Hans-Hermann Hoppe im Gespraech: Über Denkverbote und andere Merkwürdigkeiten.
Kürzlich besuchte mich im Auftrag von SERVUS TV ein Kamerateam in Bodrum, um mit mir ein Gespraech zum Thema Denkverbote aufzuzeichnen, das anschliessend im Rahmen der Sendereihe PRAGMATICUS Verwendung finden sollte. Tatsaechlich wurden in der Sendung vom 3. Dezember 2023 dann auch knapp 5 Minuten des Videomaterials von insgesamt etwa einer Stunde ausgestrahlt. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Qualitaet des Videos erschien es mir freilich geradezu schaendlich, der Öffentlichkeit den gesamten Rest vorzuenthalten. Hier darum das ganze Gespraech im Original.
Hierzu gilt es lediglich folgendes festzuhalten: Das Gespraech wurde per Video geführt und nur ich konnte die Fragen meines Gespraechspartners hören. Die Fragen selbst wurden also nicht aufgezeichnet und sind für den Zuschauer nicht hörbar. Dies tut dem Gespraech meines Erachtens aber keinerlei Abbruch. Es erklaert lediglich die gelegentlichen winzigen Pausen und kleineren Gedankensprünge der nachfolgenden Gespraechsaufzeichnung.
English translation:
Hans-Hermann Hoppe in conversation: About prohibitions on thinking and other oddities.
Recently, a camera team visited me in Bodrum on behalf of SERVUS TV to record a conversation with me on the topic of prohibitions on thinking, which was then to be used as part of the PRAGMATICUS series. In fact, just under 5 minutes of video material totaling around an hour were broadcast in the broadcast on December 3, 2023. Not least because of the quality of the video, it seemed downright shameful to me to withhold the rest of it from the public. Here is the entire conversation in the original.
The only thing that needs to be noted is the following: The conversation was conducted via video and only I could hear the questions from my conversation partner. The questions themselves were not recorded and cannot be heard by the viewer. In my opinion, this doesn’t detract from the conversation in any way. It simply explains the occasional tiny pauses and smaller leaps of thought in the subsequent conversation recording.
The automated Google translation of the automated German transcription of this appearance is pasted below:
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We have come together here to talk about the topic of bans on thinking
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Better than bans on thinking would of course be to say bans on speaking and writing
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You can’t look into our heads yet, and we’re still allowed to think what we want at the moment
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We are no longer allowed to say anything we want and I think it makes sense
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At the beginning you have to think about what would happen in a truly free society
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Position would be forbidden to speak and think and I think that on his own
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Property and with his in his own living room and with his
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Every person should be able to own their own resources and every person should have it
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be allowed to say whatever she wants to say and of course everyone has
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Owner also has the right to determine what is not said on his property
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What can be excluded from the debate
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But you don’t have the right to tell other people what to do
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uh what they have to think to speak or say to say
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um maybe it’s also important to say that even if you can say what you
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Of course, that doesn’t rule out the possibility of other people having sanctions against you
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So if I say something that another person doesn’t like, that other person has the right to object
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to discriminate against me, to stop inviting me
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On her part, somehow attacking but what she can’t do
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is a threat of punishment against me because I do something
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with my means and on my property with my property
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The general rule applies to an English proverb
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quote sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me also
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in German sticks and stones can break my bones but words words
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can never hurt me that must be the basis of every free one
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Every free society says it is very possible that people
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feeling insulted by other people’s words and being portrayed incorrectly
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feel and so on and you then have the right to object to it
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to raise, um, discriminate against me and do similar things, which they don’t
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have what they don’t have is the right to forbid me from saying what
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I want to say on my property and with my own
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But we live in a time in which we have an increasing number
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of speaking or thinking prohibitions speak and
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have been banned from writing, um, and that’s essentially why
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that we have a third party, so to speak, who intervenes in everything that happens
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namely the state the state is the
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only institution that has the right to tell me what I’m up to
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may or may not say what I want on my property using my means
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and to punish me if I say something that affects the people who run the state
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Mastering it doesn’t fit and of course there are now a huge number of them
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Variety of speak and yes and write
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There are bans on writing, there are bans on thinking, there are bans on speaking
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uh in each country m the bans differ from
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Country to country there are certain things that I do in Germany or Austria
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I’m not allowed to say that I’m not even allowed to tap it without going to jail
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um I remind you that, for example, a historian like David Iring
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Important historians like David Irving spent time in prison in Austria for saying something
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has to say what is forbidden by law in Austria and what by law
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It is forbidden in Germany to say um in countries like Turkey it is
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There are other things that you are not allowed to say and that are then threatened with punishment in Russia
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Other things in Ukraine are different things in America, one might say
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what you want but you are punished by the fact that you have the economical
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Existence is ruined, which means the punishment is different
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Letting states rain down on you looks very different
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different countries but basically there is no country in the world
