WEBVTT - Timeless Wisdom: Dennis Prager's Rules For Life 0:00:21.500 --> 0:00:25.820 Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. Here thousands of 0:00:25.860 --> 0:00:29.300 hours of Dennis's lectures, courses in classic radio programs. I 0:00:29.340 --> 0:00:33.220 had to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles. Go to Dennisprager 0:00:33.460 --> 0:00:39.700 dot com. 0:00:40.300 --> 0:00:42.500 But I'm very, very happy to be here, as you 0:00:42.500 --> 0:00:45.940 would imagine if I could touch your life. That's my 0:00:46.500 --> 0:00:49.660 dream in life is to touch lives with good things. 0:00:50.300 --> 0:00:53.060 So it means a lot to me that you're here. 0:00:54.420 --> 0:00:58.459 Before I actually begin, I wanted to deal with a 0:00:58.500 --> 0:01:02.500 flyer that I just saw that was given out. I 0:01:03.060 --> 0:01:06.300 do this in every college that I go to. They 0:01:06.420 --> 0:01:12.980 publish things in their papers. Everything that's asserted is not true. 0:01:13.860 --> 0:01:17.420 I have a theory as to why. But before I 0:01:17.580 --> 0:01:21.980 tell you my theory, just say to those who might 0:01:22.020 --> 0:01:25.940 be here who have any disagreement with me or complete disagreement, 0:01:26.580 --> 0:01:30.940 you go first in questions, and I'm known for my 0:01:32.260 --> 0:01:37.900 very respectful demeanor, even if I don't find the question respectful, 0:01:38.300 --> 0:01:40.820 So don't worry about it. I won't eat you up. 0:01:41.460 --> 0:01:44.020 I'll show why you're wrong, but I will Uh no, 0:01:44.140 --> 0:01:50.620 that was a joke. That was a joke, but no, no, no, no, really, 0:01:50.660 --> 0:01:54.140 if you differ, you get on first. But I'll just 0:01:54.180 --> 0:01:56.260 give you an example. This is typical. By the way. 0:01:56.340 --> 0:01:58.340 My favorite, I have to admit, was the University of 0:01:58.340 --> 0:02:00.900 Wyoming about a year and a half ago. And I 0:02:00.940 --> 0:02:02.460 don't know if it was a professor or a student 0:02:02.500 --> 0:02:05.420 who wrote in the in the Wyoming paper that you know, 0:02:05.500 --> 0:02:09.139 the usual six herb sexist in tolerance in to phobic, homophobic, slomophobic, 0:02:09.220 --> 0:02:12.060 race is bigoted speaker is coming to campus. But they 0:02:12.100 --> 0:02:15.180 not only said that, they also said an anti submitic, 0:02:17.060 --> 0:02:21.940 which which is remarkable given that I'm a religious Jew. 0:02:22.139 --> 0:02:25.540 But you know, a lot are details on the left. 0:02:25.579 --> 0:02:29.299 They're annoying. So if you could dismiss a human being 0:02:29.340 --> 0:02:32.820 with epithets, why argue with them? So I want to 0:02:32.860 --> 0:02:35.460 give you an example. This is typical. The only reason 0:02:35.660 --> 0:02:38.260 I am mentioning this is because this is truly typical. 0:02:38.660 --> 0:02:41.020 I won't read you the whole thing. Purdue against Prager You, 0:02:41.140 --> 0:02:43.460 by the way, is that remarkable? Are you in Purdue? 0:02:43.500 --> 0:02:46.340 I'm just curious, all right, Purdue against Prager? You fine? 0:02:46.460 --> 0:02:48.460 So you know that is a conservative talk show host, 0:02:48.500 --> 0:02:54.900 which immediately renders me awful. So here is example. Unfortunately, 0:02:54.940 --> 0:02:57.820 many of these videos make claims that are false, unfound 0:02:57.820 --> 0:03:01.500 that it completely misleading. So every time I see that 0:03:01.580 --> 0:03:05.980 on the internet, I'll praguer you it's misleading, it's propaganda. 0:03:06.180 --> 0:03:11.139 They never ever give an example. What in four hundred videos, 0:03:11.500 --> 0:03:16.700 which include, by the way, for the record, professors at Yale, Harvard, Stanford, 0:03:18.020 --> 0:03:23.540 University of Pennsylvania. It's all over the world, Oxford. It 0:03:23.620 --> 0:03:27.860 also includes four former prime ministers. It also includes four 0:03:27.940 --> 0:03:32.260 Pulitzer Prize winners. It also includes liberals like Alan Dershowitz, 0:03:32.300 --> 0:03:35.460 who has never voted Republican in his life. But all 0:03:35.500 --> 0:03:38.780 of a sudden, all of these people tell lies. Okay, 0:03:38.980 --> 0:03:41.620 because but they never give an example. So at least 0:03:41.620 --> 0:03:44.980 to this person's credit, she gives or he gives. I 0:03:45.060 --> 0:03:46.580 say she because they told me it was a woman 0:03:46.620 --> 0:03:49.820 handing out the flyer. Four examples of how we are 0:03:49.940 --> 0:03:55.620 completely misleading and unfounded. Here are a few. Fossil fuels 0:03:55.620 --> 0:03:59.820 are the greatest energy source from the YouTube video fossil 0:03:59.860 --> 0:04:04.580 fuels the greatest energy? What is misleading about that? Do 0:04:04.660 --> 0:04:08.420 you know how ignorant this person must be not to 0:04:08.580 --> 0:04:11.460 know that fossil fuels have been the greatest energy source 0:04:11.500 --> 0:04:15.020 in the history of humanity that were not for fossil fuels, 0:04:15.020 --> 0:04:19.020 there would be no hospitals, no cars, no transportation, nothing. 0:04:19.219 --> 0:04:21.580 There would be We would be living in the Middle Ages. 0:04:22.500 --> 0:04:26.220 People are living and living longer than ever before thanks 0:04:26.219 --> 0:04:29.100 to dinosaurs. It is one of their great gifts to 0:04:29.180 --> 0:04:33.660 us with their fossils. It's mind blowing to deny it. Now. 0:04:33.700 --> 0:04:37.020 You could say we shouldn't rely on it anymore. That's 0:04:37.060 --> 0:04:40.859 a perfectly legitimate position. But I only know it's legitimate 0:04:40.900 --> 0:04:42.940 if you're then for nuclear power. If you're not for 0:04:43.060 --> 0:04:46.220 nuclear power and not for fossil fuel, you're a hysteric 0:04:46.660 --> 0:04:51.100 because no, no, no, that's definitional. Nuclear power is clean and 0:04:51.260 --> 0:04:56.900 available and supports the beloved by the left. Sweden forty 0:04:56.940 --> 0:04:59.540 percent of its energies from nuclear power, and it'll soon 0:04:59.580 --> 0:05:06.260 be half of its nuclear energy. So what is misleading 0:05:06.420 --> 0:05:09.580 about that? It has been the greatest, the greenest, sorry, 0:05:09.660 --> 0:05:11.700 the greenest, that says the greenest. Yes, it has been 0:05:11.700 --> 0:05:16.460 the greenest, and will it be Okay, that's a great question. Next, 0:05:16.780 --> 0:05:20.540 net neutrality is good for consumers and anti authoritarian Okay, 0:05:20.780 --> 0:05:23.300 we know good people could differ on that neutrality. We 0:05:23.460 --> 0:05:26.219 just are suspicious of it because anything the government runs 0:05:26.660 --> 0:05:29.140 is less free. That's it, that's all. There may be 0:05:29.260 --> 0:05:31.660 arguments in the other direction, but why ruin what has 0:05:31.700 --> 0:05:35.860 already been free? Number three, FDR's new deal further worse 0:05:35.860 --> 0:05:38.980 than the Great Depression? You know who gives that course? 0:05:39.020 --> 0:05:42.180 A professor of economics that U see, La. This is 0:05:42.220 --> 0:05:44.380 not like we picked somebody off the street and said, 0:05:44.380 --> 0:05:46.659 what do you think of FDR's new deal? We want 0:05:46.660 --> 0:05:49.260 to do a video with you. We asked the professor 0:05:49.300 --> 0:05:52.540 of economics that you see, la, leo'hannion. Now you may 0:05:52.540 --> 0:05:55.540 differ with him, who may agree with him, But why exactly? 0:05:55.700 --> 0:06:01.299 Is that completely misleading and unfounded? And it is inconceivable 0:06:01.340 --> 0:06:03.540 the person who did this actually watch that. They saw 0:06:03.580 --> 0:06:07.260 the title number four, The minimum wage should be zero dollars? 0:06:07.300 --> 0:06:10.460 What's the right minimum wage? So here is a very 0:06:10.500 --> 0:06:14.660 interesting little thing for you on that. In the nineteen seventies, 0:06:14.820 --> 0:06:18.340 the New York Times, when it was liberal not leftist. 0:06:19.020 --> 0:06:22.540 There's a big difference. When it was liberal. You could 0:06:22.620 --> 0:06:26.460 check it. You should check it. This was the headline 0:06:26.780 --> 0:06:33.460 of its lead editorial, the right minimum wage zero dollars, 0:06:34.060 --> 0:06:39.580 zero cents. New York Times editorial in the seventies. Okay, 0:06:40.060 --> 0:06:43.580 so I guess the New York Times was completely misleading 0:06:43.780 --> 0:06:48.779 and unfounded, which it often is. So maybe maybe that's 0:06:48.820 --> 0:06:55.700 what the person had in mind, you know, by the way, 0:06:56.100 --> 0:06:59.260 it's The minimum wage issue is a very interesting one 0:06:59.300 --> 0:07:02.179 to me because I think in moral terms, not political terms. 0:07:02.180 --> 0:07:04.020 I think of right and wrong, what helps people, what 0:07:04.140 --> 0:07:08.260 hurts people, and I believe that the fifteen dollars minimum 0:07:08.300 --> 0:07:11.780 wage hurts people. Otherwise i'd support it. I'm for helping people. 0:07:12.940 --> 0:07:17.220 I a believer in that, but I believe it hurts 0:07:17.260 --> 0:07:20.620 people for a lot of reasons, including that far few 0:07:20.860 --> 0:07:25.100 get hired. I could tell you that since they raised 0:07:25.140 --> 0:07:28.420 it in Los Angeles recently, I am at the LAX 0:07:28.420 --> 0:07:31.900 that's the Los Angeles International Airport virtually every week, and 0:07:32.180 --> 0:07:35.260 I noticed that the lines are getting longer at Starbucks 0:07:35.260 --> 0:07:37.820 and elsewhere, and I asked them, why why do you 0:07:37.860 --> 0:07:40.340 have so few people working here? Because they raised the 0:07:40.460 --> 0:07:47.340 minimum wage, That's exactly why. So it hurts everybody. Fewer 0:07:47.340 --> 0:07:51.700 people get employed. The consumer is hurt. People will either 0:07:51.700 --> 0:07:54.300 miss their plane or not get their food. But it 0:07:54.300 --> 0:07:58.300 doesn't matter because you have to understand A major animating 0:07:58.780 --> 0:08:03.740 impulse on the left is do I feel good about myself. 