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March 6, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Ask Charlie Anything 137: Should Kids Have Phones? Biological Men vs. Biological Women? This Liberal May Not be the Worst?
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Air Travel and Merit 00:10:00
Hey, everybody.
Happy Monday Ask Me Anything episode.
We talk about Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
We talk about why we can never allow race to be more important than merit.
It's so simple, yet it's happening in real time and so much more.
And also, what I learned from reading Exodus 1:8.
For those of you that love the Lord and love the word, listen to the end.
I think you're going to enjoy this take, and I'd love your thoughts on that.
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Hello, everybody.
We are taking your questions.
Questions that you have emailed me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
I love hearing from you and would love to answer questions on a variety of different topics.
Let's start with this one.
Charlie, did you see Phil Washington?
Oh, boy, this is a great topic.
Biden's pick to lead the FAA completely fail under scrutiny of Senator Ted Budd from North Carolina.
Why on earth does Biden insist on unqualified nominees?
And Diane from Oxnard, California, by the way, Oxnard, right next to, not next to, but right near Santa Barbara.
And so thank you for the question.
She said, didn't we just have a breakdown of air travel over the holidays?
You know, it's interesting.
Tucker Carlson deserves a lot of credit for this.
Tucker years ago, would do monologue after monologue trying to warn people that woke is one of the first things.
Wokeism will infect and it will harm your day-to-day life is infrastructure, the ability to get from one place to another place, to get goods from one place to another place.
This is one of the most painful clips I think you'll ever see, and one of the reasons this keeps on happening is because the Biden regime does not believe competency is the top priority or the reason to be in a leadership position in government.
Here's Phil Washington, the nominee to run the FAA.
He goes 0 for 7.
It's an extraordinary clip.
Play cut 113.
So, Mr. Washington, can you quickly tell me what airspace requires?
An ADS-B transponder?
Not sure I can answer that question right now.
So what are the six types of special use airspace?
Sorry senator, I cannot answer that question.
Okay, so what are the operational limitations of a pilot flying under basic med?
Senator, I'm not a pilot.
So so can you tell me what causes an aircraft to spin or to stall?
Again senator, I'm not a pilot.
Okay, let's keep going.
What are the three aircraft certifications the FAA requires as part of the manufacturing process?
The three types?
Okay, let's just keep going, see if we can get lucky here.
So can you tell me what the minimum separation distance is for landing and departing airliners during the daytime?
I don't want to guess on that.
Senator, are you familiar with the difference between part 107 and part 44809 when it comes to unmanned aerial?
No, I cannot.
Uh, it's okay, Senator Ted Budd, I got to give him credit.
He did a fabulous job.
He's totally wrong on Ukraine.
That's not even what the topic is here.
So I've been a little bit, you know, hard on him recently, but that is a masterclass in how to just run a Senate hearing.
So Phil Washington, if you don't know on podcasting or radio, this should be an irrelevant comment I'm about to make.
The comment I'm about to make should not factor in.
Unfortunately, though, you can't help but wonder that now this is a relevant comment, is that Phil Washington is a black man.
That shouldn't matter.
Race does not matter to me, but it does matter to the Biden regime.
And you can't help but wonder that was Phil Washington selected to try to check an affirmative action box.
He doesn't know the basics of air travel.
Not a pilot.
That's fine.
Do you know anything about aviation?
And it's not as if he's just going to run the Department of Transportation like Budajech.
No, no, no.
This is the FAA.
This is specifically about air travel.
Washington, who is the current CEO of the Denver International Airport, who, look, let me just say this as nicely as I can.
Whoever has run the Denver airport should never be in charge of anything important ever.
That is one of the worst-run airports.
First of all, why they decided to build it in rural Nebraska, that's half a joke.
It is in the middle of nowhere.
It's like you go to downtown Denver, you got to go 40 to 50 miles to even get close to getting to the airport.
Not to mention, it is way too big and always delayed.
I've spent way too much time in the Denver airport, and whoever's in charge of that, I wouldn't put them in charge of anything.
And there are some pretty, and this is a total side note, and I'm just kind of spitballing here, but there are some very, very strange conspiracy theories about the Denver airport that aren't, by the way, that unfounded.