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what is governed by states by applying what I said at the beginning namely
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This principle sticks and stones break
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B will never hurt me and they allow you to say whatever you think
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whatever you believe to be true and so on there is no doubt that it is true
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There are differences but the differences are gradual, that can certainly be the case
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that some people don’t mind but I’m also familiar with surveys
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Germany which indicate that the majority of the population of
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The opinion is that you can no longer express yourself freely, however you like
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would like to but feels pressured to keep his mouth shut because
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one fears that some kind of sanctions will rain down on one and these sanctions almost always are
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Sanctions that are implemented by the states
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Companies also often stipulate that you can only hire people who do this
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and say that if they express themselves one way or another then please then have to
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who will be fired otherwise you won’t get any more government contracts, that means
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So you can also put pressure on the private sector, for example
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that it discriminates against people who have done nothing but theirs
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Opinion other than expressing your opinion which may be unpopular just because you
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then if this order is not followed by the state, fear
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don’t have to get any more orders, don’t have to get any more gigs
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to be able to rent more certain facilities by giving lectures and so on
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and so on um all
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classified as public property
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will allow, for example, or many public facilities will allow
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For example, certain associations simply no longer allow certain people
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that they have to appear there, that they have to expect that against them
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Demonstrations are organized, some of which are encouraged
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on the part of the state, some of which are even financed by the state
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prevent other people from expressing their opinions freely
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m and that has taken on proportions from week to week
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actually get worse get worse well the state is not a company the state
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is an organization that consists of coercive means
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financed and coercive means, i.e. taxes, are basically nothing other than
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Theft, of course, no state will say what we are doing is that
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Theft but if you look closely at what taxes are then
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This is in no way different from theft because you have it
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Taxes not agreed there is no contract in which any person ever
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I said you could come every month and give me 30% of my salary
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take away um the state is also not um none
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Institution that can call the entire country property so that they
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You could claim you have to pay me rent and taxes, so to speak
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uh rent payments that are paid uh taxes and theft no
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The systematic difference can be seen from the fact that tax evasion is punishable if it is
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It would really be a voluntary payment then you could try out how much
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Money people want to spend on government services and how much money they want to spend
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prefer to keep it for yourself um the difference between let’s say
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times theft and uh taxes essentially consists of uh thieves only
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occasionally stopping by and then afterwards after the theft is complete
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erm, get away and you can prepare for it next time
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and possibly be able to put them to flight or even capture them and fight back in this way
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Defending theft can be against state taxes
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In a sense, the thieves who tell you after they have stolen from you
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you know I’ll come again next week and then you can have your money prepared and then in the
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The week after next, of course, it will continue like this again, so there is no systematic way
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Difference between taxes and theft and that is of course the question
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moral status of people who represent the state from the start
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a shady in shady light it’s not like these people are the
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State represent somehow have a higher moral standard than normal
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Private individuals but on the contrary a much lower it is often so that individuals
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E.g. the welfare state treats you with contempt
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welfare state recipients welfare state recipients don’t work and are paid for it but at least
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Don’t do any harm to states, all people who are for the state
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Workers receive the same level of support as welfare state recipients, only much higher
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with a much higher salary and and then still form
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something about it and then cause mischief, which means a lot
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Laws are passed where you can always easily identify the company
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punished by this and that law
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um you can look at almost any law and then realize that it exists
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There are always people who benefit from these laws and there are people who benefit from them
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these laws are impaired in their
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Income and their company ventures that they the you
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carry out her state is an organization that has the law for itself
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takes out in all conflicts that ever arise including in conflicts in
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in which nationals themselves are implicated to be the final judge
