting certain aspects of ideas to express and to teach. That doesnt make them unqualified, it just makes them narrow or selective or having their own agenda. I would say we all are susceptible to being that, we have to be careful. There number one, there are more voices, perhaps and this may just be an old man talking. There are more voices than back in the day. If you dont have industrialization or the Industrial Revolution or the railroad that would get you out of your town, you are growing up in the same small town your parents did or earlier. E are so many if your job is to do with your dad did or get an apprenticeship to three other jobs, it will minimize the number of experts. Once you have the beginnings of a more serious global society, it affects the experts are. Now i can learn about different expert ways of doing things. I can learn about expert indonesian or chinese ways. That starts raising the question, how do i know . How do i evaluate . The leaders of society, the elders of society have abdicated , they dont care. It is an extension of democracy. If everyone is equal, who am i to sell you whats right tell you whats right . Sitcom edition of exposure to multiple ideas and the social simply cant be bothered or maybe they themselves are confused because they of may learned they may have learned the right answer but they dont know why. They would be parroting back. Throughout the 20th century into the 21st century, you dont have leadership, conservative, liberty of liberal, or otherwise who cant give a reason why. There are people who are disaffected with both democrats and republicans. There isnt a reason why instead of pure selfinterest. Is, in terms of ngels,ng, in defense of e you dont have to answer this, but does the phrase ball and chain mean anything as a married man . [laughter] dont answer. Again, i think this gets back to a question i was going to ask you, eric. And you show me a community in america where people who are part of the community are asked to give up something. Something that is inherently given to go along . There is a fourth component to this in terms of experience. Experience is becoming arbitrary truth. Because of experience, it is more valid. I dont know if we as a society on a family or political level where individuals are asked to think of something more important than themselves. When the rubber hits the road and you can say yes, this will hurt, but that is life. Froman try and run away it, but the consequences might be more dangerous and more deadly. I would throw out the challenge young and old, make the community what you are in, be honest. It is a pain in the neck having kids, it crimps my freedom. It is interfering with my pursuit of happiness, which i believe is my right in the declaration of independence. So why do i do it . Will my wife, why did she keep having them . [laughter] are there ways in which i can model that to my kids . Are there ways in which my neighbors can model that . Before you talk about how evil your dad is, think about how you are interfering with his pursuit of happiness. 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Next on American History tv, historian Eric Buckland talks about the Leadership Qualities and military exploits of confederate colonel john s mosby. After serving under confederate calvary commander jeb stuart early in the war, in 1863, mosby formed and command his took command of his own ranger battalion. The unit gained notoriety for its raids behind union lines. This talk was part of a daylong seminar on civil war leadership posted by Longwood University in farmville, virginia, at and Appomattox Court House National historical park. It is just under one hour. The first speaker today is mr. Eric buckland, the author of five books about the men who rode with john mosby during the civil war, his first one is mosbys rangers, which deal with the men from bmi who served with mosby, and who has subsequently done four more books which overall tell the story of 110 more men who served with mosby and he is told me theres a fifth volume at press right now which will be the final volume in that series. He has received two awards by the udc, the Jefferson Davis historical gold medal