And if you want to get into like even weirder elements, when you drive into the Denver airport, there's this massive, massive, looks like one of the four horses of the Armageddon statue.
And the guy who made the statue was killed by that statue when he put it up.
Just a kind of a fun, not fun, actually, it's awful and cruel, tragic side note.
Anyway, the Denver airport, no good.
And if you are in our audience and you're like, I think the Denver airport is great, yeah, you're wrong.
So he held leadership roles at the municipal transit organizations, including Denver and Los Angeles, focused on bus and rail lines.
He was also the Biden-Harris transition team head for the Department of Transportation.
Prior to his work in transportation, Washington served in the military for 24 years.
He should not run the FAA.
Right now, air travel is declining in quality.
I will argue that in the last 10 years, it has never been worse as far as delays, as far as trying to pack as many people into a single flight as possible.
I fly a lot, and it is just declining.
It's an interesting topic that we'd have to explore at a different time, which is airlines are an exception to a puritanical free market principle that deregulation always will lead to something better.
Now, it's interesting because Ted Kennedy in the 70s or 80s was actually one of the big advocates for airline deregulation, and we were told that that would actually lower costs and improve the quality of flying.
And that's not true.
It didn't actually end up happening.
You ask anybody over the age of 50 in America, anybody over the age of 50 in America, ask them, was flying better in the 1980s or is it better today?
And they will all say, oh, it was way better in the 1980s, way better.
Pan Am, they give you full meals.
Everybody dressed wonderfully.
Everybody respected it, you know, respected flying.
Now, airline regulation deregulation did make things way cheaper, but is that really still technically true?
Have you seen what a round-trip ticket from Los Angeles to Chicago is?
It's $1,000 minimum on certain weekends.
It's extraordinary.
Anyway, so yes, it did make airline flying cheaper, but the quality has gone down.
But is it really as cheap as it used to be?
There's a lot of side notes there.
But let's focus on why this person has been up for nomination.
It's just another example of things that do not matter being prioritized over things that do matter.
Race over merit.
We believe that merit should matter more than race because race should not matter at all.
Has this person done good work?
Obviously not.
And thankfully, we still have some semblance of a Senate confirmation process where you can ask very basic questions like, hey, why does an aircraft stall?
I don't know the answer to that.
What are the different specific parts?
Now, mind you, I don't know the answers to all those either, actually, any of them, really.
I shouldn't run the FAA, obviously.
Ted Cruz said this: quote, the nominee before us, Phil Washington, had a long and honorable career in the military, but he does not have any experience in aviation safety.
This, quite simply, is a position he is not qualified for.
And this is really important because right now there is a push by airlines, United Airlines, and American Airlines, to Phil Washington their own pilot corps.
There is a push to put race-based hiring for pilots.
And to just give you an idea of how widespread that delusion is, I actually brought that up to some of the kids at University of California, Santa Barbara, and they said, Oh, there's no way that pilots are actually being selected based on race.
Losing Weight with PhD 00:08:45
I said, Oh, yes, they are.
And even one of the students said, Yeah, that goes too far.
I mean, even the most radical campus activists have to admit, yeah, I probably don't want to fly on a plane with somebody selected solely based on the melanin content in their skin.
That probably goes too far.
Okay, here's a question: Charlie, how do I deal with my daughter's social media use?
She's on it 12 hours a day.
I need advice.
Richard from Indianapolis.
Okay, well, let's read this news story first.
The postmillennial did a good job.
By the way, you guys should all go to the post-millennial every day.
They do a terrific job covering the news that matters.
Teens' body image improves after just one month of slashing social media use.
Quote, adolescence is a vulnerable period for the development of body image issues, eating disorders, and mental illness, said leading author Dr. Gary Goldfield of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute.
What if I told you that there is more than one drug cartel controlling America?
Not only do we have the drug cartel of Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson, and Johnson, Monsanto, and this poisonous, some of the poisonous food that we're feeding our children.
Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.
The food that we are feeding our kids is nowhere near as full of nutrition and good for kids as it was 20 or 30 years ago.
Yeah, sure, it's cheaper, but it's full of a bunch of garbage.
The same principle, though, applies to the social media drug cartel.
Parents, I'm telling you right now, I know it's not easy.
I understand this is going to be a challenging thing to hear.
