The Fairmont Conference: Four Decades Later | OLD PARKLAND CONFERENCE 

Sure, I'll be the first to comment. :D I've read most of Sowell's work, but I did not know that he organized a gathering that would come to be known as the Fairmont Conference. My interest is piqued and I need to know more. This is great.

Thanks for doing this. Some or all of you should take this discussion further. My RU-vid feed brings up Thomas Sowell, Glenn, and Jason, but I don't see much Shelby Steele, and Ian Rowe is a revelation. Would like to hear more from all of you. So, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Williamson, Triggernometry should take note. Would love to see any of you talk with Mary Harrington (feminism, but she is at the same level of analysis as all of you). There is an audience out here for this. I don't watch any TV - I watch this stuff. I bet there are others.

Love these men.

I would move beyond the individual, and towards the societal when (abolishing) meritocracy is mentioned, and point out that a society may only abolish the one, true, never-failing test of one's worth, via work, the unleashing of one's productive capacities for the benefit of all mankind, to society, at the greatest peril. If I know my work to be for naught, my labor to be forever unrecognized, my thirst for economic and intellectual realization to be doomed from the get-go, I know that the society I inhibit is not long for this world. Abolishing meritocracy, the foundation of all civilized society, is akin to, in iconoclastic fervor, destroying the sacrosanct murals of Our Lady of Sorrows. It is not merely cultural decline, corruption and the filth naturally accumulated in opulence, in a society with lackadaisical moral guidance, is is the eulogy of a civilization and culture long dead, clinging on, wantonly, at such, only to past glory and achievement. (Meritocracy, in its protective capacity, viewed in abstract fashion, serves the same purpose as does private property. Meritocracy guards against incompetence and protects competence, at all levels, in all its forms, be they physical, intellectual or artistic, whereas property, again, at an abstract, an emancipated citizenry, is the only protection said citizenry might enjoy when confronted with state injustice, or as in Pol Pottian or Maoist times, state terror. A castrated, disowned and, by extension, disenfranchised citizenry can, necessarily, not rise to meet the challenge and threat posed to the existence of the body politic in the same manner.) It must, necessarily, be opposed in all form and proposal, must be fought tooth and nail, with fervor surpassing the inquisition, so that we may continue to enjoy the only justice there is, the justice of merit, and preserve ourselves, so that we may see the better tomorrow we all strive for.

Where the Black People at.

Fantastic summary for open-minded liberals... just shared on my Twitter account, as a liberal to fellow liberals.

sad very sad and discouraging, less then 3k views (as of Oct 22)

Has Sowell ever been on this panel?

The Scandinavian people trust their governments much more and they have much less inequality. Capitalism with a bit of social welfare works well.