WEBVTT - Sunday Fireside Chat | Essential Lessons: Human Behavior 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:03.640 Life Audio. 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.880 Hey there, this is Marissa strit I am the CEO 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:09.040 of Preger You, and you are about to listen to 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:13.080 a special edition of Fireside Chat with Dennis Praguer. Those 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:15.360 of us here at Peger You are continuing to do 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:17.880 the very important work that we've been doing with him 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.439 for over ten years. We are educating millions of young 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.200 people online, we have state partnerships to bring our content 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.080 into schools, and so much more. You can head over 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.520 to peger you dot com to see the progress that 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.199 we've been making. 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It's just a chance to completely spontaneously offer 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:25.000 you some thoughts about life, about America, about a whole 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.440 host of issues, and take your questions. And that's really 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:34.920 what it's about. It is ninety nine percent unrehearsed. So 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.200 you'll say, what is the one percent? The one percent 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.440 is I do give thought to what I will open 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:46.560 up talking about. That's true. I do. Today's talk. Today's 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:53.320 opening is so important that I hope number one seventy 0:01:53.400 --> 0:02:00.840 two will go viral. That's how important I think subject is. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:08.400 So I want to explain to you what I think 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.840 is one of the two or three most important things 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:17.320 people have clear about life in order to understand life 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.200 and to have wisdom, which is the same thing as 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:25.320 understand life. Human nature is not basically good. I've talked 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.200 about this on many occasions. I have a prayer you 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:33.960 video on it. People don't quite understand why it's as 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:39.639 important as I know it is, and I won't give 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.000 you all the reasons. It's so important to understand how 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:48.560 profoundly flawed human nature is. I want to make something clear. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:53.320 There is good in human nature. There's no question about that. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.520 Otherwise you couldn't explain any goodness. There is goodness on earth. 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.120 After all, there are people who are good. They work 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.720 on themselves and they work on their nature, or in 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.679 some cases they're just luckily born with a really good 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.239 nature that is not the usual flawed nature. But the 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.960 reason I'm raising it today is that to understand what 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.560 is happening in America today, this is the key thing 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.919 to understand. So I'll go to the conclusion and then 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:30.440 I'll work backwards. If you understand how flawed human nature is, 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:38.640 you will understand what a moral achievement America is. That's it. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.000 That's the key to what I want you to understand today. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:55.000 See if you have really mundane ingredients and make a 0:03:55.160 --> 0:04:00.200 terrific meal out of it, that's a big achievement. If 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:04.360 you have spectacular ingredients, it's not as big an achievement. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:12.200 Given the ingredients of human and nature, what America baked 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.640 itself into, if you will cooked itself into, is an 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:20.280 astonishing achievement. But if you think people are basically good, 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.880 which a lot of people, especially the well educated, because 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:29.080 they don't understand much, and unfortunately I mean that literally, 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:33.920 they think, well, human nature is good, So of course 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.039 it's astonishing how terrible America is. If you start out 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:43.880 with the appreciation of the raw material, then you marvel 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:48.279 at how good America became. Of course, America has bad 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.960 aspects to it, of course it does. How could it 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:58.799 not look at the raw material human beings? Nation, what country, 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:04.680 what tribe, what group has not had a profoundly flawed society. 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.839 That's why, among other things, you have to compare America 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:11.359 to other places. Who made us free? A place for 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:15.039 as many people from as many backgrounds. Nobody not to 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.760 say that all Americans are good. A lot of Americans 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.679 are awful, in fact, more today than perhaps ever before 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.120 in some ways, which is a very sad thing for 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:30.360 me to say, because a very painful subject. But given 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:35.679 again this raw material, it is astonishing what we made here, 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.040 what Americans made here. So let me deal with this 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:42.760 raw material. Very rarely I use notes, but there are 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.560 so many lousy parts to human nature. I had to 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.960 make a list of some of them. This is not 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:53.120 an exhaustive list, and it's not in any order of importance. 