Facing the 4 greatest challenges to the West | Niall Ferguson 

I have learned more watching these lectures and learned more than i did going to school for 9 years

8:16 End the politicisation of Education!! This must be fundamental to our succession planning.

Mr Ferguson is a BRILLIANT speaker what a privilege to have attended the ARC Conference London 2023 ... incredible!,🙏❤️🙏

😢 we have all the degeneration you describe. God save us all!

Niall really is brilliant. I just wish more Canadians would heed his wise words. The majority of people just keep saying, "govern us harder". They really don't seem to appreciate the freedoms we have.

Civilisations will always come and go, but this obvious degeneration is, completely, down to our OWN behaviour, and our own laziness and self-wish fulfilment.

Thank you one and all

In the United States the oath of office warns its people about "all enemies, foreign and domestic." They seems to had forgotten about its domestic enemies.

Students reporting professors may have begun in our K-12 system in the US. The date for this insidious process is not clear, but it was firmly established as a practice by the nineties. Here is a simple example: a first grader tells his parent the teacher said or did something, and the parent runs to the principal to complain. The teacher, in most cases, has never heard from or met this parent. (Principals work "at will" which means the district office can fire them without explanation.) The principal supports parents in order to protect his or her job. In situations like this children learned very quickly that complaining was easy and powerful. When I first went into teaching, I frequently heard veteran teachers explain what seemed on the surface a very simple change in the relationship between teachers and parents. They explained that parents previously supported a teacher's authority in the classroom but this changed. Does the decline in the respect for the rule of law that Professor Ferguson mentions have its origins in our children's earliest experiences in classrooms across the country? When, where and why did the inclination of liberal students to report "offenses" of professors at the college level begin?

Love listening to Niall ...Dublin

Powerful as expected.

Wow! This is outstanding! Thank you! 👏👏👏

The enemy of liberty-minded democracy, is authoritarian bureaucracy. In liberty-minded democracy, epistemological strategies like free markets, free speech, free elections, free press, and the like are protected by government. Information flows into decisions where everyone's experience participates. In authoritarian bureaucracy, insufficiently informed experts credentialed by ideologically distracted institutions, wield coercive government power for financial gain, prestige, or simple desire to dominate others. History is replete with the disasters wrought by these clowns, the monstrous creation of Covid-19 and the disastrous reaction to its spread, being only the most recent. This cannot help but demoralize human beings subjected to it. Free us from the shackles of these petty bureaucrats, and we will come roaring back, building a civilization we can be proud of.

Liberty yes!

Talking of Liberty when "the barbarians are PAST the gates" isn't a winning formula.

Niall, your thorough analysis of the current state of liberal democracy globally provides a crucial perspective on the contemporary geopolitical and social challenges. Your focus on the rise of illiberal democracies and autocracies highlights a significant trend often overlooked in public discourse. Your concern about internal divisions within countries like the United States underscores a critical weakness in the fabric of modern democracies, threatening the very foundations of these systems. However, I would like to add that while your analysis sharply illuminates the threats and weaknesses of liberal democracies, it's also important to recognize the resilience and adaptability of these systems. Democratic institutions have overcome numerous challenges in the past and have the potential to do so in the future. Additionally, the role of technology and digitalization in shaping citizen participation and transparency is something that could be explored further. This might open new avenues for strengthening democratic processes and counteracting authoritarian tendencies. Your point about the depoliticization of education is particularly significant. Creating an education system that fosters critical thinking and values a diversity of perspectives is vital for nurturing the next generation of informed, engaged citizens. Finally, the complexity of these challenges requires a multidisciplinary approach and the involvement of various societal groups, including politicians, academics, business leaders, and citizens themselves. It's crucial that we collaborate to defend the principles of freedom, justice, and equality that underpin liberal democracy.

Enlightening.

well said Niall

Ferguson for President.

great start to ARC..... Thankyou Jordan Peterson and all the others involved in bringing this alliance to the world. This (ARC) is what we desperately need. Genuine facts and leadership. Now it is up to us, the public, to do our part. Spread the word, help grow the "Alliance for Responsible Citizenship", and do YOUR part to help bring about a better more positive world for all of humanity. Put an end to the distopian vision offered by the elites of Davos and the WEF gang. Bring individual Freedom and responsibility back to the forefront of a free and prosperous society. Thankyou.

To these people Democracy is only acceptable if it elects leftwing progressives while the election of RW conservatives is somehow threatening to democracy. Giving the example of India in that respect was quite weird. Mr. Ferguson should read the about of the methodology of these democracy and freedom rating NGOs use to arrive at their conclusions. He would be flabbergasted at the level of skulduggery they do. Also people like Mr Ferguson complain about the overreach of progressives in western countries but somehow want these same progressives to rule other democracies like India.

The point is, we want freedom - and democracy does not automatically deliver that.

Thank you and Greetings 👋

Great speach!

I think, in this situation, statistics actually detract from the argument. Lies, damn lies etc

Why would those in power *stop* politicizing & pushing their agenda through educating the youth w/ideologies??? 🤨 Create the better "new" and make the old & broken, OBSOLETE.