0:08:04.380 --> 0:08:07.100 The question am I doing good? Is not a left 0:08:07.100 --> 0:08:10.780 wing question. Does it do good is a conservative question? 0:08:11.380 --> 0:08:16.340 Do I feel good is a liberal question. That's very 0:08:16.380 --> 0:08:20.060 important distinction. I am not interested in feeling good, or 0:08:20.100 --> 0:08:22.660 let's put it this way, I am, but it's secondary 0:08:22.740 --> 0:08:24.860 to doing good. I will talk about that and the 0:08:24.900 --> 0:08:28.060 conflict between feelings and actions, which is a big part 0:08:28.100 --> 0:08:29.340 of what I want to talk to you about, or 0:08:29.380 --> 0:08:33.099 a major part next it says here the viewpoints make 0:08:33.179 --> 0:08:35.780 sense when looking at the funding sources for praguer you. 0:08:35.819 --> 0:08:37.860 The main source of funding for praguer you is Dan 0:08:37.939 --> 0:08:41.980 and Ferris Wilkes, billionaires who profit off hydraulic fracking. That 0:08:42.140 --> 0:08:45.580 is a one hundred percent lie. One hundred percent at most. 0:08:45.660 --> 0:08:49.500 They have given us ten percent of our funds at most. Okay, 0:08:49.860 --> 0:08:52.300 And by the way, we came out with these videos 0:08:52.300 --> 0:08:55.020 before they gave us any money. They gave us money 0:08:55.020 --> 0:08:57.500 in part because they liked our values. We didn't change 0:08:57.500 --> 0:09:00.660 our values because we got money that would render me 0:09:01.260 --> 0:09:05.420 a prostitute, which, by the way, which bothers me, not 0:09:05.540 --> 0:09:08.699 because it bothers me about me. It bothers me about 0:09:08.700 --> 0:09:12.980 prostitutes because it's not a fair thing to label them 0:09:13.780 --> 0:09:18.980 in such a negative way. But it's just a lie. Okay. 0:09:19.060 --> 0:09:21.660 And by the way, they haven't funded us at least 0:09:21.660 --> 0:09:25.260 I think now for two years. It just is what 0:09:25.300 --> 0:09:29.220 it is. Additionally, the others are irrelevant. But except for this, 0:09:30.100 --> 0:09:33.980 the Linda and Harry Bradley Foundation have given over two 0:09:34.020 --> 0:09:37.819 hundred thousand dollars to support their conservative ideals, including suppressing 0:09:37.860 --> 0:09:45.340 student speech on college campuses. Okay, since you left, there's 0:09:45.380 --> 0:09:47.620 no reason for me to go on with that. Okay, 0:09:48.620 --> 0:09:51.900 though this is the stuff that is normal when discussing 0:09:52.780 --> 0:09:57.140 a preger university because they don't have good answers. You 0:09:57.179 --> 0:09:59.420 don't know the rigorous fact checking. And let me just 0:09:59.460 --> 0:10:02.100 speak personally, I would never attach my name to anything 0:10:02.140 --> 0:10:06.020 that compromised on truth. Lies are the root of evil. 0:10:06.300 --> 0:10:09.100 Lies gave us the Holocaust, live lies gave us the 0:10:09.140 --> 0:10:12.500 Gulag Archipelago. I hate lies. I hate them with every 0:10:12.540 --> 0:10:15.700 fiber in my body. I am so strict about truth 0:10:15.820 --> 0:10:21.380 that I've been broadcasting for thirty five years, and I 0:10:21.380 --> 0:10:23.980 I will tell you that when I read ads, I 0:10:24.060 --> 0:10:26.860 often change the copy. I'll give you one little example. 0:10:27.700 --> 0:10:31.620 It says this is very common on radio. So here's 0:10:31.660 --> 0:10:36.300 a for my listeners only if you use Preger, you 0:10:36.340 --> 0:10:40.140 will get a twenty percent discount. But it's not true. 0:10:40.220 --> 0:10:42.940 The advertiser says that, but it's not true. You will 0:10:42.980 --> 0:10:45.660 get a twenty percent discount if you use my name, 0:10:46.020 --> 0:10:48.100 but you'll also get a twenty percent discount if you 0:10:48.179 --> 0:10:51.420 use any of my colleagues names. So I drop only. 0:10:52.100 --> 0:10:56.140 I rewrite the script if there's the slightest nobody picks 0:10:56.220 --> 0:10:58.540 up on it. But I just want you to know 0:10:58.580 --> 0:11:02.340 how committed I am to truth. What we do before 0:11:02.380 --> 0:11:05.699 a video ever appears at Prager University, which is why 0:11:05.700 --> 0:11:08.420 they never caught us on anything. This is the stuff 0:11:08.420 --> 0:11:12.579 that they write on the internet, oh, misinformation, propaganda, misinformat. 0:11:12.660 --> 0:11:15.140 But they never give an example. There aren't examples. By 0:11:15.179 --> 0:11:17.620 the way, if we caught an example, we would list 0:11:17.740 --> 0:11:23.700 we made a mistake, we have something in correct. Okay, 0:11:23.940 --> 0:11:25.620 So what I want to what I want to talk 0:11:25.660 --> 0:11:31.340 to you about is life. What you don't what you 0:11:31.460 --> 0:11:35.179 probably don't learn at college that I'd like to share 0:11:35.220 --> 0:11:38.579 with you, which is no knock on Purdue. Uh as far, 0:11:38.980 --> 0:11:42.420 I don't know enough about Purdue to incorporate it into 0:11:42.460 --> 0:11:46.339 my general low opinion of American universities. UH, and I 0:11:46.700 --> 0:11:50.500 mean that sincerely. It may there are some fine ones 0:11:50.540 --> 0:11:54.860 that are not dominated by people who have agendas that 0:11:55.060 --> 0:11:59.900 are indoctrination rather than education. So whatever I am saying 0:12:00.100 --> 0:12:03.180 may or may not apply here, but it's it's irrelevant. 0:12:03.980 --> 0:12:06.820 The odds are, even at a wonderful university, you're not 0:12:06.980 --> 0:12:10.380 learning what I am about. UH. To mention to you, 0:12:10.580 --> 0:12:16.860 which is UH should be life shaping. If you take 0:12:16.860 --> 0:12:21.140 what I tell you now seriously, it will change your life. 0:12:21.820 --> 0:12:24.459 Which is almost wrong for a speaker to say, because 0:12:24.460 --> 0:12:27.500 I'm setting myself up for failure, because if I didn't 0:12:27.580 --> 0:12:29.459 change your life, I did fail. And by the way, 0:12:29.500 --> 0:12:32.260 I do feel that way. I don't speak for the 0:12:32.260 --> 0:12:34.780 hell of it. I speak because I want to change 0:12:34.780 --> 0:12:38.300 people's lives for the better. That's what I've always wanted 0:12:38.340 --> 0:12:39.860 to do. That's why I'm here today. 0:12:40.140 --> 0:12:43.500 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:12:48.980 --> 0:12:54.219 Now back to more of Dennis Brager's Timeless Wisdom. 0:12:54.460 --> 0:12:57.740 Okay, not in order of importance, but just a few items. 0:12:57.820 --> 0:13:01.780 Number one, Knowledge and wisdom are not the same thing. 0:13:03.020 --> 0:13:07.140 Wisdom is infinitely more important than knowledge, and we are 0:13:07.179 --> 0:13:12.980 in the age of anti wisdom. I realized this when 0:13:12.980 --> 0:13:15.380 I was a graduate school. In my case, it was 0:13:15.380 --> 0:13:19.340 Columbia University in New York, where I grew up, and 0:13:18.860 --> 0:13:22.699 I knew I was being taught a lot of nonsense, 0:13:23.300 --> 0:13:26.780 which was very troubling. This was in the seventies, with 0:13:26.900 --> 0:13:32.780 a still of Vietnam era demonstrations takeovers of offices. Nothing 0:13:32.860 --> 0:13:36.300 much has changed, just the causes of change, but the 0:13:36.340 --> 0:13:39.900 takeovers of officers have stayed the same. I want you 0:13:39.940 --> 0:13:42.100 to know is a very difficult time for me. I 0:13:42.100 --> 0:13:47.260 felt very lonely because I didn't share my fellow students 0:13:47.340 --> 0:13:52.700 or faculties values, and it was a lonely time. But 0:13:52.980 --> 0:13:55.420 it's okay. I didn't mind that because I had close friends. 0:13:56.060 --> 0:13:59.580 My life was fine, but it was lonely. But what 0:13:59.940 --> 0:14:03.780 much worse than that was I felt that I needed 0:14:03.820 --> 0:14:09.620 to answer a question, why are intelligent people teaching me nonsense? 0:14:09.900 --> 0:14:13.660 And I remember two specific examples. One was I was 0:14:13.700 --> 0:14:18.100 at the School of International Affairs, where I studied Communist affairs. 0:14:18.140 --> 0:14:20.980 I was at the Russian Institute of the Fool of 0:14:20.980 --> 0:14:25.860 International Affairs, and I was taught by my professors that 0:14:25.940 --> 0:14:29.860 the US and the Soviet Union were essentially moral equivalents, 0:14:30.460 --> 0:14:33.100 that It wasn't the battle of freedom and tyranny. It 0:14:33.140 --> 0:14:36.260 was a battle of capitalism and communism, which, by the way, 0:14:36.300 --> 0:14:38.940 is true. It was a battle of capitalism in communism. 0:14:39.140 --> 0:14:42.340 Capitalism is free and communism is tyranny. But it was 0:14:42.380 --> 0:14:44.940 never put that way. It was put as a battle 0:14:44.940 --> 0:14:48.740 of economic, not moral systems. But it was a battle 0:14:48.740 --> 0:14:51.740 of moral systems. There was no comparison. I had been 0:14:51.740 --> 0:14:57.540 to the Soviet Union. There's no comparison. So I realized 0:14:58.100 --> 0:15:01.260 there's no wisdom here, there's nonsense. The other one, which 0:15:01.340 --> 0:15:03.740 continues to this day is men and women are basically 0:15:03.780 --> 0:15:07.700 the same. Even though I had no sister, I knew 0:15:07.740 --> 0:15:12.300 this was nonsense. I mean, everybody who was uneducated knows 0:15:12.460 --> 0:15:16.340 it's nonsense. It's the well educated who have trouble with 0:15:16.420 --> 0:15:20.660 the issue, which shows you what well educated means. I 0:15:20.780 --> 0:15:23.820 know somebody, for example, as a professor of gender studies, 0:15:24.340 --> 0:15:27.500 I assume they don't think clearly. Now this this is 0:15:27.540 --> 0:15:29.900 not meant. This is not meant to insult them. I 0:15:29.940 --> 0:15:31.660 know it's an insult. I'm not going to say it's 0:15:31.660 --> 0:15:35.020 a compliment, but I don't say it. I don't. I 0:15:35.060 --> 0:15:37.260 don't say it because I get a joy out of insulting. 