Dr. Menzies says most Westerners are fundamentalists without recognizing it. They have an unquestioned belief in democracy, free markets and sexual liberty. He's written a book on this subject which we discuss. He is an economist with a degree from Oxford University and lives and works in Sydney Australia. Western Fundamentalism https://amzn.to/2X0a3K8 Gordon Menzies Father studied bomb shelters epidemiologist Central Bank Sydney, University of Technology Oxford PhD Donald hay, Christian economist Oxford Union Democracy Free Market Liberalism Sexual Freedom Three things uncritically Western Fundamental The conflict is because of vested interests. Bulverisms Different pre-suppositions. Not necessarily because of the bulverisms. Rather than look at the surface of arguments The Fundamentals, a testimony to the truth Propositional faith What foundations do you use. James Orr’s pamphlet on Genesis Stating a set of unprovable presuppositions and building something on top of it. Calling someone a fundamentalist is anti-religious prejudice. The fallacy of the special problem. Choosing to pin it onto religious people when it’s really a general problem. A yearning for freedom. Everybody builds their lives on unprovable things. Transfering the metaphor of economic freedom from relationships. Economic freedom and sexual freedom. An aesthetic right marginalize everyone else. Democracy is good at letting a small group of people oppressing a large group of people. Groups make better decisions than individuals. Large number of buyers and sellers Markets have nice properties about dealing with shortages and gluts Leave the prices to move around and respond to shortages and gluts. Mindset that everything is a mutually advantageous trade. This cost-benefit mindset, ruthless regard for your advantage, Regard people’s preferences as a fixed thing It’s the market’s job to meet those preferences Joint goods Knock-on effects. Petrol contributes to pollution, well understood, an externality Effects of markets onsocial situations, motivation crowding out. Commercial mindset walks into a situation it transforms it. Moral frame. Once a price was involved it was a babysitting tax. Commodification, not just knock-on effects, The people themselves are shrunk and de-personalized. Outcomes is a transferal of a market mentality into a sexual ethic. Wanting to use markets in every area society. Gary Becker, Nobel Prize winning, how the economy effects people’s ideas of marriage Stephanie Coontz, 1950s particular high point in the status of marriage in the world. People were prepared to count their blessings. Human kind of sinful. Don’t like looking back to a golden age. Whether we’ve got too far away f ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZLidAa7ul8