One of the most important things you can do is to limit your kids' screen time.
I don't think a kid should get a smartphone till they're 18.
I know that's not easy.
I did it because smartphones weren't a thing until I was really 19 years old.
They were invented when I was 17, 16, or 17 years old, way too expensive at the time.
The first iPhone was way too expensive.
It wasn't even that good.
It was kind of clunky.
I had a Blackberry.
That was the extent of my quote-unquote smartphone.
But the original BlackBerry would be laughed and scoffed at by young kids right now.
I actually missed my Blackberry.
I missed the little typing.
Anyone who knows what I'm talking about, I loved it.
It was great.
And I didn't have internet.
I had texting and I had email, and I thought I was the king of the world.
I loved it.
And I had the ability to call.
Now, parents all the time say, well, you know, my kid needs to be able to communicate with me.
Well, then get them the jitter bug or whatever.
Get them a flip phone.
And you don't always need to communicate with your kids, by the way.
And that's kind of a new modern, you know, paranoid paranoia.
Like, I must be able to talk to my kids all the time.
But if you do have that, then go buy them a flip phone.
Having spent time with young people and have having been someone who was once using social media eight to 10 hours a day, and thankfully, I'm completely detoxed.
I don't have any of these apps on my phone.
I can tell you it does unbelievable damage to your brain, to your ability to process information, to basic neuroscience.
Throughout the four-week experiment, half of the study group were instructed to reduce their social media by 50%, while the other half were allowed unrestricted access.
At both the beginning and the end of the experiment, participants completed a survey containing a series of statements about their overall appearance, rating statements such as, quote, I'm satisfied with my weight on a five-point scale.
Participants who reduced their social media use had a significant improvement in how they regarded both their overall appearance and body weight after three weeks of reduced social media use, compared with the control group who saw no significant change.
The sex of the participant did not appear to make any difference in the effects.
76% of the participants were female, 23% were male, and 1% said other.
Okay, that's not the most important part of it.
The most important part of the study, though, is that if you want to actually improve young people's opinion of themselves, which tends to be, according to popular opinion, one of the main reasons why people go to suicide and drugs and they're depressed and they're anxious, or why they go into this transgender idea pathogen.
I'm a young girl.
I feel uncomfortable.
I'm going through puberty.
I'm not really happy with myself.
My parents aren't present.
But hey, here's all these TikTok channels about how the real secret out there is that if you're 13 years old, go start taking Lupron, get your breasts cut off, and go through quote-unquote gender-affirming care, which is really gender-slaughtering care.
It's brutal.
It's awful.
I miss the days, and this is why not all progress is good.
We've said this for a while, and the left loses their mind when you say this.
That sometimes, if you engage and indulge in the accelerated fruits of modernity without those pesky shackles and antiquity, you're going to be miserable and you're going to be controlled by the technology, not controlling the technology.
All right.
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And PhD weight loss came to us and they said, Listen, we want to work with you, but we want to first have you go on the program for a month.
I said, Sure, fine, of course.
And had an opening conversation with Dr. Ashley Lucas, and their philosophy is different than anything I ever heard.
And look, it's hard to lose weight.
It's very hard to keep weight off.
I mean, with the crazy schedule, especially when you're traveling as much as I do.
And so, for a month, I've been on this program, and it's really interesting.
And the results speak of themselves, already down six pounds.
And for those of you that are trying to lose weight, listen very carefully.
So, this is called PhD Weight Loss, and the program is very simple.
Dr. Ashley Lucas, founder, she's amazing.
She has a whole team, and they customize a plan just for you, works with your schedule.
They don't really believe in calorie reduction, they don't believe in all the kind of typical sound bites that you hear.
They look at all your medical history, they talk with you, they personalize it, and they also send you the food, and so it's super easy, it's right there.
And then you get a personal coach, and I could tell you for me, my coach, she's tough, she's great, and she knows her stuff, and that's exactly what I need, but also very compassionate and caring.
And again, they provide you 80% of your food at no additional cost, they treat your entire person.
Dr. Ashley believes that all the change starts with the mind, and so she helps you change your behavior and think differently about food so you'll never gain this weight back.
And look, one of the things I like best about PhD weight loss is they're very understanding about where you're at in life.