0:15:38.340 --> 0:15:41.100 There is so much nonsense. Do you know that in 0:15:41.140 --> 0:15:46.780 Connecticut last month there were high school girls girls' high 0:15:46.820 --> 0:15:53.860 school track championships in Connecticut, two transgender girls race. That 0:15:53.900 --> 0:15:59.700 means male bodies who identify as girls. That's fine. If 0:15:59.740 --> 0:16:01.900 you identify as a girl, you look like a girl, 0:16:01.900 --> 0:16:03.740 act like a girl, take a girl's name. I will 0:16:03.740 --> 0:16:05.380 refer to you as a girl. Just for the record. 0:16:05.420 --> 0:16:08.020 I want you to know that. But I'm not going 0:16:08.060 --> 0:16:10.140 to live the law that you no longer have a 0:16:10.180 --> 0:16:14.260 male body. I mean that you that you do. Forget genitalia, 0:16:14.340 --> 0:16:16.940 you have the body. You don't run with your genitals. 0:16:16.980 --> 0:16:19.140 You run with your legs, you run with your you 0:16:19.220 --> 0:16:25.700 run with your body. So who won the race first 0:16:25.740 --> 0:16:28.820 place and second place? Look it up, Connecticut high school 0:16:29.340 --> 0:16:35.140 transgender race. To the two male bodied females won the race. 0:16:35.300 --> 0:16:41.060 Not only won the race, defeating all the female body runners. Obviously, 0:16:41.420 --> 0:16:45.060 they not only won the race, they set records in 0:16:45.100 --> 0:16:50.260 Connecticut for girls track. So that bumped off two girls 0:16:50.300 --> 0:16:55.220 with girls bodies off. So to the entire left, this 0:16:55.260 --> 0:17:00.660 is fair. This is fair. Girls can run against male 0:17:00.780 --> 0:17:04.260 bodies and lose. That's fair, by the way, not one 0:17:04.300 --> 0:17:07.780 feminist group came to defend the girls, which proves something 0:17:07.820 --> 0:17:11.459 I have always believed. Feminism doesn't give a damn about women. 0:17:12.060 --> 0:17:22.460 Feminism is just as by the way, just as communism 0:17:22.619 --> 0:17:26.939 never gave a damn about workers. They used workers to 0:17:27.139 --> 0:17:31.219 further their left wing agenda. Feminism uses women to further 0:17:31.459 --> 0:17:36.020 its left wing agenda. Women are a tool for feminism 0:17:36.419 --> 0:17:40.379 and feminist groups and workers are a tool for communism. 0:17:40.780 --> 0:17:43.060 This is what this is. And by the way, this 0:17:43.100 --> 0:17:47.580 is proof. How could feminist organizations not speak up on 0:17:47.659 --> 0:17:52.219 behalf of the girls of Connecticut. Martina Narbertulova, who was 0:17:52.300 --> 0:17:56.859 a tennis champion about twenty years ago, major World Tennis 0:17:56.939 --> 0:18:02.619 champion and gay and was a major factor for accepting 0:18:02.659 --> 0:18:06.979 gays in sports. She was a gay activist. She said, 0:18:07.179 --> 0:18:11.699 this is not fair to women. To have transgender women, 0:18:11.780 --> 0:18:14.619 that is, women with male bodies play against us is 0:18:14.659 --> 0:18:19.580 not fair. She was kicked out of every LGBTQ organization. 0:18:21.780 --> 0:18:26.340 To give you an idea of their moral state, mart 0:18:26.540 --> 0:18:34.180 a lifelong gay activist for LGBT and now Q activism, 0:18:34.459 --> 0:18:38.420 and she was kicked out of the movement because they're totalitarian. 0:18:38.659 --> 0:18:46.739 That's why. So I was taught boys and girls, male 0:18:46.780 --> 0:18:48.779 and female, they're basically the same. By the way, I 0:18:48.780 --> 0:18:51.139 could give you a speech just on that. I'll give 0:18:51.139 --> 0:18:54.060 you one more example. The president, former president of Harvard, 0:18:55.699 --> 0:18:58.340 gave a speech in which he noted that he bought 0:18:58.340 --> 0:19:01.739 the idea that the only reason boys prefer trucks and 0:19:01.859 --> 0:19:06.500 girls prefer dolls is because that's what society gives them. 0:19:07.260 --> 0:19:09.659 So he decided he bought the ideas of liberal, not 0:19:09.699 --> 0:19:14.779 a leftist. And he decided he would give I don't know, 0:19:14.820 --> 0:19:19.780 it's Christmas or whatever birthday, he gave his daughter trucks. 0:19:21.859 --> 0:19:24.379 So he tells the story again, you could look this up. 0:19:24.419 --> 0:19:29.060 So he gave the daughter trucks that evening, he hears 0:19:29.100 --> 0:19:32.459 nothing from her room, knocks on the door or opens 0:19:32.459 --> 0:19:37.579 the door, and she goes, sh I'm putting the trucks 0:19:37.619 --> 0:19:44.419 to sleep. Look it up. Former president of Harvard. By 0:19:44.459 --> 0:19:46.659 the way, he was dropped as president of Harvard because 0:19:46.699 --> 0:19:50.259 of comments like that. Harvard does not tolerate any descent 0:19:50.340 --> 0:19:53.419 from the left any more than any other school, even 0:19:53.459 --> 0:19:58.699 in its president. Of course, men and women are basically different. 0:20:00.219 --> 0:20:03.940 So I realized there was no wisdom at Columbia. There 0:20:04.020 --> 0:20:05.980 was a lot of knowledge let me give you one 0:20:06.260 --> 0:20:09.859 more example of the difference between knowledge and wisdom. A 0:20:09.979 --> 0:20:16.619 map gives you knowledge, no wisdom. A map tells you 0:20:16.820 --> 0:20:21.939 exactly where you are. Wisdom tells you where you want 0:20:21.979 --> 0:20:28.659 to go. They have nothing in common. It's good to 0:20:28.699 --> 0:20:30.379 know where you are if you know where you want 0:20:30.419 --> 0:20:31.780 to go, but if you don't know where you want 0:20:31.780 --> 0:20:33.700 to go, it is useless to know where you are. 0:20:35.459 --> 0:20:37.460 You get I don't know about I mean, and I'm 0:20:37.500 --> 0:20:39.859 not being cute. I don't know anything about your college 0:20:39.859 --> 0:20:42.459 in this regard. But no college I know of, with 0:20:42.580 --> 0:20:45.740 a handful of exceptions, gives wisdom. That is not their 0:20:45.780 --> 0:20:48.659 intent they get they are places of anti wisdom. By 0:20:48.659 --> 0:20:52.060 the way, my theory is and it's on the it's 0:20:52.500 --> 0:20:55.779 two of my columns that are on the internet are 0:20:55.820 --> 0:20:58.820 about this. How I found God at Columbia is about that, 0:20:59.419 --> 0:21:02.339 and that was twenty five years ago and just two 0:21:02.419 --> 0:21:06.060 weeks ago. How the Left keeps me religious. It's worth 0:21:06.100 --> 0:21:09.619 reading because it really does explain what is going on. 0:21:09.739 --> 0:21:16.300 I believe anyway, wisdom is more important than knowledge. The 0:21:16.419 --> 0:21:22.979 encyclopedias have knowledge, the Internet has knowledge, but wisdom. Where 0:21:22.979 --> 0:21:26.459 do you get wisdom? We have knocked the foundations of 0:21:26.500 --> 0:21:30.979 wisdom out. The latest Prigger You video this week just 0:21:31.020 --> 0:21:35.899 happens to be Ben Shapiro speaking about the twin pillars 0:21:36.260 --> 0:21:41.379 of Western civilization Athens in Jerusalem, Athens with reason and 0:21:41.459 --> 0:21:45.619 Jerusalem with revelation. You need God and reason. That's what 0:21:45.699 --> 0:21:49.340 the West has had. We have knocked out Athens. People 0:21:49.340 --> 0:21:52.420 aren't studying Athens, and certainly people aren't studying the Bible, 0:21:53.219 --> 0:21:56.859 and as a result, we live in, without question, the 0:21:56.939 --> 0:22:01.260 dumbest age in American history, without question, that people could 0:22:01.260 --> 0:22:03.859 believe things like men and women are basically the same, 0:22:04.459 --> 0:22:10.859 or that socialism is preferable to capitalism. It is if 0:22:10.939 --> 0:22:13.939 you want power, but if you want to help people, 0:22:14.379 --> 0:22:19.179 it's awful. Only one economic system has ever lifted billions 0:22:19.179 --> 0:22:22.659 of people from poverty. Only one economic system is lifted 0:22:22.699 --> 0:22:26.019 millions of people from poverty. Only one economic system is 0:22:26.060 --> 0:22:29.939 lifted hundreds of thousands of people from poverty, and it's capitalism. 0:22:30.979 --> 0:22:34.300 But they don't care because they're seduced by the leftist 0:22:34.699 --> 0:22:40.340 god equality. It doesn't bother them if people are not 0:22:40.540 --> 0:22:43.500 well off. It bothers them that people are well off. 0:22:46.179 --> 0:22:49.419 It's a major violation, if you will, of the tenth commandment, 0:22:49.459 --> 0:22:53.419 don't covet what others have. Okay. Number two that was 0:22:53.500 --> 0:22:57.139 knowledge and wisdom. Number two, people are not basically good. 0:22:58.300 --> 0:23:01.100 I divide the world between fools and non fools. This 0:23:01.260 --> 0:23:04.100 is my first question. Do you think people are basically good? 0:23:04.139 --> 0:23:09.059 If you do, you're foolish by definition. And this is 0:23:09.100 --> 0:23:14.100 an staggeringly important thing to understand. Nobody rooted in Judaism 0:23:14.219 --> 0:23:18.259 or Christianity, or for that matter, Buddhism, or for that matter, 0:23:18.379 --> 0:23:21.980 any traditional way of looking at life, has ever thought 0:23:22.060 --> 0:23:25.699 people are basically good. It is fundamental to the Judeo 0:23:25.820 --> 0:23:30.740 Christian Western civilization understanding that human nature is not basically good. 0:23:30.899 --> 0:23:33.780 I didn't say it's evil. Obviously, if it was pure evil, 0:23:33.899 --> 0:23:37.179 then nobody would do any good. But it's not basically good. 0:23:38.219 --> 0:23:42.619 I had a fascinating evening in Berkeley last year, and 0:23:42.939 --> 0:23:44.979 I knew there would be a lot of demonstrators, so 0:23:45.060 --> 0:23:48.419 I decided I would forestall all demonstrations by announcing I 0:23:48.419 --> 0:23:51.059 won't give a speech. I'll just dialogue with two leftist 0:23:51.100 --> 0:23:54.459 students you choose. So there were no demonstrations, and I 0:23:54.500 --> 0:23:57.939 got all my points in any way so you could 0:23:57.939 --> 0:24:00.020 see it. It's on YouTube until they take it down. 0:24:00.419 --> 0:24:05.020 So it is so I dialogue with these two left 0:24:05.020 --> 0:24:08.299 wing students at Berkeley, and what I do. I have 0:24:08.340 --> 0:24:11.700 a motto on my radio show. I prefer clarity, new agreement. 