The Discernable Interviews
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
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