It's not judgmental, it's not like you're some sort of side project.
You get your own coach, literally, if you do this, and then you get food on top of it.
The best thing about this program is they have an 85% success rate of their clients maintaining their weight loss for life.
I have no idea how much fat I'm going to lose, but hopefully, more.
And obviously, you know, it's not easy to do that, but they are able to guide me through it in a very successful and effective way.
I think they could do it for you as well.
No joke, I literally have my call with the coach tomorrow and looking forward to kind of maintaining and hopefully accelerating that success.
They have a lifetime maintenance plan to keep you on track, and maintenance is free.
One of the most important things you could do for your overall health is to lose weight, and it's not easy, right?
No judgment.
I know it's hard, you're running a million places.
So, you should consider PhD weight loss.
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Hershey Chocolate Wokeism 00:11:23
So, I'm currently taking a class with the wonderful Claremont Institute.
I think the world of them.
It's called Telos: Learning about Good Life and Good Government.
It's amazing, and we have to read a lot.
And we have these weekly, very intense Zoom calls for 90 minutes where we go back and forth to people that are far more credentialed than I am-PhDs, lawyers, people, all that.
And, you know, they, I was the, they made an excuse for me to come in, just like, all right, yeah, the guy with no college degree who happens to host a show, sure, they can come in.
I, I'm, I'm thrilled and blessed and honored to be part of it.
And each week, there is an author or there is a thinker that we focus on.
And last week was Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
And some of you actually emailed us: well, Charlie is at Henry David Thoreau or Emerson.
Far off, actually, because some of what Rousseau talked about later in his life actually impacted Thoreau and Emerson in the transcendental movement.
But let me kind of remind you about Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
90% in my, oh, that's just an arbitrary number.
Overwhelming majority of what Rousseau talked about, I believe is complete and total rubbish.
Rousseau is one of three social contract theorists.
As we talk about frequently on this program, if there's just a couple things to remember about philosophy, it's to know about the three social contract theories.
There is one by Rousseau, one by Locke, and one by Hobbes.
The one by Hobbes could be best summarized, that man is nasty, brutish, and short to one another.
He wrote a book called The Leviathan, and he said, since man is so broken and so terrible to one another, we need a big government, we need a king, we need a despot to control them.
I don't agree with the second part.
I tend to be more Hobbesian, actually, in how I think human beings are.
I think human beings are nasty and ghoulish to one another.
And that is consistent with my biblical beliefs.
Then there is the Lockean view of social contract theory or the Lockean view of nature, where he had a tabula rasa.
I think that's right.
I always get it messed up.
I get the Latin.
Blank slate, right?
That human beings are neither good nor bad when they're born.
They're a blank slate, and you need to mold them to be one or the other, and the environment matters.
But it was a heavy emphasis on natural rights, that government is made by people.
Government does not give you rights, that you have a right to life, a right to speech.
Locke was very instrumental in forming the thinking of Thomas Jefferson, forming the thinking of the American founding.
Thomas Locke was definitely one, not Thomas Locke, John Locke, not Thomas Locke.
John Locke was one of the most important thinkers that influenced the philosophical revolution of the American Revolution.
And finally, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Now, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he lived from 1712 to 1778.
We've mentioned him frequently on this program.
And his idea of social contract theory was the exact polar opposite of Thomas Hobbes.
He believed that man was good in the state of nature.
He believed that if you live in the state of nature, that you are actually what he called a noble savage.
He believed that man is born perfect and pure and is corrupted by the isms of society around him or her.
For example, capitalism or racism or misogyny or a patriarchal colonialist system.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed he would romanticize, literally, he was the beginning of the romantic movement, romanticism.
He would romanticize the primitive over the civilized, the infant over the adult, the adulterous lover over the loyal spouse.
Rousseau believed that these rules that we give human beings are arbitrary and can be tyrannical.
Sounds very similar to the American left, doesn't it?
And when you read Rousseau, you can understand why the American left has such a soft spot, and I'm being very kind for quote-unquote indigenous people or people that are in the third world, as we would call it.
Okay.
Now, I could go on and I could talk about all the negatives Rousseau, but there is one thing that Rousseau, I think he was so right on.
And Rousseau influenced Marx on this.