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and one can imagine what the result of such an arrangement is
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When you know, no matter what I do, I’m the judge of it
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decides or another person who is employed by the same company as
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I am employed is the person who then decides whether I was right
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or someone else was right then you take advantage of that position
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by simply stirring up conflict and then this
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Conflicts also finance robberies and then acquit themselves by another
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person who belongs to the same company can make the decision whether
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you were right to intervene in the property and assets of other people or whether you
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wasn’t right and of course you can always largely predict the outcome of this decision
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imagine I would go to the Federal Constitutional Court and
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say I don’t want to pay taxes what the Constitutional Court would do
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If you were to accept this lawsuit at all, they probably wouldn’t accept it in the first place
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is quite certain that they are of course a matter of course
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We are entitled or is the state entitled to tax revenue
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are paid from tax revenues
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Otherwise they would have to make a decision that would result in me having to fire myself
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become unemployed, I have to take up a job myself where I can earn money
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what consumers pay voluntarily instead of a job
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to exercise where I live at other people’s expense or look at the
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War currently taking place in Ukraine and Russia
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It looks like people who live at the expense of other people
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Politicians’ salaries are not paid from voluntary contributions but rather that
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spend other people’s tax money
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to support a person and a regime what
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is in turn financed by taxes and what then happens to it
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People they have forced to send to death are such
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People are despicable people but they become very high
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vowed that only states can make a private person if they are in
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Conflicts arise when arguments start with other people
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will cover the costs of this dispute with our own resources and will result from this
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For this reason, always be a little more reserved about what it is
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when it comes to making conflicts, when it comes to fighting, when it comes to fighting
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Person who shifts the costs of fighting wars onto other people
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can become much easier and much less dangerous in a war
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Thousands of deaths draw that, so to speak, the main accusation
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I would raise a claim against the state and it naturally follows that I would
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The state would deny me any right to forbid what I have to say and
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uh what is criminalized and what is not criminalized is the only thing that will be criminalized
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physical interference with the physical integrity of others is permitted
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Persons or physical interference with the property of others
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We live in a forbidden society, we live in an increasing one
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prohibition society um and I also believe that that
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Bans that are issued with a specific intention
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let’s go away from the from the
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War history, for example, the immigration that takes place in the
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Western societies normally would
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say you invite people you have chosen and from whom you
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expects that they own the value of their own property
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eentums increase the value of your own country you don’t invite people
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one that you know with certainty or that you have to fear
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they reduce the W value of one’s own property and the value of one’s own land
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It’s practically no longer allowed to say something like that in Germany
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The understanding spreads that this is the case, that people have been invited
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which are essentially concerned with the so-called welfare welfare systems
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m marching in, living at other people’s expense, not even working yourself
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don’t even want to work themselves, um, and then they don’t even consider themselves as
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to be grateful for what you have done to him
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um I don’t see or it’s just beginning that I have this insight
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spread the word that you might ruin yourself by doing so
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er in by having a huge number of
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Allowing people to come into the country that you didn’t choose because of
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their qualifications or because of their productivity but rather that of the state
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Page were simply invited by the state
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er or in any case not hindered by the state in immigration
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um in your own country or take examples that the government tells you
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You all have to install a heater of this kind or that kind that leads to this
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that many people’s property is falling dramatically in value um that they
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with food that you will not be burdened with additional costs
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would agree or look at that that we are told uh there is there is the
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so-called climate emergency, um who knows what the ideal one
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The average temperature for the whole world is something like that
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believe that someone knows that people in Greenland become a much different person
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People who live in the Maldives have an opinion about what kind of temperature they would like to have
