Political Psychology Series Episode 1 - Topher Field
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Topher Field - Political Psychology Series Episode 1
1 Hour 23 Minutes
Topher Field demands attention. Not for his own popularity – quite the opposite! In fact, he would rather the spotlight pass him by so he can quietly raise his young family in the suburbs of Melbourne.
But when the world that you are raising those children into appears darker and more authoritarian than the world we grew up in, silence becomes complicity.
For years Topher has warned us that the freedoms we enjoy may have been free to us, but they didn’t come cheap. They were in fact purchased, just not by us. The choices we make today decide whether we keep them or dispose of them.
And that’s why you just can’t look away from Topher. The beautiful thing about this man is that when you dig into him, on the inside is not a doomsday message, but a utopian one. Somehow he remains an optimist and prosecutes the case for hope in forums like his new podcast Living Value.
It was my honour to interview the man, the myth, the legend – to find some clarity around the strange times we are living in.
Show Notes:
2:37 – Haircuts
3:39 – The Little Government That Could
5:52 – Why do we support authoritarian governments?
10:10 – Failure of parenting and learning to provide
11:22 – The Welfare Trap
13:05 – The Malthusian Trap
14:50 – Innovation pre-dated the industrial revolution
16:00 – Capitalism is the default mode of mankind
18:23 – The default state of humanity is poverty
21:45 – The failure of Venezuela
25:30 – Crony capitalism
30:10 – Travelling with 680 condoms
35:04 – The morality of civil disobedience
37:48 – Natural law
38:40 – The new religions
42:00 – Do pro-lifers really care?
47:50 – Jesus the solution to condemnation
50:15 – Topher’s revelation of fallibility
53:00 – Wrong does not equal evil
54:00 – Seeing behind the conservative curtain
57:00 – Premier Dan Andrews has no empathy
58:50 – Victoria Police is completely demoralised
1:01:00 – Civil disobedience
1:03:50 – Disobeying immoral orders in the military
1:06:00 – Military deployed on Australian soil
1:07:40 – Militarisation of police
1:08:30 – The Dunning Kruger Effect
1:10:10 – Victoria Police Reputation
1:12:40 – ALP spill in Victoria
1:14:30 – Optimism and faith in each other
1:18:00 – Making a choice to show empathy
Follow Topher: www.facebook.com/topherfield
Support Topher: https://www.locals.com/member/TopherField
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Case Study on how NOT to police a population
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Case Study on how NOT to police a population
3min
Whether in the workplace, your family or in society, policing by consent actually generates the greatest overall compliance.
Victoria is a helpful study on how to get this very wrong.
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Empathy Series Episode 1 - Damien Silm
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Empathy Series Episode 1: Damien Silm
37 Minutes
Damien Silm is an apple farmer in regional NSW who stands to inherit a fortune. I’m not referring to assets, to land or even to the legacy of his great-grandfather who planted those apple trees so many decades ago.
It is clear to me that Damien, as one of the most empathetic people I know, will inherit the future as our world increasingly values empathy in all spheres of life.
Not only does empathy make you a more agreeable person it means that you are more easily able to understand other people’s perspectives. And that can be pressed for a commercial advantage when designing products and services that the market actually wants.
It was refreshing to interview Damien for our series on empathy, as he joined me live from the rolling plains of NSW.
Show Notes:
02:37 – Cedar Creek Orchards
05:20 – Farmers show more empathy
06:57 – What apple farmers actually do
09:38 – The difference between sympathy and empathy
13:09 – Empathising with Victoria during lockdown
14:45 – The commercial advantage of empathy
17:35 – What is ‘reconstituted juice’?
19:47 – Why you MUST live on tank water!
21:02 – Why Damien grows apples instead of being a pilot
24:15 – You must enjoy your career
26:15 – Did you feel ‘trapped’ in a generational business?
28:28 – Other states don’t understand Victoria’s mess
29:12 – Is Victoria a leper state?
31:03 – Melbourne protests – justified?
32:35 – Damien displays his empathy
34:00 – Defending Dan Andrews
35:04 – What would a farmer say to millions of people?
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Victoria Redefines Covid-19 and Lowers the CHO's Burden of Proof
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Victoria Redefines Covid-19 and Lowers the CHO's Burden of Proof
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The length of time for the State of Emergency extension in Victoria is not the problem! In this report Matt details the definition changes to Victoria’s laws that redefine Covid-19 and cement emergency powers, as well as the lowering of standards for the Chief Health Officer (Brett Sutton) in the case of his directives being questioned in court.
Victoria is full of hardworking, decent, trustworthy citizens…as Dan Andrews himself has repeatedly described us. So why not treat us like adults?
Or are we simply all ‘bat-sh*t crazy’ as Victoria Police assistant commissioner Luke Cornelius described us today?
I made this video to be a weapon. Not a political weapon, but an education weapon that clearly lays out the facts of the proposed legislative changes before parliament. Share it to help people, not to attack them.
I am tired of listening to politicians divide us when, in fact, we are a united, beautiful tapestry of citizens with all sorts of different beliefs but we do all agree on one thing – that we should be given a fair go. Give us a chance to get this right. We are not children.
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What's wrong with extending a State of Emergency?
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis
This is the problem with the new, proposed section 3(4) in the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 (Vic). With the greatest of intent, we are about to chain ourselves into an unscientific merry go round of lockdowns that are now being discredited by mainstream infectious disease epidemiologists like Professor Mark Woolhouse.
The exposure draft bill at DHHS website
Update
I’ve been advised by an MP that the Andrews Labor Government has included this new sub-section to ‘protect’ Victoria when it has no cases but other neighbouring states might have many cases. This is to allow lockdowns and other measures to continue to prevent COVID-19 re-entering the state.
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