And it was actually a really beautiful moment at the Turning Point USA event where I had a point of agreement with this Marxist, because if a Marxist truly understands the literature, they're wrong about so much.
But there is something that the Marxists and the Rousseauians get right, which is this, which is modernity and the fruits or the outcomes of the Industrial Revolution can be incredibly alienating and soul-crushing to the human soul and spirit.
That is completely true.
And conservatives do not do a good enough job of talking about this.
Instead, we seem to be just cheerleaders for market policies and corporate tax cuts.
I am in support of those things, obviously.
But we must also be honest that girls staring at their smartphones for 12 hours a day is bad for their soul.
So what did Rousseau do?
Rousseau actually did what Thoreau and Emerson later did.
He just went up to an island and stripped himself of all connection to the world.
He lived in solitude.
He wrote this book.
It was an unfinished book, Reveries of the Solitary Walker.
He's such an egotistical maniac narcissist.
He compares himself to God and that he's never done anything wrong or anything evil.
But he does get into some elements where it's like, hey, be careful.
Industrial life can be very alienating.
And I think we as conservatives must admit and acknowledge that.
That yes, it's a beautiful thing that we're able to order medication on demand, find the closest hospital, be able to get information about what your child might be sick with, be able to get telehealth doctors.
That's amazing stuff, isn't it?
Be able to order Uber Eats, be able to sell products quicker online.
Of course, there's so many, there's infinite amount of positives thanks to technology and all that.
But the negatives, they're serious too.
I'm not saying they outweigh them.
I'm not saying that they are equal.
I don't know where they are, but they must be enumerated and they must be acknowledged.
Rousseau also said, and this is where Rousseau was so, he said, man was born free, born free and spends the rest of his life in chains.
It's just a lot, Galati got wrong, but I do want to acknowledge what he got right.
Okay, here's a good question.
Charlie, honest question.
Are you more likely to be honored and spotlighted as a trans woman?
Okay, let's stop.
What is a trans woman?
And this was a great thing that somebody told me once.
Do you ever get confused about trans and this and that?
Just replace the word trans with imaginary and you got everything you need.
So spotlighted as an imaginary woman than an actual woman now.
First, Rachel Levine won the U.S. Today Woman of the Year.
Now Hershey Chocolate honors a trans person for Woman History Month.
How are more women not upset and not going to take this?
Laura from Marietta, Georgia.
Well, here's what you're talking about.
So I don't know when Woman's History Month is.
Is it now?
I can't keep track of all these different.
Oh, it's it.
We're in March.
You're right.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
So this is in March.
And because I feel like we're still in February.
Anyways, it's been a long, long, it's been a very interesting and challenging start to the new year, but I'll be it fulfilling in many ways.
Cut 111 is Hershey Chocolate.
I have a whole thing.
I have a really interesting theory on this, which is similar to the NFL and BlackRock.
And get it, Hershey.
Wokeism offers an unprecedented veneer for companies that do a lot of damage to your health to never have to talk about it.
Play cut 111.
My name is Paige Onstones.
I'm the executive director of Wisdom to Action.
We can create a world where everyone is able to live in public space as their honest and authentic selves.
See the woman changing how we see the future at Hershey's Canada.
Okay, so does that say Hershey's Canada?
Is that what was said?
I couldn't quite hear the end of it.
Yeah.
Okay, so that is a man who has appropriated womanhood, literally wearing the equivalent of female blackface, trying to pretend to be something that he's not.
And Hershey's chocolate is celebrating it.
Hershey's is excited to do this, though.
This is why McDonald's, this is why the pharmaceutical companies, this is why BlackRock, this is why the NFL, they are okay engaging in this woke stuff because it is playing offense.
It makes them look good to the social justice warriors.
But what is the attack vector that we should be going after Hershey with?
How about this?
Your products actually make people really fat and are generally not good for us.
So instead, Hershey wants to be looked at positively by the activist class, by like, oh, yeah, we have a man who's a woman for the woman's month thing.
No, instead, they do not ever want to have to experience legitimate cross-examination question of, hey, Hershey, how many people do you think right now have serious heart disease or kids have childhood obesity because of your products?
What's a ballpark guess?
Now, obviously, I love chocolate.
Chocolate's great.