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The idea that there is an ideal temperature for the world is simple
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absurd, I can’t even agree with my wife about how warm the bedroom should be, she would have that
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I would like it to be warmer and I would like it to be cooler
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In the whole idea, of course, no one disputes that it is so
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Something like climate change has existed as long as the world has existed
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However, what is a very daring hypothesis is whether what proportion
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Human at the Erwm at the climate acquisition there is a lot of physics
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Meteorologists and lots of natural scientists who are of the opinion that this whole thing
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The idea that CO2 is responsible for this
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Global warming is coming and everyone thinks this is complete nonsense
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On the government side, an entire industry has now been built up that assumes that there is no other industry
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There is an answer to this question and that you are due to a completely unsecured
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Hypothesis: If the entire economy is to be restructured, some businesses will simply have to shut down
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It has to be something that is only possible if there is a state
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Can dictate to millions of people what they should do in their private lives
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have and this is prescribed by a group of people who do not
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We have the lowest qualifications in these areas in Germany
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a children’s book author is the economics minister who understands
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Nothing about the economy, we have a foreign minister who is the only one outside
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Qualification is that she was once good at trampoline jumping
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um how can such people come to power you have to ask yourself and
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I have written a book, I can recommend a small booklet and I can do a bit of advertising
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um with the title of the competition
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I think we want to have competition when it comes to the production of goods
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Competition is good, but we don’t want to have competition when it comes to
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the production of bad goods is politicians, but they are people who
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produce bad goods if they produced goods then people would
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politicians voluntarily for what they do
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voluntarily but as I said they live off taxes
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um well, as I said, I have already indicated that I have this
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entire climate debate as absurd
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I think that the influence of humans on climate change is very small
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If anything, I think people believe me
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I think the fact that people believe they can control the climate is great
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insane and
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you shouldn’t do anything in this regard, these climate adhesives can, for example
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Can’t even answer how it was possible that the last ice age ended
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m at the time there were no cars and planes and
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no factories and yet the temperatures have risen significantly
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So obviously that has little to do with the influence of people, yes
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As far as the climate adhesives are concerned, it’s always like that when you’re in public
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Property has what is actually nothing other than state- managed property
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Property you immediately have a problem with private property is always clear even if
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that is owned by several people at the same time, so private property can of course also be the property of
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When it comes to private ownership, it is always clear who decides what
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Private property happens and does not happen with public property
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Ownership there are automatically conflicts as there is a group that would like to
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The cars stick together, the drivers want to drive, a group wants to drive for X
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demonstrate the other group wants to demonstrate for Y in the same place
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um there is simply no way to resolve this conflict
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mutual agreement that’s why
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Private property in general offers a tremendous advantage
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Every common property automatically leads to conflicts because you don’t have all of them
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about what is done with this common property
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To the extent that there are different opinions about what should be done with common property, this is inevitable
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It seems that there are conflicts regarding this conflict with climate adhesives
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to be completely sure that the people are the ones causing the damage
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cause damage and costs that of course
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must be held accountable for the damage
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I see the same thing as the police operation and so on
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those who us the so-called sea rescuers
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on the on the Mediterranean m who will then delight us with one
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large number of people that no one invited, these people should be
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You should immediately send them back to where they came from with your messengers
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Captains should be arrested and the messenger should be confiscated and if so
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If any people come that you haven’t invited, you should put them in the house of people who are public
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I have advocated that there should be more of these gentlemen
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In your own country you need Mr. Nehammer to get the refugees on your neck
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send Mrs. Merkel the refugees on her neck send Mr. Scholz Mrs. Mrs
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bärbock Mr. Habbeck all their houses should be filled with people and they should then be for them
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Pay the costs yourself instead of paying other people the costs
