What are political parties? What's the difference between the political parties in the two-party system? How much choice do we actually have? In this video, Mark Pellegrino talks about two ways of morally organizing society — collectivist and i…
What are political parties? What's the difference between the political parties in the two-party system? How much choice do we actually have? In this video, Mark Pellegrino talks about two ways of morally organizing society — collectivist and individualist — and how both the democrats and the republicans are essentially different takes on the same collectivist ideal.
0:00 The illusion of the two-party system
0:32 History of the two-party system
0:50 The collectivistic perspective
1:29 The individualistic perspective
2:00 What are political parties?
2:29 There is no middle ground
2:50 The illusion of choice
3:05 We can't live in a permanent state of compromise
'As no individual can live with two opposing moral codes guiding his behavior, no society can
either… and as no individual can compromise between two fundamentally opposing moral
codes without the bad one winning, no society can either. That’s why at various times in our own history, one party or moral organization was dominant for long stretches, and why the two parties today don’t seem all that far apart on fundamentals.'
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Mark Pellegrino is a successful actor who appeared in Lost, Supernatural, Being Human, 13 Reasons Why, American Rust, The Closer, The Tomorrow People, Dexter, The Big Lebowski, Mulholland Drive, Capote and more. Mark teaches at the acting school he and his wife founded in Paris and is a co-founder of the American Capitalist Party, and a graduate of the Objectivist Academic Center.
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