0:24:12.300 --> 0:24:16.499 It's a terrific motto to go through life. Whenever people 0:24:16.540 --> 0:24:19.419 call up to disagree with you, which is regularly, or 0:24:19.419 --> 0:24:21.859 I have a guest on, I say at the outset, 0:24:21.899 --> 0:24:24.059 I'm not here to convince you you're wrong or that 0:24:24.139 --> 0:24:27.859 I'm right. I just want to clarify for my listeners 0:24:28.260 --> 0:24:31.699 where we differ. By the way I tell this to 0:24:31.739 --> 0:24:36.459 marry couples, instead of fighting, just start out with let's 0:24:36.540 --> 0:24:40.179 get clear where we differ. And you have no idea. 0:24:40.219 --> 0:24:41.939 How many couples have told me it has helped their 0:24:41.939 --> 0:24:45.299 marriage immensely because then they were like, well, maybe we 0:24:45.300 --> 0:24:48.739 don't differ that much, or oh, that's your point, and 0:24:48.780 --> 0:24:51.099 then you could yell at each other. I'm not saying no, no, 0:24:51.139 --> 0:24:52.859 I'm not saying you can't yell at each other. But 0:24:53.020 --> 0:24:54.820 before you yell at each other, find out why you're 0:24:54.820 --> 0:24:58.739 really different. So I would raise issues and then I 0:24:58.739 --> 0:25:01.139 would say they would tell me there left wing viewpoint, 0:25:01.179 --> 0:25:03.899 and I would tell them the common sense viewpoint. So 0:25:04.379 --> 0:25:07.300 that's the way it worked that even so I ended, 0:25:07.459 --> 0:25:10.859 I said, my final question, do you believe people are 0:25:10.899 --> 0:25:13.619 basically good? And of course they both said yes, you 0:25:13.659 --> 0:25:17.540 could watch this. So I said to them, after they 0:25:17.739 --> 0:25:20.219 told me why, I said, there is only one reason 0:25:20.820 --> 0:25:25.220 you believe something that is so unbelievably wrong, and that 0:25:25.379 --> 0:25:29.180 is you live in America, where people are pretty good. 0:25:31.219 --> 0:25:35.139 One of the reasons for our troubles is people compare 0:25:35.139 --> 0:25:38.539 America to Utopia, not to the rest of the world. 0:25:38.780 --> 0:25:42.619 That's what the left does. America is racist. Do you 0:25:42.619 --> 0:25:45.060 have any idea what racism is like in the rest 0:25:45.100 --> 0:25:47.219 of the world. You don't have a clue. Is the 0:25:47.300 --> 0:25:58.619 least racist, multi racial country in the history of the world. Yeah, 0:25:59.500 --> 0:26:04.260 that is worth applauding. Not me, America is worth applauding. 0:26:04.780 --> 0:26:08.139 This episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:26:13.659 --> 0:26:18.619 Now back to more of Dennis Bragger's timeless wisdom. 0:26:18.739 --> 0:26:22.659 Anyway, so I said, that's the only reason you believe it. 0:26:22.699 --> 0:26:26.899 You're naive. Now, when you're twenty and you're naive, there 0:26:26.979 --> 0:26:29.379 could be an excuse. But if you're forty on naive, 0:26:29.419 --> 0:26:32.059 there's no excuse. Then you decided to be a fool. 0:26:33.820 --> 0:26:36.619 How you can know anything about the human condition and 0:26:36.659 --> 0:26:39.340 think people are basically good. It is amazing. The same 0:26:39.379 --> 0:26:43.379 people who believe people are basically good say America is sexist, 0:26:43.379 --> 0:26:47.139 and tolerance and and phobic, omophobic, is lomophobic, raising figurted. 0:26:47.340 --> 0:26:49.179 I don't get it. Where did all of that horrors 0:26:49.219 --> 0:26:52.979 come from? If people are basically good? How did that happen? 0:26:54.379 --> 0:26:57.420 But they don't think, they don't they feel, and they emote. 0:26:58.340 --> 0:27:01.180 Do you understand how idiotic it is? As country stinks, 0:27:01.619 --> 0:27:06.379 but people are basically good. All lights are racist, but 0:27:06.500 --> 0:27:10.700 people are basically good. How could that be? How could 0:27:10.739 --> 0:27:13.460 that be? What is wrong with you? Quit? It's slavery? 0:27:13.540 --> 0:27:16.340 Do you know that every place on earth, every society 0:27:16.379 --> 0:27:20.100 in human history not only had slavery, had human sacrifice. 0:27:21.459 --> 0:27:24.619 People are basically good? You know any history any at all? 0:27:25.580 --> 0:27:27.340 Do you know how much corruption there is in the world. 0:27:27.379 --> 0:27:29.499 Do you know the reason that the Third World doesn't 0:27:29.580 --> 0:27:33.099 advance more is solely because of corruption. They have the brains, 0:27:33.179 --> 0:27:37.060 the talent, the natural resources. It's corruption because people cheat 0:27:37.139 --> 0:27:40.660 each other. I've been to one hundred and thirty countries, 0:27:40.699 --> 0:27:43.259 including twenty African countries, so the last time I was 0:27:43.340 --> 0:27:46.540 in West Africa. My driver I don't remember if it 0:27:46.659 --> 0:27:48.580 was Togo or ben In, it doesn't matter, but I'm 0:27:48.699 --> 0:27:51.259 just telling you one of the two countries. So the 0:27:51.379 --> 0:27:55.500 driver said to my wife and me and the couple 0:27:55.580 --> 0:27:59.340 we were with, I said, watch this. So sure enough, 0:27:59.419 --> 0:28:04.379 we were driving and there was a police obstacle in 0:28:04.500 --> 0:28:07.899 the road, a block, a blockade, or whatever you call it. 0:28:08.580 --> 0:28:12.459 And they said, watch it. Now. In America, if the 0:28:12.580 --> 0:28:17.499 police stop your car, it's because there's construction or there 0:28:17.580 --> 0:28:19.899 was an accident. I mean, I'm not talking about if 0:28:19.899 --> 0:28:22.059 you were speeding or you're drunk driving, right, I mean, 0:28:22.139 --> 0:28:25.419 you're driving fine, they will stop because hold it here 0:28:25.459 --> 0:28:29.540 a minute, we're getting traffic this way, right. But he 0:28:29.619 --> 0:28:31.699 knew exactly why he was going to be stopped, and 0:28:31.859 --> 0:28:35.379 he was right. The policeman came over, took money from 0:28:35.419 --> 0:28:40.180 the guy and let him through. That was it. That's 0:28:40.380 --> 0:28:44.300 normal on planet Earth. That is the norm in America. 0:28:44.420 --> 0:28:48.620 It's virtually unheard of in the world. It is the 0:28:48.739 --> 0:28:54.140 norm people to believe people are basically good. After the 0:28:54.219 --> 0:29:00.700 twentieth century, one hundred million people non combatants, one hundred 0:29:00.780 --> 0:29:05.900 million non combatants butchered by other human beings, not to 0:29:06.020 --> 0:29:10.780 mention enslaved and raped and tortured people are basically good. 0:29:11.140 --> 0:29:15.459 You're out of your mind. Babies aren't even basically good. Okay, 0:29:15.700 --> 0:29:19.779 they're innocent, but they're not good. I want mommy, I 0:29:19.900 --> 0:29:23.300 want nipple, I want to be taken, I want to 0:29:23.340 --> 0:29:25.580 be hell, I want to be comforted. And if you 0:29:25.660 --> 0:29:27.740 do not do all of this immediately, I will ruin 0:29:27.780 --> 0:29:34.460 your day. The idea babies or want to be talking. 0:29:34.540 --> 0:29:40.580 They're good until they're corrupted by patriarchy. That's what you talk. 0:29:40.700 --> 0:29:43.459 That's what the left believes in their make believe world. 0:29:45.660 --> 0:29:47.739 Ask parents how often they have to tell their kid 0:29:47.820 --> 0:29:51.700 to say thank you? Maybe you even remember I raised 0:29:51.739 --> 0:29:54.620 two kids. If I didn't say say thank you ten 0:29:54.860 --> 0:29:57.700 thousand times, I didn't say it once. But if kids 0:29:57.739 --> 0:29:59.780 were basically good, I would have had to say it once. 0:30:00.900 --> 0:30:02.780 I'd say say thank you, and the kid would say, 0:30:02.820 --> 0:30:10.660 you know, my father's right. If somebody does something nice 0:30:10.700 --> 0:30:13.779 for me, I should say thank you, of course, and 0:30:13.900 --> 0:30:15.980 that would be it. Why do you have to tell 0:30:15.979 --> 0:30:18.060 a kid to say thank you, which we're basically good, 0:30:18.459 --> 0:30:23.019 they would know it immediately. So how about sharing comes 0:30:23.140 --> 0:30:31.380 very natural to kids to share, doesn't it. That's this 0:30:31.780 --> 0:30:35.979 alone is why I know the Left is foolish, because 0:30:36.020 --> 0:30:39.660 they start with this moronic premise. People don't rape and 0:30:39.780 --> 0:30:43.820 murder in America because human nature is flawed. No, it's 0:30:43.860 --> 0:30:48.660 because of racism and poverty. That's what they believe. I 0:30:48.780 --> 0:30:51.940 remember when I first heard poverty courses crime, and I thought, 0:30:52.020 --> 0:30:55.300 I'll never forget. I was younger than you, and I 0:30:55.500 --> 0:31:01.340 remember thinking of my grandfather, who was quite poor, as 0:31:01.540 --> 0:31:03.979 was his wife, my grandmother. They were very poor, really 0:31:04.100 --> 0:31:07.700 poor if it weren't for my father giving them money periodically, 0:31:07.820 --> 0:31:09.700 and we were en rich, but we were middle class. 