0:05:54.360 --> 0:06:00.680 When you realize what people want, what animal mates them, 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.520 and then you realize that this place has been pretty 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:11.920 darn good with all its flaws. The flaws are completely understandable. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:17.000 The good parts are a riddle. The freedom, the opportunity, 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:22.560 the working through the terrible origins that had racism in them. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.919 That is, it's an amazing achievement given human nature. So 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.600 here are some parts of human nature I thought i'd 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:36.880 share with you that are, shall we say difficult, no 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:41.440 order of importance. A vast number of people, for example, 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:46.560 yearn for power. Power. The desire to have power over 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:51.880 other people is apparently very widespread. It is especially true 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:59.600 in many men. And I must admit I have a 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:04.120 flaw nature like anybody else. This is not one of 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:10.320 my built in flaws. There is zero, zero desire in 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.080 me to have power over anybody else. I don't I 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.240 can't even I know it's there, I know how widespread 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.280 it is, but I must tell you I have no 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.480 relationship to it. It's one of the reasons I didn't 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.040 run for office. It's one of the reasons I'm conservative. 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.400 I want I don't want anybody that power over me either. 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.840 I want me to have power over me. I want 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:32.920 my moral co to have power over me. I want 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.440 God to have power over me. And that's it. So 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:38.840 I don't want to have power over anybody else. And that, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:44.640 by the way, that was the American founding dream, small government, 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:50.480 so that you can develop individually to the best of 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:55.040 your ability, without the most universal thing in the world 0:07:55.760 --> 0:08:06.480 strong government, princes, kings, queen, emperors, other governments, dictators, tyrannies. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.080 I mean, think about it. The human norm has been 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:12.960 for the state to have power over the individual. America 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.120 was founded to reduce the power of the state. There 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.840 is no other country in the world founded on the 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:22.360 basis of limited government. You know how this alone ran 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:27.040 against human nature. People want power. That's why the America 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:31.800 is divided into three co equal branches, the Presidency, the Congress, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.440 and the Supreme Court, because they didn't trust humans with power. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.320 Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's a famous 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:47.760 statement by the British Lord Acton So that alone, it 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:52.080 is astonishing how much freedom we made in America, not 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:57.680 we Americans before me. Given the yearning for power number two, 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.600 I could just spend time on that yearning for fame 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:06.640 and recognition. So many people want to be famous, and 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.240 so many people want recognition. That's part that's a reason 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:14.000 so many people want to be politicians. Some politicians are 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.040 in it for idealistic reasons. Most are in it because, 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.439 you know, get you get a lot of fame if 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:26.360 you're a senator. Just to give an example, and recognition. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:30.920 People ache for recognition. People. Half the people in Hollywood 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.600 didn't enter it just because they love acting. If they 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.959 just loved acting, they'd have joined a Shakespeare group in Boise, Idaho. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.000 But they want to have their name on a movie theater. 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.920 They want to get an Academy award. Remember why do 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:52.040 they so often say when they do get an Academy award? Everything? Okay, Feller, 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:59.400 See when I talk about fame and recognition, he perkscept, Okay, 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:04.080 you know what, little humility? Never heard of dog? So 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.920 this is a massive desire. I want to be known. 