welcome back to prowl Trev
today in Prout in practice I want to
talk about the family
people often ask where is PROUT being
enacted where is it currently happening
well the easiest answer and my favorite
answer is the family because a family
has the basic values that a practised
excit or a practice government would
have in a family parents make sure that
they are budgeting appropriately to meet
the needs of all as well as provide
non-essential things but parents
wouldn't take their kids to Disney World
if they're currently getting evicted
instead the family prioritizes making
sure that kids have a place to sleep
making sure that there's food for
everybody that there's medical care that
there is education once these things are
met then non-essential things can come
and that's no different than a PROUTist
society where the minimum requirements
and maximum amenities are guaranteed to
all let me go ahead and pull out a quote
from the scholar Jarvis de for both
Aristotle and Hegel the family is the
foundation in which the universal eyes
rule of law is validated according to
the political structure of the palace or
state itself this composite hold or
structure of society is a political end
of humanity for both philosophers which
in turn finds its primordial beginning
in the family for Hegel it is in the
love affirm through carrying affection
within the nuclear family that the
dialectical framework for the freedom of
civil society and the rational unity of
a congressional spirit in the state
finds its foundation for both thinkers
the family sets the base for a political
theory that defines citizenship in a
manner that transcends the particularity
of kin bonds
so basically we see that it's not just
unique to Prout aristotle for example
all of these ancient philosophers they
saw that the family is the basic unit of
the society it is the microcosm of the
society and if that is a fact then we
need to analyze that these microcosms
are based on love they're based on care
my mother you know she never gave me a
bill when I turned 18 for all the times
that she cared for me when I was sick or
for all of the words that she taught me
all of the knowledge that she gave me
she did that with love and even until
today she still gives me many things and
so why can't that be projected onto
society why can't those with power and
those in government treat the people
like it's children and make sure that
all of its children have health care
have education have their minimum
requirements meant so that they can be
happy so they can develop the society
and develop themselves now sometimes
conservatives have these ideas of like
the Republicans call themselves the the
party of Family Values but that stuff is
complete hypocrisy because if that were
true they would never have put children
in cages and separated families at the
border like the current Republican
administration did a lot of times when
they talk about Family Values they're
talking about some religious sentiments
that are actually just dogmas and only
really fit their own agenda their own
religious agenda so that kind of stuff
is not what we're talking about I found
an interesting quote from Obama from
2011 where he said families across this
country understand what it takes to
manage a budget well it's time
Washington acted as responsibly as our
families do now
this is also not what I'm referring to
what Obama meant in this quote is you
know the deficits not to continue
government spending to increase the
deficit if Obama really wanted the
government to budget like a family Obama
would have you know enacted colleges for
all would have proposed Medicare for all
instead of the Affordable Care Act
because then you're acting like a real
family
then you're acting like like you're
really caring for other people the truth
is is that these deficits are overlooked
when it comes to benefiting the top one
percent that it hence all of the tax
breaks that are given you know
billions of dollars in tax breaks that
are given to the top one percent and
also when it's time to bail out
companies everybody asked Bernie Sanders
how was he going to pay for Medicare for
all for free colleges and universities
but they didn't ask the government that
now how are you gonna pay for bailing
out the airline industry the the many
corporations that the government wants
to protect that question doesn't get
asked so it's so basically you only have
to be modest in spending when you are
going to actually spend on the people
but not when you're going to give free
stuff to the rich people and that is
just complete hypocrisy so thanks for
watching this was a segment on PROUT in
practice and I'll be giving you more
more real-life examples of we're PROUT
is being enacted today in our
time I'll see you all next time