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to bear the burden of decisions they made but as I said
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I would do the same with the air conditioning adhesives, they should cover the costs and if they actually do
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This is how it has already been in cases such as:
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uh ambulances couldn’t get through because
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has been closed by kliberklebern
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then you should possibly also with yes with uh penalties up to the attempted
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Punish manslaughter or something like that because they are actually responsible for the deaths
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which then result from ambulances not being able to get to the destination quickly
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that you definitely want to go to the destination you want to go to, so you have to go hard
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take action just like with these sea rescuers who are constantly bringing us new guests
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By the way, the whole thing also applies to the. I have to, the whole thing also applies to the
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Turkey In Turkey you have exactly the same problems that you have in Germany too
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an enormous number of refugees who are not wanted in Turkey
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and who are rejected by the population for coming here, that is by no means the case
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also happens in America
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Instead of in America, an enormous number of people are coming to the country
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let in who weren’t actually invited but by the government
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been invited or are being invited, so to speak, because you know or because
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you want the composition to change
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The population changes and so does voting behavior in America
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let in because the Democrats assume that all people who come to America via Mexico Mexican
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The border comes after the Democrats will vote for the Greens in Germany
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and the socialist parties download these
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People come in because they are of the opinion that the vast majority will become them
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vote for us afterwards and that’s the ulterior motive
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that the heterogeneity of the population is increased
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or destroys the homogeneity of the population and the homogeneity of your own
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You have to destroy the population in order to work on centralization
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If you look at it, there is the European one
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The economic community is becoming more and more powerful and gaining more and more powers
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There is of course national resistance to this – we know that the Hungarians
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do not agree with some things the Austrians do not agree with some things um
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But in order to allow centralization to progress further, you have to
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Homogeneity of the population in Austria
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Austrian national feeling, German national feeling, Turkish national feeling, everything has to be there
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be undermined because then it’s easier to get to it
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further centralization of decision-making power from the national government to the central government
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towards Brussels or, ultimately, towards a world government
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transfer I can no longer do what I want to do with my money and
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when people with their people go thrifty with their own money
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um people aren’t careful with other people’s money it’s easy that
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are being incredibly generous with your own spending
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I always care about this because what I buy has a high value
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Quality when you spend other people’s money you are only interested in it as far as it affects you, that is
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A bureaucrat can buy a desk or set up his office, then there are costs involved
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not the more expensive the better, whereas every private person has theirs
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Of course, if you have to spend your own money on furnishing your room, yes, I can do that too
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really do um the others it’s not just
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Taxes there is then a second source of finance for the state
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and that’s what money printing is for, that’s what central banks and central banks are for
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In a sense, they are institutions that are professional counterfeiters and are allowed to do that
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Just print money and of course you print it imagine me
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she would become chairman of the central bank
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make and say only you are allowed to print paper money, no other person
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do then?
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Firstly, they would then, of course, print money, of course they can afford all sorts of things
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you ever thought
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They will then immediately stand in front of the door and say, well, you have the magic wand in your hand, I have it too
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I would like a Mercedes, I would also like a BMW, I would also like a second one
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Resident in Mallorca and so on for this reason are central banks
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central banks is very popular in certain circles
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Of course inflation is the more money is put into circulation
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The higher the prices rise and not only that you can also
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say who will benefit from printing money and who will not
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It is the case that those who have the newly printed money are the first to get it
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Hand can still buy at the existing lower prices
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then the money ripple through the economy and those who end up with the money
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They are stupid because those who are at the end of the money flow are the ones
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have had to pay much higher prices in the meantime during her stay
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Income has of course not increased in any way in the meantime, so we have a phenomenon
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Rich getting richer and poor getting poorer is a big part of the explanation