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.079 When I talk to kids, and I mean kids, I 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:13.920 mean eighth graders. So what do you want to be 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:19.040 when you grow up? So many answer famous. That's what 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.200 you want to be is famous. That's depressing to me 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.440 because then, by the way, I ask them, why would 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.680 you like to be famous for? Now? If the kids 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:33.360 said a cure for cancer, okay, sounds good to me. 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.360 They just want to be famous, so they say for anything, 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.600 so I say anything, you want to be famous for 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:45.720 most hamburgers eaten in a day or in two hours. Yeah, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.439 And by the way, that's what we do have. The 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.480 yearning for people. What is Instagram if not a desire 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:57.600 for recognition and fame. This is a huge thing in 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:03.760 the human condition. Another terribly flawed aspect. Now, look, everybody 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.680 wants recognition for the good and the achievements they've had. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.280 That's normal, that's good, there's no I have no issue 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:16.839 with that. But to seek recognition, to seek fame as 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:20.679 an end, that's a very big problem, and it leads 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.960 to corruption in government because the people are not there 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.800 to serve you. They are there to serve their fame 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.520 and recognition. Number three, a yearning to be important. That's 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.679 related to the other one. This is a or I'll 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.800 add to that, a yearning to think you are wonderful. 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.520 The whole woke thing is that, Oh, look at me. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.440 Look at how anti racist I am. Look at how 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.720 I am fighting transphobia. Look at how I am fighting homophobia. 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.719 Look at how I am fighting islamophobia. Look at how 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:57.560 I am fighting. And then you name the evil that 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:02.840 you wish to fight, you feel great about yourself. But 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:08.679 what if, in fact, there just isn't that much to fight. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.839 This country is the least racist, multi racial country in 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.679 the history of the world. It's one thing to afford 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:19.640 racism and Jim Crow and when slavery, But in the 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:24.000 early part of the twenty first century, there's just not 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.960 that much in America. I proved it in an article. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.760 I wrote proofs that there were so little racism in America. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.760 And I'll give you just one because I don't want 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.840 to go through all of that list, and that is 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:44.120 micro aggressions. Microaggressions proves how little racism there is. They 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.400 have to invent it. So if you say there's only 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.880 one race, the human race, the University of California's lists 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:55.080 of microaggressions says, that's a racist. There's only one race 0:12:55.160 --> 0:13:01.440 is racist. It's the opposite of racism. So there's another 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:07.000 reason that human nature can lead to a disintegration of society. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.719 The yearning to think you're terrific and important and famous 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.280 and so on. Next, sex, you know, you read about 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.320 a Jeffrey Epstein, and you read about all these people, 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.400 all these men who have sexually harassed or charged with 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:27.720 sexual harassment, and all the other aspects of people, where 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.000 sex is a very powerful drive. According to Freud, it's 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:36.160 the most powerful drive, and that could lead, and it does. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.600 It leads to a lot of terrible stuff. It has 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.880 to be kept in check. But who teaches kids that 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:47.080 you have to keep yourself in check? For all of 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.760 my adult life, I have explained the difference between a 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:54.960 religious education and a secular education. When I had my 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:59.680 religious Jewish education through twelfth grade, half day in Hebrew, 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:04.199 half day in English, very rigorous education in Judaism, and 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.760 kids with Christianity the same thing. You learn the biggest 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:12.040 battle in your life is with you, or as I 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.920 always put it, I was taught that the biggest problem 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:20.960 in Denis Prager's life is Dennis Prager. But not in 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.080 secular schools, you learn that the biggest problem in your 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:31.240 life is something outside of you, like America. So while 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:35.640 the religious are battling themselves, the secular not all this 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:40.320 is a generalization, are especially on the left, they're battling America, 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:49.240 not themselves. Mixed lack of wisdom. We're not born wise, 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.640 and without wisdom, all the good intentions in the world 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.840 are useless. In fact, good intentions without wisdom usually leads 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.080 to evil. What is it the The road to hell 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.320 is paved with good intentions, that's it. Why is that 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.960 because those people don't have wisdom, They just have good intentions. 