But no one can say with a straight face that Hershey's chocolate over the last 20 years has been instrumental in making a better life for children's health.
Yeah, maybe for short-term dopamine rushes or certain indulgences here or there.
Certainly has increased cavities.
Dentists love Hershey.
They should be shareholders in Hershey's chocolate.
Look, there's a place for all sorts of indulgences and pleasures and vices, obviously, for chocolate.
You shouldn't ban it or get rid of it.
But the point is this: Hershey, MMs, McDonald's, these major companies that are pushing this crap on kids, especially, how do they prevent legitimate criticism against them?
They just play offense with wokeism and they act as if we're never going to be attacked.
And the NFL does this on the concussion issue.
The NFL thinks that they can be immune to criticism by paying a tithe to the woke cult to never actually have to answer legitimate questions on the concussion issue, which I do believe in some sense can be overblown.
In some sense, it's actually not being addressed seriously enough.
But the NFL knows that it's a legitimate criticism of the sport.
So what do they do?
They have to engage in the woke stuff.
Melatonin Sleep Solutions 00:02:51
So they pay a tie to the woke cult and they say, don't come after me.
Don't eat me.
And right now it's working.
The activist class, and this is an analogy I've used many times, and it drives the left nuts, mostly because it's true and it involves a biblical analogy.
The left goes around the same way the final night before, it's called Passover, and they look at what doors have the blood red marking and they say, ah, they're woke.
We won't go in there.
They're woke.
They won't go in there.
And they pass over.
But when they see someone who's not, they capitalize.
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Now, look, many of you guys probably say, but Charlie, I take melatonin.
Well, there's an issue with melatonin.
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Exodus Verse Alzheimer's 00:04:08
So I have concluded my study of Genesis for now, and now I'm moving on to Exodus.
And so there is one verse that popped out to me, and I'm not obviously the first person to mention this, but it was, you know, really powerful, which is Exodus 1.8.
And now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph.
Oh, that's one of the most powerful phrases in the Bible, or verses in the Bible.
Why?
Well, Joseph did so much for the people of Egypt, saved them from a famine, was of good favor of Pharaoh.
The previous Pharaoh was actually a pretty good guy, actually.
But a new king rose, and he did not know Joseph.
And that just pops and it just sizzles with ingratitude, doesn't it?
Of a person who comes who forgets the contributions of the people before them.
So I had that, obviously.
I did some study on that.
And so I visited the college campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
And these kids did not know anything about George Washington, James Madison, John Jay.
They did not know anything about John Adams or John Quincy Adams, anything about Gubernam Norris, George Whitfield, Jonathan Mayhew, or Jonathan Edwards.
And I thought to myself, ah, and then rose a generation in America who did not know the American founders.
And obviously what comes afterwards in the book of Exodus, because that really is the turning point verse, get it?
The turning point verse.
Because then it says, that is why the Pharaoh did all these cruel and awful things.
He didn't know.
He didn't care.
Who are these people of Israel?
Who are these Hebrews?
We don't like them.
And he said to his people, behold, the people of Israel, there are too many and too mighty for us.
Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply.
And if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from our land.
The only reason Egypt survived the famine was thanks to Joseph.
But alas, a king or a pharaoh rose to power who did not know Joseph or the contributions of generations past.
And that right there is so powerful in the fight for education, isn't it?
We have to make sure every generation does not forget.
I've said before that we are suffering from a national Alzheimer's issue.
Could be better said than that.
But basically, we have national Alzheimer's.
We're forgetting where we came from.
We're forgetting the contributions before us.
And if you then forget and you're filled with ingratitude and/or a lack of understanding of the sacrifices that happened prior, you are then willing, able, and you probably will do some pretty awful things to the people that actually built the civilization that you're able to enjoy.
That's just a little sidebar on a single verse.
I'm not the first person to have that take.
Prager has said very similar things, but it just popped when I was on campus there.
They had no understanding, no appreciation of any brilliant sacrifice, wisdom of a group of people that came before them.
Study old ancient texts.
It's why I love Hillsdale.
It's why I recommend the sources I do to you.
Dive into them, and all of a sudden, you'll see how they connect directly to what we're living through today, societally, individually, in your family, socioeconomically.
I think it will bless your life significantly.
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