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is simply that, of course, the central banks provide the money first
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the banks pass this on to their major customers
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further and the major customers then pass this on to their major customers but those who have a fixed income
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are the ones who suffer the most, so states have two
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Sources of income one is theft and the other is counterfeiting I don’t know how
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This stabilizes our democracy through taxes
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Um, democracy itself is a very questionable institution, which is to say
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Democracy Democracy is a form of majority socialism
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determines who owns something and how much is taken from me or from them
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is taken away and to whom it is distributed, um by the way, that was the opinion of
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almost all political economists and political philosophers until the 20th century
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Century that democracy is nothing other than a mild form
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of the of the socialism of socialism um not only that it is actually
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even worse because this democracy is characterized by the fact that one
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anonymously about other people’s property
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votes in the people’s assemblies at the very beginning of the Swiss
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There was a Swiss system where people went to the market square and then voted with a show of hands
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have that and that’s what’s being done so you still had to keep an eye on your neighbors
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Look, they knew who voted how and now you have to tell the people
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Don’t even look in the eye anymore, it’s all anonymous, we don’t even know who
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Whoever wants to steal from but of course it is a demand you are allowed to
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wish you everything you just need a democratic majority and then we take away from the people and then
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let’s take ourselves away from the people and so on, um democracy also contradicts that
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Is it the tenth commandment? Yes, I believe the tenth commandment, you shall not covet your neighbor
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Property horse donkey whatever is listed there if you do that
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If there is no desire then there can be no democracy
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um then there is what you would call a private law company
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Private law society means a society in which everyone
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People are equal before the law. We currently have a situation
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in which it is by no means the case that all persons are equal before the law
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There are some people who are allowed to appropriate other people’s money
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are allowed to take part in theft in a private company
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They are called thieves, for example, you have compulsory military service
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Compulsory military service is nothing other than a temporary one
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temporary slavery um if you if a private person that
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If they did, they would be locked up immediately
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um if you if a state does that then it applies
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Refusal to serve as a criminal offense against in one
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private law company I can of course leave, I will defend myself against being me
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Many people even pay to be forced into compulsory service
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no taxes, you have to remember that for the entire public service
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doesn’t pay taxes, the lives of taxes get one
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The pay slip says gross and it says net, but that’s just one
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a fiction that the total that the entire net salary that you receive is comes
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out of control and we now have a situation where there is only one
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There are minorities in western societies who actually pay taxes, the majority of them
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Population is now a net tax recipient and of course
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They won’t do anything against a state company because they know it
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Payments stop the moment I become rebellious against government measures
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to the state measures, that’s why you also have e.g
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ensured that you have a pension system that doesn’t work like you do
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people usually make provisions for their old age
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save for their old age and then live on the savings they accumulate over the course of their life
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You will have accumulated your professional life when you are old and you can rely on it
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leave that there is a family group that is something like a
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Social security system, on the other hand, in western countries we have a pension system for those currently working
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Takes money away from people and immediately gives it to people who are retired
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paid out is paid out so all pensioners are dependent in a certain way
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from the state and are therefore also reliable voters for everyone
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socialist and redistributive parties because they know what would happen to mine
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Pensions happen when when no more taxes are collected when the people
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The people who do not have to pay social security contributions
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Work process is standing and now we have one
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Population structure in which there are more and more old people and fewer and fewer
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Young people can imagine that the entire pension system is one
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clever ones will have to collapse
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Politicians thought up oh then we’ll bring in all the foreigners but if so
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the foreigners don’t come to work but they know that yes
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Even when they come, in Germany and Austria you just need to say Asylum and you’ll get one
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Apartment provided, heating is paid for, you can go to the hospital for free
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um and if you pay for each child then you also get an additional payment, yes why should you?
