I must say that I've started skipping Glenn Shows with Bessner on them. His hypothetical lens never focuses on reality to see if his constructions are connected with it in any way, and whether it provides any evidence for his views. The speculation I saw quoted about 'freedom' from 'homelessness' is particularly egregious. Those of us who've studied the communist dictatorships know that homelessness was a structural fact of life. Most of my Soviet friends spent years in barracks, or crowded with several families into tiny dwellings, or waiting in various hellholes in conditions we would not have called having a 'home'. As far as unsheltered people, you could see them in the cities (sometimes frozen on the ground) and in the countryside, in unspeakable conditions. All of that matters, IMHO - and no-one 'chose' any of it.
I must say that I've started skipping Glenn Shows with Bessner on them. His hypothetical lens never focuses on reality to see if his constructions are connected with it in any way, and whether it provides any evidence for his views. The speculation I saw quoted about 'freedom' from 'homelessness' is particularly egregious. Those of us who've studied the communist dictatorships know that homelessness was a structural fact of life. Most of my Soviet friends spent years in barracks, or crowded with several families into tiny dwellings, or waiting in various hellholes in conditions we would not have called having a 'home'. As far as unsheltered people, you could see them in the cities (sometimes frozen on the ground) and in the countryside, in unspeakable conditions. All of that matters, IMHO - and no-one 'chose' any of it.