Calm People vs. the Apocalypse [Podcast]
Reason editors discuss the debt ceiling, Hurricane Irma, and the 9/11 anniversary.
"Maybe the way of thinking about discourse in America is not about right and left, or liberal and conservative, or green and carbon belcher," says Reason's Nick Gillespie, "but are you an apocalyptic or not?"
On today's podcast, Gillespie joins Katherine Mangu-Ward, Matt Welch, and Andrew Heaton to talk alarmism—over the debt ceiling and the causes of Hurricane Irma. They also discuss misguided policy responses to September 11th by liberals and conservatives.
Plus an abundance of economic fallacies, from the notion that natural disasters spur economic growth to prosperity through war.
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I get really peeved at how much cussing Gillespie does. Libertarianism is based firmly in puritanical values and I do not believe we should stand by and let him wreck it.
But we should acknowledge that Walter Block pounded him in their debate last autumn, notwithstanding Nick's propensity to interrupt and play the rude cosmotarian.
I missed that one.
He's every bit as stupid as he looks (no easy feat).
the debt subject to the legal limit set by Congress jumped $317,645,000,000 in one day
What is this "limit" of which you speak?
The most important thing to remember about our $20 trillion debt is that absolutely none of it is Obama's fault according to the Reason "libertarians".
I find the existence of this podcast highly alarming!
If I see a Nazi should I be a Calm Person or Get Apocalyptic?
You should get back in your time machine and go home.
One of these millennia the apocalyptics will be right and then won't Reason feel silly.
A technological society in which the majority is certain an apocalypse is irrelevant, is doomed to an apocalypse.
https://nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html