Really strong

What do you mean? Nothing can get as political as education really 😊

Stop cutting cheques and cut off endowments - shut it down and offer an alternative for parents such as non union charter schools as suggested by Dr Thomas Sowell

Back in the day when US basic and higher education was good(?), lets say in the 1900's, if a student said they believed there was no god, or Christianity was a con, they would have been booed, shamed, shuned, or physically hurt. Students have never been free to say whatever they believed.

Please wake up your children. I wish they will never get what they wish for.

West is done simple..now is time fot East and South..time is change..

Don't hate yourself for acquiescing, and settling to vote for exactly the same 2 losers that we all did in the LAST election! Instead, vote for open debate! Vote for the best! Vote for coherency and tact! Know WHO is CAPABLY running the country! Vote for RFK!

It will all end in tiers

then end public education and dismantle the department of education… what JG Machen argued for in the early 1900s…

Unbelievable!

Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and don't forget the Islamic world because it poses perhaps the greatest threat of all.

I am not sure you can. Where there are people, there is politics. It's what the word means.

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Overall I feel like he made some good points. My main issue, and it's the same issue with a lot of Peterson stuff, is they talk about how individual rights as being the most valuably treasured thing in society. Yet I'm always thinking "yes, but have you met people before?" Because we can be mean, hateful, stupid, selfish, naive and a whole laundry list of other stuff. That is why we have those rules in the first place, we're not good a lot of the time. Picking which rules to use is hard, but I don't think the solution is let people do and say whatever they want, and it feels like that is what they are arguing for sometimes.

Education is inherently political / theological. The liberal notion of the neutral scientific perspective is a myth.

Ferg is great but we disagree on crypto

10:20 In a poll of 18 to 24 year olds, ¼ said give Israel to "Hamas and the Palestinians".

The Fourth Turning is Here, by Neil Howe pretty much explains the cyclical nature of history and where we currently are and what's to be expected.

Only argument against subsidizing motherhood is that youre gonna have irresponsble reproductive rates. Yes the planet can sustain a larger population but parents only have so much time and energy, as much as there is a deficet in families staying together and having enough time energy and resources the pendulum swinging all the way to the opposite end has equally destructive repercussions. A balance should be the aim and that is much more difficult to elucidate what that looks like and acquire. I would argue maintain virginity till marriage and promote not getting married till you can afford to buy a home but we can see housing is corrupt and if housing can be used to create lower birth rates you can garauntee the corrupt will figure out a way to exploit the suggestion I just made. Thus exmplifying my point how hard finding balance really is.

Christ divine nature for God central authority

Don't forget to tell that to Luther and Erasmus. Niall I selectively borrow heavilly from Max Weber, and even Marx is a bright Gomer who doesn't ever seem to be nutted by reality. Cue Nick Lowe.

What is good about LIBERAL?

Western mindset is not changed till now 😂😂

In what world is america "the greatest democracy"? In what measuring framework does it have the best policies? I feel to say that something has to have gone dreadfully wrong along the way in the analysis.

There's an easy way to tell whether the Republicans or Democrats are right. Just look at the outcome of the policies. The Democrats' policies largely turn out to be destructive to democracy and to the country as a whole, whereas the Republicans' policies are generally prosperous and good for the country as a whole. The Republicans always have to clean up the mess made by the Democrats, which always takes more time as repairing the damage is more difficult and time-consuming. Unfortunately people only see the "now" rather than the cause and effect, so by the time the mess gets cleaned up, the media and Democrats (which are FAR better at managing and pushing their narrative) have maliciously convinced (i.e., gaslit) the public into thinking the GOP caused the issue so the Republicans rarely stay in power for long, sadly. So, the Democrats take control, cause more damage that the people eventually see and come to realize the mistake they made only to repeat the cycle again and again. The solution is easy. Break the cycle. Stop voting Democrat.

Since when is Ferguson a guru of the Collective West?! His reporting in the Middle East was appalling. The bloke is clearly a tool, yet pretends to be some kind of saint! Hypocrisy is just so di$gusting!!!

Too rightwing for me; but he says many good things.

Facts are clear. For many years now. What´s the plan? Who but Trump would root that out? Where is the ARC plan to push him to POTUS?

While I agree with most points dr. Ferguson makes here (and on many other occasions in different videos), I think the end of his speech is its weakest part, not resting on facts, but on ideals, ideology. A version of an ideal society for somebody with more conservative values. And while Tocqueville was a great man, who I believe was ahead of his time in many aspects, I am really not sure his ideas about safeguarding liberty is the most on point here - aristocracy and religion. We can do better than that 160+ years later, can't we? All this back and forth between left and right, libs and cons is tiring. And I am sorry to say that dr. Ferguson is a bit guilty of what he rightfully accuses the other side of - partisanship. I see this too often, even learned scholars whom I respect are quick to correctly pinpoint the rotten and dangeours aspects of (in this case) the left, yet not give enough rigorous scrutiny to their own side and either completely or mostly ommitt the rotten and dangerous aspects of the right.

Its crazy how backwards, oversimplified, and untargeted this is. Wild. It is mostly just stating metrics but without explaining how they were conducted so therefor its meaningless. The direction wasnt towards how to act in the direction of hope. Its got tons of things backwards and insane oversimplified. This talk has got to be by far the least merit-based.

Conservative boilerplate