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:15.680 Good intentions without wisdom leads to hell. And we're leading 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.520 America to hell today all these good intentions. Oh, I'm 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.880 here to fight racism. I'm here to fight all these phobias. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:30.520 I'm here to fight capitalism. That's not wise. Lack of 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:35.840 courage is a very, very normative part of the human condition. 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.600 Very few humans are born courageous. You have to want 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.200 to be courageous to be courageous. It doesn't come naturally 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.560 to almost anybody. Some people have it naturally, very few do. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.320 So therefore you have this herd mentality. And I will 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:53.640 admit I wrote about this in a recent column The 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.960 Good American, that's what it's called. And how few Americans 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:02.520 are exhibiting courage today. Oh, you want to close down 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:07.120 my business with the lockdown, Governor Newsom, go right ahead. 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:12.720 We won't protest. Yes, I can no longer feed my 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.520 family properly, but I'm going to let my restaurant die. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:21.320 I won't even open it up. Or people wearing masks 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:26.320 outdoors when they're walking their dog. This is a herd mentality. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.080 I'm not telling you not to wear a mask indoors 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:30.920 when you go to a restaurant or when you go 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:35.920 to a store. No, but it's a little scary to 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:40.360 watch people walking pretty much alone outdoors and wearing a mask. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:47.840 That's a herd mentality. That's not science. Oh, how's this one. 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.240 People don't yearn to be free. People yearn to be 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:56.800 taken care of. I've talked about that on occasion. Liberty 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.680 is a value, not an instinct. I'm talking to you 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.320 about all these built in flaws in human nature, and 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:06.520 we still built America the way it is. The yearning 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.639 for utopia. People really believe that you could make a 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:17.640 place where there's no more inequality, and there's no more hatred, 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.679 and there's no more there's no such thing as no more. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.200 That doesn't exist. We can lessen, we can improve, and 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.600 we have, but you can't have a place with none 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.920 of these things. It doesn't exist except in the imagination 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:38.760 of PhDs. In gratitude. Oh God, that alone explains what's 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:42.359 going on in America. Human beings are not grateful by nature. 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:45.240 I have a simple proof. How many times have you 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.000 been told when you were a kid, or did you 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.480 tell your kids say thank you? If we were naturally grateful, 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.960 why would we have to be told ten thousand times 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:58.840 say thank you? Because it doesn't come naturally. Gratitude is 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:05.120 a value, not an instinct. Ingratitude is normal, and that's 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:09.719 what That's what the left has for America. They are 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:15.159 not only ungrateful, they teach others to be ungrateful. I 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.040 would say that if I had to define the average BA, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:24.040 masters or PhD, it's a degree in ingratitude. That's what 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.920 you get at our schools today. How can we produce 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:34.040 ungrateful people? And ungrateful people are miserable human beings, both 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:38.919 in their in both senses of miserable, unhappy, and the 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:43.200 way they treat other people. Ungrateful people are awful people, 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:52.760 and our schools produce them in the millions. Oh. Finally, 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:58.240 the psychological impediments to being a decent person, even all 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.240 the built in then there's other stuff that the person 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:07.480 who just has physiological issues, you know, psychological physiological issues, 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:16.000 which prevents them from appreciating what they have. So it's 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:19.600 incredibly hard to make a decent society with this raw material. 