The Phillip D. Fletcher Podcast

Freedom has many facets which include self-direction, decision making, and responsibility

This weeks thought considers the relationship between your dignity and your capacity to decide for yourself.

Ideas are so powerful. These conceptions take shape in the minds of individuals and over the course of time can influence others to share those ideas. There are a multitude ideas which can move individuals towards greater compassion alleviating suffering, ideas transforming existing technology to improve the lived experiences of individuals, and ideas depersonalizing an entire group for purposes k...

How can Personalism inform how we understand freedom in our individual lives? 

Welcome to Season 5 of the Humanity Matters Podcast!!! 

Hey its Season 5 of Humanity Matters!! Thank you to all who come and listen. Second, welcome to a new weekly offering, Personalist Living and Leading which seeks to promote ideas regarding human dignity and freedom for the goal of human flourishing. Consider these offering as short meditations to help you live and lead wherever you may be in the great wide world of ours.  

Wow! The end of the 4th season of Humanity Matters and that means, Ask Dr. Phil. We take questions submitted to the mailbag. Be on the look out for Season 5 with some new content and value we are seeking to add to our listening audience! 

Today's episode we talk about all the new DC material coming out, VP Harris using her position in the Church, and Jon Stewart's monologue painting freedom in a negative light. 

In today's episode Dr. Phillip Fletcher responds to recent comments by New York Governor Hockul regarding medical procedures. 

An very insightful interview with Larry Sharpe who considering a run for Governor of New York.  Learn more about Larry Sharpe at larrysharpe.com 

Today we discuss 9/11, engage with news about vaccine discrimination and offer words to men.  Show Notes:  1. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/members-congress-staff-exempt-biden-covid-vaccine-mandate-1627859%3famp=1?fbclid=IwAR2GwJUhRAxqTK_FtPgcjRFmF7_B8oZI8wVp2N6-RzKxrFtWuzQw0igH9Ww 2. https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollme...

We take on a question which critiques my approach regarding the current activities in our nation.  Remember to subscribe to our YouTube Channel! https://youtu.be/QQ3c-_v7vZU Connect with us. YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ebz4mj8b Podcast: https://tinyurl.com/ypd2ps4h Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/wdzzrhd6 Website: phillipfletcher.org

What can we learn about the relationship between war at home and war abroad? We also tackle the news coming out of the FBI and wonder how long we will continue to tolerate being in a perpetual state of war. 

Expressing my frustrations with the appearance of the visible Church in America in 2021. My guiding question, "What guides the visible Church today?" 

Responding to a past week news segment on NBC which appears to characterize different thoughts on Covid Measures as being catalyst for terror activity. 

Reacting to Mayor de Blasio's recent announcement about vaccines and access to private establishments in NYC. 

One of the ways we can reshape our world is by moving away from so much centralization and cultivate local ways of acting with each other. 

The pursuit of significance, of meaning, is a noble activity because it signifies the pursuit of something larger than yourself, yet it should be a pursuit you have initially discovered on your own and overtime you invite others to join you, if they wish.

Dr. Ibram Kendi has been quite influential in the past few years as his work regarding “anti-racism” has had a very significant cultural, political, and social influence within the United States and arguably the world. Show Notes:  https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/june/ibram-x-kendi-definition-of-antiracist.html

Let talk about the minimum wage.  Here is a helpful resource by the late Walter E. Williams  https://fee.org/media/5133/0703williams.pdf

We critique and we have anger towards the action of a particular law enforcement officer or department. Ok. Yet when will we direct our outrage to those men and women who uphold legislation and pass legislation which manages our lives and when we stray, causes law enforcement officers to impose upon your life?  Music by:  Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod http://incompetech.com Creative Comm...

From the importance of individualism, to free speech to the relationship of the State to the individual, to law enforcement, to the Non-Aggression Principle, Rap/Hip Hop offered a very high level of critique for what was occurring in some Black communities and the desire for freedom.

A heartfelt discussion on the emotions, assumptions, and hopes of being a father. 

Tulsa is a lesson most certainly about the ugliness of humanity but I agree with you towards the end of your speech. Hope. Hope is also running through humanity as well. I hope as you do for the realization of justice in the lives of people.

A discussion with FEE Chairman Emeritus on political and economic spectrums. Are there commonalities between different political systems? How has education impacted our understanding of communism, socialism, and fascism?   Connect with Lawrence Reed through his website: lawrencewreed.com    Connect with Foundation for Economic Education: fee.org    Article referenced in th...