“Because of Yearning for an Ordinary Life”: The Fight for Freedom | Yaron Lectures

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Iranian protest song Baraye
02:50 Death of Mahsa Amini starting protests in Iran
09:18 Protests in China
18:24 Exodus from Cuba, Russia and Venezuela
20:04 Price paid by the protesters
26:24 Yearning for an Ordinary Life
30:34 Why do we have freedom?
34:55 What happened 250 years ago?
37:30 Reason, see http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/reason.html
39:27 Individualism, see http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/individualism.html
39:55 What is Freedom?, see http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/freedom.html
42:32 Enlightenment
45:40 Noble cause for freedom

Live Questions:
49:41 Israeli–Palestinian conflict
52:29 Western companies doing business in China
1:00:48 Western press coverage of those uprisings
1:06:37 Fall of the Berlin Wall
1:11:44 Silence towards Iran
1:12:42 Civil Rights Movement
1:18:56 Moral culpability of US
1:20:34 Covid lockdowns
1:23:21 Self-esteem
1:27:10 Is freedom necessary progression of any society?
1:31:55 Property rights
1:35:21 Way to improve western system
1:40:10 Minority neighborhoods
1:42:10 How to influence political decisions?

1:46:00 Outro

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