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:25.320 So America is divided between left and right. The right 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:30.760 knows how flawed human nature is and says, Wow, what 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:35.879 an achievement America is. The left doesn't acknowledge how flawed 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.800 human nature is and looks at it and goes, what 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:45.919 a miserable society. Okay, that's important stuff. If I'm allowed 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.040 to say that myself, we begin with your questions. Take 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:49.520 it away. 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.800 Hi, my name is Sophia Duco. I'm seventeen years old 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.920 and from Newport Beach, California. So at least half Americans, 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:00.400 some seventy four plus million people feel they were robbed 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.000 or their constitutionally granted voice in this past election. How 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.800 do you suggest or what do you suggest these Americans 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.280 do to cope with the fact that there appears to 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.320 be somewhat of a double standard and one party seems 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:13.280 to be above the law. 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:21.959 Okay, look, Oh, it's true tens of millions of Americans 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:26.639 are very suspicious with regard to the last election. But 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:30.560 the question if I may, if I may sofia is 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.600 even larger than that because people can dismiss it. Ah, 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:38.480 you're crazy, you're paranoid, you you're hallucinating, You're you're making 0:20:38.560 --> 0:20:43.760 up stuff. So let's talk about stuff. The division in 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:49.160 America that that can't be denied, the suppression of free speech. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.840 Half of America thinks it's okay and half of America 0:20:53.920 --> 0:21:01.120 thinks it's evil to suppress free speech. That's that's one 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:05.440 we could all acknowledge that we have this massive division 0:21:05.480 --> 0:21:14.000 on I want when I fight, I fight using clarity. 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:17.639 Clarity is my best weapon where I can have. It 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:19.600 happens on my radio show. Look, I have thirty five 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:23.040 years of practice of dialoguing and debating with people who 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.920 don't agree with me, and I've learned a lot, obviously, 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:30.080 and one of the things is, and it happens a lot, 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.119 and it's very touching where someone who will call up 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:35.080 and disagree with me, and then I'll give an answer 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:40.160 very calmly, and then there's a little silence and they go, oh, 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.040 And I always commend them because they actually listened to 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:48.719 my answer and then took it in. So forty to 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:53.080 fifty percent of America's young people think it's okay to 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:57.720 suppress hate speech. They say, oh, we believe in free speech, 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:03.760 but not for haste speech. But of course they don't realize, 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:06.920 then they're not for free speech. Free speech includes hate 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:12.320 speech or what you define as hate speech. Otherwise, what 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.480 is the point of free speech? Otherwise free speech means 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:19.440 there's only free speech for love speech. Then then there 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:23.399 isn't free speech. Who's against free speech for love speech. 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:32.280 Nobody's suppressing I love you. It's where people differ, and 0:22:32.320 --> 0:22:35.240 you then have been taught to label what you differ 0:22:35.280 --> 0:22:40.000 with hate speech. If somebody actually says I don't think 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:44.119 it's fair for biological men to compete against biological women 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:48.480 in sports, why is that hatred. You may differ with them. 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:53.200 You may think it's fair. I think it's cheating, because 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:58.960 if biological men can in fact compete against biological women 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:02.159 in sports, then there's no reason for women's teams to 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:06.000 begin with. If men don't have biological men. I'm not 0:23:06.040 --> 0:23:08.000 denying that there are men who believe that they are women, 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:11.520 and I honor that. That's fine. If your name is Cynthia, 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:13.800 now I will call you Cynthia, and I'm not being cute. 0:23:14.600 --> 0:23:17.800 That's a separate issue. But allowing you with your male 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:20.840 body that you can't get rid of, allowing you with 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:24.280 your male muscles, your male bone structure, your greater height 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:30.040 in most instances to race against females. That's called cheating. 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:38.080 Anti cheating. Okay, but what I just said would be 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:44.320 labeled by Facebook as hate speech or the new term misinformation. 