0:31:10.540 --> 0:31:12.300 I don't know what they would have done, but I 0:31:12.420 --> 0:31:17.300 remember thinking, how come my grandfather hasn't held up a 0:31:17.380 --> 0:31:22.259 bank or mugged anyone, And to the best of my knowledge, 0:31:22.300 --> 0:31:25.900 he hasn't raped anybody. Now why is that? And they 0:31:25.940 --> 0:31:30.580 were Jewish, they were impoverished. There was anti Semitism in America. 0:31:31.940 --> 0:31:34.420 But if you would have said to my grandfather, you 0:31:34.540 --> 0:31:38.380 know you're poor and there's anti Semitism, so I really 0:31:38.459 --> 0:31:42.460 think it makes sense if you would rob, he would 0:31:42.540 --> 0:31:45.900 think you had lost your mind. He knew God said 0:31:45.940 --> 0:31:49.180 you don't steal, do not steal ends the issue. It 0:31:49.260 --> 0:31:52.540 doesn't say poor people can steal. It doesn't say victims 0:31:52.580 --> 0:31:56.420 can steal. Do not steal. Yes, if you're starving to 0:31:56.500 --> 0:31:58.459 death and the next guy has more bread, you can 0:31:58.540 --> 0:32:00.819 take the bread. Okay, that is not an issue in America. 0:32:00.900 --> 0:32:02.780 No one is starving to death in the United States 0:32:02.860 --> 0:32:08.059 of America. But that's what the left has to believe. 0:32:08.380 --> 0:32:12.660 There are outside forces, not inner forces, that caused people 0:32:12.780 --> 0:32:16.620 to do bad. People do bad. Every religious Jewish Christian 0:32:16.739 --> 0:32:20.459 knows why. Because they didn't get their wisdom from Colombia. 0:32:21.060 --> 0:32:24.459 They got their wisdom from the Bible, which has been 0:32:24.540 --> 0:32:27.700 the source of wisdom. Lincoln, who never went to church, 0:32:27.739 --> 0:32:30.420 said this is God's greatest gift to mankind, the Bible. 0:32:31.300 --> 0:32:33.940 And you know, I'm working on a Bible commentary, Volume 0:32:33.979 --> 0:32:37.019 two is coming out next month called the Rational Bible. 0:32:37.540 --> 0:32:41.260 And I came to realize sort of midway in life, 0:32:41.900 --> 0:32:45.859 Bible free is wisdom free. And because I realize that's 0:32:45.860 --> 0:32:49.420 where I got my wisdom, I can give you. I listen, 0:32:49.500 --> 0:32:51.060 if I were here a week, I would one of 0:32:51.100 --> 0:32:53.340 my lectures would be wisdom from the Bible. It would 0:32:53.340 --> 0:32:56.380 blow your mind. I'll give you one little example aside 0:32:56.420 --> 0:32:57.860 from it, by the way, it says people are not 0:32:57.940 --> 0:33:01.259 basically good Christians and Jews. Got it, got it from that. 0:33:02.540 --> 0:33:05.060 I knew this when I was a child, you know. 0:33:05.380 --> 0:33:08.380 So I'll give you one example, not just the wisdom 0:33:08.380 --> 0:33:11.020 from the Bible, one example of how this changed my life. 0:33:12.260 --> 0:33:15.219 I was taught that the biggest problem in Dennis Prager's 0:33:15.260 --> 0:33:20.779 life is Dennis Prager. That's a very different way of 0:33:20.860 --> 0:33:24.499 growing up. You know how liberals raise their kids. The 0:33:24.580 --> 0:33:31.459 biggest problem in your life is America. That's sick. It 0:33:31.620 --> 0:33:36.860 is morally sick. You are the biggest problem in your life. 0:33:38.100 --> 0:33:41.019 And everyone who knows that is a better person, and 0:33:41.140 --> 0:33:44.219 anyone who denies it is a worse person. If you 0:33:44.500 --> 0:33:47.940 don't fight your nature, there's no chance of your becoming 0:33:47.979 --> 0:33:52.979 a good person, no chance anyway. I give you an example, 0:33:53.100 --> 0:33:56.140 one of hundreds, and I really do hope you'll read. Listen. 0:33:56.380 --> 0:33:58.780 I have no problem. I have a problem. I'm always 0:33:58.780 --> 0:34:02.180 self conscious about pushing something I did. On the other hand, 0:34:02.260 --> 0:34:06.100 nobody writes Bible commentaries to get wealthy. Okay? Is that fair? 0:34:06.540 --> 0:34:10.820 Are we on agreement on that? Okay? So I it 0:34:10.820 --> 0:34:13.380 would change you. I'll give you one example, ten commandments, 0:34:13.500 --> 0:34:17.620 honor your father and mother. Very interesting. The same Bible 0:34:17.700 --> 0:34:24.180 says love God, love, love your neighbor, love the stranger. 0:34:25.900 --> 0:34:30.140 In the New Testament, love your enemies, and in uh 0:34:30.620 --> 0:34:34.100 but no, love your parents. Bible never tells you to 0:34:34.180 --> 0:34:36.460 love your parents. You don't have to love your parents, 0:34:37.219 --> 0:34:39.579 you only have to honor them. You know how life 0:34:39.660 --> 0:34:42.739 changing that is for kids who have which most people 0:34:42.859 --> 0:34:46.540 do at some point, emotional ambivalence towards a parent, You 0:34:46.660 --> 0:34:51.140 know how relieving that is. That's that's Bible wisdom for you. 0:34:53.380 --> 0:34:56.820 So this people not basically good. You have to battle yourself. 0:34:58.020 --> 0:35:00.620 Is this? You're not taught at college. You have to 0:35:00.700 --> 0:35:03.620 battle you. And by the way, men have their own 0:35:03.739 --> 0:35:06.299 battles in addition to the human battle, men have men 0:35:06.380 --> 0:35:09.820 battles and women have women battles. Men have two basic 0:35:09.900 --> 0:35:14.140 battles with their nature. They're aggressive naturally and their sexual 0:35:14.219 --> 0:35:19.140 predators naturally. Okay, that is that is male nature. And 0:35:19.299 --> 0:35:21.019 by the way, the proof of the second and one 0:35:21.299 --> 0:35:24.940 that it has nothing to do with patriarchy or sexism, 0:35:25.420 --> 0:35:29.899 is gay men are just exactly like straight men. Their 0:35:30.020 --> 0:35:33.580 nature is identical to straight men. The only difference is 0:35:33.620 --> 0:35:37.219 the object of their desire, but their nature is exactly 0:35:37.339 --> 0:35:41.259 the same their sexual predators. Heterosexual men are sexual predators. 0:35:41.580 --> 0:35:45.379 They control themselves. The male you most admire is this 0:35:45.540 --> 0:35:49.380 is true about him too. There is no exception unless 0:35:49.420 --> 0:35:52.299 he has been castrated. I'm not being cute. That's the 0:35:52.420 --> 0:35:57.779 only possible exception. But women have battles too, And because 0:35:57.940 --> 0:36:01.700 we have grown up in this unwise world where we 0:36:01.819 --> 0:36:05.540 have only taught boys to battle their natures, a lot 0:36:05.580 --> 0:36:08.859 of women have suffered. Because if girls aren't taught to 0:36:08.900 --> 0:36:11.700 battle their natures, they'll never be happy. You can't be 0:36:11.779 --> 0:36:14.939 happy if you don't fight your nature. So there are 0:36:14.980 --> 0:36:19.540 two things in women. They're related, and that is emotions. 0:36:19.859 --> 0:36:22.140 They have to battle their emotions to not let them 0:36:22.219 --> 0:36:25.739 control them, and they have to battle their malcontentedness. That's 0:36:25.819 --> 0:36:30.539 my column this week. Are women malcontented? That's what bat 0:36:30.620 --> 0:36:35.459 Women have to battle. Parents don't do it. Parents think 0:36:35.540 --> 0:36:38.459 girls are terrific, boys are awful, so they tell boys 0:36:38.540 --> 0:36:41.180 to battle themselves. And if girls are not taught to 0:36:41.259 --> 0:36:44.060 battle themselves, they'll never be happy because if you're controlled 0:36:44.100 --> 0:36:48.899 by your emotions, your chances for happiness are zero. So, 0:36:49.940 --> 0:36:52.500 both morally and in terms of happiness. You have to 0:36:52.540 --> 0:36:56.939 battle yourself. That's number two. Human nature is not basically good. 0:36:57.060 --> 0:37:04.219 Number three, Feelings aren't important to anyone except you and 0:37:04.380 --> 0:37:09.140 your shrink. That is it. Maybe your parents too, But 0:37:09.259 --> 0:37:12.540 that's it. There are about, what is it, seven billion 0:37:12.620 --> 0:37:17.100 people in the world. None of the other seven billion 0:37:17.580 --> 0:37:22.219 care how you feel. All seven care how you act. 0:37:23.420 --> 0:37:25.620 And by the way, you're the same about the other 0:37:25.700 --> 0:37:28.779 seven billion. You don't care how they feel. You care 0:37:28.900 --> 0:37:31.459 how they act. When I go to Starbucks and they 0:37:31.500 --> 0:37:34.700 treat me really nicely, I don't really think they're treating 0:37:34.779 --> 0:37:39.140 me really nicely because they're really nice or because they 0:37:39.219 --> 0:37:42.620 really like me. They're doing so because Starbucks said be 0:37:42.819 --> 0:37:46.739 nice to all the customers. That's fine with me. I 0:37:46.859 --> 0:37:50.419 have no issue with that. I don't care why you're 0:37:50.500 --> 0:37:53.580 nice to me. I only care that you're nice to me, 0:37:54.980 --> 0:37:58.020 that you don't cheat me, that you greet me with 0:37:58.140 --> 0:38:01.140 a smile, that you say thank you. That's all that matters. 0:38:02.620 --> 0:38:06.060 Maybe with a spouse, feelings really matter because you love 0:38:06.140 --> 0:38:10.900 your spouse. Fine, I understand that. But even with spouses, still, 0:38:10.980 --> 0:38:13.379 how you behave towards your spouse is more important than 0:38:13.420 --> 0:38:16.140 how you feel. You know, how many people have abused 0:38:16.180 --> 0:38:19.499 a spouse and thought they loved that spouse. Doesn't really count, 0:38:19.580 --> 0:38:24.739 does it. We live in the age of feelings. Leftism 0:38:24.980 --> 0:38:29.780 is rooted in feelings. I feel X. That's all that matters. 0:38:29.980 --> 0:38:34.980 I feel I I am offended, I am triggered, I 0:38:35.219 --> 0:38:40.020 am you you name it. A conservative speaker comes to campus. 