"You will own nothing, and you will be happy" - Rex van Schalkwyk opening remarks

[Music] by way of opening remarks i want to deal briefly with the question of authority and obedience and there's a an english mathematician and philosopher by the name of william kingdon clifford who made this insightful observation he said there is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command and that is the will to obey what we've seen with the crisis of the past eight nine months which was precipitated by the covet 19 pandemic was precisely this phenomenon the willingness to obey on the one side contrasted with the desire to command and various observations can be made from these two facts the one most striking of all i think is is that the two seem to feed upon each other the greater the compliance the craven desire or willingness to obey the more strident becomes the voice of authority and this i think can almost be expressed as an axiom it is unfortunately i think also a truism and an accurate commentary on human nature if the person who is being bullied does not fight back does not put up any resistance then the bullying will continue and will intensify and what we've seen in fact over the past several months is an increase in political bullying we've seen it in south africa which is perhaps not entirely surprising but what is disturbing is that we've seen it in leading countries of democracy such as the united states the united kingdom countries in europe australia in particular and in particular the state of victoria which i think is perhaps one of the worst examples of authoritarian dictatorship which has been precipitated by the crisis the other hand we also have the opportunists who've taken advantage of the situation in order to increase their influence and their ability to dictate their will in particular in this regard i'm thinking of one clause schwab who is the organizer of the davos the mutual fest that occurs in january february of every year he has spoken frequently about what he refers to as the great reset now the the thing that that one finds that all of the people who speak about the great reset have in common is that there are similar characteristics in in their vision of what lies ahead the one is inevitably i suppose a desire to dictate a new dispensation in regard to the climate crisis in this regard one of the other proponents of a great reset none other than prince charles has repeatedly said that this is an opportunity for us as a world to undertake this this important reset in respect of the climate crisis as he calls it klaus schwab has a slightly different emphasis his emphasis is more upon the economic and the consequent ideal in his mind of equality of worldwide economic equality and this he recognizes can only be brought about as a result of some form of world authority now the first question that could that would naturally occur to one is by what authority does he speak whoever elected him to to speak on behalf of what he perceives to be the future of the world whoever authorized him to speak in such strident terms well the answer is he authorized himself it seems to me from from the bit of research that i've done that that he initiated the idea of the world economic forum and from that has grown a hidden authority and that hidden authority is now beginning to make these ever more strident demands in this connection i saw recently an article in fact it reserved in fact it was a video involving precisely these issues and one of the visuals that that was which was made available was a visual of a poster a soviet style poster which contained these words you will own nothing and you will be happy i think those words require some reflection you will own nothing and you will be happy well the happiness sounds like a very benign benign and benevolent concept but in order to get there in order to achieve this nirvana one will have to give up one's ownership one will have to give up the idea of personal ownership and of course inevitably one will have to give up the idea of personal and individual liberty because liberty and the right to property go to hand in hand so in fact what we have here is a soviet style command i don't know upon whose authority that post was put up the video didn't deal with that it simply showed it as part of the visual on an analysis of what is what lies in the future in regard to this crisis which is now being exploited for ulterior purposes but what is quite obvious is that it is a consequence of the philosophy of the one world which is a philosophy which is at least 100 years old and which included such notables as bertrand russell now you will recall that bertrand russell was probably almost certainly regarded as the foremost english philosopher of the last century what he had in mind was that the world should devolve into a single world state where everybody would be equal but of course as the communist experiment has already demonstrated all right i just need to sign in again here sorry on the laptop you can keep speaking i just need to use the laptop oh sorry what what has happened here i need to sign in thanks sorry about that there's a small interruption okay thank you what what we know from experience from observation if not experience is that this utopian ideal of a one world of equality an egalitarian one world inevitably goes hand in hand with totalitarianism and that inevitably gives rise to a total loss of liberty of every conceivable liberty burton russell was undeterred by any of this and in fact he was he was one of the english academics and intellectuals who really regarded the soviet system with with some admiration among others there was george bernard shaw who had a similar attitude in this regard this is what bertrand russell proposed he said that what is required is that as this new systems this brave new world is set up we will need to do a division of the world into different localities not nations but localities which is based upon convenience and and usefulness and and utility and so on and those localities will then be audited for population and for their requirements and this audit will then be placed on record and it will be for before the the ground rules of future behavior in regard to each of the localities and the individuals living within those localities the food of the world said russell would then be distributed by a central authority well no surprises there and the central authority would distribute the food according to the population and the population intensity of each of these locations at the time when the audit was done then said russell that if any of these localities should exceed the assigned population growth rate for the various local localities over a given period of time they would not receive more food on that account they would receive the allocation which they were justly entitled to and therefore they would find themselves short of food well it wasn't necessary for for russell to spell out the consequences of that iniquitous philosophy what russell had in mind was that each locality would be starved into submission or at least starvation was a perfectly legitimate device so we find the phenomenon of authoritarian dictatorship in every conceivable intellectual pursuit and there's no doubt that marx was an intellectual and intellectual of sorts there's no doubt that that various individuals such as russell and uh and george bernard shaw were clearly intellectual but that didn't save him from from falling into this this dreadful marxist authoritarian trap now if anybody should think that this dystopian vision that i've sketched is too bad to be true then just consider the situation in south africa interestingly enough robert poser and the nc have been perfectly candid about their program about what they have in mind they haven't hidden for instance the ideal for them of expropriation without compensation they haven't hidden any in any way at all in fact it's been reaffirmed from time to time the demand for a national democratic revolution all of which is marxist language all of this is in fact written into their policies and and they repeat these policies from time to time what is surprising is that people do not take these things more seriously and especially especially people in the media the media should take seriously what the anc seriously intends but unfortunately we find that this doesn't happen so the anc operates according to the principle of two steps forward and one step back well we know of course the drummer poser said that uh this is a process whereby the frog is boiled incrementally of course the stage is reached when the when the frog expires and that's the opportunity that the anc is waiting for for the expiration of the of the boiling frog and when that happens their policies will be fully implemented and nobody will be able to say we didn't know because we did we knew because we were told we didn't have to we didn't have to speculate about the prospect of expropriation without compensation or about the national democratic revolution all of it was written down because it was part of the policy so therefore it is important that people such as those around this this group this this morning should do whatever they can and should influence as many people as possible into the understanding of just how sinister the outcome of all of this will be because the outcome will most surely be a total loss of liberty a total loss of property rights and we will be in the language of the poster we will own nothing and we will be happy we will be happy according to dick tut the problem with the democracy that we have is that those who can read don't count and those who can't read don't care so inevitably the anc finds itself on a path of victory no matter what its conduct which is why notwithstanding all the corruption and notwithstanding all the base unconscionable conduct of the various leaders of the imc they continue in power and are likely to continue in power for a while yet i don't say inevitably and and certainly not uh indefinitely but it is likely that they will continue to to to to to achieve victories as they did the other day although that was the cost is not such a great victory but they they certainly managed to to achieve success in a number of wards so a word of of warning what we need to do is to warn ourselves about the seriousness of the situation and about its imminence because when the frog expires the inc will do what it has said it will do thank you [Music] you

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Keywords: South Africa, freedom, property rights, rule of law, COVID19, coronavirus, lockdown, Africa, government, rights

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Length: 14min 50sec (890 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 02 2020