How Do We Make Society Better? Left vs. Right #5 | 5 Minute Video
How do you want to improve America? By focusing on improving and refining yourself? Or by transforming society? The answer to that question will reveal whether you’re on the Left or the Right.
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A major difference between the Right and the Left concerns the way each seeks to improve society.
Conservatives believe that the way to a better society is almost always through the moral improvement of the individual — by each person doing battle with his or her own weaknesses and flaws.
It is true that in violent and evil societies such as Fascist, Communist, or Islamist tyrannies the individual must be preoccupied with battling outside forces. Almost everywhere else, though, certainly in a free and decent country such as America, the greatest battle of the individual must be with inner forces — that is, with his or her moral failings.
The Left, on the other hand, believes that the way to a better society is almost always through doing battle with society’s moral failings. Thus, in America, the Left concentrates its efforts on combatting sexism, racism, intolerance, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, and the many other evils that the Left believes permeate American society.
One important consequence of this Left-Right distinction is that those on the Left are far more preoccupied with politics than those on the Right. Since the Left is so much more interested in fixing society than in fixing the individual, politics inevitably becomes the vehicle for societal improvement. That’s why whenever the term “activist” is used, we almost always assume that the term refers to someone on the Left.
Another consequence of this Left-Right difference is that, since conservatives believe society is changed one person at a time, they accept that change happens gradually. This isn’t fast enough for the Left, which is always and everywhere focused on social revolution. An excellent example of this was a statement by the then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, just days before his first election in 2008. To a rapturous audience, he declared: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Conservatives not only have no interest in fundamentally transforming the United States of America, they are strongly opposed to doing so. Conservatives understand that fundamentally transforming any society that isn’t fundamentally bad — not to mention transforming what is one of the most decent societies in history — can only make the society worse. Conservatives believe that America can be improved, but should not be transformed, let alone fundamentally transformed.
The Founders of the United States recognized that the transformation that every generation must work on is the moral transformation of each citizen. Thus, character development was at the core of both child rearing and of young people’s education — from elementary school through college.
As John Adams, the second president, said: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
And in the words of Benjamin Franklin: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”
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The left wants change but the changes are counter-cultural. Thus they have fewer good role models to choose from. And so while I agree with them most of the time I also am constantly noticing how they haven't actually fully-processed and internalized their beliefs. You notice that especially in their inability to show empathy to conservatives and men. And yes just as you said- they use the societal problems to distract themselves from their personal flaws. They either refuse to accept the fact that conservatives are human beings or refuse to accept they are. So no deeper understanding of the cultural and systemic issues can be reached. Meanwhile conservative don't have access to or refuse to accept the education which teaches how flawed society is. Thus neither group is able to make substantial change to the actual underlying system. I still identify more with the left because I share like half of their vision of a better world but most still don't get the education or have the role models needed to do that.
Islamophobia is evil?
Why can't you just do both?
But if something is genuinely wrong with society it isn't bad to address the issue, that's not "playing the victim". 1:04 and whats wrong with conbatting these evils, it makes society good for everyone
Barry is the worst thing that ever happened to America.This IDIOT has made millions of Americans idiots.
Prager is absolutely correct
I'm left because i have worked with the extremely richs' money. They want to take your social security. The right loves to focus on our tolerance. We are passing no laws forcing you to call people by the right name. Tolerance is a good thing. The difference between the left and right. The right believes they are far superior to others and lack empathy for their fellow man. There are many falsehoods in this video.
Wow not biased at all.
People write over their hearts with thoughts, many people don’t know how harming a lie is and how far it removes us from the truth.
Character education
I hate it when a right wing person put on some suit and start to talk as he was a scienctist but actually he has no clue about what hes saying. And all the stuff his telling are made up bullsht. No literature no culture, but likes to talk about culture.
Religiouns are the only way to improve yourself huh ? What about education? Jeez right wing people are dumb as duck.
If you ever tried to lose weight, get fit, or ho back to school to learn a new skill you know how hard it is to change yourself, so you should know why you can't change others.
Can't believe this video pas posted 7 years ago and yet increasingly more relevant.
But america is a fundamentally bad nation,america is build on and evil capitalist system that is fundamentally wrong
Individual responsibility is key
taiwanese need this
Where people are convinced that left and right are the only options, they stop moving forward.
👌 If we want to build a better society, we have to improve our personalities individually
I like the part about working on our own characters first. People who cry the loudest about change do not want to actually do it themselves. They put this on others who do not even agree with their policies.
From the video presentation it is obvious that this is written by Rightest mindset.
"If you want to fix the world, start by cleaning your room" Jordan Peterson
Dennis, you nailed it!!!
This video does a better job at saying the left wants society better and the right doesn't give a shit. Lmao.
The current right is against gay marriage, combatting climate change, abortion in any instance and promote Christian nationalism. Who are you to say what is or isn't moral.
End it. Start over. Its organic. If religion teaches us anything, its succumbing. Its young, impressionable, vivacious, satisfied, boring, thirsty, absurd, nihilistic, and decadent.
One of the best from PragerU.
There ain't no damn rape culture, you might as well kill someone in Florida because if you get convicted of rape you will get a great deal of prison time