0:38:40.219 --> 0:38:43.739 I need a safe rule. By the way, Adam, Carol 0:38:43.779 --> 0:38:45.339 and I are coming out with a film later this 0:38:45.460 --> 0:38:49.180 year called No Safe Spaces. It's exactly about that. You'll 0:38:49.259 --> 0:38:52.140 you'll love it. It's it's funny and and very and 0:38:52.299 --> 0:38:55.580 and very frightening at the same time. And so this 0:38:55.779 --> 0:38:59.020 is a subject I'm only too well aware of how 0:38:59.140 --> 0:39:03.739 people feel. I'm affronted, I'm offended, I'm i'm, i'm, i'm, i'm, i'm, 0:39:03.819 --> 0:39:08.259 i'm it's all, it's all narcissistic. How you feel is 0:39:08.380 --> 0:39:13.819 not important in any arena. I'm sorry, but that's that's good. 0:39:13.980 --> 0:39:18.859 Behavior is everything in morality. Behavior is everything. You meant well, 0:39:18.980 --> 0:39:22.140 doesn't matter. You didn't mean well, Also, it doesn't matter. 0:39:22.779 --> 0:39:25.940 Is capitalism based on greed? Maybe it is, but it 0:39:26.020 --> 0:39:29.660 does good. Is socialism based on altruism? Maybe it is, 0:39:29.859 --> 0:39:32.859 but it does bad. So it only matters what it does. 0:39:33.180 --> 0:39:35.419 I don't care what what the what the things are. 0:39:35.620 --> 0:39:37.899 I remember people who would tell me, oh, the only 0:39:37.980 --> 0:39:39.819 reason this guy gave all that money the u c 0:39:40.100 --> 0:39:42.660 l A. Was to have his name on that on 0:39:42.819 --> 0:39:47.379 that hospital wing, And I thought, why is that bad? 0:39:49.739 --> 0:39:51.540 Isn't it great for all the people who will now 0:39:51.580 --> 0:39:55.140 be treated in that hospital wing? So you're gonna dismiss 0:39:55.299 --> 0:39:57.299 what he did because he wants his name on it? 0:39:58.219 --> 0:39:59.979 Are you out of your mind? Did you ever need 0:40:00.060 --> 0:40:05.700 a hospital? This is this is This is the wisdom 0:40:05.859 --> 0:40:09.819 free thinking of our time. Behavior is every and by 0:40:09.900 --> 0:40:12.299 the way, behavior is everything. I wrote a book on happiness, 0:40:12.980 --> 0:40:16.020 and uh I broadcast an hour a week on happiness. 0:40:16.140 --> 0:40:20.500 I've talked my whole life, or most of my life unhappy. 0:40:21.259 --> 0:40:23.059 I know a lot about the subject, and I've helped 0:40:23.100 --> 0:40:25.379 a lot of people. And the first thing I say 0:40:25.500 --> 0:40:28.379 is act happy, then you'll feel happy. Don't wait to 0:40:28.460 --> 0:40:32.739 act happy till you feel it. It's your doomed Act 0:40:32.859 --> 0:40:37.700 happy even if you don't feel it. They did studies 0:40:37.819 --> 0:40:43.420 people who smiled felt happier. Just smile and you'll be happier. 0:40:46.779 --> 0:40:48.339 By the way, a big part of the left right 0:40:48.420 --> 0:40:51.379 battle is the happy versus the unhappy. I've never met 0:40:51.420 --> 0:40:54.299 a happy leftist. I've met happy liberals. I've met some 0:40:54.420 --> 0:40:58.980 unhappy conservatives, but I never met a happy leftist. How 0:40:59.060 --> 0:41:01.219 could they be If you're a black and you're on 0:41:01.299 --> 0:41:03.180 the left, and you believe every white hates you, how 0:41:03.180 --> 0:41:06.859 could you be happy? Think about it. You're taught to 0:41:06.940 --> 0:41:13.219 be unhappy. News flash, most whites don't dislike blacks. Most 0:41:13.299 --> 0:41:16.219 whites in America don't give a damn what your color is, 0:41:16.460 --> 0:41:19.060 which is the way it should be, but that is 0:41:19.219 --> 0:41:25.140 considered even bad. What I don't respect race, No, that's racist. 0:41:25.299 --> 0:41:31.140 To respect race. I respect character, personality, temperament, goodness, but 0:41:31.299 --> 0:41:34.779 not race. Doesn't mean a damn thing to me. What 0:41:35.060 --> 0:41:37.660 race was Adam? Okay, I believe in the Bible what 0:41:37.859 --> 0:41:43.420 race was Adam None. So from the very beginning is 0:41:43.500 --> 0:41:46.219 clear the only distinction God gives a hoot about is 0:41:46.299 --> 0:41:50.220 the male female distinction. God created the human being male 0:41:50.339 --> 0:41:53.540 and female. He created them, and it's the only intrinsic 0:41:53.660 --> 0:41:58.580 distinction that matters to the God of the Bible. Now 0:41:58.819 --> 0:42:02.739 number four, America, and then I'll have all the time 0:42:02.779 --> 0:42:08.259 you want for Q and a America America has a trinity, 0:42:08.460 --> 0:42:14.859 just like Christianity does. The American trinity is found. I 0:42:14.940 --> 0:42:18.100 didn't make it up. It's on every coin. Have you 0:42:18.180 --> 0:42:22.100 all seen coins? Or you only use credit cards? No? No, 0:42:22.180 --> 0:42:24.420 I don't even know anymore what to expect? You know? 0:42:24.500 --> 0:42:26.979 The other day I inscribed my book to a high 0:42:27.020 --> 0:42:30.259 school kid. So I wrote it incursive, and I go, 0:42:30.460 --> 0:42:35.100 can you read what I wrote you? He goes, no, Now, 0:42:37.100 --> 0:42:42.819 what does the guy learned? Carbon emissions condoms on bananas? 0:42:42.900 --> 0:42:46.540 I mean, what what does he? I don't understand. What 0:42:46.700 --> 0:42:49.780 if you can't readcursive in high school? What are you learning? 0:42:50.660 --> 0:42:54.739 Do you know what a preposition is? Nope? Have you 0:42:54.859 --> 0:42:56.819 ever diagrammed the sentence? I'll but you? None of you 0:42:56.980 --> 0:42:58.820 ever heard of it. Unless you went to some ritzy 0:42:58.859 --> 0:43:05.219 witsy witsy titsy high school. We diagram sentences, you would show. 0:43:05.299 --> 0:43:07.299 This is a predicate, This is a subject. This is 0:43:07.339 --> 0:43:10.180 an adjective. This is an adverb. It's one of the 0:43:10.259 --> 0:43:12.780 reasons I speaking right well is because I was taught 0:43:13.339 --> 0:43:17.700 the English language. Well well, it is a an adverb. 0:43:18.060 --> 0:43:20.859 Good is an adjective. Just I just want to throw 0:43:20.940 --> 0:43:29.899 it out there, but it gets tricky. Because if you 0:43:30.020 --> 0:43:35.219 say he just recuperated from his surgery and is well, 0:43:35.940 --> 0:43:39.660 then it's an adjective. Have I really thrown you for 0:43:39.739 --> 0:43:40.059 a loop? 0:43:40.339 --> 0:43:45.859 Okay, this episode of Timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 0:43:51.420 --> 0:43:54.980 Now back to more of Dennis Bragor's timeless wisdom. 0:43:56.620 --> 0:44:02.020 Every coin has three things on it that stand for America. Liberty, 0:44:02.700 --> 0:44:06.460 e pluribus unim, and in God we trust. That is 0:44:06.540 --> 0:44:10.219 the American trinity. Christianity has the Father of the Son 0:44:10.299 --> 0:44:13.820 and the Holy Spirit. Judaism has God tore in Israel. 0:44:14.299 --> 0:44:16.979 There are trinities all over the place. The left has 0:44:17.020 --> 0:44:21.819 a trinity race, gender, and class. Everybody has trinities. So 0:44:21.940 --> 0:44:27.620 the American trinity is liberty and God we trust e pluribustuna. 0:44:28.500 --> 0:44:30.739 Let me explain them in a nutshell. Then you'll know 0:44:30.819 --> 0:44:33.819 what this country was founded to stand for and the 0:44:34.020 --> 0:44:39.099 war against. All three of these begin with liberty. Number 0:44:39.180 --> 0:44:43.100 one about liberty. Liberty is a value, not an instinct. 0:44:45.100 --> 0:44:48.580 Get the difference. This is really important. People do not 0:44:48.859 --> 0:44:51.979 yearn to be free. That is a common misconception. If 0:44:52.020 --> 0:44:56.180 they did, why would we have liberty that the founders 0:44:56.219 --> 0:45:01.779 didn't put breathing? Because breathing comes naturally, Breathing is not 0:45:01.900 --> 0:45:08.700 a value. Breathing is an instinct. Liberty is not an instinct. 0:45:09.620 --> 0:45:11.219 By the way, I got that from the Bible too. 0:45:11.460 --> 0:45:15.540 Israelites get have their exodus. God takes them out of 0:45:15.660 --> 0:45:19.339 slavery in Egypt, and right away they're complaining, we want 0:45:19.380 --> 0:45:22.540 to go back. The food was batter reread it. It's 0:45:22.580 --> 0:45:25.100 in the Book of Exodus and in the Book of Numbers, 0:45:25.180 --> 0:45:28.100 the fourth book, and that awesome. It's such a great lesson. 0:45:28.700 --> 0:45:32.339 You know what, We rather be slaves, which, by the way, 0:45:32.460 --> 0:45:34.660 is what the left view is, they rather enslave and 0:45:34.779 --> 0:45:39.779 be slaves because that's equality. Do you know how many 0:45:39.819 --> 0:45:43.580 people celebrated the Castro Revolution and communism in Cuba and 0:45:43.779 --> 0:45:47.540 do so to this day. Or Chavez in Venezuela. The 0:45:47.620 --> 0:45:50.980 people of Venezuela are unbelievably suffering, but he has a 0:45:51.140 --> 0:45:56.620 revolution for equality. Slaves are equal. One of the great 0:45:56.660 --> 0:46:00.419 things about slavery is it has equality. The only non 0:46:00.460 --> 0:46:02.900 equality or among the slave owners who are the communist 0:46:02.940 --> 0:46:07.300 party apparatus or the Socialist party apparatus, But that doesn't 0:46:07.339 --> 0:46:10.620 matter to a lot of people. It's equality. It's like 0:46:10.739 --> 0:46:14.380 people tell you don't know how often I find this. Listen, 0:46:14.660 --> 0:46:17.899 what are you knocking Castro for? Do you know that 0:46:18.020 --> 0:46:24.860 the healthcare in Cuba is egalitarian? That's right, and it stinks? 0:46:26.700 --> 0:46:31.140 Or even my favorite one, the literacy rate in Cuba 0:46:31.420 --> 0:46:35.420 is ninety nine percent, to which I have always responded, 0:46:35.500 --> 0:46:39.459 so what or they can read is Communist party propaganda. 0:46:40.060 --> 0:46:46.380 I rather be illiterate and free than literate and enslaved anyway. 