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Going to work will not save the pension system but will
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On the contrary, the problem that I have already started is becoming more serious
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will be more dramatic for us in the future than is already the case
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So I would suggest, for example, that you have a whole
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strong decentralization introduces that if you already have politicians if
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If you already have democracy, it should be done at a local level if possible
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If you look at the world of states, I’m in favor of it
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Known that I have repeated this many times, I wish for a Europe of Taus Lichtensteins
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um small states have to worry
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ensure that productive people stay with you and don’t leave
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um large states the bigger the state is when imagine has a
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World state then there is no longer any possibility of standing against a state
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to vote because wherever you go you have the same tax and
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regulatory structure the more competition there is between states, the easier it is for
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People have to vote with their feet so that they have to be all the more careful and nicer
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States towards their own people
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You are careful to attract productive people and unproductive people
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not to let them into the country, one is careful, one is careful
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to be competitive
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remain the Eurean Union is thereby
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characterized that the tax and regulatory structure is becoming stronger
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always being equalized
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To a lesser extent, the introduction of the euro also serves this purpose
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one used to have a gold standard, the gold standard, the big one
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The advantage of the gold standard was that the government did not accept gold
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can create from nothing the gold standard was abolished was abolished not because it
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has any defects or faulty properties
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It’s precisely for this reason that you can’t increase gold at will, which is why you have paper money
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introduced with paper money that can be multiplied as desired by the introduction of the
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Paper money, moving away from the gold standard, has also made it much easier to get in
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You can go to war because otherwise you would have had to finance the war with gold through bonds
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the population by printing money you can easily also wars wars
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To finance wars, it seems to me to be important that people
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the different opinion from what you supposedly believe
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believe, think, say and write that you have a forum for them
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There is that you can also let these people finish talking, that you have common sense
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let it prevail again and that you have this attitude
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comes that I emphasized at the very beginning: sticks and stones
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but words can never break me
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Hurt people are allowed to say whatever they want and you’re not allowed to hurt them for it
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punish and as far as the world situation is concerned, I am in favor of that
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Centralization of power in ever larger ever larger units should
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be fought and you should abandon the idea
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of a Europe or a world of Taus Lichtensteins promote Germany
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should leave the EU Austria should leave the EU
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Similar to what Great Britain did, you shouldn’t be self-employed
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let more own more give more rights to the provinces than
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impose state power
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reduce local to local size instead of relying on that
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you can create ever larger political units
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Germany must be an example of this
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For example, in the 19th century it was fragmented into over 30 states, I now know
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no longer the exact number 38 39 Goethe
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For example, he has stories in his letters
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Eckermann emphasizes that it was precisely this fragmentation of Germany that led to this
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that Germany was the country in which there was a flourishing culture
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the different principalities and so on, everyone wanted the best the best
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Theaters have the best universities have the best scholars
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put on and Goethe compares that these statements are about something like this
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1830 and compares it with France, which is a centralized state
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has been and says look at the flourishing cultural landscape in
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Germany where every little country has the best choir, the best library and
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wants something like that and compares it with France where everything is centralized in Paris and the flat country
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It’s dark, nothing works and they have nothing to show for it
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The same thing basically applies to Italy and the agreement there
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Countries did not come about through war. Germany was not united
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because an agreement was reached voluntarily but a war was waged
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and as a result it was a unitary state, the same as in 1860
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It was only Italy that was unified, which previously consisted of various city states. Italy was one
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see a more prosperous country culturally at the time than it is today
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that is the case today um is the case today um so small units transport the
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cultural diversity and cultural competition and also bring
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Scientifically more prominent than that than the large central states are where
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a few people who are the political leaders believe that you know
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which research should be funded and which research should not be funded is perhaps another
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I don’t know if the numbers are correct. I recently read in a German magazine that it was in
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Germany has chairs for nuclear physics and over 170 teaching courses
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for gender studies m that would be true in a Germany of the 19th century
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In the 20th century, with 39 small states, such a thing would never happen to anyone
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would create such a crazy experiment that disciplines like
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Nuclear physics is hardly funded anymore but has a huge number of empty chairs
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those who deal with gender studies Gothe is my witness
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for that Germany and Austria and
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All of Europe would be better off if they followed this advice
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Well, we need centralization but decentralization
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So of course that was now a, how should I put it, a very free one
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Conversation with uh uh also partly disorganized
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uh I uh I hope that this gives the audience some food for thought
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uh cause I’m quite sure a lot of people will judge me
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and me, as is usual, of course, as an extremist crazy hardhead and
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something like that, um, but that’s the fate of many
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People um who have something interesting to say to
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have something interesting to say um and um just repeat what I said
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in every daily newspaper by always the same people or me
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Watch any talk shows where the same people always appear
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who always know nothing about the area they are talking about
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In contrast, I hope that a little bit of entertainment value and
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There was value in what I have now stated here
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have
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