The Real Agenda Of Those In Power - Rob Henderson

Hello you savages. Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Here’s the timestamps: 00:00 The Yale & Harvard Fallout 06:35 The Hierarchy of the Harvard Extension School 14:23 How Rob Explains Luxury Beliefs 20:58 Why Defunding the Police is a Luxury Belief 29:49 The Luxury Belief of Getting Rid of Chivalry 38:10 Why You Shouldn’t Make Yourself a Victom 43:50 Why Rob Succeeded Despite a Hard Upbringing 51:37 What It’s Really Like to Grow Up in Poverty 1:03:23 Did Rob’s Quality of Life Change With More Money? 1:12:03 The Skill of Giving & Receiving Compliments 1:17:05 Alexander DatePsych on Twitter 1:21:06 What Surprised Rob When Studying at Yale 1:33:56 Having Agency in Spite of External Limitations 1:36:43 The Best Way to Read 1:45:18 How to Recall What You Read 1:47:31 Where to Find Rob

Most brilliant comment I've heard in quite a while... *"Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that **_confer status on the affluent_** while often inflicting costs on the lower classes. A core component of a luxury belief is that **_the believer is often sheltered from the consequences_** of his or her belief."* - Rob Henderson

Not only do they not care, many of them are actively working against everyone else.

Before I watch it I'm gonna go on a limb and answer the question... NO.

1:23:15 showing up at a university campus after being in the military really is like that meme with Steve Buscemi saying “how do you do fellow kids?”

I don't live in poverty, but I've developed friendships with a couple people who do live in poverty. As Henderson says, there is always chaos when a person is poor. Crisis and drama are engendered by situations many people simply never encounter: running out of pet food and not having money to buy more, being unable to come up with money for a child's school field trip, having your belongings stolen by "friends," running out of gas because a "friend" siphoned gas from your vehicle, being unable to heat your home because you've had to sell heating oil to make ends meet. It is a soul-sucking existence.

I've never been quite so grateful that i was raised working class, and rose up. I will say that it has been difficult to make friends. Indeed, most friends i have made over the years I've had to disconnect from because of the absolute insanity that they fell into. I've stood toe to toe with these pillars of intellect, and all they had for me was isms, with no substantiation. It all started with "oh no, you're one of those", and went downhill from there.

Somewhere along about 15:30, Rob talks about those having luxury beliefs also having been raised in households with at least one parent who went to university, and those folks have no clue what life is like for anyone who is not aiming for, working on, or completed at least one degree at a high prestige/difficulty school. He is so correct -- and that situation has been around for ages and includes a wider range of schools. And they never really do fathom the degree of separation unless they enlist in the military or fall on hard times. Their ignorance is no different than that of someone in a more humble situation except that the uni person believes she understands the lives of others.

15:00 The idea of "Luxury Beliefs, and shelter from consequences of being wrong" is simply paraphrasing what Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote about in his books "Vision of the Anointed" and "Intellectuals and Society". Some excerpts - "...intellectuals are people whose end products are intangible ideas, and they are usually judged by whether those ideas sound good to other intellectuals or resonate with the public. Whether their ideas turn out to work — whether they make life better or worse for others — is another question entirely." "The acclaim given to intellectuals, despite their predictions having failed, is a prime example of the lack of ultimate accountability."

Thank you for getting Rob in person! I honestly think he is one of the most important young intellectuals in the western world today. Thrilled to read his book!