Makers of the Modern Mind, part 16: Bentham, continued

The Propaganda Report

Brad Binkley

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🗓️ 31 March 2025

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Part XVI - Jeremy Bentham, continued - Join us for a reading and conversation about the 12 men who had the greatest influence on the way we think. Written in 1958, this work stands the test of time. There is no theory, conspiracy or otherwise, just the simple facts about these men, their thoughts and their influence--draw your own conclusions! Support me on substack for ad-free content, bonus material, personal chatting and more! https://substack.com/@monicaperezshow Become a PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER on Apple Podcasts for AD FREE episodes! all for the cost of one newspaper a month--i read the news so you dont have to! Support: True Hemp Science https://truehempscience.com/ PROMO CODE: MONICA Find, Follow, Subscribe & Rate on your favorite podcasting platform AND for video and social & more... https://rumble.com/user/monicaperezshow https://www.youtube.com/c/MonicaPerez Twitter/X: @monicaperezshow Instagram: @monicaperezshow For full shownotes visit: https://monicaperezshow.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.6	Thank you. This is Monica Perez, and we are back reading this book that people are loving,
1:01.0	Makers of the Modern Mind by Thomas P. Neal.
1:03.3	And we've gone through quite a few of them.
1:08.1	We are up to the second half of the one on Bentham.
1:15.1	So if you recall Jeremy Bentham is the mastermind behind the Panopticon, which we all feel,
1:19.9	I think a lot of us feel like we're living in the Panopticon, which was a prison of his devising that would have a bunch of cells around a central watchtower, and the watcher, if they saw you doing anything wrong, they would
1:31.2	shoot you, basically. I don't know if his works exactly like that, but the modern, I've heard
1:37.1	it described in a modern way. I don't know if he had this idea either, but you don't even need
1:42.3	to have somebody in the watchtower and you don't need to see if somebody does something wrong. If you just pick somebody off every once in a while, everybody else will stay in line. It's kind of a very, it's a scalable psychological prison. And people think that we're in it right now being constantly watched
2:03.7	or at least think we are. So, anyway, let's get on with the reading. And also my shocked commentary
2:13.6	sometimes that like what these guys were devising the modern mind, whether they knew it or not,
2:20.3	what some of them were thinking, yikes. Okay, so hopefully you've heard the first half, if not just zip over to
2:27.9	my podcast feed or the YouTube video on the first part of Bentham. Okay,
2:37.3	the association principle,
2:45.3	in quotes, was, this is part four, was an essential element of the utilitarian system because Bentham and his associates were going to make men automatically good and happy. It is implicit in all Bentham's writing,
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