0:46:47.460 --> 0:46:51.339 Liberty is a value people. You know what people rather 0:46:51.460 --> 0:46:57.660 have than liberty. They rather be taken care of. It's 0:46:57.660 --> 0:47:01.540 as old as the Book of Exodus. Take care of us. 0:47:02.580 --> 0:47:05.060 We don't want liberty. We want to be taken care of. 0:47:07.140 --> 0:47:10.460 That's the leftist atwork, and it's why it's dangerous. It 0:47:10.500 --> 0:47:13.060 doesn't have liberty. Liberty is not a left wing value. 0:47:15.100 --> 0:47:19.020 Left wing value is being taken care of and equality 0:47:19.259 --> 0:47:23.219 those are left wing values, but not but not liberty. 0:47:23.980 --> 0:47:26.380 The proof is freedom of speech, which is being suppressed 0:47:26.420 --> 0:47:29.859 in America for the first time in American history. What 0:47:30.020 --> 0:47:33.540 is happening on college campuses? Where the effort it takes. 0:47:33.819 --> 0:47:36.900 When Ben Shapiro went to Berkeley, they spent six hundred 0:47:37.219 --> 0:47:41.420 thousand dollars on security. I have a picture of me 0:47:42.380 --> 0:47:44.339 I don't know if it was it's Colorado State, I 0:47:44.380 --> 0:47:47.420 don't remember where it was. But very recently I have 0:47:47.460 --> 0:47:50.700 a picture of me with the armed guards who came 0:47:50.859 --> 0:47:53.660 to bring me in. It looked like I was being 0:47:53.900 --> 0:47:59.819 escorted in Afghanistan. It's a truly funny picture. These policemen 0:47:59.980 --> 0:48:06.060 were in basically war gear. And is there any left 0:48:06.140 --> 0:48:12.460 wing speaker who needs security? Well? None, and culture travels 0:48:12.540 --> 0:48:16.060 with a bodyguard. Does the left wing equivalent of Van 0:48:16.180 --> 0:48:18.940 Culter travel with a bodyguard? Of course not, because we 0:48:19.020 --> 0:48:24.979 don't threaten them. They threaten us just to be heard. 0:48:25.020 --> 0:48:27.739 Do you know that we have four hundred videos? Do 0:48:27.779 --> 0:48:30.580 you know that a hundred of our videos are YouTube 0:48:30.660 --> 0:48:32.979 is put on the restricted list, which means if your 0:48:33.140 --> 0:48:36.620 family has filters for pornography and violence, you can't see 0:48:36.620 --> 0:48:44.019 a priger you video. Yep, it's mind boggling. They talked 0:48:44.020 --> 0:48:47.500 about it in Congress. We have a lawsuit against Google, 0:48:47.540 --> 0:48:51.419 which owns YouTube. It's really frightening. This stuff is brand new, 0:48:52.500 --> 0:48:55.219 and you know what's up there. Victor Davis Hansen one 0:48:55.219 --> 0:48:57.340 of the gentlest human beings in the world. The professor 0:48:57.380 --> 0:49:01.500 of Classics at cal State University. He teaches a course 0:49:01.660 --> 0:49:06.020 on the history of the Korean War that's on the 0:49:06.100 --> 0:49:11.180 restricted list. Alan Dersher It's lifelong Democrat and liberal, gives 0:49:11.660 --> 0:49:15.020 a history of Israel's founding in five minutes. It's on 0:49:15.500 --> 0:49:19.700 the list. Anything that defends Israel or America is automatically 0:49:19.779 --> 0:49:23.700 lumped with panagraa on YouTube. Okay, just to give you 0:49:23.779 --> 0:49:25.940 an idea of what the left does when it has power. 0:49:27.779 --> 0:49:30.860 Liberty is not one of their values. They don't like liberty. 0:49:32.259 --> 0:49:36.099 America was founded on limited government. You can't have free 0:49:36.180 --> 0:49:39.259 people with big government. Or as my motto goes, we 0:49:39.380 --> 0:49:42.660 even have bumper stickers available with it. The bigger the government, 0:49:42.980 --> 0:49:46.899 the smaller the citizen. That's the way it works. We 0:49:47.060 --> 0:49:51.339 want big citizens, little government. They want big government, little citizens. 0:49:51.620 --> 0:49:56.780 That's how it works. You can't have both limited government. 0:49:57.140 --> 0:50:00.419 Is The only country in the history of the world 0:50:00.500 --> 0:50:02.940 to be founded with the ideal of limited government is 0:50:02.980 --> 0:50:06.220 the United States of America. The left, and the words 0:50:06.219 --> 0:50:11.180 of Barack Obama, wants to fundamentally transform the United States 0:50:11.219 --> 0:50:16.259 of America. Conservatives don't want to fundamentally transform this country. 0:50:16.779 --> 0:50:21.540 They want to improve it. Leftists want to fundamentally transform it. 0:50:22.140 --> 0:50:25.700 It's a very big difference, and you don't love what 0:50:25.819 --> 0:50:29.020 you want to fundamentally transform. If somebody said to you, 0:50:29.180 --> 0:50:31.299 I really love my wife, but i'd like I'd like 0:50:31.420 --> 0:50:37.420 to see her fundamentally transform it, Okay, that's why you 0:50:37.460 --> 0:50:39.379 should laugh the next time you hear a left to 0:50:39.460 --> 0:50:42.819 say I love America, you can't love them whatever you 0:50:42.900 --> 0:50:46.180 want fundamentally transformed. It is not possible. It is It 0:50:46.299 --> 0:50:52.020 is laughable. As you just saw number two, epluribus unem, 0:50:52.380 --> 0:50:56.660 which is the Latin for from many one this country. 0:50:56.859 --> 0:51:00.140 Everybody comes from different places and we're supposed to become one. 0:51:00.620 --> 0:51:04.739 It's this country is not founded on an ethnicity. If 0:51:04.779 --> 0:51:07.299 you wanted a picture of a Swede, you you have 0:51:07.620 --> 0:51:10.620 a white blonde picture. A picture of a German, a 0:51:10.700 --> 0:51:13.140 picture of a Japanese. You have a specific picture of 0:51:13.219 --> 0:51:16.100 a Korean. You have a specific picture. There's no specific 0:51:16.180 --> 0:51:20.020 picture of an American and it doesn't exist. There's every type. 0:51:23.020 --> 0:51:27.700 So if we divide America into races and ethnicities, we 0:51:27.779 --> 0:51:32.660 are undoing the American experiment. The whole point was to 0:51:32.739 --> 0:51:36.379 be unim was to be one, irrespective of where you 0:51:36.540 --> 0:51:38.700 came from. You want to honor your culture. I went 0:51:38.739 --> 0:51:40.819 to a Jewish school where I studied Hebrew half today 0:51:40.859 --> 0:51:43.980 I speak Hebrew like English because of that. But I'm American. 0:51:44.219 --> 0:51:46.859 I love America. I celebrate America. I have that in 0:51:46.940 --> 0:51:49.499 common with every other American. Whether you ever could read 0:51:49.500 --> 0:51:52.140 a Hebrew word or not, it's irrelevant. You want to 0:51:52.180 --> 0:51:56.420 know if your parents came from Korea, comes Ahmeda. I 0:51:56.540 --> 0:51:58.980 want you to. I want you to know Korean. That 0:51:59.140 --> 0:52:03.019 is beautiful. It's a beautiful thing. Nobody's ever asked people 0:52:03.060 --> 0:52:05.339 to stop studying their culture or their languge. But we 0:52:05.460 --> 0:52:11.379 all united as Americans, and race means nothing nothing. It 0:52:11.500 --> 0:52:15.620 only means something to the left, because every happy black 0:52:16.100 --> 0:52:19.940 is more likely to vote Republican, every happy woman is 0:52:20.020 --> 0:52:23.540 more likely to vote Republican. Telling people they have in 0:52:23.700 --> 0:52:29.540 bad keeps them voting Democrat. It's a disgusting little device, 0:52:29.660 --> 0:52:33.900 but it works. Oh women, Oh you're oppressed. If American 0:52:33.940 --> 0:52:37.300 women are oppressed, then the word oppressed has lost all meaning. 0:52:38.420 --> 0:52:41.140 It is an absurdity to walk around thinking you're oppressed, 0:52:41.180 --> 0:52:43.739 either as a black, or as a Hispanic, or as 0:52:43.779 --> 0:52:47.140 an Asian or as a woman. You are not, period 0:52:47.259 --> 0:52:49.739 and of issue, you are not. You're damn lucky to 0:52:49.779 --> 0:53:04.700 be American. And by the way, the amazing thing is 0:53:04.779 --> 0:53:07.739 everything I just said is called racist. The left calls 0:53:07.779 --> 0:53:10.739 all this racist. The university look at the look at 0:53:10.779 --> 0:53:13.419 it up, either with my name or on its own. 0:53:13.660 --> 0:53:18.020 University of California List of Microaggressions, the official list of 0:53:18.180 --> 0:53:21.019 things you can say that are racist. If you say, 0:53:21.540 --> 0:53:26.500 there's only one race, the human race, that is considered racist, 0:53:26.819 --> 0:53:32.259 according to the University of California, I don't what is it? 0:53:32.420 --> 0:53:37.020 I trow here's another one. I try to treat everyone 0:53:37.180 --> 0:53:42.500 the same. That is racist. You're supposed to treat blacks differently? 0:53:42.700 --> 0:53:46.259 Is that bizarre? Is that bizarre? Is that an insult? 0:53:48.700 --> 0:53:50.700 This is the battle that we're fighting, and I hope 0:53:50.739 --> 0:53:53.660 you'll fight it. And finally, in God we Trust. My 0:53:53.779 --> 0:53:59.540 final point, you, even if you're a conservative, you have 0:53:59.779 --> 0:54:04.939 undergone most likely a secular brainwash. It's just true. It's 0:54:04.980 --> 0:54:07.180 not an insult to you or even to those who 0:54:07.259 --> 0:54:10.739 taught you. It's just true. You don't realize why in 0:54:10.859 --> 0:54:14.059 God we trust is the American mono or an American mono. 0:54:15.180 --> 0:54:19.300 But it is because you can't have limited government without 0:54:19.339 --> 0:54:24.459 a big God. People have to feel accountable for their 0:54:24.540 --> 0:54:30.140 behavior to something higher and more powerful than themselves. If 0:54:30.180 --> 0:54:33.459 people are not basically good, they better damn well feel 0:54:33.500 --> 0:54:36.859 accountable for their behavior correct, or we're going to get 0:54:36.900 --> 0:54:39.900 a lot of bad behavior. So you have a choice 0:54:41.060 --> 0:54:44.980 the God of Judaism and Christianity or the God of 0:54:45.020 --> 0:54:49.620 the Ten Commandments, if you will, or big government. That's 0:54:49.660 --> 0:54:54.180 why secular Europe has bigger and bigger governments. The European 0:54:54.339 --> 0:54:57.580 Union has taken over for God. We will tell you 0:54:57.739 --> 0:54:59.899 what you can drive, when you can drive it, how 0:54:59.980 --> 0:55:01.939 long you can keep your store open, when you can 0:55:02.060 --> 0:55:08.980 keep it open. It's just endless. They become the moral authority. 