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:48.439 It's misinformation that there's a need for women's teams and 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:52.919 men's teams. If biological men can compete against biological women, 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:56.280 then let us end men's teams and women's team Because 0:23:56.320 --> 0:24:01.399 you're denying that men have an advantage in sports. What 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:04.480 I just said is so obvious that you have to 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:10.439 have been brainwashed from early grades to believe otherwise. What 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:14.400 I just said is not debatable. Now, I won't suppress 0:24:14.440 --> 0:24:18.399 your right to say something foolish, but I will acknowledge 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:24.040 it is not debatable. Men biological the biology of males 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:28.000 is advantageous, which is the only reason we have female 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:35.120 teams and female track, right, That's the reason. Otherwise men 0:24:35.160 --> 0:24:38.159 and women would compete in every sport. But we know 0:24:38.320 --> 0:24:41.480 men have a physical advantage. They don't lose that advantage 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:49.240 just because they say they're women. So, Sophia, it goes 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:53.960 well beyond this election. The differences are so profound, So 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:55.960 what did you want to know? How do you suggest 0:24:56.040 --> 0:25:01.560 what these Americans do. We have to articulate our position. 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:05.280 There are tens of millions of us. We have to 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:10.440 articulate our position constantly and eloquently. Will they shut you down? 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:14.520 Yes they will, But it's harder to shut down seventy 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:18.919 million people who keep talking, then two million people who 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:22.000 keep talking, and sixty eight million who are afraid to 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:31.080 speak up. What's our timing? Good, Chris Rolling, North Carolina 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:35.399 Prager Force member Hi, Chris Hi, Denis Otto snoopy in 0:25:35.440 --> 0:25:41.240 Megan's arm. Well, that is nice. I hope when I 0:25:41.280 --> 0:25:43.800 am your age, Dennis, I have experienced the full enough 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:45.840 life to have an ounce of the wisdom you possess. 0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:48.720 The issue is not that I've had a full life. 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:51.760 I've had a full life. The reason that I have 0:25:51.840 --> 0:25:55.679 wisdom is because I was steeped in religion from a 0:25:55.760 --> 0:25:59.720 very early age. And it's because and this I don't 0:25:59.720 --> 0:26:02.480 even take credit for, I wanted wisdom from a very 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:07.399 early age. You have to whatevery goal you want. You 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:11.159 have to want it. You don't become a decent person, 0:26:11.200 --> 0:26:15.439 a good person, even just by being one. You have 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:17.959 to you have to want to become one. You have 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:20.359 to want to be wise, and you can become wise. 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:23.560 That's the reason I have read wiser thinkers than me. 0:26:24.160 --> 0:26:26.520 But you don't learn wiser thinkers than you any longer. 0:26:26.520 --> 0:26:32.440 In American schools they dropped Shakespeare because he's a white male. 0:26:32.960 --> 0:26:34.880 But who cares if he's a white male. I only 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:39.880 care if he has wisdom to impart. But the unwise 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:47.280 are now teaching our kids how to be unwise. Uh 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:53.399 so yes? So, now that Chris's question continues. In a 0:26:53.440 --> 0:26:56.719 recent fireside chat, you mentioned a moral obligation to be happy. 0:26:57.000 --> 0:26:59.200 Can you expand on the idea of being and not 0:26:59.359 --> 0:27:02.679 acting happy, especially in hard times? Thank you for everything 0:27:02.720 --> 0:27:05.840 you do. You're welcome, Thank you for your thank you. Well. 0:27:07.040 --> 0:27:11.000 My whole thesis is we have a moral obligation to 0:27:11.040 --> 0:27:13.879 act happy. We cannot impose our bad moods on others 0:27:14.160 --> 0:27:17.320 anymore than people impose their bad breath or bad body 0:27:17.320 --> 0:27:20.760 odour on others. And just like we wash away our odors, 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:24.840 we should wash away our moods. So I'm adamant about that. 0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:28.240 Even if you're feeling bad, you can't inflict your bad 0:27:28.280 --> 0:27:31.800 mood on me. Now, I'm not talking about people who 0:27:31.920 --> 0:27:35.960 have no capability of controlling themselves because of physiological problems, 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:40.040 the manic, depressive or the schizophrenic, for example. I understand that. 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:43.000 I understand that if you just lost your child, you're 0:27:43.040 --> 0:27:46.080 not going to be walking around smiling. I'm well aware 0:27:46.119 --> 0:27:48.960 of this. My dearest friend from high school just lost 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:53.480 his child, and I'm going through this with him, and 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:57.960 I don't expect him to sit there and act like 0:27:58.080 --> 0:28:02.040 nothing happened. Or most of us most of the time, 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:07.080 we should, in fact, try try to act happy, by 0:28:07.119 --> 0:28:09.040 the way, for our sake as much as for others, 0:28:09.560 --> 0:28:12.520 because how you act will in fact affect your feelings. 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:21.640 Act X, you'll feel X. Okay. Craig thirty three, Los Angeles, 0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:24.600 this is the Craig. I know he is a nuisance. 0:28:25.160 --> 0:28:31.600 This guy's like a stalker. Tell him what are your 0:28:31.680 --> 0:28:35.320 Super Bowl predictions? So let me explain. I know why 0:28:35.359 --> 0:28:38.600 he asked this because he thinks I'm out of it now. 0:28:38.720 --> 0:28:41.400 You guys are witnesses. Not only did I know who's playing, 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:45.200 I told you the quarterback's names. Is that correct? Okay, 0:28:45.360 --> 0:28:48.560 just want to make that clear. But since you asked 0:28:48.880 --> 0:28:55.040