0:55:10.460 --> 0:55:12.299 And by the way, I've said very often in the 0:55:12.420 --> 0:55:14.859 United States today there's far more fear of the left 0:55:14.900 --> 0:55:19.100 and fear of God. It's not even close. One hundred 0:55:19.219 --> 0:55:21.019 years ago there was a lot more fear of God. 0:55:22.100 --> 0:55:25.379 Does that mean everybody acted good? Of course not. Of 0:55:25.500 --> 0:55:29.059 course not. There's no such thing as everybody acting good. 0:55:29.420 --> 0:55:34.060 It doesn't, it doesn't doesn't happen. But people act better 0:55:34.460 --> 0:55:38.739 than other people in other places. And we've had that 0:55:38.859 --> 0:55:43.739 in the United States, and God we trust is central 0:55:43.779 --> 0:55:47.420 to the American experiment. Secular conservatives don't know this, and 0:55:47.500 --> 0:55:52.339 the left opposes it. That's why they hate Evangelical Christians 0:55:53.339 --> 0:55:56.739 because they are the largest single anti left body in 0:55:56.819 --> 0:56:04.300 the United States. So this Uh the uh, the mayor 0:56:04.500 --> 0:56:08.500 of South ben Indiana, who is the third most popular 0:56:08.620 --> 0:56:15.499 Democrat right now, buddhaj Edge Uh has said, Oh, what hypocrites, 0:56:16.339 --> 0:56:20.060 what phonies these evangelicals are for supporting the president who 0:56:20.660 --> 0:56:25.499 had an affair with an adult film actress and paid 0:56:25.540 --> 0:56:32.499 her to keep silent. I know, Evangelical Christians, real, real, well, 0:56:34.859 --> 0:56:38.060 why are they hypocrites for supporting the president because he 0:56:38.180 --> 0:56:42.100 did that? This is an amazing thing that this nonsense 0:56:42.219 --> 0:56:45.580 goes for intelligent talk. They didn't say he didn't sin. 0:56:46.299 --> 0:56:48.860 They said that there are more important things in choosing 0:56:48.900 --> 0:56:52.259 a president than whether the person sin. That's called wisdom. 0:56:53.620 --> 0:56:58.620 That's the way it works. Evangelical Christians think it's more 0:56:58.700 --> 0:57:02.700 important to protect the United States of America. They think 0:57:02.779 --> 0:57:08.620 it's more important, for example, to declare infanticide raw forget 0:57:08.700 --> 0:57:11.779 even abortion in fan deicide as Virginia just said it 0:57:11.900 --> 0:57:15.299 was okay. They think that's more important than whether the 0:57:15.339 --> 0:57:17.580 president happened to have slept with the poor an actress 0:57:17.660 --> 0:57:20.100 or not. And by the way, they have good biblical 0:57:20.180 --> 0:57:23.780 basi for that, God seems to have had a lob 0:57:24.100 --> 0:57:27.020 store for King David, who not only slept with a 0:57:27.060 --> 0:57:29.420 woman he wasn't married to while he was married. Excuse 0:57:29.460 --> 0:57:32.499 me that she was no while she was married, which 0:57:32.540 --> 0:57:35.940 is adultery, But had the husband killed? Other than that 0:57:36.340 --> 0:57:40.459 not so terrible, which, by the way, Trump never did, 0:57:41.140 --> 0:57:45.420 no contention that the guy had that the porn actress 0:57:45.500 --> 0:57:48.700 was married, and he had the husband killed. So how 0:57:48.740 --> 0:57:52.020 come God could could find King David? Who will be? 0:57:52.140 --> 0:57:55.700 Who's the ancestor of the Messiah for both Judaism and Christianity. 0:57:57.180 --> 0:57:59.900 How come God chose of all the people in Canaan 0:58:00.020 --> 0:58:03.620 to let the Israelites into the Promised Land. Guess who 0:58:03.700 --> 0:58:10.140 he chose? A prostitute. So I guess if God could 0:58:10.180 --> 0:58:14.460 work with sexual sinners, so could we. Son of my 0:58:14.580 --> 0:58:16.860 damn business? I said this with regard to Clinton. I 0:58:16.900 --> 0:58:20.900 didn't give a damn if he had consensual sex. It 0:58:21.020 --> 0:58:23.340 was none of my business. Listen, I grew up with 0:58:23.380 --> 0:58:25.460 John F. Kennedy. I was a little child. Guy hat 0:58:25.580 --> 0:58:28.780 Orgy's in the White House, and the left still thinks 0:58:29.340 --> 0:58:33.380 he's the greatest president, perhaps since since Lincoln, who, by 0:58:33.380 --> 0:58:37.540 the way was a Republican. Just throw that out for 0:58:37.540 --> 0:58:44.780 the ratification. But to Buddha Jedge and to Beato A'rouric 0:58:44.820 --> 0:58:49.700 and also all the others, Oh, evangelicals, a lot of hypocrites. No, 0:58:50.740 --> 0:58:54.860 they understand something. When you vote for president, you are 0:58:54.940 --> 0:58:59.700 not voting for pastor, rabbi or priest. You're voting for president. 0:59:00.140 --> 0:59:03.940 President of the United States. Affects all seven billion people 0:59:04.060 --> 0:59:08.260 on earth. Okay, so there are much more important issues 0:59:08.660 --> 0:59:13.540 than whether he has been sexually saintly or not. That's it. 0:59:13.860 --> 0:59:18.740 That's the end of the issue. This notion of well, well, kids, 0:59:19.460 --> 0:59:21.459 you know what kind of model is he for kids? 0:59:22.820 --> 0:59:25.100 I don't know. I was a kid like you. You 0:59:25.180 --> 0:59:27.780 were a kid, okay't when I was a kid. I 0:59:27.820 --> 0:59:30.860 don't remember my father saying, Dennis, I want you to 0:59:30.900 --> 0:59:38.500 look at Lyndon Johnson. Yeah, if you just said to 0:59:38.620 --> 0:59:42.900 my father, doesn't doesn't Dennis take his moral cues from 0:59:42.940 --> 0:59:45.180 the president? My father was said, what are your mind 0:59:46.180 --> 0:59:48.580 if he doesn't take moral cues from his father and 0:59:48.740 --> 0:59:52.340 his uncles, and and and his older brother, and his 0:59:52.540 --> 0:59:56.220 rabbi and his teachers were in trouble. That's where you 0:59:56.300 --> 1:00:02.380 get moral cues from President. This is make This is 1:00:02.420 --> 1:00:05.580 a make believe world of the left. They loved Clinton. 1:00:05.660 --> 1:00:09.380 Did we take moral cues from Clinton? No? No, it's 1:00:09.420 --> 1:00:12.740 just an absurdity. It's just an absurdity. And and and 1:00:12.940 --> 1:00:14.940 and if you are faithful, does it make make you 1:00:15.020 --> 1:00:18.500 a great leader. I think Jimmy Carter was an awful president. 1:00:18.580 --> 1:00:20.459 I have no doubt he was faithful to his wife. 1:00:20.820 --> 1:00:29.580 So what that's called wisdom? And for that matter, honesty. Anyway, 1:00:30.140 --> 1:00:32.939 in God we trust, Yes. So that's that's the third 1:00:33.060 --> 1:00:38.060 part of our of the American Trinity. I have offered 1:00:38.060 --> 1:00:44.660 you five ideas of what is life shaping about Feelings 1:00:44.740 --> 1:00:48.260 less important than behavior about you have to battle yourself 1:00:48.340 --> 1:00:51.900 to have a good world. This is the stuff that matters. 1:00:53.100 --> 1:00:56.020 And I don't I don't see people getting They're not 1:00:56.140 --> 1:00:58.939 getting it your generation, my generation didn't get it either. 1:00:58.980 --> 1:01:01.580 I got it because I went to religious school all 1:01:01.660 --> 1:01:06.939 day long, nine to nine to one, religious subjects one 1:01:07.020 --> 1:01:09.860 to six, I mean nine to six. I went all day. 1:01:10.740 --> 1:01:14.420 But it was a great grounding. I understood what my 1:01:14.540 --> 1:01:17.860 teacher said. I'll leave you with one final great thing 1:01:17.940 --> 1:01:21.820 about about feelings. You know what I learned Feelings didn't matter. 1:01:22.140 --> 1:01:25.140 This is a very major thing. I remember literally one 1:01:25.260 --> 1:01:29.860 thing from fourth grade, but it changed my life. In 1:01:30.020 --> 1:01:33.660 fourth grade, so I studied in what many of you 1:01:33.780 --> 1:01:36.460 never heard of, a yeshiva. Yeshiva was an Orthodox Jewish school. 1:01:36.460 --> 1:01:39.940 As I said, Hebrew half today, English half today. So 1:01:40.380 --> 1:01:44.700 one day the rabbi says, okay, boys, it's time for 1:01:44.820 --> 1:01:48.860 the afternoon prayer. So I walked over to the rabbi 1:01:48.940 --> 1:01:53.100 because I always had klittzberg. I never was disrespectful, but 1:01:53.180 --> 1:01:56.340 I always had Klitzbergh. I walked over to the rabbi 1:01:56.460 --> 1:02:02.419 and I said, Rabbi fust Egg, I'm sorry, but I'm 1:02:02.460 --> 1:02:08.500 not in the mood for the afternoon prayers. Well, it 1:02:08.620 --> 1:02:10.860 was clear to me, even in fourth grade. The rabbi 1:02:10.980 --> 1:02:14.340 had never heard mood and prayer in the same sentence. 1:02:16.180 --> 1:02:18.260 So he had a beard. He stroked his beard, and 1:02:18.340 --> 1:02:22.220 he thought for a minute, and he goes Dennis, he 1:02:22.340 --> 1:02:26.460 is not in the mood to say the afternoon prayers. 1:02:27.820 --> 1:02:36.220 So what that man changed my life? So what who 1:02:36.300 --> 1:02:39.420 the hell cares about my mood? I have something I 1:02:39.540 --> 1:02:44.660 have to do. My mood is irrelevant. And that stayed 1:02:44.700 --> 1:02:50.340 with me the rest of my life. So what if 1:02:50.380 --> 1:02:53.500 you could say that it's the beginning of wisdom. 1:02:54.140 --> 1:02:58.419 This has been timeless wisdom with Dennis Prager. 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